Country Witness Expert on South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, Malawi, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, and Eswatini
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Expert at The Human Rights Experts, an international expert witness organisation.
We provide expert witness reports for asylum cases worldwide, covering human rights violations, political persecution, and systemic oppression. Our reports are trusted by lawyers, courts, and immigration authorities, in full compliance with procedural standards and tribunal requirements in the UK (CPR Part 35, Upper Tribunal PD, First-tier Tribunal IAC PD), USA (Federal Rules of Evidence), Canada, and the EU.
Winner of the Expert Witness Awards in the category of Best Immigration, Asylum & Refugee Expert Witness 2024.
Human Rights and Political Risk Researcher
Legal Analyst on State Violence and Discrimination
Specialist in Civil Liberties and Social Exclusion
I provide expert analysis on all five Refugee Convention grounds, political opinion, religion, ethnicity, membership of a particular social group (including LGBT and gender-based cases), and nationality, with a focus on Southern Africa (SADC region).
This includes:
Political persecution of activists, opposition members, and protesters in Zimbabwe, Angola, and Malawi.
Religious discrimination, including targeting of minority churches and religious converts.
Ethnic and linguistic marginalisation of groups such as the San, Lozi, and rural tribal communities.
Gender-based violence and state failure to protect women and girls from abuse, trafficking, and child marriage.
Criminalisation and persecution of LGBT persons, including societal violence and institutional neglect.
Arbitrary detention, torture, and abuse by police and state security agencies.
Restrictions on freedom of assembly, expression, and civil society activity.
Denial of nationality or documentation, particularly affecting cross-border communities and displaced persons.
Forced evictions, displacement due to mining, and lack of legal protection for affected populations.
Preparation of expert witness reports for asylum, immigration, and human rights cases.
Provision of oral testimony before courts and tribunals.
Verification and authentication of documents and country-specific evidence.
Conducting nationality assessments, including statelessness evaluations.
Author of regional research and publications on human rights violations in Southern Africa.
Contributor to national reports and NGO briefings on human rights.
Expert member of The Human Rights Experts
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Shona (Fluent)
Portuguese (Professional)
Zulu and Ndebele (Conversational)