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The Urban LandMark team:
Mary Phalane (Office Assistant),
Lucille Gavera (Projects Co-ordinator),
Lerato Ndjwili-Potele (Administrative Executive Officer),
Girly Makhubela (Programme Administrator) and
Mark Napier (Programme Director). |
Mark Napier - programme director
Mark Napier is an architect by profession, and has an MA in Housing Studies and a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Before setting up Urban LandMark, he worked for two years in government, establishing a research unit in the national Department of Housing (now the Department of Human Settlements). Mark was also with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for 13 years. He has researched and published in the areas of housing extensions, home-based enterprises, environmental aspects of informal settlements, and land and housing markets. He can be contacted at mark@urbanlandmark.org.za or +27 12 342 7636.
Lucille Gavera - projects co-ordinator
Lucille Gavera is an information manager with expertise in the areas of economic policy and development, pro-poor growth and sustainable livelihoods. She was previously the Communications Manager at both Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies and the ComMark Trust. Between 2008 and 2009, Lucille was also involved in the design and implementation of pro-poor agri-business interventions within a market-based development approach, and implementing processes for the monitoring and evaluation of such interventions. At Urban LandMark, Lucille is responsible for project contracting and oversight, the dissemination of programme outputs, writing material for publication and managing Urban LandMark's website. Lucille can be contacted at lucille@urbanlandmark.org.za or +27 12 342 7636.
Lerato Ndjwili-Potele - administrative executive officer
Lerato Ndjwili-Potele has a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and a post-graduate diploma in Marketing. She previously worked at the Royal Danish Embassy, the Transvaal Rural Action Committee (TRAC) and the Black Sash. She is responsible for project and financial administration and operations at Urban LandMark. She can be contacted at lerato@urbanlandmark.org.za or +27 12 342 7636.
Girly Makhubela - programme administrator
Girly Ntombizodwa Makhubela previously worked at the South African Revenue Services and at South African State Information Technology Agency. She is responsible for office administration and can be contacted at info@urbanlandmark.org.za or +27 12 342 7636.
Mary Phalane - office assistant
Mary Phalane hails from Temba near Hammanskraal and worked in the food and retail sector
before joining the organisation. She is responsible for assisting with office administration and filing, and can be contacted at +27 12 342 7636.
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Stephen Berrisford, Robert McGaffin, Abueng Matlapeng and Lauren Royston act as Theme Co-ordinators for Urban LandMark, advising and managing projects within their theme areas.
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato is the co-ordinator of Urban LandMark’s regional initiative. A senior research fellow at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand until 2010, she is spending 2011 in the US. At Urban LandMark, Caroline works on understanding urban land markets on the continent, and in collaboration with UN-HABITAT has developed a guide on urbanisation in Africa for policy-makers, private firms and NGOs involved in the fields of housing, urban planning, engineering, architecture and related areas. Her research and teaching areas are around public policy in developing countries and participatory planning, as well as the impact
of migration on African cities, in particular inner-city Johannesburg.
Stephen Berrisford
Stephen Berrisford is Urban LandMark’s theme co-ordinator for regulatory and governance matters. Trained as a lawyer and a town planner, Stephen has worked as a consultant in the field of urban land and planning law and policy since 2000. Before that, Stephen worked on land development facilitation for the then-Department of Land Affairs and as an urban planner with the city councils of Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Robert McGaffin
Robert McGaffin, our property market theme co-ordinator, is a town planner and land economist. He has worked as a town planner for local and provincial governments and as property finance manager for Standard Bank. He also lectures in Land Economics and Valuation at the University of Cape Town.
Abueng Matlapeng
Abueng Matlapeng, co-ordinator of our professional development and training programme, is a geographer and development planner with a deep interest in addressing housing and squatter settlements issues. She has held several teaching positions, including in the Department of Geography at the University of the North, and has worked as a senior researcher in the Science and Technology Policy Directorate of the Foundation for Research Development.
Lauren Royston
Lauren Royston is theme co-ordinator for Urban LandMark’s urban land rights and secure tenure programme of work. A development planner by training, Lauren has worked in the NGO and public sectors, and has been a principal at Johannesburg-based Development Works for over 10 years. Her fields of specialisation are land and housing, where she has focussed on planning for housing as part of municipal integrated planning and urban tenure security. She advises the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and the community-based organisations with which they work on anti-evictions and community engagements, and serves on a panel which assesses municipal capacity and compliance for housing accreditation, which makes recommendations to provincial housing members of the executive council.
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