SPEAKER : Siphiwe Mohammed is a Lecturer in journalism and public relations, who has for over 10 years been teaching undergraduate students in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Eswatini (UNESWA). She holds a Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the University of Brighton, UK and a Bachelor of Arts Degree (English and Communication Studies) from UNESWA. For about 10 years, she worked first as a journalist and then as a public relations practitioner in the local print media, government and non-governmental sectors.

CO-AUTHOR : Nqobile Ndzinisa is an Academic and the current Head of the Journalism and Mass Communication Department in the University of Eswatini. She attended the University of Eswatini [then Swaziland], where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Humanities and proceeded to University of KwaZulu- Natal in South Africa, where she obtained a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) Degree in Cultural and Media Studies (cum-laude) and a Master of Social Science in Cultural and Media Studies.

She has researched and published in the areas of media, health communication, and application of technology in education. Ms. Ndzinisa is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Culture, Media and Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.