Registered Students

DOCTORAL CANDIDATES (LLD)

Ms T Chinyamurindi 

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

Ms Z 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

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

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.

Mr M Ncube

Ms S Mabeza

Mr AT Klopper

Ms C Davids