Zukiswa Kota comes from South Africa, where she helps promote social accountability and open governance within the Pan-African space with civic technological innovations.

Zukiswa Kota is currently a Programme Manager at the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM), a regional civil society organisation based in South Africa. She has extensive experience supporting various social and budget justice interventions including the coordination of a civil society coalition working with the South African National Treasury to
deepen public participation, transparency and fiscal accountability.
She serves on the boards of various organisations such as the Equal Education Law Centre and Corruption Watch as well as on the Advisory Board of the Public Economy Project at Wits University. She is a founding Chairperson of the Budget Justice Coalition and the Imali Yethu Coalition for Open Budgets in South Africa.