Gaopalelwe Mathiba is a final year LLB student at the North-West University and a potential LLM candidate in 2019. Gaopalelwe tweets at @GaoMathiba.

Ellen Davies is the Project Manager of Extractives Industry at the World Wide Fund for Nature. Apart from extractives, her portfolio of work includes nuclear energy and interrogating the relationship between environmental and socio-economic sustainability in South...

Vister Masungulo Maswanganye is from Basani, located outside Giyani in Limpopo. He is currently a third year journalism student at the University of Venda.

Petunia Mpoza is a researcher, commentator and political analyst. Her work experience includes both public and private sectors. She is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar who is passionate about youth, community, sports and skills development as well as education and career...

Dougie Oakes is in his fourth decade as a journalist and writer, having written extensively in South Africa for the then Argus Printing and Publishing Company and Independent Media. He has specialised in sport politics, and features and leader writing. He was also...

Suzette Lucille Nxumalo-Mafuna is a fulltime Gender and Women’s Study Course student at York University in Toronto. She resides in Toronto, Canada where she has been a citizen since 2007. She was born and raised in Phefeni, Orlando West and initially studied to be a...

Elna Boesak’s career as South African journalist, researcher, debate moderator, forum facilitator and public speaker spans more than thirty years. Her work as media worker includes radio and television programme hosting, documentary production and feature writing. In...

Heather Robertson is a writer and editor who has over two decades experience in print, broadcast and digital media. Her passion is storytelling across platforms. She is currently the sole owner and director of Change Routes Communications and is the former editor in...

Surprise Netshioswi 23 is from Mangondi, which is located outside Thohoyandou in the Limpopo province. He is a Bachelor of Arts graduate from the University of Venda and is currently an honours student in film studies at the University of Pretoria. He also holds a...

Born in the Free State, Precious Mamotingoe Lesupi is an aspiring journalist, activist and rape victim-survivor. She is a journalism student at the University of the Free State and a reporter for the campus newspaper, Irawa. She has worked with Next Chapter, The South...

Professor LeoGrande specializes in Comparative Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy. He has written widely in the field of Latin American politics and U.S. policy toward Latin America, with a particular emphasis on Cuba and Central America. Most recently he is coauthor of...

Ran Greenstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa.

Nurene is a media and communications professional who cut her teeth as a journalist at the tender age of 15 at a local community radio station. Since graduating from the then Peninsula Technikon (now Cape Peninsula University of Technology) in 2004, she has worked in...

Tanya Lupuwana is an aspiring journalist and filmmaker. Born in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape and raised in Kimberley in the Northern Cape, 22 year-old Tanya has always had a passion for the media industry. She studied journalism at the University of The Free...

Nthabiseng Mokoena was born in the Vaal Triangle. She is currently studying Media and Journalism at the University of the Free State with hopes of developing as an English Literature Academic while waiting for the next Game of Thrones book.

Shirley Brooks hails from Durban and attended university in Pietermaritzburg, where she grew to political consciousness during the late apartheid period. After leaving the country to study at Queen's University in Canada, she returned to South Africa in the early...

Dr David Patrick is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the International Studies Group, University of the Free State. Originally from Scotland, he received his PhD in History from the University of Sheffield in 2013, and his research interests focus on media framing of...

Mncedi “Eddie” Magade is a content developer, media and social entrepreneur. He is studying towards a Masters of Arts in Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University. He is a Journalism Lecturer at Walter Sisulu University in East London.

Tristan Görgens is the acting director for human development in the Policy and Strategy Unit, Department of the Premier, Western Cape Government. He is responsible for driving crossdepartmental policy making, such as the recently completed Food and Nutrition Security...

Patience Labane is a student at the University of the Free State.