GEC welcomes feminist leader and trans rights advocate Ricki Kgositau to regional manager role

The Global Equality Caucus is delighted to announce that human rights activist Ricki Kgositau has joined our Secretariat to lead an important parliamentary engagement programme in Southern Africa.

Tshepo Ricki Kgositau is passionate about legal and policy reform within the region to advance socio-economic justice and accountability towards marginalised people and minority communities. She litigated and won a constitutional court case seeking legal gender recognition in the High Court of Botswana in 2017, and has since worked with parliamentarians to craft gender recognition policy in Botswana.

With years of experience as a young feminist leader within the human rights and developmental sector, she has advised the Southern Africa Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC-PF) and the African Union Commission (AUC).

Her former roles include Executive Director of Accountability International and Gender DynamiX, and more recently was Co-Executive Coordinator of the African Queer Youth Initiative. Ricki is an 2016 Mandela-Washington Fellow, is on the Methodist Church of Southern Africa’s Connexional LGBTI Task Team and the Advisory Board of the London School of Economics & Political Science’s AHRC Research Project, “Transnational Anti-Gender Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions”.

Based in Johannesburg, Ricki will lead our outreach work in Southern Africa to engage more politicians on equality issues and inclusive policymaking, establishing a peer-to-peer network in the region. Together with our partner organisation The Other Foundation she will amplify the existing work of regional NGOs and facilitate dialogue between civil society and lawmakers, with the objective of building on the legislative progress seen in Southern Africa over the past decade.