Participants 2024
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Adam Welz
Adam Welz was born and raised in Pretoria and has lived, worked and travelled on six continents, including extended periods in the United States. His writing focuses on wildlife, nature conservation and climate change, and has appeared in numerous publications worldwide including The Guardian, The Atlantic and Yale Environment 360. He’s an old-school naturalist and keen birder who consults on nature conservation projects from his current home base in Cape Town.
His latest work The End of Eden – Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown is a groundbreaking blend of classic natural history, insights from cutting edge science and first-hand observation that brings readers close to a diverse array of wild species as they struggle to survive climate breakdown. It is “a disturbing and important book, a calm depiction of catastrophe, as if Vermeer had decided to paint some kind of slow-motion atrocity” (New York Times Book Review), which “amounts to a haunting warning.” (New Yorker).
Aiden Pienaar
Aiden Pienaar is a dynamic, young chef who has worked in some of the best restaurants in South Africa, Los Angeles and Dubai, under luminaries including Luke Dale-Roberts and Scot Kirton, Colin Clague, Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Margot Janse. His first restaurant, Tilting Heads Taco Café and Margarita Bar, in Port Elizabeth, specialised in Mexican fusion cuisine and took inspiration from all corners of the globe, especially his home country, Mzansi. He is currently head chef at Second Story in Sandton, Johannesburg.
In Mexico in Mzansi, chef Aiden Pienaar brings local flair to some traditional Mexican favourites. Like the ubiquitous taco, this cookbook is filled with a surprising array of flavours and influences to excite even the most experienced chefs and exhausted home cooks.
Alastair Mcalpine
Alex Latimer
Alexandria Procter
At 25, Alexandria Procter became SA’s youngest startup wunderkind. During her December break from UCT in 2018, from her childhood bedroom, she came up with the idea for DigsConnect, a type of student AirBnb.
Deeply affected by the violent student protests which swept university campuses in 2016, she created a website that would address the tumultuous student housing crisis. In 2019 DigsConnect disrupted the local tech terrain by raising R12 million in its first seed fundraising round. DigsConnect has subsequently transformed from being a local student startup, to catapulting into the global 4th industrial revolution.
Born in a small town in the Eastern Cape, Alexandria’s school career was characterised by defiance, rebellion and Friday afternoon detentions. Never one to toe the line, this is the unique and inspiring story of a girl who dared to dream big. While UPSTART is a deeply personal memoir, it also offers priceless business insights and advice around startups and new tech.
Alistair Mackay
Alistair Mackay’s short stories have been published in numerous journals as well as in the anthologies Queer Africa and Queer Africa II, which was a finalist in the 2017 Lambda Literary Awards. He holds an MA in Politics from Edinburgh University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. Raised in Joburg, he now lives in Cape Town. It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way, his debut novel, was published in 2022, and The Child is fresh from the printers in time for Kingsmead.
Dr Alma-Nalisha Cele
Dr Alma-Nalisha Cele is a medical doctor working in global public health. She has a special interest in health economics and it’s relationship to the socio-economics of health, particularly in public health.
Dr Alma-Nalisha Cele is also the co-founder of The Cheeky Natives alongside Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane.
The Cheeky Natives is a literary podcast whose primary aim is to archive black literature on the continent and diaspora through critical engagement with writers and literary audiences.
Dr Alma-Nalisha Cele is passionate about the ways in which literary representation and engagement can grow the quality of dialogue and analysis in our communities.
She continually credits a strong relationship with reading and literature to her feminist, intersectional approach not only to her work in public health but also to her lived politics.
She believes that in many ways books continue to change and even save people’s lives and is passionate about ensuring access to critical engagement for wide audiences.
Dr Cele is a Mandela Washington Fellow 2019 and was named a Mail and Guardian 200 young South Africa in 2019
Amy Heydenrych
Andrew Brown
Andrew Brown is an advocate and a sergeant in the saps reserves and police liaison officer for the Child Protection Unit at Red Cross Children’s Hospital. He is the author of two non-fiction books and five novels, including Coldsleep Lullaby, winner of the Sunday Times Prize for Fiction in 2006, and Refuge, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Literature (Africa Region) in 2009. Street Blues: The Experiences of a Reluctant Policeman was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award the same year. Andrew’s books are published in Germany, the Netherlands and the USA. He has three children and lives in Cape Town. The Bitterness of Olives was published in 2023.
Angela Makholwa
Angela Makholwa lives and works in Johannesburg. The Reed Dance Stalker is the highly anticipated sequel to Makholwa’s debut novel, Red Ink, first published in 2007. This was followed by the entertaining escapades and sexual misadventures of modern women in The 30th Candle (2009). Her third novel, Black Widow Society (2013), marked a return to a thrilling, crime-ridden world. Then came the bestsellers The Blessed Girl (2017) and Critical But, Stable (2020), characterised by Makholwa’s trademark dark humour and astute social commentary.
Anna Stroud
Anna Stroud loves books. Like, really loves them. Authors, too. She once travelled over 200 km by bus from Daegu to Wonju in South Korea to hear Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o speak. She’s been reading Antjie Krog since the age of 11, even the sweary bits. She moved close to Love Books so she’d never miss a book launch. Naturally, she’d become a writer, with stories appearing in Grocott’s Mail, Cue, WordStock, The Sunday Times, Books LIVE, City Press, The Reading List, Daily Maverick, The Johannesburg Review of Books, tagged! and Business Day, among others. When she’s not writing, she’s walking her husband, Sean, and two dogs, Raven and Poe, at the park. Who Looks Inside is her debut novel.
Antoinette Toto Sithole
Arthur Goldstuck
Ashling McCarthy
Born and raised in South Africa, Ashling McCarthy is a creative working in the field of social development and social change. Ashling began her career as a graphic designer, then transitioned into the craft development sector, living, and working with women in rural areas of South Africa. This led to a master’s degree in social anthropology and changed her life’s course. Her line of work has enabled a better understanding of, and interaction with, the complexities and inequalities prevalent in South African society.
Ashling writes fiction that explores how culture, faith, and social inequality contribute towards wildlife crime in South Africa. She also uses painting to share the realities faced by many South Africans.
