Staff

Sally-Jean (or Sally) is Women’sNet’s Executive Director. Her work in the gender sector started in 1991 with her involvement in the organisation People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA). She has since worked as a consultant, trainer and materials developer – training court personnel on violence against women, coordinating a manual women women’s rights, and participating in research on intimate femicide. She joined Women'sNet in 2001 after working with the organisation to develop a website on women's human rights.

Lebogang is an ICT practitioner and is passionate about ICT's and their use for development. She has been a content manager, website mistress, knowledge strategy developer, technology programmer and is passionate about technology. Lebo is no stranger to Women'sNet- she was the intern in 2001. She loves the bits and bytes that technology offers to empower people and is excited to be part of the Women'sNet team!

Faith is a feminist dedicated to social change. All her work is inspired by the love and the satisfaction of being involved in a working project. Her professional background of late has been in HIV/AIDS research. She also has a Masters in Sociology (Gender Studies) based on pregnant women's choice for non-testing of HIV. She appreciated her previous work with schools and believes in the betterment of the South African school system. She hopes to develop into an activist and further as a writer too. Girls'Net is a privilege she aims to take full advantage of. Mbokoto!

Eunice has been the Office Manager at Women’sNet since April 2007. Her responsibilities include the development of office procedures, managing human resources records, oversight of the finances and maintaining organisational systems and procedures. Eunice also ensures the smooth running of the administrative and financial aspects of Women’s Net.

Eva is a Project Officer at Women'sNet who joined Women'sNet in March 2008. She obtained her BA with Media studies and Political Science as majors from the University of Limpopo in 2007 where she also worked as a radio presenter at Turf FM. Eva is a vegetarian who loves education, and passionate about technology and women's rights.

Kebarileng joined Women'sNet as an intern in February 2008. She is a part-time student at the University of South Africa majoring in Public Relations Management. She has worked for the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW) as an administrative assistant and a community representative. Through FEW, she participated in a two-year consciousness-raising and personal growth training programme called Women In Leadership with the Gender AIDS Forum in Durban.

Tansy is an intern from the Emerging Leaders for Governance and Communication (ELGC) program organised by International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and supported through Netcorps, Canadian programme funded by CIDA. Born in Edmonton, Tansy spent most of her life in Calgary, although she lived and studied in Hong Kong for 10 years. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in General Mathematics and Computer Science (concentration in Software Engineering) from University of Calgary. She is currently working at Women’sNet as a Web Developer to redesign and revamp Women’sNet and Girls’Net website.

Fatima is Women’sNet’s technical consultant. She has been involved with non profitable organisations working within the ICT sector for over 15 years. Her technology related experience comes from the base of having worked at SANGONET where she did user support and onsite installations, and then moved into running trainings for NGOs on various tools, to Email, Web Browsing and building of websites. Later she became the System Administrator and then the manager of the technical Division. She currently is working with the APC under finance, the admin team as well as the technical resource team and WomensNet. Within the WomensNet, she provides remote system administration on Linux sever and technical support and advice to the organisation and staff on various IT related matters.

Suraya Bibi Khan is the Women’sNet bookkeeper. During the 80’s Bibi became involved as an activist in the Anti-Election Campaigns of the United Democratic Front and in the Women’s Movement. Bibi has worked in the NGO sector since 1991. She was the chairperson and founding member of Southern Areas Commuter Representative Association SACRA, and initiated with two other founding members the consultative process for the establishment Women’s Institute for Leadership Development and Democracy. Bibi established SAWID Southern forums Region G of Johannesburg at grass roots South African Women in Dialogue, launched 8 March 2005.