Samukelisiwe Mfuphi, National Coordinator at the

Academic and Non-Fiction Authors’ Association of South

Africa (ANFASA), is a cultural development practitioner

dedicated to advancing women in the arts and

strengthening South Africa’s literary ecosystem. With

experience spanning community media, festival

programming, and national policy development, she has

played a key role in initiatives such as Arts Alive

Johannesburg International Festival’s Alternative Spaces

project and the consultative process for the National

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