Chere Monaisa

Chere Monaisa joined TIPS in 2025 as part of the newly formed Just Transition Labour  Centre. Chere holds a Masters in Labour Policy and Globalisation from the Global  Labour University (University of the Witwatersrand). His research focused on  understanding the NUMSA’s evolving policies on the tole of renewable energy in South  Africa’s mineral energy complex. He has more than fifteen years’ experience using  evidence-based research to support advocacy, campaigns, and education about labour  and other socio-economic rights. He is comfortable working with people from various  backgrounds from travelling around the world (e.g., Botswana, USA, Germany, Brazil,  India) for work and training purposes as either researcher, educator/facilitator, and project manager. Through his years as a researcher, he has led field work teams,  managed research projects from proposal drafting/conceptualisation to close out  reports, hosted training workshops and presented at seminars and conferences; as well  as appearing on TV and radio news programmes to comment on global labour and  economic issues. Chere has been exposed to myriad of developmental issues in  advanced economies and developing countries and how various civil society  organisations have responded to different challenges from labour rights; to  environmental rights (e.g., coal mining towns); as well as social cohesion (e.g., migrant  labour and xenophobia).