Cherryl Walker

Cherryl Walker is professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University, which she joined in 2005,[1][2] and is DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in the Sociology of Land, Environment and Sustainable Development at Stellenbosch since 2016.

[3][4] She is an authority on South African society - specialising in South Africa's land redistribution/restitution, land reform, gender and cosmopolitanism, and environmental sociology.

[2] She was the Commissioner of Regional Land Claims in KwaZulu–Natal from 1995 to 2000.

[5] She earned a master's from the University of Cape Town in 1978.

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