In 2010, Ashling founded an education non-profit based in a rural community in Zululand. It provides children and youth with opportunities to expand their horizons, through relevant and creative programmes, encouraging problem-solving and personal accountability.
Ashling offers courses to high school learners (aimed at Grade 10 -12) where she discusses the power of using creative writing to explore social challenges and also provides tips and advice for aspiring writers.
She lives in the coastal town of Durban with her husband and five rescue spaniels.
Babette Gallard
Barbara Adair
Barbara Adair is a writer with published experience in the following areas: fiction – novels and short stories, travel articles, book reviews and academic articles.
She writes, and also works part time at the University of the Witwatersrand Writing Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, and in Lamu, Kenya, teaching and assisting students in critical thinking.
She previously practised as an attorney litigating on human rights issues, and thereafter taught at the Wits School of Public and Development Management.
Her short listed novels include, In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot was short listed for the Sunday Times Fiction award, 2005; END, Short listed for the African Regional Commonwealth Prize, 2010; WILL, the Passenger Delaying Flight ….., was Long Listed for the NIHSS literary award, 2020, and the Sunday Times Fiction award, 2021; and In the Shadow of the Springs I Saw, was Long Listed for the NIHSS literary award, 2024, and the Sunday Times Fiction award, 2023.
Barbara Boswell
Barbara Boswell is a writer and scholar from Cape Town, a city which inspires much of her fiction. An Associate Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town, Boswell is the author of Grace: A Novel (2017), winner of the UJ Prize for Debut Creative Writing, And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women’s Novels as Feminism (2020) and Lauretta Ngcobo: Writing as the Practice of Freedom (2022).
Barbara Ludman
Barbara Ludman, an American journalist, arrived in Johannesburg in April 1976 and started working at The Star only weeks before the Soweto Uprising began. She turned much of what she saw into the award-winning young adult novel, The Day of the Kugel, and subsequently divided her time between reporting and writing books – both fiction and non-fiction – and short stories. She was a founding member of The Weekly Mail, now the Mail & Guardian, where she spent 17 years in a variety of jobs and co-edited several editions of the M&G’s A-Z of SA Politics. She was honoured with the Vodacom Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in coaching and mentoring young journalists, which she continues to do in her current work with the start-up Scrolla.Africa.
Barry Gilder
Bongani Luthuli
Bongani Luthuli is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa and was duly admitted in 2014. He has been appointed as an Acting Judge of the Labour Court. He has right of appearance and appears in Labour Courts, High Courts and Magistrates Courts. He also appears frequently in dispute resolution forums such as the CCMA as well as various Bargaining Councils. He is proudly mentored by Justice Edwin Cameron. In January 2024, Bongani was honoured with the Top 25 Legal Rising Star Award in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in recognition for the sterling contribution in the legal field. On the 18th and 19th April 2024, Bongani is going to be honoured with the Top 25 Litigator Award in Dubai in recognition of his oratory and involvement in significant legal matters resulting in a number of reported judgments under his name.
He graduated at the University of Johannesburg with an LLB degree and further obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Corporate Law specializing in the Companies Act 1998. He served his articles at Blakes Maphanga Attorneys. He passed his admission examination in 2013.
Bongani is a contributing analyst for The Thinker Magazine, a Pan African thought leadership publication which is edited by Dr Essop Pahad, his former political mentor. He publishes mainly on Labour Law and Industrial Relations.
He is a board member of Witkoppen Health and Welfare, Alberton Child Welfare (resigned in 2015), Bible League of Southern Africa as well as Guild Cottage Children Treatment Centre. He is a Director of Bongani Khanyile Attorneys, which he founded in October 2015. He already has been reported in Labour Litigation cases as winning counsel on a Restraint of Trade matter as well as numerous Review Applications and a number of High Court cases ranging from evictions to interdicts.
Bongani is a conference speaker and does get invited to be a panellist on labour issues. He is also a speaker at HR Laws conferences annually where he speaks on BCEA and LRA amendments as well as the SASLAW Annual Conferences. He is fast becoming a name recognized and respected as an authority in the area of labour law and industrial relations.
He chairs disciplinary hearings for his corporate clients. In that capacity, Bongani has never had his recommendation overturned by a CCMA Commissioner attesting to his astute handling of his processes as well as his conviction of the right to fair labour practices.
Bongani is a resident guest for radio stations where he speaks on topics within his area of expertise which includes SA FM, Power FM, Radio Pulpit, Top Radio and Ukhozi FM.
He was also resident legal expert for an SABC 2 show “Rands with Sense” where he provided legal counsel for disgruntled viewers who feel aggrieved as consumers, and require legal advice. He is the resident Legal Guest for the “Headspace” show on SAFM where he offers analytical and expert advice on legal matters that are current affairs. He also regularly interviewed by Newzroom Afrika Channel 405, eNCA and SABC News.
Brent Lindeque
Brent Lindeque is a South African entrepreneur, journalist, motivational speaker, and social media influencer (but he hates that term).
He also happens to own South Africa’s top Good News site and was one of the fortunate four journalists in South Africa who were invited to meet with Oprah to have a discussion “during lunch” last year…
He has been named one of the top 100 most influential young South Africans by the Mail & Guardian, was a GQ man of the year and his platform was featured on a list of World’s Top 100 innovation success stories.
Bronwyn Williams
Bruce Dennill
Bruce Dennill is a writer and editor who has worked mostly in the arts and travels sectors since 1997, working as arts and books editor at the Citizen newspaper for 10 years and also hosting his own radio show from 2006 to 2014 and appearing as a regular panellist on book-, film- and music-related shows on radio and TV. His online arts and culture magazine, pARTicipate (www.brucedennill.co.za) is an important platform for literature, theatre, music, fine art, television, film and other arts coverage. Bruce is also a prolific songwriter and recording artist (stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music or any other major streaming app) and recently finished co-writing his first play, which will be staged in the near future.
Buntu Siwisa
A senior researcher at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) at Wits University, Buntu Siwisa’s academic expertise areas are in peace and security in Africa, border security management and inequalities, the economic history of inequalities in South Africa, and biography writing. His most recent publication, Rugby, Resistance and Politics: How Dan Qeqe Helped Shape the History of South Africa was published in 2022 by Jacana Media. Paperless is his debut novel and was shortlisted for the Zozz James Currey Prize for African Literature.
