Författare: Robert R. Edgar

Born in the Eastern Cape, LUYANDA KA MSUMZA completed high school at Mzomhle High School in 1976. After becoming involved in the student uprisings of the time, he went into exile in Lesotho in 1978. In 1982 he left for the United Kingdom, where he trained as an aircraft maintenance engineer. After returning to Lesotho, he worked for the Transformation Resources Centre until 1987 when he moved first to Zimbabwe, then to Tanzania and, finally, to the United States. He received a Master of Science Degree in International Community Economic Development from New Hampshire College in 1988 and worked for a student organisation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Returning to South Africa in December 1990, after almost thirteen years in exile, Luyanda enrolled for an honours degree in history at the University of Cape Town, which he completed in 1993. Since then he has worked for organisations on peace and development issues. He is presently based in the United States.