Virginia Setshedi comes from Soweto. Her activism started while she was a student at the University of the Witswatersrand; she later became a community activist. She is one of the founder members of the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee, established in 2000 to take up the struggle of inefficient electricity provision for the poor in Soweto and privatisation of electricity. Virginia is also amongst the activists who established the Anti-Privatisation Forum in Johannesburg, and now participates in the Anti-Privatisation Forum in Cape Town, a forum that brings together community organisations who are affected by privatisation in a broader sense. Presently she is working with the Alternative Information and Development Centre in Cape Town providing community organisations with information around issues of Trade, Debt, Globalisation and Privatisation.