Busani Ngcaweni
Busisekile Khumalo
Busisekile Khumalo is a South African bestselling author. She has written eight books including popular The Harvard Wife series and Nomaswazi. She has chosen to pursue her love for books over her learned profession in law. Sunshine and Shadows is first book in her latest series. Busisekile currently resides in Kibler Park, Johannesburg.
Caster Semenya
Caster Semenya is a professional runner from South Africa. She’s a two-time Olympic gold medallist and a three-time World Athletics gold medallist. She lives in Pretoria, South Africa.
Catherine Black
Catherine Black is a copywriter, marketing strategist and search engine marketing specialist who assists clients in a range of industries from tech and wellness to finance and travel. With over 18 years’ experience in paid and organic search, she began working on the agency side. She lives in Plettenberg Bay.
Cavan Barry
After completing his initial schooling, Cavan spent a year travelling Europe by road before returning to South Africa to attend Rhodes University, where he studied Journalism and literature. During this time he interned at various publications and became a regular radio DJ for the local varsity station, RMR.
Once his degree was complete, Cavan began work as a Journalist for the Caxton group. He soon left, however, to pursue a career as a graphic designer with a Johannesburg-based advertising agency. After learning much about media, copywriting and design, Cavan began his own company in 2016 called Chalk Creation, which functioned as a full-service digital agency. The company took on partnership and remains a going concern, acting as the independent publisher for Children of the Storm.
Cavan wrote Children of the Storm from his home in Johannesburg. He loves travelling, is still attempting to remain an avid sports enthusiast and enjoys writing songs and playing his guitar.
Chantal MacKenzie
Our sons have rare medical conditions which changed our perspective when diagnosed. We are a close family that now lives life in full appreciation of every minute. Life is a gift.
Clare Kerchhoff
In her adolescence, her parents’ anti-apartheid work which led to her father’s three-month detention without trial and solitary confinement, increased her awareness of the political injustices of the country but also of the rich cultural heritage of all its people.
With a Bachelor of Arts degree and a teaching diploma from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, she taught high school English as well as music for a few years and then travelled in Asia where she taught English in South Korea. She met her Australian husband in Thailand during this time. They settled in Johannesburg where they had two beautiful children who also developed a love of reading and of wild spaces.
Clare Kerchhoff now teaches music in Johannesburg but likes to escape to the mountains whenever she can. She writes poetry, songs and various other works as a hobby. This is her first children’s novel and she has written it particularly for South African children.
Colleen Higgs
Colleen Higgs is a writer, writing teacher and publisher. She is the author of two collections of poetry and a collection of short stories (Looking for Trouble– Yeoville Stories). In 2020, her memoir my mother, my madness was published to critical acclaim. She founded Modjaji Books in 2007 and after publishing more than 200 books is still Modjaji’s manager and publisher.
Corinne Rosmarin
Costa Ayiotis
Costas Ayiotis is a former lawyer, UN diplomat and restaurateur. He obtained a BA LLB and MA in Applied Ethics from Wits. He represented South Africa at the United Nations in New York where he reported on the Iraq war in the Security Council. He is Joburg based and loves writing, travelling and cooking to relax.
Craig Higginson
Daniel Steyn
Darrel Bristow-Bovey
David O'Sullivan
David worked on radio for 40 years. He started his career at Capital Radio in 1982, where he rose to the position of News Editor. After a four year sojourn into law, where he worked for Webber Wentzel as a candidate attorney in their media law department, he joined Talk Radio 702, working in all on-air departments and hosting the prime-time Afternoon Drive show for 11 years.
David also worked for Kaya FM as the host of the breakfast show, winning the Liberty Radio Award for Best Breakfast Presenter in 2018.
On TV, David presented sport on SABC-TV, hosting a weekly rugby magazine show and major live sporting events. He also worked on Carte Blanche’s coverage of the Oscar Pistorius trial.
David has won numerous media awards, including two international awards for his coverage of the 1992 Bisho massacre, four SAB Sports Journalist Awards, three MTN Radio Awards and two Liberty Radio Awards.
Since leaving mainstream radio and TV, David consults on media-related matters for corporate clients. He also creates, produces and presents podcasts for selected clients and is writing another book.
Dawn Garisch
Dawn Garisch is an author and medical doctor. She is founding member of the Life Righting Collective. She has published seven novels, two collections of poetry, short stories, a non-fiction work and a memoir. She has produced five plays and a short film, and has written for television. Her poem ‘Blood Delta’ won the DALRO prize (2007); Trespass was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize in Africa (2010); ‘Miracle’ won the EU Sol Plaatje Poetry Award (2011); and ‘What to Do About Ricky’ won the Short.Sharp.Stories competition (2013). Her novel Accident was longlisted for the Barry Ronge Sunday Times Fiction Award (2018) and Breaking Milk was shortlisted for the Sunday Times South Africa/CNA Literary Awards (2021). In 2023, she published her first collection of short stories, What Remains.
Di Bibby
Dianne Bibby is a professional recipe developer, food stylist, food photographer, content creator and food writer. She also offers monthly cooking classes. Since launching in 2007, the classes have expanded into a thriving community of women and men who share a passion for good food and far-flung flavours. The Bibby’s brand is in the developmental stages of expanding its range of bespoke food products. Di lives in Johannesburg with her husband, Darren, and their two daughters, Skylar and Sabrina. Bibby’s – More Good Food is her second cookbook.
Diane Awerbuck
Diane Awerbuck is a prizewinning writer, reviewer and teacher. She writes femme/goth thrillers (Home Remedies); memoirs (Gardening at Night); pandemic/cowboy science fiction (South, as Frank Owen; North, as Frank Owen); doctorates on trauma (The Spirit and the Letter); poetry (As above, so below) and short story collections (Cabin Fever; Inside your body there are flowers).
