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Jonathan D. Jansen is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, current President of the South African Institute of Race Relations and President of the South African Academy of Science. He is a prolific writer and educationist in South Africa. Jonathan D. Jansen is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, current President of the South African Institute of Race Relations and President of the South African Academy of Science. He is a prolific writer and educationist in South Africa. Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and is affiliated to the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER). André Keet holds the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University and is the chairperson of the Ministerial Oversight Committee on Transformation in South African Public Universities and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality at the Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University. Brenda Schmahmann is a Research Professor and the South African Research Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture at the University of Johannesburg. Crain Soudien is an educationist, Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council and an Honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela University. He is the author of Realising the Dream: Unlearning the Logic of Race in the South African School. Jaamia Galant is based in the Humanities Faculty Education Development Unit at the University of Cape Town and is completing a PhD at the Institute of Education, University College London. Jess Auerbach is a Visiting Researcher at the Open University of Mauritius. Prior to that, she was a founding faculty member in Social Sciences at the African Leadership University/College. Lesley Le Grange is Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Stellenbosch. He is chairperson of the Accreditation Committee and a member of the Higher Education Quality Committee of the Council on Higher Education in South Africa, Vice-President of the International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (UK). Lis Lange is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Teaching and Learning at the University of Cape Town. From 2014 to 2018, she was Vice-Rector: Academic at the University of the Free State, where she had previously been Senior Director of the Directorate for Institutional Research and Academic Planning. Mahmood Mamdani is Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University and Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University. Mlungisi Dlamini is an independent researcher and consulting editor based in Mbabane, Eswatini. Piet Naudé is Professor of Ethics and Director of the University of Stellenbosch Business School. He is a member of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research group and holds life membership of the Centre for Theological Inquiry at Princeton University. Shireen Motala is the Senior Director of the Postgraduate School at the University of Johannesburg and Professor in the Faculty of Education. She was the Director of the Education Policy Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand. Ursula Hoadley is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Cape Town. Yusuf Sayed is Professor of International Education and Development Policy at the University of Sussex, the South African Research Chair in Teacher Education, the Founding Director of the Centre for International Teacher Education at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University. Tarryn de Kock is completing a PhD in Education at the University of Sussex, with a focus on privatisation in public schools. She has worked as a researcher for the Centre for International Teacher Education at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology and at the Human Sciences Research Council. Grant Parker teaches at Stanford University and is also Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University.