Centre for Environmental Rights – Advancing Environmental Rights in South Africa

Dimakatso Sefatsa

Attorney

Dimakatso earned her LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand. She began her career at the Association for Water and Rural Development (AWARD), an NGO specialising in multidisciplinary, research based project implementation aimed at addressing issues around sustainability, inequality and poverty.  Dimakatso’s work at AWARD involved a great deal of independent research and required initiative and self-motivation. Importantly, it made her appreciate the role that local people have to play in addressing issues around water security, poverty reduction and ensuring sustainability of natural resources. She built on this experience as a researcher at the Free State High Court where her main role was to provide professional legal research to Judges.

Dimakatso joined CER in May 2020, and hopes to contribute to CER’s mission of defending the rights of communities and civil society organisations to an environment that is not harmful to health or well-being, for present and future generations.

dsefatsa[@]cer.org.za