Jeffrey Mathethe Sehume is presently a Chief of Staff in the office of the dtic Minister in the 7th administration. Previously, he was Head of Communications at the Gauteng Department of Economic Development; he has had a long stint as a speechwriter for Mr Parks Tau in his roles as the former President of the UCLG / SALGA and CoGTA Deputy Minister. He has worked as a senior researcher, 2010-2017, at the Mapungubwe Institute (MISTRA) and prior to that, from 2007-2010 & in 2019-21, he was also a speechwriter at the RSA Presidency Office.

He has a BA and MA from the University of Witwatersrand and a PhD from the University of Johannesburg. He has taught media and social science subjects at Rhodes University (Grahamstown), AFDA College (Johannesburg) and at Fort Hare University. He joined the-then University of Natal in 1999-2000 as a postgraduate student at the Centre for Cultural and Media Studies (CCMS).

He is co-author (with Hester du Plessis & Leonard Martin) of the book, The Concept and Application of Transdisciplinarity in Intellectual Discourse and Research (2013) and co-editor (with Itumeleng Mosala & Iraj Abedian) of Seeking the Ethical Foundations of the South African Nation (2018). His doctoral thesis is being prepared for publication.