The Mandela Scholars: Where are they today?
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

The Mandela Economics Scholars Program, funded by USAID and Africa’s Global Training for Development project, brought students to AYSPS to earn graduate degrees in economics. A fair measure of its impact is the contributions these alumni now make at home:

Lesley Fisher (financial economics) is deputy director in the Municipal Policy unit for the National Treasury of South Africa in Pretoria.

Veronica Mafoko (public finance) is a researcher in the Research and Recommendations Programme for the Financial and Fiscal Commission in Midrand.

Gabriel (Tsidiso) Disenyana (international economics) is research manager in Regional Trade Relations for the South Africa Department of Trade and Industry in Pretoria.

Vuyelwa Vumendlini (macroeconomics) and Peter (Malele) Mogoane (public finance) are also with the National Treasury, Vuyelwa as deputy director in the Macroeconomic Policy Unit and Peter as a programme manager/budget analyst in the Chief Directorate. In January he began work towards a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Pretoria.

Percy Moleke (labor economics) is chief researcher for the Human Sciences Research Council’s Employment and Economic Policy Research unit in Pretoria.