Registered Students

DOCTORAL CANDIDATES (LLD)

Ms T Chinyamurindi 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thelma-chinyamurindi-973577b7/

Thelma is a Zimbabwean born LLD student at SARCIL. She completed her BA (Law), LLB and LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Military Operations at the University of Pretoria. Her research focuses on humanitarian assistance in armed conflict which she explored from the lens of the global COVID-19 pandemic in her masters and she is now looking at the issue of consent to such aid in NIAC’s. She serves as SARCIL’s research and administrative assistant but has held the role of researcher and project officer for the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability and as an intern for the ICRC (Pretoria regional delegation).

Ms D Crafford

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-crafford-9b66061a2/

Ms Z Hlatshwayo

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zinhle-hlatshwayo/

Zinhle holds a BA (Law), LLB and LLM from the University of Pretoria. She is currently pursuing her doctorate at the University of Johannesburg. Her research examines the protection of women and girls under Non-State Armed Groups’ territorial control in NIAC’s.

Ms K Muller

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyla-m%C3%BCller/

Kyla is a doctoral candidate in international law, with a specific interest and focus on Counter-Terrorism, Non-International Armed Conflicts and the link between the two. She has a masters degree in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Military Operations, wherein her research focussed on the Prohibition of Terrorism under International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law. She is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa and has interned at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Lawyers for Human Rights and the Public Prosecutor in the Pretoria Magistrates Court.

Ms M Van Schalkwyk

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mvschalkwyk/

Megan is a postgraduate student pursuing her LLD in international law at the University of Johannesburg, supported by the NRF SARCIL Grant for International Law. Her research focusses on the legal gap created by the use of Private Military and Security Companies and the obligations under CA 1 of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 to ensure compliance with international law. Megan holds a BA (Law), LLB and a LLM degree in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Human Rights in Military Operations from the University of Pretoria.

Mrs S Mabeza

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-mabeza-nee-swart-24165761/

Since February 2009 Sarah Mabeza has been employed at the Pretoria Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross, firstly as a Legal Assistant and, from November 2011, as the Regional Legal Advisor.  In this post, she supports 12 African governments in their implementation of International Humanitarian Law.  Sarah is currently researching the elements vital to a successful and symbiotic partnership between government and civil society in the development of International Humanitarian Law, focussing on lessons learnt from post-Apartheid South Africa.

Sarah is married to Kundai and has a 5-year-old son, David, a 4 year-old daughter, Rebekah, and a 1 year-old son, James

Ms C Davids

Clerissa Davids is a doctoral candidate at the University of Johannesburg’s SARCHIL. She holds a BA in Psychology and BA Honours in Communication studies from the UJ. Clerissa completed her LLB at the University of the Witwatersrand. She obtained her LLM in International Law from the UJ. Her current LLD research focuses on Cyber Warfare and determining the legal framework applicable to the spread of misinformation and disinformation in cyberspace during armed conflict.

In addition to her academic pursuits, Clerissa serves as the Marketing Manager at UJ’s Faculty of Science. She is an active member of both UJ’s Transformation Committee and the Community Engagement Committee, where she works to create an inclusive and supportive university environment. Through her role in community engagement, she contributes to initiatives that strengthen ties between the university and the broader community, promoting meaningful collaboration and social impact.

Mr AT Klopper

https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonieklopper/

Antonie is a second year doctoral candidate with a special interest in Genocide Prevention. He completed his BCom(Law), LLB (cum laude), LLM (cum laude) at the University of Pretoria. Antonie is a practicing Attorney and Conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa.

Antonie completed his Masters Thesis on The Responsibility to Protect and the obligations of states to prevent genocide. Antonie’s doctoral studies also relate to genocide prevention, but with a focus on the obligations of states that flow from the concept of ‘due diligence’ and how it impacts ‘fragile states’.

Mr MAW Ncube

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbongeni-aw-ncube-a342b6126/

Mbongeni is a doctoral candidate in International law, his research interest is focused on examining the applicable data protection framework regulating Humanitarian Organisations in their collection , sharing and use of data in humanitarian action. Mbongeni holds a BA (Law), LLB (cum laude) and an LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Military Operations from the University of Pretoria. He has previously interned at the United Nations World Food Programme.