Faith Munyati is the Chief of Party of the Omkyé: Strengthening Indigenous Communities across Southern Africa programme, which is a three-year USAID funded project designed to strengthen Indigenous communities in three countries, namely Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa.
She is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa and holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of Cape Town and a Master of Laws Degree in Procedural Law from the University of Pretoria. Prior to joining Natural Justice Faith worked as a staff attorney for the American Bar Association under the Advancing Rights in Southern Africa programme (ARISA). ARISA was a regional human rights programme that was implemented in eight Southern Africa countries and focused on the following thematic areas: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Media Freedoms and Digital Rights, Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Women’s Customary Land Rights.
Faith has also previously practised at a legal civil society organization named Lawyers for Human Rights, South Africa and was based in their Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme, where her litigation practice areas included inter alia, immigration law, administrative law, child law, gender equality law, constitutional law, and law of delict.
