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Head of Department of Theatre and Performance and PhD candidate, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of English, Rhodes University
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Professor of Persuasive Language and Storytelling, SKEMA Business School
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Senior Lecturer, University of Zululand
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Associate professor, University of the Western Cape
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Executive Director of the Department of Leadership and Transformation, University of South Africa