MUNYARADZI MUSHONGA (PhD) (aka PAPAMUNYA)

(1) PERSONAL DATA

Gender: Male

ID RSA: 6506106648181

Marital Status: Married with 3 children

Driver’s Licence: Clean (Light Vehicles issued 1997)

Languages: Shona: Very good (Speak, Write, Read)

English: Very good (Speak, Write, Read)

Sesotho: Elementary (Cannot Speak, Write, Read – only follow)

Rank/Position: Senior Lecturer/Programme Director, Africa Studies

Centre for Gender & Africa Studies

University of the Free State

PO Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300

Republic of South Africa

Tel: +27 51 401 2327

Cell: +27 66 1070994

Email: MushongaM@ufs.ac.za/Papamunya@gmail.com

Residential address: Unit Number 1, Loeloeraai Complex

20 Grosskopf Street, Langenhovenpark

Bloemfontein, 9300, Republic of South Africa

(2) CORE COMPETENCIES

Sound Interpersonal and Communication Skills

Academic Supervision & Assessments

Academic Administration & Leadership

Academic Teaching & Learning

Academic Grant Proposal Writing

Consultancy Grant Proposal Writing

Academic Research & Writing

Curriculation Processes

Editing & Proofreading

Academic Publishing

Keynote Addresses

Report Writing

(3) SUMMARY OF EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Institution Attended Year Qualification Obtained

1. St. Anthony’s Primary Sch. 1979 Grade Seven

Zaka, Masvingo, Zimbabwe

2. Ratelshoek Sec. School 1982 Junior Certificate

Chipinge, Zimbabwe

3. Great Zimbabwe College 1983 Elementary Book-keeping

Masvingo, Zimbabwe & Accounts

4. Masvingo Christian Sec. Sch. 1984 Cambridge ‘O’ Levels

Masvingo, Zimbabwe

5. Great Zimbabwe College 1984 Intermediate Book-keeping

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6. Masvingo, Zimbabwe & Accounts

7. Mashoko High School, 1986 Cambridge ‘A’ Levels

Bikita, Zimbabwe

8. University of Zimbabwe 1990 B.A. (Honours) History

9. University of Zimbabwe 1995 M.A. (African History)

10. University of Zimbabwe 1995 Graduate Certificate in Education

11. University of Zimbabwe 1998 Certificate in Teaching &

Learning in Higher Education

12. University of the Free State 2017 PhD (African Studies)

13. University of Hong Kong 2019 Certificate in Research Ethics

(4) PUBLICATIONS

(a) Book Chapters

1. MUSHONGA, M., “Curfew and the ‘Man in the Middle’ in Zimbabwe’s War of Liberation

with Special reference to the Eastern Areas of Zimbabwe, 1977-1980”. In C. Hendricks and L.

Lushaba, (eds.), From National Liberation to Democratic Renaissance in Southern Africa,

(CODESRIA, Dakar, 2005(a), pp. 171-190.

2. MUSHONGA, M., “NEPAD and the Brain Drain in Southern Africa: Challenges and

Opportunities”. In G. Jacques and G. N. Lesetedi, (eds.), The New Partnership for Africa’s

Development: Debates, Opportunities and Challenges, (Africa Institute of South Africa,

Pretoria, 2005(b), pp. 199-218.

3. MUSHONGA, M., “The Role of African Intellectuals and African Universities in African

Development”. In G. Jacques and G. N. Lesetedi, (eds.), Human Rights and Social Development

in Southern Africa, (Bay Publishing, Gaborone, 2007), pp. 23-34.

4. MUSHONGA, M. and Mothibe, T. H., “Lesotho and the struggle for liberation in South Africa”,

(Chapter 12). African Solidarity: The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 5, UNISA

Press, 2013(b), pp. 469-502.

5. MUSHONGA, M. and Mothibe, T. H., “Fighting from ‘the Belly of the Beast’: Lesotho’s

Contribution to the Liberation of South Africa”. In A. J. Temu and J. N. Tembe (eds.),

Southern African Liberation Struggles: Contemporaneous Documents, 1960-1994, Vol. 7,

(Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers, Dar es Salaam, 2014), pp.343-560.

6. MUSHONGA, M. “Overt and Discursive Struggles and Instabilities at the National

University of Lesotho during BNP and Military Dictatorships, 1980-1992”. In M. Thabane

(ed.), Towards an Anatomy of Persistent Political Instability in Lesotho, 1966-2016 (NUL

& OSISA, 2017), pp.183-208.

7. MUSHONGA, M., Nyakudya, M & Hazvineyi, L., “The Reminiscences of Zimbabwe’s

War Radio Broadcasters”, in S. P. Lekgoathi, R. S. S. Alda & T. Moloi (eds.), Guerrilla

Radios in Southern Africa: Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and the Armed

Struggle (Rowman and Littlefield International Publishers, 2020), pp. 105-120.

8. MUSHONGA, M., Nyakudya, M & Hazvineyi, L., “ZAPU’s ‘Voice of the Revolution’ and

the Radicalization of the Nationalist Struggle”, in S. P. Lekgoathi, R. S. S. Alda & T. Moloi

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(eds.), Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa: Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars,

and the Armed Struggle (Rowman and Littlefield International Publishers, 2020), pp.121-

136.

(b) Publications in Peer Reviewed/Refereed & Accredited Journals

1 MUSHONGA, M., “European Literate Observers’ Perceptions of African Rulers in Pre-colonial

Southern Africa: The case of Zimbabwe, c.1850-1890”, in African Journal of Cross-Cultural

Psychology, Vol.7, 2005, pp. 39-47.

