Moses Sithole is a Program Manager at Freedom House based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is designated to manage program implementation and overseeing the quality and accuracy of technical interventions conducted under the Promoting Civic Education and Participation in South Africa (PCEP) project and also monitor and evaluate all programming to ensure effective and timely implementation of activities by project partners and technical consultants. Among other things Moses is responsible for managing partner sustainability strategies, donor relations, report writing as well as manage the PCEP program team. Previously, he worked on the Mitigating Xenophobic Violence (MXV) project in South Africa (Social Cohesion) and the eSwatini NED funded project aimed at Capacitating Grassroots Actors to Promote Accountable and Responsive Governance. Moses holds a bachelors’ degree in Public Management and Municipal Administration from Vista University (UNISA) and certificates in Vulnerability Risk Assessment and Project Management from the University of Witwatersrand and Regenesys School of Business respectively. Before joining Freedom House, he has worked at Jersuit Refugee Service (JRS) as Finance Officer, Catholic Relief Services – South Africa (CRS) as Administrative Manager, University of South Africa and Department of Foreign Affairs (DIRCO) as Joint Project Administrator for the Building Capacity and Institutions of the Government of South Sudan project, and as Student Governance Coordinator at Vista University. Hobbies include travel, soccer and hiking.
Tshenolo is the Executive Director at the Community Advice Offices in South Africa, the national coordinating body of community advice offices in the country. She is a paralegal by profession, her career began with the Legal Aid South Africa where she worked from 2009 until 2015 as the Alexandra Justice Centre Civil Unit Paralegal. She then joined ProBono.Org in 2015 to manage the Housing, Refugee and Community Advice Office Support Project.
Through these projects, she developed a collaborative involvement of the private legal profession to utilize community advice office spaces as access points for pro bono work. The project has seen the research of case work and meditations seen at community advise offices culminate into a journal article that is co-authored with Dr. Maxim Bolt from the University of Birmingham on the disputes over “family” homes in urban townships of Gauteng – the article is featured in the South African Journal on Human Rights, published in July 2019.
With 15-years’ experience in the field, her area of focus and passion remains in the community advise office sector wherein she hopes her current role will bring about much needed regulatory, and financial resourcing bases that are premised on recognizing the invaluable role that advise offices play in ensuring access to justice. She is representing South Africa as one of the 5 founding members of the African Centre of Excellence for Access to Justice. She is also a former board member for the South African Board for Sheriffs, wherein she chaired the Complaints Sub-committee from June 2021 to May 2024. She is currently in her final year of attaining her Bachelors in Business Administration for the STADIO School of Administration and Management.
She is the wife of Simphiwe Buthelezi and a mother to two boys.