Dr Mandla Moyo
Dr Mpume Zenda
In addition to her work in medicine, Dr Gynae is also a highly respected social media influencer with a dedicated following. She is best known for her regular appearances on Mzansi Magic’s TV show, Sunday Sexy Love, where she helps celebrity couples navigate their relationships and intimacy. Additionally, Dr Gynae is a frequent guest doctor on Showmax’s online show, Sex and Pleasure, where she shares her knowledge and expertise on sexual health and wellness.
She has developed a hygiene bag and journal to accompany the book and plans a cross-country roadshow to promote the book and products
Dylan Rogers
Farai Mudzingwa
Farai Mudzingwa is a freelance writer. His short fiction has been published by Weaver Press, Kwani? and Enkare Review II and his longform articles and reporting have been featured in Chimurenga Chronic, The Mail & Guardian, The Johannesburg Review of Books, Africa Is A Country, This Is Africa, The Africa Report and New Humanitarian. Farai was shortlisted for the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship (2019), the Short Story Day Africa competition (2019) and the Yvonne Vera competition (2013). He was longlisted for the Writivism competition in 2016. He lives in Harare and South Africa.
Femi Kayode
Femi Kayode trained as a clinical psychologist in Nigeria, before starting a career in advertising. He has created and written several prime-time TV shows. His debut novel, Lightseekers, was selected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times, was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. In 2023 he released Gaslight, a crime thriller that has received raving reviews. He lives in Windhoek, Namibia with his family.
Fiona Snyckers
Fiona Snyckers is a South African writer who has published eight novels. In 2020 she won the South African Literary Award for best novel and the NIHSS Humanities Award for best novel for Lacuna (Picador Africa). She has been nominated five times for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Fiona lives in Johannesburg with her family.
Frankie Murrey
Fred Roed
Fred Roed is the founder and CEO of Heavy Chef, a learning commmunity for entrepreneurs and co-founder of the Heavy Chef Foundation, which provides learning programmes for high-potential emerging entrepreneurs.
Heavy Chef is well-known for hosting the most popular monthly entrepreneur events in South Africa.
Born to two Danish immigrants, Fred has studied and lived in both Cape Town and Copenhagen. In Denmark, Fred was compelled to come back to South Africa after watching the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Danish television. It is Fred’s guiding belief that a thriving entrepreneurial sector is a crucial component of a thriving economy.
Roed’s first book The Heavy Chef Guide To Starting A Business In South Africa was launched in 2018 and became a bestseller on Amazon.
When not stirring the pot at Heavy Chef, Fred is the show host of The Healthy Business Show entrepreneur podcast and partner at Glengarry Capital, a fund that invests in education.
Fred Roed was Head of Agencies at the IAB SA (Interactive Advertising Bureau SA) between 2013 and 2016, and was awarded “Best Individual Contribution to the South African Digital Industry” in the 2015 Bookmark Awards held at the Turbine Hall in Johannesburg. Together with Mike Perk and Louis Janse van Rensburg, Fred co-founded the digital agency World Wide Creative (WWC). Between 2003 and 2016, WWC fielded a portfolio of clients that included Hyundai, Jaguar / Land Rover, City of Cape Town, Rand Merchant Bank, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile and The Foschini Group.
Fast Company Magazine named Fred as one of The Top 100 Creative People In Business 2015.
Fred is obsessed with brand strategy and digital media – with side habits of classic movies, books, popcorn, pizza and trying to find the world’s finest Cabernet Sauvignon.
Fred is also pretty sure he saw Elvis once, at the Pick n’ Pay in Tableview.
Gail Schimmel
She is an admitted attorney who is currently the CEO of the Advertising Regulatory Board. Gail co-hosts the podcast The Hidden Lives of Writers. She has written 9 cozy mysteries (and counting) with Kate Sidley writing as Katie Gayle.
Gail lives and works in Johannesburg.
Georgina Guedes
Dr Greg Mills
Dr Greg Mills heads the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation, established in 2005 by the Oppenheimer family to strengthen African economic performance. Before this he was the national director of the SA Institute of International Affairs. He has directed numerous reform projects in Africa and sat on the Danish Africa Commission and the African Development Bank’s high-level panel on fragile states. On the advisory board of the Royal United Services Institute, he is the author of the best-selling books Why Africa Is Poor and Africa’s Third Liberation, and together with President Olusegun Obasanjo, Making Africa Work: A Handbook for Economic Success. His writings have won him the Recht Malan Prize. His latest books, Expensive Poverty and The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan, were published in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
Gregory Vuyani Maqoma
Greg has received numerous awards, among these the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for dance in 2002; the Tunkie Award for Leadership in Dance (2012), the New York City’s premier a dance award, a “Bessie”, for Exit/Exist for original music composition (2014); and the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Artes et des Lettres (Knight of the Arts & Literature) Award in 2017 from the French government. Maqoma celebrates his fiftieth birthday in 2023 and he has curated a number of legacy projects that he will be revealing as the year progresses.
Hannes Barnard
Hannes Barnard is a multi-genre author of both English and Afrikaans novels. He cites the curse of wanderlust and his wide range of interests for the variety in his writing. He lives in Johannesburg with his wife and dog. His books include: The Apartheid-era coming-of-age novel Halley’s Comet and its Afrikaans version Halley se komeet (also available as an audiobook), the critically acclaimed apocalyptic YA trilogy, Wolk, Roet, and Vuur, and the fast-paced political thriller, Die wet van Gauteng.
Hendrik Hancke
Dr Hestelle van Staden
Ian Laxton
Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu
Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Lucky Girl is her first novel.
Ivan Vladislavić
Ivan Vladislavićhas published novels, stories and essays. Based in Johannesburg, he is a Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Witwatersrand. His work has won many of South Africa’s literary awards and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje and Warwick Prizes. In 2015, he won Yale University’s prestigious Windham Campbell Prize. His books include the novels The Folly, The Restless Supermarket, The Exploded View, Double Negative and The Distance, as well as the story collections Flashback Hotel and 101 Detectives. In 2006, he published Portrait with Keys, a sequence of documentary texts on Johannesburg. Visit www.ivanvladislavic.com.
