Pheladi Sethusa is the coordinator of the career-entry honours programme and editor of Wits Vuvuzela.

She is a multimedia journalist with several years of experience as a TV reporter, TV producer, videographer and print reporter in several newsrooms including eNCA, Thomson Reuters and AFP.  More recently she has worked as an independent podcast and documentary producer and editor.

 

QUALIFICATIONS:
Master of Arts (Digital Documentary), University of Sussex, 2021
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Journalism and Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, 2014
Bachelor of Arts (Media Studies and Psychology), University of the Witwatersrand, 2013

Aaisha Dadi-Patel is the newsroom mentor at the Wits Vuvuzela. She is a proudly South African media professional with a strong foundation in journalism, communications, and research. Most recently, Aaisha was a faculty member at the University of Cape Town, where she taught media and journalism production. She spent three years as an Africa correspondent at the Wall Street Journal after a number of years in South African newsrooms, including Mail & Guardian and The Daily Vox, where her work focused on political and economic issues and developments.

 

QUALIFICATIONS:
Master of Arts in Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, 2019