Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh (born 4 January 1989)[1] is a South African University lecturer, Podcaster, author, musician and activist.

His father is Dali Mpofu a prominent advocate, former SABC CEO and Chairperson of the Economic Freedom Fighters political party.

His step-mother is Mpumi Mpofu, currently the CEO of the Airports Company of South Africa and previously director general in the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in the Presidency.

Mpofu-Walsh spent a year living in the rural Eastern Cape village of Qugqwala, before undergoing ritual Xhosa initiation in 2007 [citation needed].

[16] Mpofu-Walsh won the City Press-Tafelberg Award for promising non-fiction for his book Democracy and Delusion: 10 Myths in South African Politics, published in September, 2017.

The book has been praised by some commentators and sharply criticised by others for being "trite", covering "well-mapped territory" and "Far from defining a new generational mission...only shroud[ing] our existing one in complete opacity".

[21] In 2023 the South African public broadcaster announced Mpofu-Walsh had been given a prime time television slot to do interviews on current affairs.

[23] Mpofu-Walsh was quoted as saying:"There is something deeply wrong with the way Oxford presents itself, with the way it has biases against people and we are raising that and for the first time we are forcing the university to confront that problem and probably doing a better job than any generation before us.

"[24] The campaign was unsuccessful at the time, and was opposed by university academics and anti-apartheid activists including Nigel Biggar, Mary Beard and Denis Goldberg.

A part of his dissertation was subsequently published in International Affairs the journal of the British Foreign Office-funded thinktank Chatham House.