Dr. Sizwe
Mpofu-Walsh

Lecturer, Podcaster, Author & Activist

International Relations scholar, founder of SMWX, and bestselling political author.

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Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh Portrait — Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh · Lecturer, Podcaster, Author & Activist

Biography

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“Deconstructing political delusions and building frameworks for a new generation of leaders.”

Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh is a Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Wits University. He was SRC president at UCT in 2010. He holds a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford. His first book Democracy and Delusion: 10 Myths in South African Politics (2017) won the City Press-Tafelberg Nonfiction Award. The book was accompanied by a rap album of the same name. His second book The New Apartheid (2021) was one of the bestselling books in South Africa that year. He is the founder of the popular current affairs YouTube channel SMWX, and has recently worked as a broadcaster on Unfiltered at the SABC.

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