Ashley Westaway will be participating in the upcoming Thinking Africa colloquium. Sally
Matthews interviewed him recently about the role of NGOs in
Grahamstown and more generally.
Ashley Westaway is the manager of GADRA Education, a
Grahamstown based public benefit organisation which provides key education services and advocates for transformation of
the school education system. One of its key projects, which is discussed below,
is the GADRA matric school which provides matric students with an opportunity
to rewrite their matric in order to pass (if they failed the first time) or to
improve their results. Ashley is also a research associate of the Environmental
Learning Research Centre at Rhodes University. He has written on land reform,
rural development and rural politics with a particular focus on the Eastern
Cape. He used to work for the Border Rural
Committee (BRC).
