
Christy Chitengu is a Researcher at Power Singh Inc.
Christy focuses on constitutional and administrative law and public interest litigation, with an interest in access to justice, children’s right, online harms reduction, and equality and non-discrimination.
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Christy Chitengu is a Researcher at Power Singh Inc.
Christy focuses on constitutional and administrative law and public interest litigation, with an interest in access to justice, children’s right, online harms reduction, and equality and non-discrimination.
Contact Christy
Protecting and promoting fundamental rights and freedoms
About Christy
Learn more about Christy and her work.
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Christy is an activist, researcher, and writer. She holds B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Johannesburg and is currently completing her M.A. in Migration and Displacement at the University of the Witwatersrand as a Mandela Rhodes Foundation Scholar.
Before joining Power Singh Inc., Christy worked as an intern at SECTION27 where she worked on matters relating to the right to basic education (2018-2019). Thereafter, Christy completed an internship at Lawyers for Human Rights as part of the Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme where she consulted clients and drafted submissions to refugee appeal bodies (2019). Most recently, Christy clerked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa (2022, Justice Steven Majiedt), as a foreign clerk for six months.
In July 2022, she joined Power Singh Inc. as one of its Researchers, where she will assist with researching and drafting policy submissions and research reports on international human rights law, digital rights, and questions of social justice in the digital age.
Christy has a keen interest in improving migrant and refugee policy in South Africa. She is particularly interested in understanding the interplay between access to information and its impact on fundamental rights such as basic education.
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- B.A., LLB (University of Johannesburg) and currently completing an M.A. in Migration and Displacement (University of the Witwatersrand).
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- Justice Steven Majiedt at the Constitutional Court of South Africa (2022).
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- Christy Chitengu, ‘Born in SA to foreign parents, I am a second-class citizen’, (2020) Daily Maverick.
- Christy Chitengu, ‘Challenging the literacy crisis’, (2018) SECTION27.
- Balungile Memani, Esther Sibanda, Mbali Mathanjana, Habiba Abbasi and Christy Chitengu, ‘Class war looms as pupils suffer racism in schools: Ghosts of apartheid keep country divided’, (2015) Saturday Star.
Ensuring public and private-sector accountability
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