Munyaradzi Murove is deputy head in the School of Philosophy and Ethics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has currently published a book titled African Ethics: An Anthology of Comparative and Applied Ethics. It is the first anthology on African Ethics. His areas of interest are in African Ethics, Business Ethics, Comparative and applied ethics. He has published many journal articles and book chapters on Ethics and is currently writing a book on African Ethics: Approaches and Perspectives with the hope of making African ethics part and parcel of the curriculum at the University.

Rachel Wynberg is a natural scientist and environmental policy analyst, specialising in the commercialization and trade of biodiversity, and the integration of social justice into biodiversity concerns. She holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and is currently based at the Environmental Evaluation Unit, University of Cape Town The ANFASA grant will contribute towards the writing of a new book entitled Green Diamonds of the South: Biodiversity, Equity, People and Knowledge which tells the story about biodiversity use and traditional knowledge in the Southern African landscape and places this within the contemporary world of bioprospecting, biopiracy and fair trade. It reveals the legends of ten indigenous plants, the communities that use them, and the paths travelled as indigenous knowledge, identities and resources get transformed into drugs, cosmetics, foods and flowers for the global consumer market.

Gabeba Baderoon received a PhD in English from the University of Cape Town in 2004. She has published widely on representations of slavery and Islam in South Africa, and has held fellowships at the African Gender Institute, the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and the University of Sheffield. Baderoon is also a poet and is the author of the poetry collections The Dream in the Next Body (2005) and A Hundred Silences (2006). She is an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and African and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is working on a book; African Privacies: Spiritualities and Sexualities in South Africa, it is a research project which envisions African subjectivities in South Africa beyond the theme of resistance. The project draws on the figure of Sara Baartman as an exemplary subject whose burial, 187 years after her death, signals a new conception of the private. Baderoon explores in "African Privacies" recent art, literature and oral narratives about sexuality and spirituality in South Africa, realms that have previously been framed by colonial discoursesof enforced visibility and display.

Tanya Farber is a freelance writer, media consultant and trainer. Before that, she was a full-time senior reporter for the Star newspaper and sister paper Sunday Independent. She has an MA degree in journalism from Wits University, an H Dip Journalism cum laude from Rhodes, an honours degree in gender studies from UCT, and an honours degree cum laude in applied linguistics from Wits. Her book on and with renowned photographer Alf Kumalo, Through my Lens was recently published by Tafelberg. Her current project is a cultural studies book that focuses on South African women from all walks of life, and the meanings they attach to ‘texts’ they encounter in their everyday lives - from clothing to public spaces, to hair salons to soap operas. Her book will delve into the semiotics of branded clothing amongst the new black urban youth culture in the suburbs, the shift of power relations — brief and temporarily — when ‘maids and madams’ watch soap operas together and the politics of hairstyles between local and foreign African nationals.

Ufrieda Ho is winner of the inaugural Anthony Sampson Foundation Award for Journalism (2007). She works as a freelance journalist and lives in Johannesburg. As a child of Chinese immigrants, she straddles the worlds of her parents’ memories of China’s mystical dragons and moon festivals from the Asian motherland, but she is a South African who grew up in the grey areas of segregated Johannesburg East and knows well the stereotypes and prejudiced assumptions attached to an invisible minority group in a racially divided country. She writes about growing up in these two worlds in her upcoming narrative non-fiction book.

Kevin Thomas is a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology (concentration: neuropsychology) from the University of Arizona, and he completed a clinical neuropsychology internship and a post-doctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at the University of Florida. His current research focuses on the effects of ageing, substances, and stress on various memory systems. Together with Professors George Ellis, Dan Stein, and Ernesta Meintjes, he is co-editing and contributing chapters to a volume titled Substance Use and Abuse in South Africa: Perspectives from brain-behaviour and other disciplines. This review book looks at the problem from multiple perspectives, but is particularly geared toward integrating a public health view with recent discoveries in brain and behavioural science (e.g., from neuroimaging studies, investigations into dopaminergic neurocircuitry, and genetic research). It is the first book to address the nature of this problem in such an integrated manner and to feature contributions from cutting-edge local researchers.

John Kannemeyer lectured in Cape Town and Stellenbosch and was professor of Afrikaans and Dutch at the University of the Witwatersrand in the 1980s. Apart from extensive writing on different aspects in the field of Afrikaans and Dutch literature he is the author of a highly acclaimed history of Afrikaans literature and biographies of prominent Afrikaans authors. Since 2003 he is extraordinary professor at the University of Stellenbosch, lecturing to postgraduate students on editing and textual studies. Presently he is working on a biography of the Nobel Prize laureate J.M Coetzee.

Luyanda Ka Msumza was born in King Williams Town 1958, attended schools in Ginsberg Location and Mzomhle High School in Mdantsane, Completed High School during the height of 1976/1977, could not complete that year due to participation in the then school boycotts. Left the country in 1978 for Lesotho, stayed until 1982 then went to school in England where he did a course in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering, a Master of Science Degree in International Community Economic Development in the US and an Honours Degree in History at UCT. He worked with Prof. Robert Edgar of Howard University (US) on the Collected Writings of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede, published by Ohio University Press in 1996. He came back from Exile in December 1990 and has been involved with different community issues. He is currently working together with Prof. Robert Edgar on the collected writings of A.P. Mda a pre-eminent African political intellectual.

