BEconHons, BEc, MEconSc

Email: siviwe.mhlana@wits.ac.za

Siviwe Mhlana is a member of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) at Rhodes University, a researcher at the Southern Centre for Inequality
Studies (SCIS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a PhD candidate at SOAS at the University of London. Siviwe's MA was in Social Policy and Labour Studies at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Rhodes University, which at the time included NALSU. She explored the changing nature of labour-intensive production in post-apartheid South Africa, and the gendered individualisation of risk associated with non-standard, informal and precarious employment. She holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Economics Honours from Rhodes University, and has worked as a consultant for the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC), and Women in Informal Employment: Globalising and Organising (WIEGO). She serves on the board of the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ). Siviwe's research interests include international development, labour economics, social policy, and gender.

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