ALT.ADVISORY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT - MPM
Job Titles:
- Technologist
- Technologist - JHB
Kwazi is a Technologist at ALT Advisory and a public interest developer, designer, and IT support provider.
Kwazi is a Technologist at ALT Advisory. He holds a certificate in Desktop Publishing and Design (Vega, 2019) and a Higher Certificate in Management (Southern Business School, 2020).
Kwazi works on web development and graphic and digital design to compliment ALT Advisory's ongoing work and special projects. He is also constantly developing ALT Advisory's communications strategy. Kwazi is presently focusing on developing his expertise in HTML, CSS and JavaScript front-end web development and learning more about the intersection of tech development and the right to privacy.
As an aspirant technologist, Kwazi has a keen interest in developing technology that protects and promotes fundamental rights.
Qualifications
Higher Certificate in Management (Southern Business School, 2020).
Certificate in Desktop Publishing and Design (Vega, 2019).
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Director
- Attorney of the High Court
- Director - JHB
Michael is a Co-founder and Director of ALT Advisory and a public interest lawyer, strategist, and technologist.
Michael is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a Director and Co-founder of ALT Advisory. He holds B.A., LL.B. (with Distinction), and LL.M. in Public International Law (with Distinction) degrees from the University of Witwatersrand, and a Certificate in International Trade Regulation from the World Trade Institute, University of Bern. Michael is also an Executive M.B.A. candidate at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Big Tsek: Joburg 's Private Surveillance Network and Our Public Deficit', African Studies ( 2022 ), Prepared for the Ruth First Memorial Lecture
- Senior Associate - CPT
- Specialist
Murray is a Senior Associate at ALT Advisory and a public interest researcher and communicator.
Murray Hunter is a specialist on digital rights, advocacy and communications. Before joining ALT Advisory, he held various advocacy and leadership roles at the Right2Know Campaign (2010-2012; 2014-2019), Open Secrets (2012-2013), and the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism (2020). He has also given media consulting to a range of civil society initiatives, most recently the South Africa Media Innovation Program.
Murray has authored investigative reports and publications on communications surveillance and data protection, and in 2019 published a children's book about surveillance capitalism.
He received a Bertha Activist Fellowship in 2014, and the Ruth First Fellowship in 2021.
Murray Hunter, Track and trace, trial and error: Assessing South Africa's approaches to privacy in Covid-19 digital contact tracing (2020), report for the Media Policy and Democracy Project, University of Johannesburg
Murray Hunter & Admire Mare, A patchwork for privacy: Mapping communications surveillance laws in southern Africa (2020), report for the Media Policy and Democracy Project, University of Johannesburg
Murray Hunter, Cops & Call Records: policing and metadata privacy in South Africa (2020), report for the Media Policy and Democracy Project, University of Johannesburg
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Attorney of the High Court
- Commission - Weary South Africans Can Take Heart from High Court Judgment Overturning Seriti Arms Deal Inquiry' ( 6 September 2019 ) Maverick Citizen
- Senior Associate - CPT
Tara is a Senior Associate at ALT Advisory and a public interest lawyer and researcher.
Tara is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. She holds a B.A. (Rhodes) and a LL.B. (University of Cape Town), and is currently completing her LL.M. in Information and Communications Law at the University of Witwatersrand.
Tara focuses on public law and information rights and is particularly interested in the interplay between access to information and privacy. She is fascinated by the bounds of freedom of expression and understanding its application online. Her practice also focuses on understanding the impact of technology on human rights, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence.
Tara Davis, ‘Guns, lies, politics: seeking a judicial inquiry into arms deal's whitewash commission' ( 16 June 2019) Sunday Times.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Attorney of the High Court
- Eskom 's Emissions Are Not Compatible With the South African Constitution', ( 20 November 2020 ) Mail & Guardian Thought Leader
- Senior Associate - JHB
- Senior Associate and Head of the Climate Justice & Sustainability
Tim is a Senior Associate at ALT Advisory and a public interest lawyer, researcher, and strategist.
Tim is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa (with Right of Appearance) and a member of the Legal Practice Council. He holds an LL.B. degree from the University of Witwatersrand, and an LL.M. degree in Global Environment and Climate Change Law from the University of Edinburgh.
Tim is a Senior Associate and Head of the Climate Justice & Sustainability practice, which specialises in areas of climate change law, environmental law, human rights, and constitutional law. He has a particular interest in the convergence of digital rights, open data, and climate justice, the relationship between ecological sustainability and emergent technologies, and the development of ‘climate-resilience law' in Africa. Tim also acts as a Senior Associate at Power & Associates. (2023-).
Tim Lloyd and Vuyisile Ncube, ‘The interdependency between children's best interests and the right to a healthy environment', (2019). Case study 22 in the South African Child Gauge, Children's Institute, University of Cape Town.
Co-Author, ‘The myth of clean coal' technical report and fact sheet', (2019), The Life After Coal Campaign.
Presented an air pollution case study at a conference on strategic legal mechanisms for delivering social and economic justice in Africa, hosted by the University of Nairobi and Oxfam International (2019).
Presented on the use of strategic litigation to achieve the right to breathe clean air at the annual Public Health Association of South Africa conference (2019).
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Attorney of the High Court
- SENIOR ASSOCIATE - JHB
Tina is a Senior Associate at ALT Advisory and a public interest lawyer, researcher, and strategist.
Tina is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a member of the Legal Practice Council. She holds B.A., LL.B. (with Distinction), and LL.M. in Human Rights Advocacy and Litigation degrees from the University of Witwatersrand.