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Yipeng Xi

Yipeng Xi is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication and New Media, National University of Singapore. His research focuses on digital culture and digital activism in authoritarian regimes. Currently, his work on citizen engagement, public opinion and...

Linda Zwane

Linda Zwane holds a degree in Marketing & Communication, and is an honours student at the University of Johannesburg. Her current study is on the perceptions of the South African Reality Television show Date My Family and how the show is perceived on Twitter. She...

Jeff Phiko Velelo

Jeff Phiko Velelo is an agricultural economist at the Mpumalanga Economic Development Agency (MEGA), Anglican priest and amateur historian, and a councillor to the heir of Maphasa's chieftaincy. His ancestors were amaTshatshu.

Anne Mager

Anne Mager is Emerita Professor of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town, and the author of Gender and the Making of a South African Bantustan: a social history of the Ciskei (1995) and Beer, Sociability and Masculinity in South Africa (2012). She grew up...

Mosa Leteane

Mosa Leteane is a Law graduate from the University of the Free State who is currently pursuing a Masters in International Studies at Monash South Africa. As a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, she is passionate about education, leadership and law. Her research is aimed at...

George Orwel

George Orwel is currently a PhD candidate in art theory, philosophy and aesthetics at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts in Portland, Me. His research is on new phenomenology, with special focus on ambiance. Specifically, he probes the poetics and...

Prof Francis Petersen

Prof Francis William Petersen is the Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State since 1 April 2017. He has formerly been Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town; Dean: Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Cape...

Tlotliso Innocent May

Tlotliso Innocent May is a member of the ACTIVATE! Change Drivers network,. Tlotliso is a #BlackYouthActivist and is focusing his attention on reforming black men. He is the founder of a youth empowerment organisation, Tsowa Darkie.

Ryan Ravens

Ryan Ravens is the CEO of Accelerate Cape Town, a business leadership organisation representing top-tier corporate business in the Cape Town city region. He currently holds three degrees including an MBA from the University of Cape Town (UCT), in addition to numerous...

Prince Charles

Prince Charles is a politics and sociology graduate, a strong civic nationalist and a youth activist. He is based in the Eastern Cape.

K. C. Cole

K. C. Cole, a longtime science writer for the Los Angeles Times, is a Professor Emerita at USC’s Annenberg School for Journalism. Cole’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Smithsonian, the Columbia Journalism Review, Newsweek, Esquire,...

Lwazi Nongauza

Lwazi Nongauza is a seasoned multimedia content producer and Public Relations expert. As a digital media entrepreneur, he is currently heading Africa’s business news website, Africa Best Businesses, which he founded in 2015. With a proven track record in local and...

Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

Melissa Tandiwe Myambo is Research Associate at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa and an Honorary Research Fellow at Wits City Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand. She was a 2017 Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study Writing Fellow. In 2016, she...

Lesego Linda Plank

Lesego is a University of Johannesburg graduate. Her research interests include gender, race, the black family, and the black middle class. She is a proud Sowetan and an aspiring young black academic. She has enjoyed travel and study opportunities in Brazil and the...

Mphutlane wa Bofelo

Mphutlane wa Bofelo is a South African poet, essayist, social critic and cultural worker and a facilitator of Worker-Education and Popular Education. Bofelo’s socio-political activism began in the 1980s when he joined the Azanian Students’ Movement until he was...

Liza Mfana

Liza Mfana is an activist, an advocate for liberatory pedagogy, a fighter, but most importantly a lover of humanity, a lover of life and a lover of peace. He strongly believes that the youth are the key in ensuring this country has a positive future. Liza is a young...

Laurie Less

Laurie Less is currently employed as the Shared Services executive at the Film and Publication Board, the content regulator and agency of the Department of Communications. She was previously employed as the Executive manager at Wits university Clear-AA a specialist...

Oupa Makhalemele

Oupa Makhalemele works in the Research, Policy and Advocacy Unit at the Film and Publication Board. He has published widely on transitional justice, local government and youth and identity in South Africa.

Henning Melber

Henning Melber is an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria.

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Aaisha Dadi Patel

Aaisha Dadi Patel

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Paolo Israel

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

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

Percy Zvomuya

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

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

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...

Alexandra Parker

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 obi-young

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

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.