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S’LINDILE KHUMALO

Senior Associate

PUBLIC LAW & POLICY, EMERGENT TECH, INFORMATION RIGHTS

advisory, analysis, research, training

special projects

Developing international human rights law

ABOUT S’LINDILE

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Overview

S’lindile Khumalo is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a Senior Associate at ALT Advisory. She completed her LL.B (with Distinction) at the University of the Witwatersrand (2018).

S’lindile’s background is in commercial litigation, dispute resolution, and public law. Prior to joining ALT Advisory, S’lindile completed her articles at Adams and Adams, a commercial law and intellectual property law firm (2018–2019) and was subsequently appointed as an Associate (Designate) (2020) at the same firm. S’lindile is also currently a Senior Associate at Power & Associates (2021-).

S’lindile’s work focuses on public law and international law matters. She is particularly interested in contributing to the protection of women and children — both on- and offline — as well as understanding and improving the quality of education policy in South Africa.

S’lindile leads the EndGBV Special Project.
Professional Affiliations
- Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, admitted on 25 February 2021.
- Member of the Legal Practice Council (Membership Number: 50245).
Academic Qualifications
- LL.B. (with Distinction) (University of the Witwatersrand).
- Certificate in Human Rights Advocacy and Litigation (University of the Witwatersrand).
Recent Publications / Presentations
- Lead author, ‘Draft Namibian Digital Rights Declaration,’ (September 2022) IPPR.
- Lead author, ‘The Digital Rights Landscape in Southern Africa,’ (August 2022) Centre for Human Rights.
- Presentation on “Where law and technology meet”, Southern Africa sub-Regional Forum on Artificial Intelligence hosted by UNESCO (2022).
- Presentation on “The role of AI in the fight against GBV”, hosted by Mozilla Festival (2021).
- Presentation on “Legal framework on privacy”, Right to Privacy MOOC, hosted by the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights (2021).
- S’lindile Khumalo, Wendy Trott, and Michael Power, ‘Democracy 2.0: Digital Voting Systems,’ (2021).
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Promoting rights-based technology innovation

S’LINDILE’S RECENT WORK

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Ongoing projects
- Providing ongoing rights-based strategic guidance and policy analysis and reporting on key African jurisdictions to an international technology company.
- Drafting a chapter on South Africa and Namibia for the 2022 LONDA Digital Rights report for Paradigm Initiative setting out the state of digital rights in the country and significant updates.
- Developing an online resource that maps out the state of affairs on gender-based violence, both on- and offline, and to identify the legislative and policy gaps in African states.
Previous projects
- Preparing a research report for the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights on the digital rights landscape in Southern Africa.
- Assisting the the Environmental Justice Fund with information governance and regulatory compliance in terms of South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
- Preparing a situation analysis and implementation mechanism for the East African Community (EAC) Regional Labour Migration Policy.
- Assisting the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator with information governance and regulatory compliance in terms of South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
- Assisting SECTION27 with information governance and regulatory compliance in terms of South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
- Preparing an updated research report and mapping digital rights laws and litigation in East, West, and Southern Africa for Media Defence.
- Assisting the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) with information governance and regulatory compliance in terms of South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).