Xiletelo Mabasa is a journalism student who loves everything from politics to fashion. Xiletelo is a proud Tsonga girl who grew up in the town of Malamulele, Limpopo. She finished twelve years of schooling at Khanyisa Education Centre in Giyani in 2014. She is...

Magnificent Mndebele grew up in a dusty village called Thokozane in Mpumalanga and is the founder and Managing Editor of The Open Journal which works with students at the University of Johannesburg and champions “authentic storytelling”. Magnificent focuses on...

Tammy was born in East London in October 1996. Lived in the UK for three years from 2003-2006 then returned to East London to complete primary and secondary education. Now lives in Bloemfontein where she is currently a 2nd year Media Studies and Journalism student.

Danzel Rademan is a Media Studies and Journalism graduate from the University of the Free State.

Runs the Network Society Lab at the Journalism and Media, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His research concerns Internet access, use and development and the Internet's social, political and economic effects, in South Africa and the continent. Indra is a...

Teni is an aspirant marxist economist.

Salim Vally is the director of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, an associate professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg and a visiting professor at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. He was employed by Wits University...

Enver Motala is a researcher in Social Sciences at the University of Fort Hare.

Leigh-Ann Naidoo is currently a PHD student in the School of Education at Wits University. Her work is on the role of education in building political movements and her masters focused on the formation of the black consciousness movement and its relation to education....

Mondli Hlatshwayo is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation at the University of Johannesburg. Previously he worked for Khanya College, a Johannesburg-based NGO, as an educator and researcher. He is a former community activist who...

Professor Rasigan Maharajh, is an activist scholar who is primarily based in South Africa. In 2004, he was the founding Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation which is located at the Tshwane University of Technology.

Zolisa Marawu is currently doing comparative research in Socially Engaged Scholarship as part of a broader Civic Agency and Engaged Scholarship programme based at the Centre for Integrated Post School Education & Training at NMMU. I am also curator of the Social...

Patrick Pillay has enjoyed a diverse career and academic background and the evolution remains a work in progress. Following a long record of service within the Banking and Financial Services sector, mainly in Commercial Banking Management, including work as a Credit...

Nosipho holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University Currently Known as Rhodes University. Nosipho has taught “Community Engaged Learning” at the University Currently known as Rhodes University; “Communication for Social Change” at MICA...

Sinethemba Ntombela commonly known as S’ne was born in Pietermaritzburg on 20 May 1994. She is a final year BA Journalism student at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), studying a three year course starting from 2014 to 2016. S’ne is a sports enthusiast, she enjoys...

Peter grew up in Belgravia Estate, Athlone  on the Cape Flats where he attended Alexander Sinton High School. After matriculating, he obtained a BA.LLB degree from UCT. After serving articles with a firm of attorneys he obtained an LLM degree in administrative law...

Mvuzo Ponono is a Xhosa man from the Eastern Cape, now based at the University of the Free State. His research interests include audience, and postcolonial studies. His MA examined the influence of a township family context on the interpretation of a health education...

Professor Adam Habib is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, and has served in this position from June 2013. He is an academic, an activist, an administrator, and a renowned political media commentator and columnist. A Professor of...

Minister Ebrahim Patel studied at the University of the Western Cape and University of Cape Town. He has been heavily involved in labour-government issues as he was the Chief Negotiator on the Labour Relations Act of 1995 and the acting President of the South African...

Dr Glenda Daniels has been a journalist in the print industry for over two decades having worked for most of the big print media companies, starting off her career as a trainee in 1990 at the then Weekly Mail. Prior to that she was an anti-apartheid activist and...