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Linda Cilliers.
Has been a freelance journalist, radio journalist, writer and editor for 15 years. She has written and published two non-fiction books, and is a regular contributor to African Leader, Acumen and Marie Claire. She has also written for Reader’s Digest, the Cape Times and Laugh it Off, and is an art critic for Die Burger.
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Tony Ehrenreich.
An outspoken critic of the government's macroeconomic programme, Tony Ehrenreich is Western Cape Regional Secretary of Cosatu and has represented his organisation at the World Trade Organisation. This year he delivered an address at Cornell University, New York, on the role of trade unions in the global economy.
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Trevor Manuel.
A veteran of the UDF and the struggle against apartheid, Manuel was detained and banned during the 1980s. He was elected to Parliament and appointed Minister of Trade and Industry in 1994, and Minister of Finance in 1996. He is a World Economic Forum "Global leader for Tomorrow" and has received a number of international awards.
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Cees Bruggemans.
Born in Holland, Dr Bruggemans is Chief Economist of First National Bank. He is the author of Change of Pace: South Africa's Economic Revival in which he examines the structural dimensions of the country’s economy and the extent of economic reform already achieved. He has a reputation for plain speaking.
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Peter Maass.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Peter Maass is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He spent most of 1992 and 1993 covering the war in Bosnia for the Washington Post. His book on the conflict, Love Thy Neighbour: A Story of War won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for non-fiction in 1997.
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Steven Powell.
A graduate of the University of Cape Town’s Law Faculty and a former public prosecutor, Steven Powell is Director of Forensics at Sonnenberg Hoffman and Galombik. He has always wanted to be the sort of lawyer who puts criminals in jail, rather than one who defends them. He specialises in investigating fraud and corruption.
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Andy Scott.
Andrew Scott started in accountancy, moved to IT (mostly writing system reports and getting into technical arguments) and qualified as a counsellor. He has worked in the mining and oil industries and in the NGO sector. He now reads extensively and lives in Cape Town with his cat, Black Cat.
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Alan Bowen.
Originally trained as a school teacher, Alan Bowen went on to become an IT administrator for a major insurance corporation. He now works as a freelance computer consultant and journalist, specialising in articles on IT-related topics. He has a special interest in educational psychology and the shaping of the corporate mentality.
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Neil Horne.
With a degree in philosophy, mathematics and computer science, Neil Horne is an analyst with FYi, an independent research agency pioneering approaches in social investment. His interests include risk management and quantitative analysis. During the nineties, he structured and sold derivative-based portfolio insurance.
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Diana Games.
With 25 years' experience working in and writing about Africa, Diana's work has focussed primarily on business. She currently writes on African issues for a range of publications, compiles research reports on business in Africa, and gives guest lectures on doing business in Africa. She is also editor of the South African Journal of International Affairs.
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Nancy Gilchrist.
A British Master of Wine since 1995 and a wine journalist, Nancy Gilchrist lectures widely on her subject throughout Britain and has a special interest in South African wines. She has run a wine bar close to the White House and written a wine column for the Boston Globe.
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Ben Cousins.
Professor Cousins is Director of the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies in the University of the Western Cape's School of Government. He has edited four books and publishes regularly in international journals. He also works on our process with the Land and Agriculture Policy Centre and the Department of Land Affairs.
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Jeremy Wanderer.
With a doctorate from the London School of Economics, Jeremy Wanderer teaches philosophy at the University of Cape Town. He is currently writing a book on the work of the highly regarded American philosopher, Robert Brandom. He also has an intense interest in the philosophical underpinnings of religious practices.
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Robert Silke.
Having established a growing reputation as one of South Africa's most promising young architects, Robert Silke was the design architect responsible for the Mutual Heights development in Cape Town. An associate with the architecture, engineering and design company, Louis Karol, he has a special interest in inner city urban renewal.
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Johannes Fedderke.
Professor Fedderke is Director of Economic Research Southern Africa and Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town. His widely published work centres on the determinants of economic growth and the role of institutions in development. He has been visiting professor at the Rand Graduate School, Oxford.
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Toby Shapshak.
Toby’s career in journalism has spanned news, covering politics, crime, sport and technology, to running two online newspapers and editing the Mail & Guardian’s sport and technology sections. Toby is a contributing editor for GQ and Sawubona. He was the Telkom ICT Journalist of the Year in 2002, won a Profile Award in 2003, and was a runner-up in the 2003 and 2004 Telkom ICT awards.
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Ciaran Ryan.
Ciaran Ryan is a freelance business writer based in Johannesburg. He has authored a number of books on business and the stock exchange, including McGregor’s Dictionary of Stock Exchange Terms, and currently contributes to publications such as Mail & Guardian, Sunday Times Business Times, Finance Week and Financial Mail.
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Anthony Holiday
An assistant editor on the launch issue of mind//shift, he has a D.PHIL. Degree from Linacre College, Oxford and has recently retired from the School of Government at the University of the Western Cape where he taught philosophy for the last 10 years. He is also a veteran journalist and columnist who began his journalistic career at the Rand Daily Mail, spent six years as a political prisoner in Pretoria during the apartheid era for allegedly subversive activities, and is currently a regular columnist for the Cape Times.
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