Katharine Bebington

Katharine is a researcher in the Research Department at ACCORD. Katharine joined ACCORD in September 2020 as an intern and became a programme officer in 2021, before becoming a researcher in 2023. Born and raised in Durban, Katharine matriculated at Maris Stella School and furthered her education at the University of the Witwatersrand. At Wits, […]

Andrea Prah

Andrea Prah

Dr Andrea Prah holds BA and Master’s degrees in Politics and International Relations from Rhodes University, South Africa. She obtained her PhD in Internatinal Politics from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, as a recipient of a Chinese government scholarship. Her doctoral dissertation focused on African security cooperation in response to insurgencies in Western, Central and […]

Manjula Marimuthu

Manjula Marimuthu

Manjula has a 15-year history in the NGO sector working in project management, business operations, business systems and procedures as well as business development. She has entrepreneurial experience with a nine-year business practice supporting women empowerment. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, a Higher Diploma in Strategic Management Studies and is a Certified […]

Rumbidzaishe Matambo

Rumbidzaishe Matambo

Rumbidzaishe Matambo is an intern within the Peace Support Operations Cluster, formerly the Peacekeeping Unit. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (cum laude), majoring in Political Science, French and Sociology, and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in International Relations from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in […]

Karishma Rajoo

Karishma Rajoo

Mrs Rajoo first joined ACCORD in 2005 as the Senior Programme Officer for the Training for Peace Programme (TfP) before temporarily leaving to focus on her family full time in 2012. Mrs Rajoo returned to ACCORD in 2015 as the Special Projects Coordinator in the Executive Office. In August 2020 she took up the position […]

Wandile Langa

Wandile Langa

Wandile is a Programme Officer within the Operations Division. He joined ACCORD in March 2016 as an intern in the Peacekeeping Unit. Wandile holds a Master of Social Science degree in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he also obtained his Bachelor of Social Science Honours degree in International Relations. His other qualifications […]

Viola Gaba

Viola Gaba is Programme Administrator of ACCORD’s South Sudan Initiative.

Senzwesihle Ngubane

Senzo Ngubane has more than twenty years of experience as a conflict resolution practitioner, with a particular focus on conflict resolution research and writing; process advisory expertise, and direct facilitation of multi-stakeholder engagements. He holds a Post-Graduate Degree in International Relations from Rhodes University, South Africa. Ngubane joined ACCORD in 1999 where he worked until […]

Emile Yanaki Taban

Emile Yanaki Taban is the Programme Officer for ACCORD’s SSI. Taban lived in Sudan (South and North) throughout his childhood during the civil war before moving to Uganda and later Egypt and the UK in pursuit of education. Taban has a first degree in Political Science, with a specialisation in International Relations and a minor […]

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