Siphokazi
Mlindazwe

Siphokazi Mlindazwe is a South African attorney serving her fellowship with the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa, where she is placed within the Women’s Socio-Economic Rights Department. Her commitment to justice is rooted in her lived experience as a Black woman who has seen first-hand how gendered and structural inequality shape everyday life.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Cape Town and began her legal career at the Rhodes University Law Clinic, where she supported clinical legal education and represented clients in family, housing, and civil matters. She later joined ProBono.Org, focusing on access-to-justice initiatives centred on women’s rights, social justice, and community empowerment. These roles strengthened her skills in feminist legal analysis, constitutional and socio-economic rights research, and community-centred representation.

Siphokazi’s academic interests focus on how feminist legal theory can deepen constitutional interpretation, advance women’s socio-economic rights, and reshape the law’s response to gendered inequality. She hopes to pursue these interests further through a future Master of Laws in feminist jurisprudence, gender justice, and human rights in Africa.

As a Waging Justice for Women Fellow, she aims to deepen her strategic litigation skills and contribute meaningfully to ISLA’s work advancing women’s socio-economic rights across the continent.