Janine Jellars
Janine grew up in Hanover Park, Cape Town, where she spent her childhood devouring the contents of the Hanover Park Public Library and dreaming of being a writer or a spy. Her childhood dreams became a reality when she chose the socially accepted route to practising spy-craft: journalism.
Now, she uses the skills she’s honed over her decades-long media career to build strategies for leading corporations. When she isn’t crafting content for corporates and mentoring and leading teams, she still finds time to interview local and global icons, such as Bonang Matheba, Taraji P Henson and Rihanna.
Jennifer Platt
Jo Watson
Jo Watson is the award-winning author of over ten books. She writes contemporary romances for both adults and teens, including The Destination Love series and her YA debut Big Boned, a Publisher’s Marketplace Buzz Book. A graduate of the arts and media school AFDA, Jo earned an honors degree in Live Performance and worked as a script writer, director, producer and copywriter before deciding to publish her stories on Wattpad, which catapulted her now full-time career as an author. To date, her stories have accumulated more than 60 million reads on the platform with over 119, 000 followers. She has become an international bestselling sensation, having sold over six hundred thousand books in the UK alone. Her book Love To Hate You became an overnight bestseller reaching #9 on the Amazon UK charts. Her stories have been translated into seven different languages. She lives in South Africa with her husband and son.
What Happens on Vacation published in 2023 was a booktok hit in South Africa.
Joanne Joseph
Joanne is a well-respected freelance TV and radio broadcaster and author who has had a presence in the media for 25 years. She has presented Talk Radio 702’s Afternoon Drive slot, the 4pm-6pm ‘Afternoon News’ slot on 24-hour news channel, eNCA and current affairs radio show, The Power Update on Power FM. Prior to this she was the main anchor and a bulletin writer on SABC 3’s “News at 7’. She began her career at YFM radio as a news presenter radio in 1998. Following that, she worked at Classic FM, Network Radio News and Business Day as a producer/presenter. In 1998, she became a producer/presenter at SABC Africa.
Joanne has scripted corporate videos for clients like Afrox and produced documentaries for the United Nations Development Programme, among others. She has done several high-profile live broadcasts including Nelson Mandela’s funeral broadcast internationally and Thabo Mbeki’s presidential inauguration. Joanne regularly MCs corporate functions in English and French and has presented corporate videos for Life Healthcare, MTN and several others. Since the onset of COVID, she has hosted webinars for a range of clients. As a media trainer, her clients include Nedbank, BCG, Renault, IBM and Gauteng Tourism.
In 2021, Joanne produced and co-presented the Exclusive Books show, Cover to Cover. Joanne teaches presenting and scriptwriting for broadcast media. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Drama, Film and English, her Honours and Master’s Degree in Modern Languages, Literatures and Media from Wits University. She is currently in the midst of a PhD. Joanne is the author of two South African bestselling books, Drug Muled, Sixteen Years in a Thai Prison (non-fiction) and most recently the historical fiction novel, Children of Sugarcane which was released internationally in 2022, won the South African Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Award. Joanne was among the authors representing South Africa at the Gothenburg Book Fair in Sweden, in September 2022.
Jonathan Ancer
He is the author of biographies of Craig Williamson and Pravin Gordhan. This is his sixth book. He lives in Cape Town.
Joseph Howse
Joseph Howse writes fiction, as well as technical books on computer programming and image analysis. He lives in a windswept Canadian fishing village, where he chats with his cats and endeavours to grow hardy fruit trees. He has roamed on six continents in a pair of old work boots. His debut novel, The Girl in the Water, has won the 2023 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction and the 2023 IAN Awards for Outstanding Multicultural Fiction. He is currently working on a sequel.
Karen Vermeulen
Karina M. Szczurek
Karina M. Szczurek is the author and (co)editor of eleven works of fiction and non-fiction, most recently a memoir, The Fifth Mrs Brink, and an anthology of stories, Fluid: The Freedom to Be. Her doctoral thesis was published as Truer than Fiction: Nadine Gordimer Writing Post-Apartheid South Africa. She won the MML Literature Award in the Category English Drama in 2012 and received the Thomas Pringle Award for a portfolio of ad hoc reviews from the English Academy of Southern Africa in 2018. She is a board member of Short Story Day Africa. In 2019, she founded Karavan Press, an independent publishing house, and a year later, established the Philida Literary Award. She lives in Cape Town.
Karl Kemp
Karl Kemp is a South African writer with an LL.M in public international law from the University of Amsterdam. As a journalist, he has covered drug trafficking, gang violence, separatist movements, globalisation, nationalism and cultural identity, among other topics, for various publications, including Rolling Stone, VICE and Vrye Weekblad. After completing his law degree, Kemp interned at the International Criminal Court, working in the investigations division as an analyst in the field of international criminal law. He is the author of Promised Land: Exploring South Africa’s Land Conflict.
Kate Sidley
Katlego Thulare
Khulu Radebe
Kim Ballantine
Kobby Ben Ben
Kobby Ben Ben was born in Ghana, where he is a prominent book reviewer and runs the African Book Club and the Ghana Must Read website. His eccentric Instagram book blog, @bookworm_man, has caught the attention of Booker Prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo, as well as Maaza Mengiste and Petina Gappah, among others. No One Dies Yet is his first novel.
Kobus Moolman
Kobus Moolman is Professor of Creative Writing, and the coordinator of the Creative Writing programme, in the Department of English Studies at the University of the Western Cape. He has won numerous national and international awards for his poetry. His primary research areas are creative writing, with a special focus on forms of contemporary World and South African poetry, as well as hybrid genres and the avant-garde. His current research focuses on Disability Studies. He is particularly concerned with investigating the relationship between the non-normative body (and alterity) and experimental textual practices that challenge generic boundaries.
Koleka Putuma
Koleka Putuma is a South African multi-award-winning theatre practitioner, writer and poet. Her work tackles themes such as sexuality, gender, race and politics. Her bestselling debut poetry collection Collective Amnesia received the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry and one of the best books of the year by The Sunday Times and Quartz Africa. In 2022, Putuma was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award – a first time award for poetry. She lives in Cape Town.
Kristien Potgieter
Kristien Potgieter is a children’s author and editor from Johannesburg, South Africa. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she was a Booker Prize scholar. She loves spending time with her cat Luna, reading mystery novels and watching classic movies. Bongi Ballerina is her first children’s book.
