Nolwazi Tusini
Nolwazi Tusini is a writer, speaker and social commentator and thought leader who has appeared on various broadcast media platforms in South Africa and beyond, cotributing to conversations on gender, race and identity politics. She has also written on these issues for South African publications.
Nolwazi is also an award-winning news and current affairs executive producer and programme editor with nearly a decade of experience crafting radio and TV shows that cover a spectrum of issues. Nolwazi's brand of journalism focuses on placing contemporary news stories within the context of South Africa's racialised past, which has created the country's racialized and gendered present, whilst also tackling social justice issues.
In addition, Nolwazi is highly skilled at facilitating discussion panels and curating events and conversations. She counts UN Women, the German Development Cooperation (GIZ), SAB's "No Excuse" GBV Campaign, the Apartheid Museum and Abantu Book Festival amongst some of the clients she has successfully hosted sessions for. Furthermore, Nolwazi has moderated the Mail and Guardian's Critical Thinking Forum, in their partnership with GIZ and UN Women, to launch the GenderLinks Research report on Gender Representation in the media.
Nolwazi is a Ruth First Fellow, awarded the fellowship in 2016 by Wits University (Journalism School) for her research on the first generation of Black students to experience multi-racial schooling in South Africa, and the impact of the anti-black racism in those spaces.