Mpho turned 19 this year in March and Visual Art has been her passion since she could hold a pencil. A supportive family helped with her journey. At first, her aim was to try to draw objects as they were; trying to make them look as realistic as possible. As time...

Warren Ludski is a former Cape Town journalist who now lives in Canberra, Australia. He worked for The Cape Post for five years from 1967 until it was shut down in 1972, and from 1973 to 1986 for the Cape Herald. Both publications targeted the black communities of the...

Simamkele Dlakavu, story-teller and social activist, works as a human rights television producer on one of South Africa's most popular current affairs shows, The Big Debate. She also works for international broadcasters like the BBC. Simamkele has been a youth...

Aisha is a writer currently employed as a copywriter in Advertising. She is also enrolled at the University of Nairobi studying for a degree in Journalism and Media Studies. She has a strong interest in using social media as a platform to highlight, talk about and...

From 1999 to 2010, Dr Roger Williamson organised nearly 80 sustainable development conferences at Wilton Park, the UK government's specialist international centre for policy dialogue. He has also worked at senior level within Christian Aid, the Church of England and...

Mpho Matsitle writes and thinks in music - the only language he understands - and believes that everything must be subjected to the unforgiving scrutiny of black radical thought. He fancies himself an immortal black existentialist and a libertine. He claims he’s just...

Ebrahim joined the liberation movement as a youth activist in 1952, and participated in the Congress of the People Campaign, that drew up and adopted the Freedom Charter in 1955. He was active in all the campaigns of the 1950s, and after the banning of the ANC in...

Ntando PZ Mbatha was born and bred in Ladysmith/Emnambithi, a town in Northern KwaZulu Natal. She holds a Master’s degree in History and currently works as a heritage coordinator for the Department of Sport Arts Culture and Recreation. Ntando is very passionate about...

Subry Govender has been a journalist for over 40 years. He was detained, harassed, banned, under house-arrested and denied a passport during the struggles against apartheid and white minority rule in the 1970s and 1980s. He spent the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s fighting...

Mary-Anne Gontsana was born and bred in Cape Town and lives in Montevideo. She has been a reporter for the online news website GroundUp since the start of 2012. She studied journalism at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. She has had work experience at the...

Itumeleng J. Lehupela is a recent I.T graduate from the University of the Free State and is pursuing a career in Bioinformatics. He is an aesthete and declares music to be his first true love, and is inspired by stories of triumphant underdogs. He is an easy going...

Angela de Jesus is currently based in Bloemfontein (South Africa) as the art curator at the University of the Free State (UFS). She is the director of the Johannes Stegmann and Centenary art galleries and is responsible for the UFS permanent art collection.

Dr Ricardo Peach is the Director of the Vrystaat Kunstefees/Arts Festival/Tsa-Botjhaba, a multi-artform arts festival in Mangaung, South Africa. In his independent role he developed and is the Director of the Program for Innovation in Artform Development at the...

Anathi is a third year journalism student at the University of the Free State. He was born in the Eastern Cape and grew up in Northern Cape. He is interested in politics, history art and literature. He is an aspirant poet and short story writer who believes that books...

Jorge Luis Sierra is an International Center For Journalists (ICFJ) Knight Fellow working on digital security and safety. He previously spent time in Panama and Mexico for four years, developing digital tools to map crime, corruption and attacks on journalists and...

Dr Willy Nel serves as lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of the Free State and as research associate of the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice. He does the usual academic drill, like teaching, research and writing papers but long ago...

Born and educated in Ghana, Cameron Duodu started work on a general purpose magazine called New Nation in Ghana, then moved to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, where he became editor of radio news. He returned to the magazine world as editor of the Ghana edition of...

Professor Paul Maylam is Head of the Department of History at Rhodes University. He was conferred with the title of Distinguished Professor in 2012 at the University. For some years now, he has worked in the field of South African urban history with a focus in...

Olorato Mongale is a Journalism and English student at Rhodes University, she loves to write and film stories about artists around the country.

Basil Appollis is a renowned Theatre & TV drama Director, Actor, Writer and Singer. Karin Kortje, Idol of Note is his foray into Directing for the documentary film genre. A UCT and Mauritz Binger Film Institute graduate, his work has garnered many theatrical...