Christy Chitengu holds a Bachelor of Arts in law and Development Studies as well as an LLB degree from the University of Johannesburg. Christy is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Migration and Displacement fulltime at the University of the Witwatersrand’s African Centre for Migration Studies as a Mandela Rhodes Scholar. She is also a constitutional court foreign law clerk to Justice Majiedt. Christy Chitengu is an activist at heart and throughout her undergraduate studies, she worked at Section 27 and Lawyers for Human Rights focusing on access to education, healthcare as well as migrant and refugee rights. Christy has published opinion pieces in the Saturday Star, Daily Maverick and New Age wherein she addresses racism, healthy eating and the literacy crisis in schools, her most recent piece was on second class citizenship and the challenges thereof. In her down time Christy enjoys sharing Youtube videos on her channel about how non-South Africans apply for South African citizenship, study visa’s as well as obtain funding for tertiary education in South Africa, link: https://youtube.com/channel/UCkv9J0Fs2WJY-HrcziQTyGA

You can reach out to Christy on Instagram @christy_chitengu

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