Download PDFNoluvuyo Lata
Noluvuyo Lata (33) was born in March 1990. As a member of the queer community, Lata started her journey of activism by advocating for the rights of the LGBTQIA+, which soon grew into advocating for the working class through Khanya College. Vuyo as she prefers to be called also holds feminism close to her heart as someone who was raised in a women-headed household. Currently, Noluvuyo works as a journalist for the Forum of Activist Journalists (FAJ) at Khanya College where She writes for the Karibu! newspaper that reports on working-class struggles.
Noluthando Xaba
Noluthando Xaba was born in Pretoria and grew up in Ladysmith, Kwa-Zulu Natal. She is a facilitator, a musician, a writer, an Applied Drama and Theatre Practitioner amongst other things. After her matric she joined an organisation in her community called imbumba Young Solutions as a director and facilitator, through this organisation She got an opportunity to be part of the Mvuso Project with Drama for Life and that’s how she got the opportunity to do her advance diploma in Arts and her Honours Degree in Applied Drama and Theatre with the University of Witwatersrand. She currently works with Soweto Theatre as a director and with MTV Suga as a trainer/facilitator.
Thandi Mkhatshwa
Thandi Mkhatswa is an enthusiastic, self-motivated and hard-working social activist, from Thokoza, East of Johannesburg. She is a dedicated team worker and very vocal about the social challenges facing her community. Mkhatswa is currently an Education Coordinator at Habitat-61 Creative Hub based in Thokoza, Ekurhuleni, where she facilitates children’s literature in the form of reading and writing. She holds a Business Administration Certificate and currently pursuing Administrative Management Degree at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Mkhatswa is passionate about equality and women’s oppression.
These biographies were submitted as part of the Imbila Yesu publication produced daily for the duration of the Winter School in 2023 (23-28 July 2023). It appeared in Edition No.2, released on 25 July 2023.
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