Shireen Hassim is Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Tawana Kupe is Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria.

Eric Worby is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Shireen Hassim is Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Tawana Kupe is Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria.

Eric Worby is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Paul Verryn is an ordained minister of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa.

Alex Eliseev is a freelance journalist.

Daryl Glaser is associate professor in the department of Political Studies at Wits University.

Noor Nieftagodien is the Deputy Chair of the History Workshop and is Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Stephen Gelb is a political economist at Wits University and executive director of The EDGE Institute in Johannesburg.

Devan Pillay is an associate professor and former head of the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Loren B. Landau is the South African Research Chair in Human Mobility and the Politics of Difference at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

David Coplan is Professor Emeritus and Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Julia Hornberger is a senior researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology, Wits University.

Melinda Silverman is an urban development specialist and lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning, Wits University.

Tanya Zack is a town planner. The focus of her research and practice is on housing and urban poverty.

Anton Harber is the Caxton professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Wits University. He was the co-founder and co-editor of the Weekly Mail (now the Mail & Guardian) and was editor of both the first and second editions of The A-Z of South African Politics.

Cathi Albertyn is a Professor of Law and South African Research Chair in Equality, Law and Social Justice in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Andile Mngxitama is the co-editor of Biko Lives! The Contested Legacies of Steve Biko (2008), and president of Black First Land First (BLF).

Pumla Dineo Gqola is Professor in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Véronique Tadjo is a senior lecturer and the head of French Studies in the School of Literature and Language Studies, Wits University.