Duduetsang Makuse
National Coordinator
Duduetsang is an avid digital media lover and lifelong scholar who is fascinated by the dynamic media space.
Duduetsang had her formal training in television journalism at the University currently known as Rhodes, and has various experiences in broadcast media production and corporate communications. She completed her MBA in Media Management at Cardiff University.
Her activist discontents include socio-economic and gender based inequality and sexual violence while her intellectual interests lie in media strategy, policy and development in the convergent, digital era, especially in the African context.
She joined SOS as a Project Coordinator and recently took over as the National Coordinator.
Kerry Barton-Hobbs
Organisational Support
Kerry has senior-level know-how and experience in policy and strategy development, project management and integration, research, writing, editing, advocacy, communication, and knowledge and information management.
She has worked with and in both civil society and all three spheres of government for over 25 year. She is a social justice activist and offers organisational support to SOS.
Mpho A. Ndaba
Project Coordinator
Ndaba is an activist scholar, writer and digital content producer. He holds degrees in Media Studies; International Relations and; Development Studies.
He has worked areas of media policy, the environmental justice sector, education, and development. In 2018 Ndaba was listed in the Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans, in the Environment Category. In 2016, Ndaba was the founding chairperson of 350Wits, a chapter of the global organization, 350.org. He also is the Open Society Foundation for South Africa scholar for 2020.