Sisanda Nkoala is a senior lecturer in the Media Department at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. She is a former award-winning journalist with expertise in media and communication, education, crime and justice, gender, multilingualism and multiculturalism. She completed her PhD in Rhetoric studies at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Rhetoric Studies where she looked at television news reports on crime and justice. She is a 2022 South African Digital Languages Resources Open Education Resource Champion for her work on Digitising the Early South African Black Press. Beyond the academy she serves on the board of Brand South Africa and also a public representative on the South African Press Council.