Angelique Retief

Senior Policy Officer

Angelique works at BSWN alongside her PhD in Social Policy at the University of Bristol. Having emigrated from South Africa in 2006, her work thus far has focused on social policy in South Africa, particularly on the impact of structural adjustment policies on poverty, unemployment, and social unrest in post-apartheid South Africa. Her current research looks at the role of social enterprise in the provision of housing in townships in Cape Town. Angelique has worked on various projects with BSWN in areas such as Housing and the VCSE sector and is particularly interested in the role of indigenous knowledge, local power contexts and local ethical protocols to build on an agenda that seeks to empower and improve the well-being of marginalised communities.