Dr.Gregory Houston is a chief research specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council(HSRC)and holds an MA in political studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and a PhD in political science from the University of Natal.He was a Project Coordinator and Executive Director of the South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET), where he played a key role in the editing of four of the six volumes of The Road to Democracy in South Africa published by SADET.Dr.Houston has authored The National Liberation Struggle in South Africa: A case study of the United Democratic front(1999) and coedited Public Participation in Democratic Governance in South Africa (2001).His most recent publications, with James Ngculu, are Voices of Liberation: Chris Hani (2014), and with S.Mati, H.Magadamisha, E.Vivier, and M.Dipholo, The Other Side of Freedom: Stories of hope and loss in the South African liberation struggle(2017).