Relebohile Moletsane was Associate Professor in Curriculum Studies and Gender Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal until 2007. She is Research Director in the Gender and Development unit at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and Honorary Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Kwazulu-Natal. Claudia Mitchell Claudia Mitchell is a James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Honorary Professor in School of Language, Literacies, Media and Drama Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Ann Smith taught English Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand for 23 years before becoming an independent educational consultant and contract lecturer in Communication Skills and Marketing at the Wits Business School. Linda Chisholm is a Director at the Education, Science and Skills Development research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council. She has over time been variously associated with the Universities of KwaZulu-Natal and Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.