Michelle Williams is associate professor in Sociology and chairperson of the Global Labour University programme at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Vishwas Satgar is an associate professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is the editor of the Democratic Marxism series, and is the principal investigator for the Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene project and a democratic eco-socialist.
Jacklyn Cock is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and a research associate of the university’s Society, Work and Politics Institute.
Ashwin Desai is Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author of We are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-apartheid South Africa (2002) and co-author with Goolam Vahed of a number of works, including Inside Indian Indenture: A South African Story, 1860-1914 (2010) and A History of the Present: A Biography of Indian South Africans,1994–2019 (2019).
Daryl Glaser is associate professor in the department of Political Studies at Wits University.