Mbali Baduza

CEO, WeThePeopleSA

Mbali Baduza is CEO of WeThePeopleSA, which promotes knowledge and understanding of the Constitution, its making and its impact on society. She is a human rights lawyer with over a decade of experience, having worked at SECTION27 in the Health Rights Programme and at Lawyers for Human Rights in the Land and Housing Programme. Her work sits at the intersection of law, justice, and climate, grounded in a deep commitment to dignity, equity, and systemic change. She is a former Commissioner at the Presidential Climate Commission. Mbali has a BA in Law and Political Science and International Relations, an Honours in Political Science and International Relations, and LLB – all from Rhodes University – and an LLM in Human Rights from the University of Edinburgh.

Organization vision: For the people of South Africa to know, own and protect the Constitution to realise its promise.
WeThePeopleSA (a campaign of the Constitution Hill Trust) was born to promote respect for the Constitution, human rights and democracy. They animate the Constitution to help bridge the gap between its values and ideals and the lived reality of South Africans. WeThePeopleSA is advancing an ambitious constitutional literacy programme, focusing on young people, who make up almost two-thirds of the population. Using traditional and non-traditional educational activities, they promote knowledge and understanding of the Constitution, its making and its impact on society. They advance constitutional literacy by developing and disseminating effective constitutional literacy projects, targeted particularly at children (0-18) and youth (18 -35). They archive the Making of the Constitution by stabilizing and augmenting the archive to preserve the story of the Constitution’s making and provide a foundation to support the constitutional literacy programme. They also promote Constitution Hill as a World Heritage Site.