ABOUT US
CAOSA is the national coordinating body of the Community Advice Office Sector in South Africa. Our complement of community based advice offices members throughout South Africa, provide primary legal and socio-economic services to vulnerable and indigent communities. The Community Advice Office sector in South Africa boasts a rich history, dating back to the 1950s. In the pre-democracy dispensation these advice offices were the first port of call for marginalised South Africans, especially those detained and harassed. They continue, to this day, to be spaces wherein a majority of the population, on account of inequality and poverty, are afforded the dignity of enforcing their basic human rights. As the coordinating body our core work is around strengthening the capacity of Community Advice Offices, mobilising resources for the sector, enabling regulatory measures for the sector to be developed and enhancing the voice and advocacy of the CAO sector. MEET THE TEAM Tshenolo Tshoaedi Executive Director Sheila Matsondota Operations Manager Ntokozo Dhlamini Programmes Administrator Olerato Morekhure Paralegal Support Intern Ofentse Tomodi Media Content & Comms Officer OUR LEADERSHIP Judge President Dunstan Mlambo Chairperson of CAOSA Judge Mlambo has extensive experience in the sector dating back to 1987. Trained by a paralegal as a newly graduated lawyer he discovered his passion for access to justice very early in his career and he eagerly educated himself on what social justice means. Matseliso Shongwe Chair of the Finance and Audit Matseliso is a Chartered Accountant with almost a decade of experience in auditing at management level. She is passionate about ensuring that an organisation supporting community advice offices has good control strategies and mechanisms in place to ensure that it achieves its set business objectives. Wayne Ncube Board Member Wayne is a lawyer at Lawyers for Human Rights, where he is the head of the Strategic Litigation Programme. As a lawyer, his primary focus is increasing access to justice through litigation or capacitating different types of legal representatives. DULLAH OMAR SCHOOL MEDIA CONTACT US 357 Visagie street, Pretoria Central, Pretoria, 0002 010 745 8975 // 010 746 1699 +27 67 663 1211 info@caosasouthafrica.org.za
