Dr Sinethemba Makanya is a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), and academic coordinator in the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits). She completed her PhD in Medical Humanities and Psychology at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research. Her research interest is indigenous knowledge systems; more specifically, how the application of these philosophies and its practitioners (e.g. izinyanga and izangoma) can contribute to the strengthening of theory from the Global South.

Ashwin Afrikanus Thyssen is a doctoral candidate at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Theology, in the Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology. Mx Thyssen's research concerns the intersection of religion, race and sexuality, with particular focus on the manner in which these social constructions allow people to exist in the world. Mx Thyssen is also interested in the contours of discourse in the public square, considering both its limits and its promise.

Prof Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela holds the National Research Foundation Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma at Stellenbosch University and is the 2020-2021 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the USA. Earlier this year she received the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship to undertake further research into historical trauma and its transgenerational repercussions.

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