Lwazi Mtshiyo
South Africa

Lwazi Mtshiyo is a human rights lawyer and community activist in South Africa. He has human rights work experience of about nine years. He has been involved in public interest litigation and precedent setting Constitutional matters that involve urban land and spacial justice issues. He has also been involved in various research projects and publications on issues concerning urban land, rural land and the provision of basic services. Lwazi currently plies in Cape Town as a senior political organiser for Ndifuna uKwazi, an organisation working to advance urban land justice to protect and promote access to affordable and well located housing; building inclusive and sustainable mixed use and mixed income communities; and supporting tenant rights and security of tenure in both private and public.