Fiona Forde is an Irish journalist living in Cape Town who decided to make South Africa home three years ago, during which time she has worked for Independent Newspapers, writing across all of their titles on a range of issues from politics, to current affairs and news. Her byline is most regularly featured in the Sunday Independent. Fiona is currently putting the finishing touches to a book on the history of the taxis, a piece of work that looks at the growth of the industry over the past hundred years and which she hopes to launch in the early part of 2010.

Pearlie Joubert holds an Honours degree in Journalism, BA degree form the University of Stellenbosch. She is currently based in Cape Town where she is the senior journalist for the Mail and Guardian newspaper. She has worked as a journalist for many years, has done extensive research work, co-directed and produced several documentaries on a range of South African themes. She has been commissioned by Random House/Struik to write a book about the women in Nelson Mandela’s life. Those women who touched and changed Madiba’s life throughout his lifetime.

Mxolisi Mgxashe joined the struggle for national liberation on the eve of the Sharpeville/Langa massacres in March 1960 at the age of 16. He was imprisoned in 1963 to 18 months served at the Robben Island and Victor Verster prisons. He left the country in September 1966 for exile where he furthered his education and came back home in September 1994 having acquired an MA degree in Journalism and Mass Communication at the New York University, NYU, a Bsc degree in Human Services at the New Hampshire School of Human Services, and a certificate in Journalism at Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka. Since his return home he has worked as a senior reporter and columnist at the Cape Argus, and as a researcher on the liberation movements with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The project which he received a grant for is his second book, Ideals and Betrayals - Echoes of Exile, it is about the good and bad experiences in exile. It covers mainly how four very important objectives of the struggle were handled: Freedom, Democracy, Justice and Human Rights. It is a follow-up of his first book, Are You With US - The Story of a PAC Activist, published by Tafelberg and Mafube publishers in April 2006.

Kevin Durrheim is professor of psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he teaches social psychology and research methods, and manages a masters program in applied research. He obtained his PhD in political psychology from the University of Cape Town in 1995. Since then he has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on topics related to racism, segregation and social change. He is co-author (with John Dixon) of Racial Encounter (2005, Routledge) and co-editor (with Martin Terre Blanche) of Research in Practice (1999, 2006, UCT Press) and (with Colin Tredoux) Numbers, Hypotheses and Conclusions (2002, UCT Press). He is a member of many professional organizations and currently serves on the Governing Council of the International Society of Political Psychology. His upcoming book; Race Trouble is the product of longstanding collaboration between him, Lyndsay Brown and Xoliswa Mtose. In the book they seek to describe and explain ongoing racism and racial conflict in a mobile, globalized, and desegregated world where people of different groups must ‘work together’, co-exist, co-habit and interact. In order to understand and undermine the persistent racial formation of social life in contexts like post-apartheid South Africa they argue that an analytic focus on racism should be replaced by an analysis of race trouble. The book then provides a theory of race trouble in chapters entitled: Discourse, Practices, Subjects, and Repression. In the end, they intend to produce a theory of racial subjectivity that arises from our participation in ongoing practices of racial division and inequality.

Mark Peters is a Doctor of Chemical Engineering and is currently a research engineer at Sasol Technology. These authors are involved in the production of the book, Membrane Process Design using Residue Curve Maps, which stems from the research done by Mark Peters towards his PhD thesis. The book looks at how membrane permeation potentially provides an attractive alternative to conventional energy in the petro-chemical industry and furnishes the reader with a novel method of design and synthesis for such systems.

David Glasser David Glasser is a personal Professor of Chemical Engineering and co-director of the Centre of Material and Process Synthesis (COMPS), based at The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.David was one of Mark Peters' supervisors on the project. At the completion of the thesis, and due to the nature of the work, it was decided to approach a publisher with regard to reproducing the research work in a book format. The grant from ANFASA will be used towards the completion of this book for publication.

Diane Hilderbrandt Diane is the SARChI Professor of Sustainable Process Engineering and Diane co-director of the Centre of Material and Process Synthesis (COMPS), based at The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Diane was one of Mark Peters' supervisors on the project. At the completion of the thesis, and due to the nature of the work, it was decided to approach a publisher with regard to reproducing the research work in a book format. The grant from ANFASA will be used towards the completion of this book for publication.

Dawn Garisch is a practicing medical doctor and lives in Cape Town. She has had three youth novels, two adult novels, poetry and adult literacy books published. She has had a short play and a short film produced, and has written for newspapers, magazines and for television. Her fifth novel, Trespass, was recently released by Kwela. Two of her novels have been published in the UK. She is currently working on an autobiography which examines the two legs of her working life — writing and doctoring — and how science and art perceive the world. This book looks at her split life as a doctor and a writer, and how science and art perceive the world and investigate the truth in very different ways. It examines the crisis of trust and the problem of anxiety in the modern world, particularly as this relates to creativity and to the body, and how our strategies for coping with stress often make things worse. It looks at recent developments in neuroscience that indicate that we are not mere prisoners of our inherited DNA. The book suggests that the tools we use to foster creative projects can assist us to live creative lives. This has implications for our relationship with ourselves, our communities and with the earth.