Arron Moos is a 22 year old photographer and multimedia graduate based in Cape Town, South Africa. Having grown up in Johannesburg, his transition to the coast was more than a call for change, it was a call to retrace his roots to the Mother City and his Coloured...

Thuthukani Ndlovu is a Zimbabwean spoken word artist at the University of the Free State and also works as the Vrystaat Literature Festival  assistant coordinator. He is the founder and creative director of The Radioactive Blog, a platform that has promoted and...

Kelly-Eve Koopman is a writer and multidisciplinary creative from South Africa.

Rasmus Bitsch is a journalist and head producer of Sound Africa.

Born and bred in Soweto, Johannesburg in South Africa. Kunu Matima, was exiled after the 1976 Soweto Students Uprising and now resides in New York. He is a Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Scientist, Drug Developer, US Civil Rights Expert and an author.

Banathi Mgqoboka has written numerous consumer, solutions, community, health, human interest and arts focused news and feature articles, published for Media24‘s Cape Town community newspaper titles. He’s generally always keen to work on thought-provoking, socially...

Jeff Conroy-Krutz is an associate professor of political science and a core faculty member of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University. He has a PhD in political science from Columbia University and is editor of the Afrobarometer Working Papers Series....

Martina Della Togna has over 24 years of experience as a producer of award-winning feature documentary films with South African filmmakers and visual artists. Martina Della Togna has successfully led strategic communications campaigns for South African Provincial and...

Paula Fray has worked in media for more than three decades as a journalist, editor, trainer and media manager. Paula was the first female editor of the Saturday Star newspaper in South Africa. She is currently the managing director of the pan-African media training...

Tanya Doherty is a chief specialist scientist with a focus on maternal and child health research including prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, infant feeding, multi-country child survival evaluations and community health workers. Tanya is an...

Michael Abrahams has been an activist since 1976 when he started working as a student in civic organisations and various trade union organisations in the Western Cape, East London and Gauteng.

Richard Pithouse is from Durban and is the editor-in-chief of New Frame. He has been writing for newspapers in South Africa for more than 20 years and is also an academic.

Frans Viljoen is the Director and Professor of the International Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. His research area is international human rights law, with a focus on the African regional human rights system. Frans has published...

Vik Sohonie is the founder Ostinato Records, a Grammy-nominated label focusing on music from Africa's past.

Len Kalane is a former City Press editor and was executive director at RCP Media, incorporating Rapport-City Press. He joined City Press in 1983, from the Sowetan. Kalane started his journalism career at The World and Post newspapers, both banned by the South African...

Michael Brown is currently a third year BA student based in Cape Town. He spends most of his time following sport, or reading about current events taking place around the globe.

Marthinus Stander Conradie holds a PhD in inferential pragmatics from the University of the Free State (South Africa), where he is currently employed at the Department of English. His research interests emanate from Foucauldian discourse analysis and its application...

Keith Gottschalk is a political scientist from the University of the Western Cape.

Manala Botolo is the assistant manager of communications and public education at the Film and Publication Board. She holds a diploma in Public Relations and numerous post graduate qualifications in Communications, Branding and Leadership.

Tatum De Jongh is a student at the University of Cape Town majoring in Media and Writing, Politics and Governance and English Literature.