Ilze Olckers

Ilze Olckers practised as a human rights lawyer during the apartheid era and during the transition to democracy. During this time she also participated in the constitutional and other legislative drafting processes, as well as in policy and systems development of gender and race machinery in a post-apartheid South Africa. She co-founded the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit based at the University of Cape Town in 1995. Since the 2000’s she has been working as an independent law, race, gender and organisational development consultant focussing on transformation issues in South Africa, most recently for the Nelson Mandela University.