Professor Sheila Meintjes lectures in Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has a BA. Honours from Rhodes University, an MA in African Studies from the University of Sussex and a PhD in African History from the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University.  She teaches African politics, political theory and feminist theory and politics. 

She was a full-time Commissioner in the Commission on Gender Equality between May 2001 and March 2004, where she led the Commission’s governance programme and was responsible for the Commission in the Gauteng Province. Professor Meintjes has been involved in feminist and women’s politics in South Africa since the early 1970s as a member of the United Women’s Organisation in the Western Cape, the Natal Organisation of Women and she was on the Research Supervisory Group of the Women’s National Coalition.

She is the Chairperson of the Boards of Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre against Violence against Women and of  Women’sNet, a women’s communication and training organisation. She has published on the politics of gender, on gender violence, and most recently has co-edited three books:
The Aftermath: Women in post-conflict Transformation published by Zed Press;
One Woman, One Vote: the gender politics of elections published  by the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa; 
and Women Writing Africa: the Southern Volume published by the Feminist Press and the University of the Witwatersrand Press.

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