Action Setaka is a Social Engineer who has extensive leadership experience. Some of his achievements include being commissioner of youth during the last sitting of the National Youth Parliament. He is ambassador of the the African Observatory of Science, Technology...

Musawenkosi Cabe is from Pietermaritzburg. His areas of interest involve bottom-up social mobilization, social movements, and unions, football, social justice, spatial justice, and constitutionalism.

Connor Foley is a journalism and international relations student who believes journalists play a vital role in society. His interests include politics, music and the environment. After Cape Town, he plans to return home to Adelaide to finish his university degree.

Alrick is a qualified Financial Advisor, Commercial Banker, Small Business Mentor, Risk Specialist and Financial Commentator. After 27 years of corporate life, his long walk to freedom has landed him in the role of sole director and franchise principal of ZAR...

Mashele Mokgadi is a media student at the University of Venda.

Clementine is a third year student in English literature and Communication Science. Fond of writing, she wishes to bring awareness on significant matters through her words.

Sinenhlanhla Ngwenya was born in Pietermaritzburg and grew up in Vryheid, a small town in Northern Kwazulu Natal. She is a second year journalism student at the University of Johannesburg and is a reported for The Open Journal, a student led publication in...

Mbali is a Master's student at Rhodes University's School of Journalism and Media Studies. Her research focus lies within the field of mobile media, particularly its dynamics in relation to social capital and development within rural communities. She has worked in the...

Sam Mathe is a South African journalist, writer and publisher. He was educated at Kwamanala High in Mpumalanga and Wits University in Johannesburg. His journalism career started in 1994 at the now defunct PACE magazine. He then joined Drum and later Sunday Sun as a...

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Professor Maldonado-Torres is an Associate Professor at the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the Comparative Literature Program. His first book, Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, examined the bases of modernity/coloniality in terms of a...

Glenda Nevill is the editor of The Media Online and The Media magazine. She is a journalist, writer and communicator with 30 years experience. She worked for the Sunday Times in various roles for nine years, including entertainment editor, foreign correspondent in...

Lindokuhle Ntuli is a lawyer with a Bachelor of Law Degree (LLB) (UFS), Master of Laws (LLM) in Private Law and Human Rights (UCT), and currently pursuing a second master’s Degree in Mineral Law. He is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar and was recently awarded a Schwarzman...

Emily Bagg is in her final year of study towards a BA in English and Communications. She enjoys reading and writing and hopes to one day work in the field of publishing.

Brent Poggenpoel is studying towards a BA in Psychology and English literature at Varsity College, Cape Town. He was born in Cape Town, on the Cape Flats and enjoys writing short stories.

Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa is a South African politician and, since 15 February 2018, the fifth and current President of South Africa. He followed the resignation of Jacob Zuma, having taken office following a vote of the National Assembly on 15 February 2018....

Thato Rossouw is a literature and art blogger currently studying Art History and Philosophy at the University of the Free State. His work has appeared in a number of publications including The Sunday Times, Culture Review and Africanah.com. He was recently published...

Dr Stephen Greenberg has been doing research with the ACB since 2004, before joining the organisation part-time in 2013 and then full-time from 2017. He has a PhD from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at Sussex University, with an MA from Wits University. Dr...

Thulebona Mdladla holds an Honours Degree in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. His interests include new media technologies and the digital sphere. He enjoys sports, reading and spending time with friends and family.

Saliem Fakir is the Head of the Policy & Futures Unit at the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa. The unit’s work is focused on identifying ways to manage a transition to an inclusive and equitable low-carbon economy. In 2007-2008, Saliem was a senior lecturer...