Darryl Accone is books editor of the Mail & Guardian and director of the annual M&G Literary Festival in Johannesburg.

Zithulele Cindi is an activist, trade unionist and currently Executive Director at Unity

Saths Cooper is an activist and psychologist. He is Vice President of the International Social Science Council and President of the International Union of Psychological Science.

Duncan Innes was student activist and is currently executive director of the Innes Labour Brief and a lecturer in the School of Economic and Business Sciences at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Jonathan Jansen is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, current President of the South African Institute of Race Relations and President of the South African Academy of Science. He is a prolific writer and educationist in South Africa.