ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Tackling Money Laundering in East and Southern Africa
An Overview of Capacity
Volume One
Edited by
CHARLES GOREDEMA
Charles Goredema is a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Cape Town where he specialises in research into money laundering, organised crime and corruption in Southern Africa. He holds qualifications in law from the Universities of Zimbabwe and London and practised as a prosecutor in the Justice Ministry in Zimbabwe in 1983 before embarking on an academic career in 1987. He joined the ISS in August 2000 after teaching criminal justice law at the Universities of Zimbabwe, Cape Town and the Western Cape. He has published extensively in the spheres of criminal justice and human rights law.
Kamogediso Mokongwa is the Managing Partner at Mokongwa Lekoba Attorneys, a law firm in Gaborone, Botswana. She holds an LL.B from the University of Botswana and a Masters degree in legislative drafting from the University of the West Indies.
George Kegoro is the secretary of the Law Society of Kenya and an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. He holds an LL.B from the University of Nairobi. Following his graduation in 1992, he joined the public service in Kenya in the Attorney General’s office, where he worked as a research officer in the Kenya Law Reform Commission before joining the Law Society of Kenya as Deputy Secretary in 1995. He has been involved in anti-corruption work as part of the statutory mandate that the Law Society of Kenya has to advise the government and the public in Kenya on all matters relating to, or ancillary to, the law and the administration of justice. He has also consulted for Transparency International Kenya on wide range of issues relating to the fight against corruption.
Mokhibo Nomzi Gwintsa is a Researcher in the Organised Crime and Corruption Programme of the ISS in Cape Town, focusing on money laundering research. She holds an LL.B from the National University of Lesotho. She was involved for a number of years in research on women and on children’s rights and has undertaken consultancy work on media law and on money laundering.
Jai Banda is a lawyer in private commercial practice with Sacranie, Gow and Company, one of the longest-established law firms in Blantyre, Malawi. Born in Zimbabwe of Malawian parents, he read law at the Universities of Lesotho and Zimbabwe. Following graduation he practised briefly with a law firm specialising in commercial law in Harare before taking up his present appointment. He is a director of several companies in Malawi, including the major electricity supplier, Eskom. He has contributed to ISS publications on organised crime legislation in Southern Africa and is knowledgeable on the incidence of economic crime in Malawi.
