Asanda Ngoasheng is globally-renowned speaker, diversity expert, political analyst and academic. She speaks on local and global platforms on various topics including politics, education, gender inequality, gender-based violence (GBV), climate justice, social justice, education, diversity (race & gender), journalism and media. Asanda is interested in the connection between institutional change and individual change in diversity and transformation processes, and in her work helps people re-thread social relations and transform conflict while highlighting social inequality, its underpinning structures and injustices in everyday life. She weaves these values through all aspects of her work, from politics and academia to social justice and training.
As a Political Analyst, Asanda covers various national events for the SABC, ENCA and Media24, including local and national government elections in South Africa, the State of the Nation (SONA) address, political party conferences, launches and congresses. She is regularly featured in local, regional and global media talking about politics in South Africa, Africa, international relations and global politics. In the 2024 national elections in South Africa, Asanda provided analysis to various international media houses including BBC TV and Radio, France 24, SBS Australia, News Central, Foreign Policy Magazine and Forbes Africa to mention a few.
As a Speaker/Emcee/Lecturer, Asanda has moderated and participated in panels, dialogues and conferences in South Africa (UNISA), United States (Duke University), United Kingdom (Sussex University, University of Nottingham Trent, University of East London, British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, University of Westminster), Germany (University of Konstanz), Denmark (Oxfam Ibis), Austria (Bruno Kreisky Forum). She has been featured on BBC TV and Radio, The Guardian, Voice of America, Central News TV, SABC, Newzroom Afrika and other media platforms.
As a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Expert, Asanda facilitates trauma-informed, transformative workshops with schools, NPOs and organizations using the Rehumanising Dialogue methodology, with a focus on race, gender and sexuality, class and other diverse identities. She supports the development of employee resource groups, diversity champions, affinity circles, and diversity strategies and policies for building organisations that embrace diversity. Asanda also leads workshops and processes with various vulnerable communities from youth participants (8–18 years), refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, as well as sex workers and men who have sex with men (MSM).
As an Academic, Asanda is a curriculum developer and academic coach and has written academic journal articles on curriculum development at Universities of Technology (UoTs) and universities, and contributions to a Rhodes University book in the Post Graduate Diploma in Education programme. She developed an apartheid spatial planning curriculum intervention, which included a two-day tour of different communities in Cape Town for the architecture department at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). Asanda was a lecturer on the ‘Co-creating Across Difference’ course under the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC), which included Stellenbosch, UCT, CPUT and UWC academics and students. She is an emerging scholar in student – staff partnerships and designing for social justice.
Career Highlights: Eskom Book Bursary (2003), Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (2004), Clive Menell Media Fellowship, Duke University, North Carolina, USA (2007), PRISA PRISM Bronze Awards (2011), Rising Star Finalist in Entrepreneurship Category (2014), British Council Researcher Links UK-SA workshop participant (2017), Austrian Leadership Programme (ALPS) (2018), and the CPUT Riftal Research Grant (2018).
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