Brkic is the founder and editor of The Daily Maverick; he also does the dishes on occasion.
He has edited magazines on business and politics, technology, and wildlife. He has also published fiction and non-fiction books, most of them in Serbian. Though he has never pretended to be a reporter his wide knowledge of politics (especially in America), combined with his experiences in a disintegrating Yugoslavia, gives him an unusual outlook on events in South Africa.
Despite the vowel-poor surname, he tells anyone who asks that he hails from Hyde Park, Johannesburg, having spent most of his adult life in South Africa.
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Spector retired from the American Foreign Service after a 31-year stint. His postings included Japan, Indonesia, Swaziland and South Africa during some of the darkest days of Apartheid. In the early 90s he was in charge of negotiations around the end of the American cultural boycott of South Africa.
His academic career has included numerous papers and book contributions on American foreign policy, and he taught at the International Relations Department of the University of the Witwatersrand.
Spector is the host and executive producer of a weekly arts and culture show on Radio Today.
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Vegter is a former technology journalist who took up carpentry and ran away to Kynsna after one too many incidents of crime in Johannesburg. But because he likes argument for the sake of it (the coherent, intelligent type; not the froth-at-the-mouth version found among political and religious fanatics) he still writes a number of regular columns.
He has found himself in trouble with environmentalists, recreational cyclists, white people, black people, and just about every other group you can think of because of his views. Luckily he doesn't care what anybody else thinks about him.
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Rousseau is a voluntary exile from professional philosophy, where having to talk metaphysics eventually became unbearably irritating. He now spends his time trying to arrest the rapid decline in common sense exhibited by his species, both through teaching critical thinking and business ethics at the University of Cape Town, and through activities aimed at eliminating the influence of religious ideology in public policy.
When not being absurdly serious, he’s one of those left-wing sorts who enjoys red wine, and he is alleged to be able to cook a mean Bistecca Fiorentine.
Grootes has been reporting for Talk Radio 702 and its sister station Cape Talk for nearly all his life. Apart from that stint working for the Royal College of Midwives in London, which he doesn't talk about, and a couple of foreign radio stations he graced with his presence when he was still a callow youth.
In recent years Grootes has focused on politics and politically-related court cases. His on-the-spot reportage has given him a unique insight into the personalities of a number of high-flyers, and made him more than a little cynical.
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Cohen is a business and political journalist and commentator of more years than he likes to admit. His freelance work has included contributions to the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, but he spent most of his life working for Business Day.
After a mid-life crisis that didn't include the traditional fast car, Cohen now divides his time between Johannesburg and a house situated almost exactly in the middle of nowhere in the Karoo.
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Dlamini is a writer, critic, traveller and portrait photographer. He also has a day job, sort of.
His portraits of writers have been published in many top literary publications, but he mostly makes his living as Chairman of the Chillibush Group of Companies, which deals in the dark arts of advertising, public relations and event management.
In 2007 Dlamini was the recipient of the South African Literary Awards' Literary Journalism prize. He regularly reviews books, especially from Southern Africa, and presents the The Victor Dlamini Literary Podcast.
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