Team

Bhekamachunu H. Zwelethu Mchunu (Bheki)

Co-founder and Executive Director

Bheki Mchunu has vast experience across various fields which include higher education, development fund management, rural development and heritage and history. He holds a BA (Anthropology, English and History), BA Honours in History, conferred cum laude, and an MA degree in Economic History. He is a teacher by profession, with a Higher Diploma in Education specialising in English and History and a Post Graduate Diploma in Adult Basic Education. An avid reader and a skilled writer, he has contributed opinion pieces in various publications and has an eye for copy editing and proofreading. A consummate strategist and lateral thinker - he brings to the organisation a rich skillset from strategic planning to results-based management, organisational development and visionary leadership

Witty Nonhlanhla Nyide-Mchunu

Co-founder and Director - Programmes

Witty Nyide-Mchunu previously taught at Nelson Mandela University's Visual Arts Department and has worked in various community-based and formal art education programs, including the UNISA Art Gallery and UKZN's Creative Arts Education. Her current research project locates how community members situated in Nkwezela might externalise affective narratives of the contested nature of their Ingonyama Trust-administered spaces through material possessions. She adopts participatory approaches to consider how those objects may index agency from 1913 to the present and locate alternative pockets of histories using archival research. Nyide-Mchunu holds an MA in Art History (with distinction) from UKZN. Her thesis was entitled Reflections on Self-realisation in Art-based Community Development: Exploring the Impact of Caversham Centre and its Outreach Programs from 2008 to 2010. She currently lectures in the Fine Art and Jewellery Design Department at the Durban University of Technology.