BHEKISISA MNCUBE is an award-winning South African columnist, journalist and author. He is the 2020 regional (KZN-Mpumalanga) winner in the Opinion category of the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards and author of The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy, a memoir. He is a former senior political journalist and Echo columnist at the Witness (Media24) newspaper. He had stints as SAnews’s KwaZulu-Natal political correspondent and Sunday Tribune freelance business correspondent. He is also a former resident political analyst at Gagasi 99.5 FM. He has been writing for the past two decades and is published at home and abroad. He currently writes his award-winning column aptly titled, “Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu” (Mahlamba Ndlopfu is the official residence of the President) in Witness-News24.