Professor Petrus Potgieter teaches in the Department of Decision Sciences at the University of South Africa.He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Pretoria. His research and teaching focus on data science, forecasting, financial modelling, and applied analytics, with particular emphasis uncertainty, and decision-making in business and policy contexts as well as maintaining a keen interest in the notion computability in theoretical computer science. He is actively involved in postgraduate supervision at Honours, Masters, and Doctoral level, and coordinates several advanced modules within the department. His broader scholarly interests include the economics of digital markets, technology regulation, and the application of quantitative methods to real-world economic and policy problems.

Dr Fanie Joubert is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of South Africa. He has a master’s degree in Econometrics from the University of Pretoria and a PhD in Economics from the University of South Africa, which focussed on voluntary household saving in South Africa. Apart from his studies, he has diverse research interests that include monetary policy, financial markets, and fiscal sustainability. He provided ad hoc economic consultancy services to various institutions and is a participant in the Bureau of Market Research (BMR) / Unisa ‘Economist of the Year’ competition.

Dr Jabulani Nkuna is a Senior Lecturer and the Section Head of Media Studies at the Department of Communication Science, University of South Africa. In 2023, he completed his PhD at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. His PhD investigated the extent to which social media is an alternative media for the social movements representing the subalterns. Other research interest includes new media policy and regulation, new media as a pedagogical tool in Open Distance Learning, the political economy of the media, transformation of the media landscapes and decolonising media studies. In addition, he supervises various Masters and Doctoral projects on various topics related to his research interest.

Professor Rofhiwa Mukhudwana currently serves as the Acting Head of Department for Communication Science and is an Associate Professor. She has obtained degrees in Media and International Relations from Wits, as well as a PhD in Communication Management from the University of Pretoria. Rofhiwa’s research interests include decolonial literature, blackness, neo-colonialism, media economics and neoliberalism, all of which help to shed light on the impact of colonialism on the global structure and global capitalism. Additionally, she is a Mail&Guardian200 alumna.