Neil joined the anti-apartheid movement in the early '80s. His involvement in student, youth and church organisations in the '80s and '90s developed in him a strong sense of equality and justice. He joined the department of Land Affairs soon after the first democratic...

Tanya Doherty, Lori Lake, Max Kroon, Chantell Witten, Natasha Rhoda and David Sanders are medical doctors and researchers at the South African Medical Research Council, The University of Cape Town, North West University and The University of the Western Cape.

Fairuz Mullagee is a researcher and coordinator of the Social Law Project at the UWC, South Africa. She has about thirty years of extensive research and management experience that includes policy design and analysis, program delivery and monitoring and evaluation for...

Tlamelo Mothudi is a Health Researcher with the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM).

Haroon Aziz's primary discipline is quantum physics. His secondary discipline is history and biography. He has created the new literary genre of neuro-biography. He has written twenty published and unpublished books, which receive regular citations in academic journals.

Asikelelwe Pezisa is a third year Bachelor of Journalism and Media Studies student at Rhodes University, double majoring in English language and linguistics as well as Journalism and media studies. She is interested in the evolution of media and its impact on humanity.

Melathisi Ncityana grew up in the small town of Engqushwa and eBhayi in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. He studied at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and later at Rhodes University. He is currently doing his Masters in History at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan...

Ebrahim Harvey is a political writer, analyst and author.

Riana McArthur is an HPCSA registered research psychologist with more than 10 years’ experience in market research in various industries, specialising in quantitative as well as qualitative research methodologies. Riana is fortunate to have lived and worked in many...

Fiona Scorgie, Matthew Chersich, Caradee Wright, Angela Mathee and Leonard Gentle are a group of researchers at the South African Medical Research Council and the University of Cape Town

Lee-Ann Persse is a South African rower who competed at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.

Anakwa Dwamena is a books editor at Africa is a Country, and a member of the New Yorker magazine’s editorial staff. Originally from Ghana, his reporting and cultural criticism work focuses on African politics, the lives of black immigrants around the world and soccer.

Zanta Nkumane is a writer for New Frame.

Prof. Jane Duncan is Head of Department of Journalism, Film and Television at the University of Johannesburg, and a former Executive Director of the Freedom of Expression Institute.

Derek Carelse is an ex advertising art director and company marketing director who now devotes his time mentoring the Next Generation & helping startups and social enterprises to thrive.

Gabriel Vieira is a Trinidad and Tobago-born second year student at the University of Cape Town. He is the Print News editor of UCT’s student-run Newspaper, Varsity News.