mark Haywood
Mark Heywood has over three decades of experience in civil society in South Africa. He has founded or co-founded some of the country's most respected civil society organisations, including the Treatment Action Campaign, Corruption Watch, SECTION27, the AIDS and Rights Alliance of Southern Africa (ARASA) and in 2019 Maverick Citizen, a new section of the Daily Maverick that focuses on activism and social justice. He still sits on the Board of several of these organisations and currently works as an independent social justice organiser, writer, researcher and freelance journalist.