Tshepang Mokgatla
Tshepang Mokgatla is a Wits Business School graduate who is currently a success coach, mentor and youth development practitioner.
Samson Kaunga Ndanyi
Samson is an assistant professor of African History at Rhodes College.
Busisiwe Mokwena
Busisiwe Mokwena is a multiple-award winning journalist who has spent almost a decade of her life in sport journalism on a journey that has brought both personal fulfilment and professional success. Although she is versatile – having covered athletics, netball and...
Rod Crompton
Dr Rod Crompton (Non-Executive Director) is the Director of the Energy Leadership Centre at Wits Business School, South Africa. Previously he ran Crompton Consulting specialising in energy, economic regulation and industrial policy using his experience acquired over...
Baster Mohale
Baster Mohale is currently a Young Professional under Research, Policy and Advocacy Unit at the Film and Publication Board. He holds an honours degree in psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Lynette Kamineth
Lynette Kamineth has been a communications professional for the past 24 years. In her current position as the Communications and Public Education Manager at the Film and Publication Board, she uses her expertise to highlight the work being done by the organisation to...
Muhammed Haron
Muhammed Haron is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Botswana’s Theology & Religious Studies Department. He is also an Associate Researcher at the University of Stellenbosch. Haron is editor of the University of Cape Town’s Annual Review of...
Hassan Khan Yousafza
Hassan Khan Yousafzai, is passionate about Digital Marketing. Along with educational backgrounds in Software Engineering he is bridging gaps between marketing and development department. At Techvando, he has been consulting brands all over Pakistan to gain online...
Modidima Mannya
Modidima Mannya is an admitted and practising Advocate and a former public servant who served as a Legal Adviser to a Minister and Premier and a former Head of the Departments of Agriculture (Kwa Zulu Natal) Education Eastern Cape Province. He holds the degrees...
Azarrah Karrim
Azarrah is a multimedia journalist with a background in investigative journalism. She was a junior investigative journalist with the Wits Justice Project, focusing on human rights abuses in prisons and court system delays. Her interest lie in criminal justice,...
Elsabé Brits
Elsabé Brits is an award-winning South African journalist and author. She was specialist science reporter at the Afrikaans daily, Die Burger, for 17 years, and now writes for Netwerk24. She lives in Cape Town.
Willie Chinyamurindi
Prof Willie Tafadzwa Chinyamurindi is an NRF Rated Researcher (Y2) and an Associate Professor within the Department of Business Management at the University of Fort Hare. He also serves as the Research Niche Area Leader within the Faculty of Management and Commerce at...
Musawenkosi Ama Xaba
Musawenkosi Ama Xaba is a seven year old from Johannesburg. She is passionate about life. When asked what she loves about life, she responded philosophically saying: "I love that I am alive." When she is not attending school, she is involved in all sorts of...
Sefatsa Qopane
Sefatsa Qopane occupies his time working in the spheres of personality and the psychology of difference – both are subjects for which he holds a great penchant. He is also an associate of The Narrative Enneagram (TNE) institute. Sefatsa lives in Pietermaritzburg.
Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam
Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam is currently completing his PhD in Media Studies in the Centre for Film and Media Studies at University of Cape Town. He is a teaching assistant in the same department and has published journal articles and book chapters in the field of youth...
Anele Gcwabe
Anele Gcwabe is the Media and Partnerships officer at Activate! Change Drivers. She has a media and communications degree from Nelson Mandela University and an Honours Degree in isiXhosa from the University of Fort Hare. Anele is passionate about the development of...
Judith February
Judith February describes herself as a ‘governance specialist, lapsed lawyer, columnist, lover of words, latte drinker, fellow traveler, Classicist & cricket fan’. She is based at the Institute for Security Studies and is also a Visiting Fellow at the WITS School...
Rekgotsofetse Chikane
Rekgotsofetse Chikane (known as Kgotsi ) is a graduate of the University of Oxford, having completed his Master in Public Policy degree in 2017, a Mandela-Rhodes Scholar (2015), one of the Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans (2016) and the former...
Katlego Daniel Boikanyo
Katlego Daniel Boikanyo is a final year law student at North-West University. He is also a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society. He was a supplementary instructor for the Family Law module (2016) and also for Law of Criminal Procedure (2017). He...
Sr. Prof. Agnes Lucy Lando
Sr. Prof. Agnes Lucy Lando is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Daystar University, Kenya. She obtained her PhD in Social Communication from The Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. She holds MA in Human and Intercultural Communication and BA...
Year of Chinua Achebe’s ‘A Man of the People’
Pambazuka [intro]This year, Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People celebrates its 50th anniversary. The writer’s fourth novel is the gripping satire through which he was perceived not only as the Father of African Literature, but also a prophet.[/intro] A Man of the...
Black Diamonds in the Rough
“At risk of always being someone’s pet project or lap dog”
Flora Nwapa and the Letter That Changed Nigerian Literature Forever
Ainehi Edoro [intro]In the early 1960s, Flora Nwapa sent Chinua Achebe a mail containing a manuscript. She probably didn’t imagine that much would come out of it. However, 50 years later, we celebrate Efuru, a feminist and cultural work; and the first book written by a Nigerian woman to be published.[/intro] Unlike most writers of her […]
Aaisha Dadi Patel
contributor
Aaisha is completing her masters degree in media studies at Wits University. Her research interests include gender and representations of Muslim women in the media. completing her masters degree in media studies at Wits University. Her research interests include gender and representations of Muslim women in the media.
Aaisha Dadi Patel
contributor
Aaisha is completing her masters degree in media studies at Wits University. Her research interests include gender and representations of Muslim women in the media.
Aaisha Dadi Patel
contributor
Aaisha is completing her masters degree in media studies at Wits University. Her research interests include gender and representations of Muslim women in the media.
Aaisha Dadi Patel
contributor
Aaisha is completing her masters degree in media studies at Wits University. Her research interests include gender and representations of Muslim women in the media.
Aaisha Dadi Patel
contributor
Aaisha is completing her masters degree in media studies at Wits University. Her research interests include gender and representations of Muslim women in the media.
Aaisha Dadi Patel
contributor
Aaisha is completing her masters degree in media studies at Wits University. Her research interests include gender and representations of Muslim women in the media.
Aaisha Dadi Patel
contributor
Aaisha is completing her masters degree in media studies at Wits University. Her research interests include gender and representations of Muslim women in the media.
Michael Abrahams
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
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
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
Vik Sohonie is the founder Ostinato Records, a Grammy-nominated label focusing on music from Africa's past.
Len Kalane
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
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
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
Keith Gottschalk is a political scientist from the University of the Western Cape.
Manala Botolo
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
Tatum De Jongh is a student at the University of Cape Town majoring in Media and Writing, Politics and Governance and English Literature.