Letlhokwa George Mpedi
Before his current position as Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Mpedi served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic and Executive Dean (Faculty of Law) at the University of Johannesburg. He lectured labour law and social security to LLB, post-graduate and certificate students and has delivered papers at numerous national and international conferences.
Lisa Lazarus
Lisa Lazarus holds a MA in Creative Writing from Wits University, during which she began to shape her literary voice and work intensely on the preliminary draft that led to her debut novel, Flight of the Dancer. She also holds a BA in Dramatic Art from Wits, majoring in Dance and Dramatic Literature.
Subsequent to graduating from her BA, she collaborated on the writing and performance of a play with Vanessa Cooke, Four Paces By Two, written for the Detainees’ Parents Support Committee about solitary confinement in the mid-1980s.
Lisa’s short story, Family Hold Back, was published in Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art by Georgia State University.
An active member of the ballet community for many years, Lisa studied and danced in London, training at the Royal Academy of Dance. She is a registered RAD ballet teacher and taught in studios in London, Rosettenville, Coronationville, Lenasia and Eldorado Park.
Currently working as an independent Human Resources and Organisational Development specialist, Lisa supports institutions engaged in social justice, housing, public health, education and gender equality. She provides support to development finance institutions and has contributed as part of composite teams on large government projects. More recently, she works as an editor for non-profits.
She lives in Johannesburg with her husband, and has two children.
Lloyd Burnard
Lori-Ann Preston
Lori-Ann Preston is an award-winning author who lives in East London with her husband and the best dog ever, Chapter. She holds a BEd Honours degree from the University of South Africa and has 20 years of teaching experience.
Lori-Ann is best known for her fun-filled adventure series: Thabo, the Space Dude, and the hilarious 3-in-1 short story book: Trixie. Her most recent releases, Slooths, What do Monsters and Mermaids Munch? and Fab Farm, are sure to bring even more joy and laughter into the hearts of children.
Lorraine Sithole
Lorraine Sithole, a reading activist advocating for reading for lifelong enjoyment across all generations, is the Vice-Chairperson of the International Board on Books for Young People South Africa and sits on the board of the African Book Trust responsible for the Johannesburg Literature District. a founder of BookWorms Book Club, a publisher, and writer, Lorraine was longlisted for the 2017 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award and has contributed to these collections – Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu edited by Niq Mhlongo and When Secrets Become Stories edited by Sue Nyathi. Lorraine was the programme manager for the South African Book Fair for three years, responsible for curating the literary programme and the Schools’ Programme. She is also the Founder and Festival Director of the Gauteng International Book Festival.
Luke Calder
He likes to attend comic conventions where he sells his art, and scares people with his homemade monster book.
Lynsey Ebony Chutel
Lynsey Ebony Chutel is a journalist and writer. She is a reporter for the New York Times and has worked for South African and international news outlets, along with stints in scriptwriting for an international Emmy-nominated news satire show. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s degree in international relations from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Marina Auer
Marina Auer is a graduate of UCT Medical School and spent several years working in state hospitals, before moving into private practice. She lives with her family – two teenagers, two cats, one husband – in Hillcrest, KZN. Double Edged is her first novel with a second coming later this year.
Marion Scher
Marion Scher, award-winning journalist, author and media consultant, has written much about mental health over the last 28 years. She received a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship from the Carter Center in Atlanta in 2005. Her previous book around people’s lived experiences with mental health issues, Surfacing – people coping with depression and mental illness was published in 2021. Her latest book is called Big Bully.
Marion Sparg
Marion Sparg was the first white woman to be convicted for membership of uMkhonto weSizwe. She spent 15 years in prison, after receiving a punitive 25-year sentence. Marion lives in
Johannesburg, where she works as a media specialist. Her previous book was Bulelani Ngcuka: The Sting in the Tale.
Marisa Steynberg
Mark Donker
Mark began writing for a younger audience in 2021 and currently lives with his two children on a farm outside Johannesburg, South Africa. They enjoy a natural lifestyle, surrounded by nature and animals. He describes his parenting style as “free range and natural”.
Besides writing, parenting, and running an import/export business, Mark enjoys hiking, kayaking, mountain biking, horse riding and numerous other pursuits. At home, he enjoys cooking and playing music on the piano and guitar.
Marlene McCay
Marlene gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in languages and philosophy and a Higher Teachers‘ Diploma at UCT and went on to work in advertising. She developed and ran several iconic commercial properties, including Tanda Tula Safari Camp and Constantia Uitsig Wine Farm with its hotel and award-winning restaurants. She served as a board member on the Timbavati Exco for 13 years. In 1998 she and Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton of Save the Elephants collared the first elephants in the Timbavati. In 2001 Marlene was granted The Freedom of the City of London for her role in wildlife conservation. Two years later she and Iain founded Save the Elephants South Africa which later became Elephants Alive.
Megan Choritz
Megan Choritz is a South African born playwright, writer, actor and director. She has spent all her life involved in making things up and has written numerous plays and musicals.. In 2020 her rhyming children’s book The Big Bird Battle was published. Her plays The Tent, Clouds Like Waves, and Drive With Me have all achieved critical acclaim. Lost Property is her debut novel.
Melinda Ferguson
Melinda Ferguson burst onto the local literary scene with her hard-hitting addiction memoir, Smacked,in 2005. Her memoirs Hooked, Crashed and Bamboozled followed. Her latest book When Love Kills has already captured huge media interest.
In 2013, she launched her publishing imprint MFBooksJoburg with Jacana Media, and in 2020, she joined forces with NB Publishers as Melinda Ferguson Books. She has published close to 100 titles in the past decade. These include the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award winner Rape: A South African Nightmare by Dr Pumla Dineo Gqola.
Muhammad Wadee
He attends St. John’s College Preparatory School in Johannesburg where he has learnt accountability and to pursue his dreams. He has been inspired to take on the challenge of writing, with the intention of creating awareness amongst the youth about the importance of protecting ecosystems, conserving endangered animals and the need to make a change.
