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Yoliswa is committed to work that advances economic, social and racial justice. She is a public policy and land justice scholar, a socio-economic impact practitioner and an accountability professional.Given South Africa’s history and the slow pace of change, Yoliswa is pressed about the socio-economic conditions most black South Africans continue to live in and the urgent need for substantive redress. As such, she has dedicated her career to contribute towards socio-economic development through the public, private and non-profit sectors.Her time doing the Master of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford renewed her resolve to work towards an economically and socially just world (starting with South Africa). A world that is better led, better served and better governed. Her policy research for her Masters was on land reform as vehicle for economic and social justice in South Africa, a topic she is committed to take forward through further scholarship and activism. During her time in Oxford, she also worked in the Chandler Sessions on Integrity and Corruption with accountability leaders from across the world to establish new ways to entrench public integrity.Yoliswa has 17 years experience working as a social impact practitioner in the private sector as well as providing non-financial and financial assurance. She has limited experience in the public sector through a secondment to the office of the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) to assist the AGSA to deepen the work on citizen accountability with a strong focus on civil society and sustainability assurance.Prior to the AGSA secondment, Yoliswa was a KPMG Citizenship and Public Interest Lead assisting KPMG SA in its institutional renewal to embed a societal and public interest mindset and approach in its business conduct as a way to rebuild trust. Prior to this role, Yoliswa helped to establish and led KPMG’s Strategic Social Investment Services within KPMG South Africa’s Sustainability Services. The team worked to assist organisations from a variety of sectors to deliver meaningful social impact. Other experience includes:Transformation, i.e. Black Economic Empowerment, Supplier Development & Localisation, Socio-Economic Development, Impact Measurement, Social Return on Investment (SROI), Sustainability (ESG) Advisory and Assurance, Stakeholder Engagement and Management.Yoliswa also serves in the non-profit sector and is currently an Advisory Board member for Action Aid South Africa.Yoliswa’s professional experience spans across South Africa, the UK and Hungary.
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Phd CandidateInstitute For Poverty, Land And Agrarian Studies (Plaas) Feb 2024 - PresentCape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaInvestigating justice for land (from the perspective of the historically dispossessed) in South Africa and its implications for law, policy and practice.The PhD research is a continuation of the questions investigated during the MPP, where I explored land as a vehicle for economic and social justice in South Africa. The MPP report was a valuable start to explore these issues comprehensively, but limited in timing, scope and depth and hence, the need to further my studies to PhD level. My key observation for the MPP policy report was that the land debate is overshadowed by arguments about land reform policy (the means) vs substantive justice (impact). I struggled to find substantive focus on justice for land in South Africa in the land debate (in academia or public discourse). It is implied vs explicit.This does not help to shift the needle at a policy level towards the attainment of justice. Policy is a values conversation and sits on philosophical foundations about the society we seek to be/create. Therefore, conceptions of justice matter for this reason, they are not indulgent intellectual exercises. They set the tone and direction of policy, whether or not we are conscious of them. The world sits on values – to influence change – we also have to work at this level of policy.My PhD research is an attempt at recentering the debate on the underlying substance of land reform or the debate itself, which is justice. How would our debate, laws and policies change if land reform was justice (impact) focused? This research is likely to have implications for broader justice considerations in the South African society.Provisional argument: Despite the varying meanings of justice that exist, given South Africa’s history of colonial and apartheid dispossession, whose legacy endures, a just land reform is one that centres the dispossessed people’s notions of justice.Land justice is a lifetime project. If this topic interests you, please feel free to reach out.
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Independent Researcher | ConsultantIndependent Work Feb 2024 - PresentSouth Africa (Primarily)Contract work undertaken alongside the PhD focused on justice - land, economic, social and racial; public policy; accountability and citizenship.Current client: Nelson Mandela Foundation. Topics: Land justice; Mandela Presidency and Land; Democratic Gov and equitable land access; historical injustice; economic justice; redistributive justice; public governance and public affairs; state of democracy.
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Advisory Board MemberActionaid South Africa May 2023 - PresentJohannesburgAdvisory Board Member for Action Aid South Africa (AASA). Member of the Audit and Risk Committee, a Sub-Committee of the AASA Advisory Board.About ActionAid South Africa:AASA is a civil society organisation and a part of the ActionAid International Federation, a global social justice federation working in 45 countries around the world. AASA works with people living in poverty and exclusion to build sustainable, people-centred and just alternatives to injustice and inequality.Guided by feminist analysis and a Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA), AASA sees the interconnections between people’s struggles for social transformation. AASA allies itself primarily with the youth, grass-roots communities, like-minded organisations and social movements to develop initiatives and campaigns that address the systemic drivers of poverty, injustice and inequality in South Africa. -
Research AssistantBlavatnik School Of Government, University Of Oxford Jul 2022 - Nov 2022Oxford, England, United KingdomResearch Assistant on the Chandler Sessions on Integrity and Corruption, a three-year programme convening senior anti-corruption officials worldwide to develop and test a new generation of strategies to entrench public integrity.My role was to explore how the Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs), i.e. the Auditor Generals or Courts of Accounts, can enhance their role in tackling corruption and promoting cultures of integrity. Through this role, I leveraged my experience working for the Auditor General in South Africa and also closely collaborated with with AG Sierra Leone as a global SAI leader participating in the Chandler Sessions.Key areas of research focus included legal mandates of SAIs, their products and services, skills and capability requirements and collaborations with anti-corruption actors. The research also included a case study for the International Congress of Supreme Audit Institutions (INCOSAI) conference in Rio, November 2022, on the development of indicators for corruption or integrity from the work of SAIs (using the Auditor General of South Africa as an example) that could begin to help SAIs to contribute towards tackling corruption more directly. -
Master Of Public Policy Graduate - Blavatnik School Of GovernmentBlavatnik School Of Government, University Of Oxford Sep 2021 - Oct 2022Immersive learning experience to discover and uncover: What will it take to get to a world (South Africa) that is better led, better served and better governed? And one which is economically and socially just?Core Modules: Foundations (Moral & Political Philosophy), Economics for Public Policy (Mainstream Economics), Politics of Policymaking, Policy Challenge, Law and Public Policy and Evidence for Public Policy.Optional Modules: Economic Development (Political Economy), New Economics for Public Policy (incorporating heteredox and complexity economic thinking), Governing the Global Economy (audited) and Public Corruption Turnarounds (audited).Applied Modules: Negotiations, Communications for Public Policy, Statistics and Public Budgeting.For the simulated Policy Challenge, I chose the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and COVID-19 vaccines stream. As a Minister of Trade for a developed country who had to form meaningful and trusted alliances with the leaders of the Global South who were challenging status quo, I learnt about the importance of international diplomacy, power representation and sharing, and of building unlikely coalitions to forge successful global policy outcomes that advance global justice through vaccine equity.The Masters was concluded with a policy research report on land reform as a vehicle for economic and social justice in South Africa (as a way of fulfilling the ideals of the struggle and realising substantive democracy in South Africa). A topic I am working to take forward through further study and activism.Other involvements included participation in student led working groups namely; ReadytoRun (for MPP students interested to run for elected office), Decolonisation, Racial Justice and Economic Justice.
