Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Thokozani Chilenga-Butao is a lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. She obtained her PhD in the same department, which examined decentralisation and recentralisation, as contained in South Africa's democratic constitution. Her current research focuses on education governance in the basic education sector.
Paul Jenkins is a Visiting Professor at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, and previously was Head of School of Architecture & Planning at Wits University – after an academic career based in Edinburgh, where he remains an Emeritus Professor of the University of Edinburgh. He has been involved in professional practice and academic research in African urban areas for more than 45 years.
Tracy Ledger is a senior researcher at the Public Affairs Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Her main research focus is institutional failure in local government.
Thomas Lesaffre is a research coordinator at the African Leadership Academy. His work focuses on research skills development and young researcher mentorship. He is a PhD Candidate at University of the Witwatersrand in the Department of Political Science.
Mbongeni Malaba is a Professor of English Studies at UKZN. He specialises in Southern African Literature, and has published on Namibian literature written in English, Charles Mungoshi, South African literature and Shakan literature. He co-edited Zimbabwean Transitions: essays on Zimbabwean literature in English, Ndebele and Shona, with Geoffrey V Davis.
Sibongiseni Mkhize obtained his BA (Hons) and MA in History from the then University of Natal and his research projects were on the subject of mass mobilisation and resistance in Pietermaritzburg, with particular reference to the 1950s and 1980s. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in History from the University of the Witwatersrand. In 2019 his thesis was published by BestRed/HSRC Press, and the title of the book is Principle and Pragmatism in the Liberation Struggle: a political biography of Selby Msimang. He is the Chief Executive Officer of the South African State Theatre and is the former CEO of the Market Theatre Foundation and the world-renowned Robben Island Museum, a UNESCO world heritage site.
Emma Monama is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Hamburg, where she also teaches on African urbanisms and decolonial geographies. She holds an MSc in Geography from the University of the Witwatersrand. [End Page 168] Her current research seeks to interrogate the production and governance of post-apartheid geographies in the former Lebowa bantustan. In particular, she uses land as an entry point to questions of black history, memory and place-making.
Vishnu Padayachee is Distinguished Professor and Derek Schrier and Cecily Cameron Chair in Development Economics, School of Economics and Finance, University of the Witwatersrand. He is a Life-time Fellow, 'Society of Scholars' (through the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies), The Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, USA. His latest book, with Robert van Niekerk, is Shadow of Liberation: contestation and compromise in the economic and social policy of the African National Congress, 1943–1996, published by Wits University Press, 2019.
Joel Pearson is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the Wits University, studying the dynamics of the democratic transition as it unfolded at the Mogalakwena Local Municipality. This builds on research he conducted as part of a team of researchers at the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) into municipalities of Limpopo. He currently holds a fellowship with PARI and is an associate of the Wits History Workshop. He received his Masters' in History from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2015.
Mosa Phadi is Senior Lecturer at the University of the Free State, Department of Sociology, and a Research Fellow at PARI. Her work focuses on WEB du Bois in South Africa, Marxism, Blackness and class. Her latest article 'The Economic Freedom Fighters: rethinking Du Bois in a tale of reconstruction' was published online by the Review of African Political Economy, August 26, 2020.
Nicolas Pons-Vignon is a Professor in Labour Transformations and Social Innovation at the Department of Business Economics, Health and Social Care, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland. Prior to that, he worked for 16 years in South Africa on labour casualisation, development...
