Judith February

Judith is a senior research associate at the Institute for Security Studies and affiliated to the UCT Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice. Prior to that, Judith headed up IDASA’s South African governance programme. She practised law in Cape Town until 2000 and holds an LLM in Commercial Law. Judith is a regular media analyst on South African politics and writes columns for Eyewitness News, Daily Maverick and Media24. She is also the chair of the Springfield Convent School board of governors and the co-editor of Testing Democracy: Which Way is South Africa Heading? (2010). Judith was appointed to the board in August 2008.