Nomfundo also served as Executive Director at the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture in Cape Town, South Africa for 11 years. She is presently a council member of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) and serves as the representative of the sub-Saharan region on the council. From August 2001 - August 2002 Nomfundo spent a year as a visiting research scholar at the Human Rights Centre, University of California Berkeley. She is also a Board member of the Open Society Foundation.