Pheladi Sethusa
Editor and mentor
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. She hosts the narrative podcast, nothing works but the people and is reading towards a PhD in Media Studies, with a focus on podcasting and media regulation.
Dr Collen Chambwera
Course coordinator and mentor
Collen Chambwera is a seasoned educator in the media space who joined the Centre as a senior lecturer and researcher in 2024. His PhD topic was financial and economic news production practices in Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2017.
Collen was previously a postgraduate research coordinator at AFDA School for Motion Picture and Live Performance and School of Communication lecturer at the University of Johannesburg.
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Aaisha Dadi Patel
Newsroom Mentor
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.