Dr Majodina joined the Commission in August 1999. Dr Majodina is a senior lecturer at the Graduate School for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, where she is setting up a new Master’s programme in Forced Migration. She obtained her BSc degree in Psychology from Fort Hare, and a Masters degree in London. She spent 18 years in Ghana as a Clinical Psychologist at the University of Ghana Medical School, and was later a Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford. She returned to South Africa in 1992 and completed her doctorate with the University of Cape Town in 1999.
Commissioner Majodina spent time at the Office of the Public Service Commission, being responsible for promoting a more representative public service. She is a member of many professional associations, mainly concerning forced migration and child abuse. Currently she is serving on the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration. Dr Majodina has published and presented many papers on the effects and problems of war, violence, exile, refugees and repatriation.
Commissioner Majodina’s special focus is the rights of refugees, asylum-seekers and migration policy and she shares responsibility for the Northern and Western Cape Provinces with Commissioner Wessels.
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