Currently working at Sonke Gender Justice – as the Government and Media Liaison manager. Throughout the 1980’s and 1990, he lived the life of activism against all forms oppression that saw him ultimately languishing in Middle drift central prison (for five years) for furthering the aims of a banned organisation.

With the dawn of new democratic dispensation, he earned a degree in Theology from the University of the Western Cape and was invited by (Planned Parenthood Association) PPASA to join them and This where he became influential in shaping the design of Men as Partners Programme (MAP) and was part of the Education Department that developed the National Life skills programme which is now part of the official curriculum as Life Orientation. Soon after leaving PPSA, he joined Ford Motor Company of SA coordinating their workplace HIV/AIDS programme. Afterwards he joined Engenderhealth in 2005 and provided training and technical assistance to a range of organisations across the Southern African Development Region in South Africa and worked very closely with (Treatment Action Campaign) TAC, the Steve Biko Foundation and Masimanyane Women Support Centre.

During this period he represented Men as Partners Network internationally, travelling to Sweden and Mozambique, amongst other places. He has been with Sonke since 2008 and a held number of positions including implementing work with children affected by HIV/AIDS in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu–Natal, implementing the MenCare Campaign in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana and coordinating Sonke’s community mobilisation work in the rural outskirts of the Eastern Cape.

Additionally, he served as a self supporting minister at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Southern Africa(ELCSA) in multi–racial, social justice orientated St Johannes Parish in Cape Town. He is also currently a guest presenter at the University of Western Capes Women and Gender Studies (WGS) second year class.

Married to Thokozile and we are blessed with two children Sivenathi (22) and Sibonokuhle (12). In December 2015 he was approached by IAM to serve as a board member and I officially accepted in January 2015.