Paolo Israel is Associate Professor of the Department of History at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He is the author of In Step with the Times: Mapiko Masquerades of Mozambique.

Mojalefa Mokhosi is a mechanical engineering graduate from Goldfields College. He is a philosopher, activist and a member of Activate! Change Drivers.

Adriaan van Klinken is an Associate Professor of Religion and African Studies at the University of Leeds.

Percy Zvomuya is a writer and critic who has written for numerous publications, including Chimurenga, the Mail & Guardian, Moto in Zimbabwe, the Sunday Times and the London Review of Books blog. He is a co-founder of Johannesburg-based writing collective The Con...

Siza Mtimkulu is an accomplished writer and editor. She is currently the managing director at Legacy Foundation, a non-profit organization that publishes foundation phase books about the history of South Africa, with a focus on liberation struggle icons. Recently, the...

Len Maseko is a veteran journalist with a history of working in the media industry spanning four decades. A product of the Open School of Arts, he is a former member of the Soweto Students Representative Council which spearheaded the 1976 Soweto uprisings. He was part...

Researcher of urban & cultural studies, Gauteng City-Region Observatory. Alexandra Parker’s research explores the intersections of people, their cultures and identities, and urban and suburban environments. Her current research is diverse and examines the roles of...

Otosirieze is deputy editor of Brittle Paper. He is a judge for the 2018/19 Gerald Kraak Prize. He is an editor at 14, Nigeria’s first queer art collective, which has published volumes including We Are Flowers (2017) and The Inward Gaze (2018). He is the curator of...

Madala Thepa is a freelance writer based between two towns - Mahikeng, NW and Johannesburg. He has been a freelance writer for a range of publications including New African magazine, Mail&Guardian, Sunday Independent, The Star and Forbes Africa magazine.

Willow Berridge is a lecturer in History at Newcastle University

Sandile Memela is a journalist, writer, cultural critic and public servant. He writes in his personal capacity.

Tami Jackson is the Former Deputy Chairperson at DASO-UCT and was part of the 2017/18 UCT Student Representative Council. She is currently pursuing an internship at the Western Cape Provincial Legislature and will continue her studies in Politics and Economics next...

Professor Leila Patel is the DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development based at the CSDA, University of Johannesburg. She receives funding from the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation for her Chair in...

Zukiswa Kota is the Head of the Monitoring and Advocacy Programme at the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) at Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape. She is also the lead coordinator of a civil society coalition working to promote budget transparency, IMALI...

Simphiwe Yana hails from Gansbaai in the Western Cape. He is a freelance writer and a law student at the University of the Free State. He runs a multimedia blog called Afrika Revolt.

Leonard Gentle is an ex-trade unionist assisting the SAMRC with research translation.

Glenda Gray is the President of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC). Professor Gray is a qualified paediatrician and co-founder of the internationally-recognised Perinatal HIV Research Unit in Soweto. Prior to her appointment at the SAMRC, she was the...

Jane Dutton is a South African broadcast journalist who began her career with the SABC before spending time on air with BBC World, CNN, CNBC and Al Jazeera. She returned to South Africa in 2018 after 25 years abroad and is the host of eNCA’s news talk show Tonight...

Esteri Msindo is a Human Settlements Researcher. She did both her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Rhodes University and is currently a doctoral student in the sociology department.  Her passion is to see socio-economic rights being realised by the less...

Gopolang Botlhokwane is a writer.