Axolile Notywala is an activist and the former general secretary of the Social Justice Coalition, a grassroots social-movement campaigning for safe, healthy, and dignified communities in some of South Africa’s most underdeveloped townships. He is a 2015 alumnus of the Building Bridges Leading in Public Life Programme of the University of Cape Town, a 2016 Mandela Washington Fellow and has served on boards and advisory committees of organisations such as My Vote Counts, Equal Education, the Black Sash and the South Africa Human Rights Commission. Axolile is currently earning a B.A. in Political Leadership and Citizenship at the University of South Africa.