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Rhoda Kadalie is a columnist for Business Day, Die Burger and Beeld. Trained as an anthropologist, she worked from 1976 – 1995 as an academic at the University of the Western Cape, where she founded the Gender Equity Unit. She presented papers at numerous international conferences, in countries ranging from the USA, the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden to Japan, China and Brazil. In 1995 President Nelson Mandela appointed her Human Rights Commissioner. She investigated and reported on rights violations in prisons, places of safety and on farms. In 1998 she served as head of the District Land Claims Unit for the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights. Since 1999, Kadalie has been the executive director of the Impumelelo Innovations Award Trust which rewards initiatives that improve service delivery and eradicate poverty in South Africa. She has received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and her alma mater, the University of the Western Cape. She is also the recipient of the Human Rights Award, Toronto, Canada and the Rapport and City Press Prestige Award for Inspirational Women. Kadalie serves on a number of boards, including those of the South African Institute of Race Relations, the Institute of Ethics in South Africa and the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University in the USA.