Moshitadi Lehlomela
Moshitadi Lehlomela is a former civil engineering technician turned mother wound coach, writer and entrepreneur. As a coach, Lehlomela holds space for victims and survivors of maternal abuse, neglect and abandonment.
She is also the author of Radical Acceptance for Childhood Adversities. She lives in Jane Furse, Limpopo.
Nadia Kamies
Nadia Kamies graduated from the University of Cape Town as an occupational therapist and worked extensively with children before turning her focus to writing. Her work has been published in academic journals as well as in mainstream media. She has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town and a PhD in History from the University of Pretoria. Off-Centre and Out of Focus: Growing up ‘coloured’ in South Africa is her first full-length work of creative non-fiction.
Naledi Shange
Naledi Shange is a highly experienced investigative journalist who has wide experience in print, online and broadcast media. She is currently a News Editor at TimesLIVE.
The Rosemary Ndlovu Story
In 2021, South Africa was introduced to notorious serial killer, Rosemary Ndlovu. Rosemary worked as a police sergeant in Tembisa, Ekurhuleni. Despite taking an oath to serve and protect, in court it emerged that she had arranged the murders of her lover and at least five members of her family. For some murders she hired hitmen, others she carried out herself.
Regarded as our nation’s most significant female serial killer since Daisy de Melker, Rosemary killed for money.
Nancy Gaylard
Through this experience, Nancy realised the importance of effective communication and its impact on businesses and human interaction.
In 2012, Nancy started her own consultancy company, focusing on customer service. During this time, she became aware of the impact that differently abled individuals have in the workplace. She began working with Deaf people and discovered her passion for helping them.
Nancy’s first book, Ayen’s First Day, was published in September 2022. The book aims to introduce children, during their formative years, to differently abled people, particularly those who are Deaf. The goal is to start a conversation about the differences that make us unique and how it is okay to be different; it is okay to be you.
In 2023, Nancy spent her time spreading the message of her book by giving book talks in and around Gauteng. Nancy’s second book will be out later in 2024.
Nancy resides in Johannesburg with her husband, son, and dog, Steven.
Naomi Holdt
Natalie Conyer
Dr Nechama Brodie
Wits Justice Project. She is the author of nine books and lives in Johannesburg.
Neesha Pillay
I cherished the dream of becoming a mother, but it didn’t materialise at an early age. Only in my late 30s, when I met my prince and got married, did I embrace my husband’s daughter as my own. At that time, she was my only child. However, life has its ways of surprising us, and in my mid-40s, we were blessed with two more children. Every morning, I wake up in amazement, still trying to grasp that they’re all part of my life now.
This incredible journey inspired me to write a book aimed at teaching children about the magnificent wonders of South Africa. I hope that by instilling a deep love for our country in them, they’ll come to appreciate its beauty and richness. My career predominantly revolved around the tourism industry, and my passion for tourism has always been a driving force in my life. Interestingly, writing was never one of my core strengths, but my desire to educate and inspire my children pushed me past that barrier.
I firmly believe that to broaden the horizons of young minds, we must expose them to the endless possibilities that await them, even if it’s through the pages of a book. I also couldn’t help but notice the shortage of South African content on the bookshelves within our own country. It became clear that contributing to creating such content was something I was passionate about.
I write for a company called Mzansi Kids, and we have two books so far, one on South Africa and the second on the Western Cape.
Nick Mallet
Nick Norman
Living in Franschhoek, he is active in promoting geoheritage in South Africa.
Nikki Munitz
Nkateko Emily Mabasa
Despite facing physical challenges, Nkateko Emily Mabasa has become a community builder through her passion for dance, founding Phoenix Alexandra to empower children and young adults while advocating for inclusivity and perseverance.
The now 33-year-old Mabasa was diagnosed with mild spastic diplegia/diparesis Cerebral Palsy. This form of disability is characterised by frequent spasms and muscle tensing, which saw her undergo an operation when she was seven years old.
While she had to use a wheelchair as well as go for physiotherapy throughout her school years, Mabasa’s medical condition did not stop her, and she learned to walk using crutches.
Apart from having established the organisation, Nkateko is a Gold Award holder in South Africa for the President’s Award for Youth Empowerment/Duke of Edinburgh International Award. She also served as a Director for The President’s Award for Youth Empowerment/Duke of Edinburgh International Award Gauteng Youth Committee from 2018 to 2019.
Nkateko is the author of “Celebrating our differences embracing my superpowers”, a children’s book on disability.
Nozibele Mayaba
Nozibele Mayaba is a HIV activist, internationally recognised podcaster, speaker and TV host.
She recently partnered with Jacaranda FM and East Coast Radio to launch a youth podcast, Don’t hold back, Say it loud. Her TV show, #YesIHaveHIV on HONEY, DStv channel 173, has helped many to disclose their HIV statuses to their loved ones. It’s currently on its second season.
Onke Mazibuko
Owen Salmon
Owen Salmon is a senior advocate at the Johannesburg Bar. With his late wife Isabeau, a musician, they have three adult children currently living and working in the United Kingdom. His leisure time is spent with family and friends, keeping fit, playing the guitar, listening to music and creative writing. Owen has authored two non-fiction titles: Law Made Simple: Compliance for Business, Citizens, and for Government (Lawful Living, 2016) and Intellectual Property Made Simple (Siber Ink, 2021). A Weakness to Die For is his debut novel.
Oyama Mabandla
Penny Haw
Phumlani M. Majozi
Phumlani M. Majozi is a macroeconomic and political analyst, speaker, and author. He has years of experience advising international investors on South Africa’s financial markets. His writings on economics and politics have been published in City Press, Business Day, Mail & Guardian, News24, BizNews, African Liberty, and Politicsweb. In October 2023 he was one of the invitees to the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) in London, UK – a conference organised by Dr Jordan B. Peterson.
Phumlani sits on the boards of four organisations: the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR), the South African Institute of Business Accountants (SAIBA), Social Research Foundation (SRF), and Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA).
