Thando Mgqolozana graduated at the University of the Western Cape and was elected as a Mandela Rhodes Scholar. He received the Golden Key International Honour, and was selected as one of the Top 200 Young South Africans. He has worked as a Researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council, where he co-authored a number of research monographs. He is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, A Man Who is Not A Man (2009).