Christy Chitengu is a Candidate Attorney at Power Singh Inc.
Christy focuses on constitutional and administrative law and public interest litigation, with an interest in access to justice and immigration / refugee law.
Contact Christy
Christy Chitengu is a Candidate Attorney at Power Singh Inc.
Christy focuses on constitutional and administrative law and public interest litigation, with an interest in access to justice and immigration / refugee law.
Contact Christy
Protecting and promoting fundamental rights and freedoms
About Christy
Learn more about Christy and her work.
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Christy is a Candidate Legal Practitioner at Power Singh Incorporated. 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, having been awarded the Mandela Rhodes Foundation Scholarship for postgraduate study.
Before joining Power Singh Incorporated, Christy was a Tech Rights Fellow at ALT Advisory with a focus on data privacy, information rights and emergent technology. Prior to that, Christy clerked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa (2022, Justice Steven Majiedt), as a foreign clerk for six months. She 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).
Christy joined Power Singh Inc. in January 2023 as a Candidate Legal Practitioner, where she will assist the legal team in all matters in order to become a fully qualified attorney.
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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- A., LL.B. (University of Johannesburg).
- 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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- Presented at 8th Anniversary of the UNHCR Statelessness: I Belong Campaign (2022).
- Presented at Media Monitoring Africa’s Media Freedom Festival: Disinformation through a children’s rights lens (2022).
- Christy Chitengu, ‘Strengthening online systems to make asylum and refugee permits accessible across the digital divide”, (2022) ALT Advisory.
- 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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