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Palesa Manaleng

Palesa studied journalism at Tshwane University of Technology. While studying she was a journalism cadet at the Witbank News. She interned at the Citizen Newspaper in 2011, she worked as a sub-editor at the Citizen Newspaper (2011-2013). She left and went to intern at...

Anel Gerber

Anel Gerber (18) is from Port Elizabeth and currently a first year Physiotherapy student at the University of the Free State. She enjoys doing sports, reading and spending time with friends and family.

Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie

Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie is an international development consultant and writer who splits his time between the UK and Sierra Leone. Of part Sierra Leonean and Nigerian heritage, he returned to Sierra Leone early 2015 to support the country’s response to the Ebola...

Black Diamonds in the Rough

[intro]In his new book “The New Black Middle Class in South Africa”, Roger Southall grapples with the definitional problem of identifying who exactly the middle class is and what it means to be black, middle class and professional. Hlonipha Mokoena reviews Southhall’s...

Hlonipha Mokoena

Hlonipha Mokoena received her Ph.D. from the University of Cape Town in 2005. She is currently an associate professor and researcher at WiSER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She recently published...