For over five decades, Michael Cassidy has ministered across Africa and across the globe. He is the founder of African Enterprise, an interdenominational ministry evangelizing Africa's cities. He has worked closely with the great Christian leaders of our time, such as Billy Graham, John Stott, Festo Kivengere, Desmond Tutu, Francis Schaeffer, Chuck Colson, and Eugene Peterson as well as organizations such as World Vision and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.

He was born in Johannesburg, raised in Lesotho, and educated at Michaelhouse (SA), Cambridge (UK) and Fuller Seminary (USA). He has authored many books, including A Witness For Ever about his backstage role in facilitating unity and racial reconciliation to hold South Africa's first democratic elections. He and his wife, Carol, live in Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and have three children and eight grandchildren.