Pip Williams
Pontsho Pilane
Prudence Makau
Refiloe Moahloli
Riaan Manser
Circumnavigating Madagascar in a kayak and similarly around Iceland in a double Kayak added two more world firsts to his name. But this wasn’t enough . He decided to rope his then girlfriend into his world. Attempting to row from Africa to North America . The first human to attempt and successfully complete this continent to continent ocean row. Manser went on to row more oceans and in total has covered more than 22 000km on open ocean.
He is in a league of his own.
Roslyn Toerien
She holds a Bachelor of Education and has a love for teaching, writing and dance. Ros is the CEO and Founder of the South African Non-Profit Trust, The LEARN Project which stands for ‘Let’s Educate A Rainbow Nation’ and aims to equip disadvantaged schools with libraries and book corners.
Ros has been a guest speaker at a number of events and schools and was awarded The Paul Harris Fellows Award by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. She lives by the motto ‘Small actions lead to big change’ and this can be seen in the number of school LEARN library doors that have been opened and minds that have been unlocked through the power of books and literacy.
Rumbi Munyardz
Apart from this, she is the Chief Operating Officer for Mobile Wallets at Sasai Fintech, a company which is focused on delivering innovative solutions to the problem of financial inclusion at scale across Africa. Before that, Rumbi was the Head of the Sub-Saharan Africa Debt Capitals Markets team at J.P. Morgan where she participated in raising over $35 billion worth of capital for blue chip corporates and governments across Africa.
Rumbi holds an Executive master’s in digital transformation and innovation from IE University in Spain as well as a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Wits University in South Africa.
Words she live by: “Passion, principles and purpose”.
Ryan Blumenthal
Ryan Blumenthal is a forensic pathologist with more than twenty years’ experience in the field, and he is based in South Africa. His book Autopsy: Life in the Trenches with a Forensic Pathologist in Africa, which was published by Jonathan Ball Publishers in August 2020, became a non-fiction bestseller in South Africa. His eight-part documentary Lightning Pathologist was aired from 9 to 20 November 2020 on People’s Weather (Channel 180) on DStv. It was viewed by over 2,2 million people.
S’fundo Sosibo
S’fundo Sosibo is an absurdistwriter. He is also a former Drama and Creative Arts lecturer at the University of KwaZulu Natal. He enjoys teaching as much as he does writing theatre. His work as an artist and scholar often entails the exploration of Afro-Queer narratives in the (South) African context. Sosibo has written, produced, and performed works featured in the National Arts Festival (Makhanda). As a playwright he has written in the Almasi African Playwrights Conference (Harare 2019, 2021). In December 2022, Sosibo was invited to host the Walking with Shadows Symposium in Harare – the first queer literary symposium on Zimbabwean soil. He is an alumnus, as a WritingFellow, at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS). He is currently working on his debut novel as an Artist in Residence at UJ Arts & Culture.
Saaleha Bhamjee
Saaleha Bhamjee is a full-time chef and restaurateur, owning and baking for Upcycled Café, Lazeeza’s Bakery and Origami Asian Food. Upcycled Cafe’s cheesecake was recently judged to one of the Best in Joburg by 947’s Anele and The Breakfast Club. You can read her blog at afrocentric-muslimah.blogspot.com
She has had short stories shortlisted three times for the Writivism Award. Home Scar is her first novel.
Sally Andrew
Dr Sam Human
Dr Sam Human is an author, academic researcher, and a post-graduate research supervisor in the Psychology Department of the University of South Africa. She holds a PhD in psychology with a particular interest in psychobiographical research. She is the author of The Most Evil of Them All – When narcissism turns deadly.
Sarah M Naidoo
Sarah M Naidoo is a twenty-six-year-old born and raised in Phoenix, Durban. She graduated from the University of KwaZulu Natal with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Genetics and furthered her studies at STADIO with a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. She published a short story in YOU Magazine in 2019, and her short story, Adam and Eve, was an honourable mention in the 2020 SAWC Short Story Competition. A Remedy For Death is her first novel.
Sewela Langeni
Shafinaaz Hassim
Shubnum Khan
Steven Friedman
Sthandiwe Langa
Sthandiwe Langa is pansexual and has worked in corporate most of her adult life, from admin to finance and then HR, but she never could let go of her desire to write. At a young age she went through a couple of surgeries and can be categorised as Partially Sighted even though new technology has developed ways to address her issue. She was born and bred in KZN, South Africa. She and her son share their home in Durban North with Dasher, their Jack Russell Terrier. Unlabelled is her first published novel.
Sven Axelrad
Tamara LePine-Williams
Tamara LePine-Williams was the anchor of classic lifestyle on Classic FM 102.7, a post she held since its inception.
The programme offered so much of what has fascinated tamara throughout her life from history,
politics, travel, literature, to food and all forms of art and music.
Tamara’s early career in her own public relations company in London was a wonderful introduction to radio as she represented her clients on bbc local radio stations countrywide as well as promoting their products which were mostly lifestyle related.
A move to South Africa meant a change of tack having started a quickly growing family. Tamara needed some flexibility in her career.
She founded a highly successful top end catering company – with clients such as the British embassy, Jo Malone in South Africa, all functions at Circa on Jellicoe and Everard Read and Strauss Art Auctioneers.
Tamara’s interest in food and wine led her to become a regular contributor to the magazine ‘ classic wine’ and a locum presenter on the classic wine programme on Friday drive time.
In due course she was offered the position of presenter of classic lifestyle – a daily 4 hour show that evolved in time to include spots for history, history of music, travel, books, gardening, food, daily arts, finance and personalities including Ahmed Kathrada, Johnny Clegg, Richard Dawkins, William Kentridge, Thuli Madonsela and many others. It also included ofcourse playing some of ‘the most beautiful music in the world’.
Tara Penny
Tarryn McLaren
Having completed a BPrim Ed and BEd Hons with an interest in inclusive education, Tarryn’s passion for cognitive education led her to focus on the explicit teaching of thinking skills, which support and extend the academic performance and holistic development of the students she teaches. Tarryn is passionate about sharing practical ideas and suggestions with other teachers so that their students can become increasingly effective and independent learners.
Tarryn is a SAALED Board member, which is the leading Southern African organisation concerned with the field of special educational needs. Tarryn often presents webinars within the areas of Differentiation and Making Thinking Visible.
