Author: Tendai Mbanje

Tendai Shephard Mbanje is a doctoral candidate specialising in International Human Rights Law at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria. Tendai is a governance, election and legal scholar whose research focuses on electoral processes within the African Union (AU) and the Regional Economic Communities (RECs). He has written extensively on the subject and regularly comments on international media platforms (including Television) on the work of the AU and the RECs, particularly on electoral and governance processes. Professionally, Tendai has served as a technical Assistant at the Secretariat of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights in Banjul, the Gambia. He is an accredited international election observer with African Union Election Observer Missions (AUEOMs) and the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA). Most recently, Tendai served as an Assistant Election Analyst to the European Union Election Observation Mission to Zimbabwe 2023 Harmonised Elections. He is also a consultant to NGOs whose work focuses on elections.