by Web Admin | May 11, 2026
Tamara Wilson is a second-year undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of Applied Social Science, majoring in Counselling and Psychology, with the goal of becoming a clinical psychologist. Over the past decade, Tamara has worked as an activist, documenter, and visual activist photographer. She has been actively involved in the Free Palestine movement as a member of South African Jews for a Free Palestine, and in LGBTQIA+ advocacy through her volunteer work with Majawie Safe Space, an organisation dedicated to advancing the rights and safety of transgender women in the Cape Flats and Winelands. She is also a volunteer for Khumbulani Pride (meaning “remember” in isiXhosa), a Pride initiative that raises awareness of queer rights in townships across Cape Town, while commemorating victims of hate crimes. Tamara’s activism photography work has been exhibited by IAM and published in various publications, including the Sunday Star and Beyond the Margins. Tamara’s academic and professional interests lie in exploring the role of psychology in interrogating and challenging systems of power and oppression, including addressing racism, white supremacy, Zionism within the South African Jewish community, homophobia and patriarchy.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Oct 26, 2025
Réjane Williams is an organisational psychologist with over 20 years’ experience in researching, designing and implementing interventions for individual, collective and organisational change. Her focus is on racism, diversity, racial healing, transformation, and social justice in organisations. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD (Department of Psychology, Wits University) dealing with the racialisation of black senior professionals in organisations.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Oct 25, 2025
Nomagugu Ngwenya is researcher at the University of South Africa’s (UNISA) Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS) and a PhD candidate in the university. She holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand, in which she pursued her research interests in critical social psychology, or more specifically, race, gender and identity theories. Through her doctoral study and work at the Institute, her research interests have expanded to include participatory research approaches, decolonial psychosocial healing interventions and more broadly, community psychology. Through her work, Nomagugu seeks to address persisting inequalities in contemporary society, and advocate for marginalised identities
by PsySSA-Web Support | Oct 23, 2025
Siphelele Nguse is a clinical psychologist. He trained at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is currently in pursuit of a PhD focusing on the psychological effects of student activism. His areas of interest include the intersection of psychology and politics, public mental health, masculinity.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Oct 23, 2025
Dr. Sibusiso Maseko is a lecturer at the University of South Africa’s department of psychology and registered research psychologist. He earned his doctorate degree in Psychology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2023. Drawing on South Africa’s history of settler colonialism, his broad research agenda focuses on how White South Africans assert themselves as natives to maintain a sense of territorial entitlement. His current research examines how White South Africans mobilize autochthony and collective nostalgia to defend their ownership of settler colonial territory and to maintain racial inequality.
