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Gandhi Baai
Dr Gladstone Sandi Baai was unanimously nominated by Parliament in September 2010 and appointed as a human rights Commissioner by the President in December of the same year.
Commissioner Baai's focus areas of responsibility within the South African Human Rights Commission include socio-economic rights particularly on issues relating to the improvement of access to healthcare, housing and food. In addition, he will also be representing the work of the Commission in the Eastern Cape Province.
An accomplished academic, Dr Baai holds a PhD from the University of Durham in the United Kingdom and has other degrees from the University of South Africa, including two Masters from Drew University in the United States. He is a prolific writer too and has authored several books, amongst others, OR Tambo: Teacher, Lawyer and Freedom Fighter (2006) and Snatching bread from the mouth of the poor: Ethics and Corruption. He has also published a few essays, mainly on corruption and ethics, in accredited Journals including the respected Journal on Public Administration.
Commissioner Baai is no stranger to human rights work. His interest in this area started at an early age where he was involved in many anti-apartheid campaigns, including years spent in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America doing anti-apartheid work. He has also served as a cleric who was outspokenly critical of unjust apartheid regime and its oprresive policies.
In 1978 he was awarded a Christian Fellowship Trust scholarship which gave him the opportunity to travel to Europe. On his return from the UK in 1990, he took up a lecturing position at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. In this capacity, he also participated in the transformation of the university. Subsequently, he joined the Public Service Commission in 1996 as a Director of Professional Ethics. Through this position he played a leading role in the establishment of ethics guidelines in the public service for more than a decade.
Commissioner Baai's preservation of the history of this country led him to approach the National Heritage Council of South Africa to request funding to conduct research into the 1917 historic sinking of the troopship, SS Mendi. He worked on this project from 2008 until 2010
Gandhi Baai
Dr Gladstone Sandi Baai was unanimously nominated by Parliament in September 2010 and appointed as a human rights Commissioner by the President in December of the same year.
Commissioner Baai's focus areas of responsibility within the South African Human Rights Commission include socio-economic rights particularly on issues relating to the improvement of access to healthcare, housing and food. In addition, he will also be representing the work of the Commission in the Eastern Cape Province.
An accomplished academic, Dr Baai holds a PhD from the University of Durham in the United Kingdom and has other degrees from the University of South Africa, including two Masters from Drew University in the United States. He is a prolific writer too and has authored several books, amongst others, OR Tambo: Teacher, Lawyer and Freedom Fighter (2006) and Snatching bread from the mouth of the poor: Ethics and Corruption. He has also published a few essays, mainly on corruption and ethics, in accredited Journals including the respected Journal on Public Administration.
Commissioner Baai is no stranger to human rights work. His interest in this area started at an early age where he was involved in many anti-apartheid campaigns, including years spent in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America doing anti-apartheid work. He has also served as a cleric who was outspokenly critical of unjust apartheid regime and its oprresive policies.
In 1978 he was awarded a Christian Fellowship Trust scholarship which gave him the opportunity to travel to Europe. On his return from the UK in 1990, he took up a lecturing position at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. In this capacity, he also participated in the transformation of the university. Subsequently, he joined the Public Service Commission in 1996 as a Director of Professional Ethics. Through this position he played a leading role in the establishment of ethics guidelines in the public service for more than a decade.
Commissioner Baai's preservation of the history of this country led him to approach the National Heritage Council of South Africa to request funding to conduct research into the 1917 historic sinking of the troopship, SS Mendi. He worked on this project from 2008 until 2010