Thandeka Chauke

Position held: 
Legal Advisor: Land and Housing Unit

Thandeka is a Legal Advisor in LHR's Land and Housing Unit. She holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences and a Bachelor of Laws from Rhodes University, Grahamstown. She joined LHR as an intern in 2015 and completed her articles of clerkship in 2018. Her passion lies in advocating for the human rights of marginalised and indigent persons by using the law as an instrument to balance the scales of social justice. Over the years, she has gained experience in various fields including public interest litigation, constitutional law, administrative law, eviction law, land reform and restitution, mining law and immigration law. She has also developed a keen interest in the realisation of socio-economic rights and has worked directly on cases relating to; unlawful evictions in urban and rural areas, access to housing and the provision of basic services to informal settlements, the recognition of informal land rights, the protection of the rights of informal traders to earn a living and the judicial enforcement of court orders.