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Senior Manager - Citizenship SpecialistAuditor-General Of South Africa Feb 2021 - Sep 2021Pretoria, Gauteng, South AfricaSecondment role (from KPMG) to help deepen citizenry focus at the AGSA as a way to broaden accountability, with the primary focus being on establishing effective ways to work with civil society. The secondment also involved to a limited extent, elevating the role of sustainability assurance for public auditors, especially for state-owned entities. Finally, the work also involved conceptualising an ethical and transformational AGSA and its people. -
Associate Director - Citizenship And Public InterestKpmg South Africa Oct 2017 - Aug 2021South AfricaGrounded on the social impact consulting experience, my role involved assisting KPMG to embed a societal and public interest focus in everything it does — as a key part to its institutional reform - but sustaining it as business as usual. The Citizenship and Public Interest pillars informing the Portfolio were:- Societal Stakeholder Engagement - Impactful Social Investment - Conscious Leadership - Purpose-Driven People - Responsible Business (embedding ESG into KPMG’s way of doing business) and - Communications, Messaging and ReportingThis role cuts across everything that KPMG does across its Audit, Tax, Advisory and Infrastructure functions. -
Associate Director: Climate Change & Sustainability - Strategic Social Investment Services LeadKpmg Feb 2012 - Dec 2018Johannesburg Area, South AfricaEstablished and led the Strategic Social Investment Services team within the KPMG Climate Change and Sustainability Services team, essentially, providing the social sustainability focus on the broader Sustainability offering.Specialisation: - Strategic social investment consulting across a variety of sectors (including a focus on impact measurement and social return on investment methodology).- Sustainability assurance over economic, social and environmental parameters of Integrated Reports and Sustainability Reports.- Independent non financial risk assurance across a variety of strategic business areasSector focus: Mining, Consumer Markets, State Owned Entities, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Development Funding Institutions and Not for Profit sector.
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Assistant ManagerKpmg Uk Mar 2008 - Jan 2012The role was split between Audit and Advisory, through the Audit Response Team (ART) across KPMG UK, with KPMG Gatwick as my primary office base.The Advisory/ART experience was predominantly within the International Development Sector where I led KPMG pre-grant due diligence reviews over international CSOs on behalf of DFID-UK (now FCDO). I also undertook an assessment of the adequacy of a South American mining company's response to community expectations following a crisis. Other experience involved being part of large Global Pursuits across the Technology and Mining sectors.The Financial Audit experience was largely across listed and unlisted Middle Market clients, as well as, Education, Housing Associations and Charities sectors. -
Audit ManagerKpmg South Africa Apr 2004 - Jan 2008Financial audit manager (promoted from junior article roles) across a variety of sectors: Higher Education, Financial Services, Industrial and Textile.
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Assistant ManagerKpmg Hungária Kft. Jan 2007 - Mar 2007Three months international secondment - SOX audits for two large clients
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Accounts Payable ClerkSapref Nov 2003 - Jan 2004Durban Area, South AfricaTemp work prior to Articles with KPMG Durban -
Accounting I TutorUniversity Of Kwazulu-Natal Feb 2003 - Nov 2003Durban Area, South Africa
Yoliswa Msweli Education Details
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Accountancy
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Public Policy
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B.Com Hons Acc
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Land Justice
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Yoliswa Msweli works for Institute For Poverty, Land And Agrarian Studies (Plaas)
What is Yoliswa Msweli's role at the current company?
Yoliswa Msweli's current role is Land Justice | Economic and Social Justice | Public Policy | Accountability | Citizenship | Futurelect & YALI Fellow | CA (SA).
What schools did Yoliswa Msweli attend?
Yoliswa Msweli attended University Of Kwazulu-Natal, Blavatnik School Of Government, University Of Oxford, University Of Kwazulu-Natal, University Of The Western Cape.
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Yoliswa Msweli's colleagues are Emmanuel Ogbonna, Andries Du Toit, Alex Dubb, Bukiwe Ntwana, Darlene Miller.
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