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Rory Robertshaw is an expert consultant for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements working in various African cities. He has facilitated public-private partnerships at local government level, including operationalising the Metropolitan Trading Company where he filled the position of acting chief executive officer. He also worked for the STREETS Community Development Association in Cape Town, the Centre for Opportunity Development, the Safer Cities project in Greater Johannesburg, and Capital B Management. He has been a speaker and facilitator at international conferences and is a published author.
Antoinette Louw is the head of the Crime and Justice Programme at the ISS. She joined the ISS in August 1997 as a senior researcher. She has been conducting research and has written extensively on issues of political violence and crime since joining the University of Natal’s Centre for Social and Development Studies in 1991, where she was also the editor of the two quarterly publications, Indicator SA and Crime and Conflict. Antoinette has a Masters degree in Political Studies from the University of Natal.
Dr Mark Shaw is a research fellow at the South African Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He has written widely on issues related to policing and crime control in Southern Africa. Shaw worked previously at the Centre for Policy Studies, Institute for Security Studies and the Department of Safety and Security.
Mduduzi Mashiyane worked at Codesa in 1993 as a member of the support staff of the multiparty negotiations. During 1993-1994, Mdu was a facilitator on the RDP Presidential Lead Project for the Kathorus Peace Committee. In 1995, he took up the position as co-ordinator of the Community Safety Unit of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa), which also encompassed the position of co-ordinator of the Greater Pretoria Crime Prevention Unit. In 1999, Mdu joined the Durban Safer City Project as project co-ordinator until January 2001. He is currently pursuing further studies.
Sid Brettell served as a duty officer in the Flying Squad, a station commander and a divisional recruitment officer in the South African Police in Durban. He joined the newly established Durban municipal security section in 1981 and rose to the position of chief security officer. He was appointed director of human resources in the Community Service Unit in 1991 and established the Durban Safer City Project in September 1999. Sid has also been a member of the South African Security Association (SASA) since 1982 and has served as branch chairperson for SASA KwaZulu-Natal on the SASA National Council, and also as a governor of the South African Institute of Security. He completed his Master degree in Business Administration in 1985.
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