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Iziko Museum
25 Queen Victoria Street
Cape Town City Centre
Cape Town, Western Cape, 8000
South Africa

Aparna Pallavi

Aparna Pallavi is a former eco-journalist, now on a sabbatical researching indigenous knowledge around forest foods, especially one crucial food called Mahua, indigenous to India. Her project, which is not funded and carried out entirely in spirit of gift, is now in its last stage and she is preparing to write her book on the subject.

Fumani Mthembi

Fumani Mthembi is a co-founder and managing director of Knowledge Pele. Knowledge Pele executes on the Group’s structural transformation agenda through applying a social impact investment model to transform rural and urban-poor communities into thriving economies.

Nandipha Mntambo

Nandipha Mntambo has a Master’s in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town, and has become famous for her sculptures, videos & photographs that address ongoing debates around traditional gender roles, body politics, and identity.

Sherman Pharo

Sherman Pharo is an actor and fisherman from the small town in Hawston, South Africa and has played in many local and international productions. Having grown up in a home of domestic violence, he has since been openly speaking up and standing up against it and the affects of women and child abuse.

Tshegofatso Senne

Tshegofatso Senne writes and speaks on issues concerning feminism, sexual and reproductive health and pleasure, consent, rape culture, race, intersectional social justice and pop culture.

Vuyi Qubeka

Vuyi Qubeka is a multidimensional storyteller, sangoma (healer) and artist. Her modalities are words + images+ sound + sacred interventions - held by DiopMawu: an ethereal entity of elders. Her work explores the verity of divine feminine wisdom, while confronting our collective traumas (familial + collective) through space holding + intallation offerings. Her installations weave together photography, videos, sound, poetry and texts.