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Sherylle Dass

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Tags south-africa, cape-town, lawyer, attorney, public-interest-law, strategic-litigation, digital-rights, big-tech-accountability, platform-accountability, data-centre-opposition, refugee-rights, housing, environmental-justice, regional-director

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03 · Background

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Cape Town public-interest lawyer; Regional Director of the Legal Resources Centre Cape Town office and the organisation's Programme Lead on Democratising Big Tech. Her earlier career was in refugee, education-rights, and philanthropy-sector lawyering — from 2007 to 2013 she managed the Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme at Lawyers for Human Rights in Durban, before serving as senior attorney at the Equal Education Law Centre and as managing attorney at Harris Nupen Molebatsi Inc. (Philanthropy Law). She has run the LRC's Cape Town regional office since at least 2019 and through the COVID-era lockdown represented the South African Human Rights Commission against the City of Cape Town on eviction conduct she described as systemically anti-poor. On the platform-accountability side she sits on the Steering Group of the Global Coalition for Tech Justice representing the LRC, and led the consortium investigation with Global Witness, Mozilla, and CIPIT into the major platforms' approval of harmful political ads during South Africa's 2024 election. In April 2026 she became lead counsel on the Housing Assembly and Foxglove formal objection to Equinix's 160 MVA hyperscale data-centre rezoning at King Air Industria, Cape Town, framing the application as a planning decision that "reproduce[s] inequality rather than redress[es] it."

04 · Sources

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  1. lrc.org.za

    Checked 2026-05-12

    LRC "Who We Are" page — names Dass as Regional Director of the Cape Town regional office, Programme Lead on Democratising Big Tech, with prior roles as managing attorney at Harris Nupen Molebatsi Inc. (Philanthropy Law), senior attorney at the Equal Education Law Centre, and 2007–2013 manager of the Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme at Lawyers for Human Rights (Durban); also describes her role driving LRC's "agile" strategy

  2. foxglove.org.uk

    Checked 2026-05-12

    Foxglove's 29 April 2026 announcement of the Housing Assembly / Foxglove objection to the Equinix KAI hyperscale data centre — names Dass as Regional Director of the LRC and quotes her framing the city's planning decisions as reproducing inequality

  3. digitalaction.co

    Checked 2026-05-12

    Digital Action description of the Global Coalition for Tech Justice — names Dass (as LRC Regional Director) as a Steering Group member; carries her statement that "information integrity is a global problem that affects global democracies and demanded a global call for action" and crediting Digital Action's convening role

  4. dailymaverick.co.za

    Checked 2026-05-12

    Daily Maverick op-ed (26 August 2020) co-bylined by Dass as Regional Director of the LRC Cape Town office and communications officer Thabo Ramphobole, arguing the LRC seeks court oversight of City of Cape Town eviction conduct

  5. sahrc.org.za

    Checked 2026-05-12

    SAHRC press coverage of LRC litigation against the City of Cape Town during the COVID lockdown — Dass represented the South African Human Rights Commission and frames the city's conduct as systemically anti-poor and racist

  6. twitter.com

    Checked 2026-05-12

    LRC South Africa social media post (August 2019) describing the Cape Town regional office as "lead by Regional Director Sherylle Dass" — supports her tenure as Regional Director from at least 2019

Source: entities/persons/person-sherylle-dass.md in movement-graph at pin 3cc1a36.