Gregory Mthembu-Salter is a journalist, researcher and writer, specialising in Africa's political economy. He moved from the UK to South Africa in the mid-1990s and lives in Scarborough on the Cape peninsula. As a journalist, he has written for the Mail & Guardian, The Africa Report and specialist African politics and economics publications. He has served as a member of the United Nations Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo, appointed by the UN Security Council, and has conducted research there and in South Africa for numerous organisations, including the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the UK government, non-governmental organisations, and research institutes. He is a research associate of the South African Institute for International Affairs. In the UK, he established and DJ'd at a club in Bristol for several years and continues to DJ from time to time. He is married with three alarmingly grown-up sons.