2 MUSHONGA, M., “A Thematic and Historical Synthesis of Embu Oral Traditions”, in TSEBO:

Journal of Humanities, Vol. 2. No. 2, 2008(a), pp. 69-84.

3 MUSHONGA, M., “Colonial Statues and Monuments in Southern Africa: From Indigenous

Custody to Imperial Custody and Subjugation”, BOLESWA Journal of Theology, Religion and

Philosophy, Vol. 2. No. 1, 2008(b), pp. 76-94.

4 MUSHONGA, M., “The Criminalisation of Sex between ‘Black’ and ‘White’ and

Miscegenation Hullabaloo in Rhodesia: An Analysis of the Marriage of Patrick Matimba and

Adriana van Hoorn, 1955-1959”, Lesotho Law Journal: A Journal of Law and Development,

Vol. 18, No. 2, 2008-2009(a), pp. 435-456.

5 MUSHONGA, M., “The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace and the Struggle for

Democratisation in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) from 1972-1980”, in LWATI, A Journal of

Contemporary Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2009(b), pp. 84-94.

6 MUSHONGA, M., & Osiki, J., “University Students’ Perception of Essential Mathematics and

Elementary Statistics as Degree-Certification Requirement for Humanities: A Comparative

Study of the National University of Lesotho and the University of Ibadan”, in European Journal

of Education Studies, Vol.1, No. 1, 2009(c), pp. 7-16.

7 MUSHONGA, M., & Nyakudya, M., “Against All Odds: The Academic Brain Drain and the

‘Walking Dead’ in Zimbabwe before the Government of National Unity”, in Zimbabwe

Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 23 No. 1, 2011(a), pp. 1-13. Available at

http://uzweb.uz.ac.zw/education/journals5.html.

8 MUSHONGA, M., “Neither ‘White Enough’ Nor ‘Black Enough’? Coloured People and

the Politics of Alienation and Marginalisation, Citizenship and Indigeneity”, Journal for

Contemporary History, Vol.36. No. 3. 2011(b), pp. 1-13.

9 MUSHONGA, M., “Accounting For, and the Extent of the Brain Drain at the University

of Zimbabwe at the beginning of the 21st Century”, Lesotho Social Sciences Review, Vol.

14. No. 1 & 2, 2012(a), pp. 83-98.

10 MUSHONGA, M and Maliehe, S., “Teaching, Research and Community Engagement in,

and on Africa through the Reminiscences of Francina Liako ‘Mawetzie Moloi”, TSEBO:

Journal of Humanities, Special Issue, Vol.2, No. 4, 2012(b), pp. 72-89.

11 MUSHONGA, M., Makatjane, T. J., Rapeane-Mathonsi, M & Seloma, T. M, “A

Comparative Study of Sexual Harassment in Institutions of Higher Learning in Lesotho:

The Case of the National University of Lesotho (NUL) and Lesotho College of Education

(LCE)”, Lesotho Social Sciences Review, Vol. 16. Nos.1 & 2, 2012(c), pp.137-158.

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12 MUSHONGA, M & MOTHIBE, T. H, “Why Academic Unions Matter: the Case of the

Lesotho University Teachers and Researchers Union (LUTARU) at the National University

of Lesotho”, Lesotho Social Sciences Review: Special Issue on Higher Education, 2013(c),

pp.147-157.

13 MUSHONGA, M., “Names more Lasting than Bronze: The Politics of the Immortalisation

and Mythologisation of White Settler Achievements in Southern Africa”, The Dyke: A

Journal of the Midlands State University, Vol.7. No. 3, 2013(b), pp.35-55.

14 MUSHONGA, M., “White Power, White Desire: Miscegenation in Southern Rhodesia

(Zimbabwe)”, African Journal of History and Culture, Vol. 5. No. 1, 2013(a), pp. 1-12.

15 MUSHONGA, M & Seloma, T. M. “Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: QwaQwa

Women’s Experiences of the Apartheid and Post-apartheid Eras”, Journal for

Contemporary History, Vol. 43. No.1, 2018, pp. 196-214.

16 MUSHONGA, M & Hudson, H. “Power and Resistance: Struggles over Organisational

Transformation and Restructuring at the National University of Lesotho in the 21st

Century”, Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 46. Issue 4, 2020, pp.655-672.

17 MUSHONGA, M, etal, “A transnational history of stock theft on the Lesotho-South Africa

border, 19th to the present”, South African Historical Journal, Vol. 73. No. 4, 2022.

Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2022.2052171.

(c) Forthcoming Publications

1. MUSHONGA, M & Leshota, P. “Subverting the hegemony of Western ‘theological’ and

cultural domination: King Moshoeshoe I and ‘hidden transcripts’ of resistance”, Critical

Africa Studies, 2022.

2. MUSHONGA, M. The resilient epistemic empire and neoliberal constructions of higher

education and the university: a case study of the National University of Lesotho”, Book

chapter for the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies (AMCHES), University of

Johannesburg, in Higher education Transformation in Africa, 2022.

3. MUSHONGA, M. “Methodologies and Ethics in Oral Historical Research in Southern

Africa: Case Studies from Lesotho and South Africa”, Book chapter for the Oral History

Association of South Africa (OHASA), 2022.

4. MUSHONGA, M. (Chief Editor). History, Migration, and the Role of Borders and

Borderlands in the Making of Southern African Communities. Book project for the National

Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), 2022/2023.

(d) Other Publications

Book Reviews

1 MUSHONGA, M., SIR GLYN JONES: A Proconsul in Africa. By Colin Baker. London, I.

B. Tauris Publishers, 2002, The South African Historical Journal, Vol. 44, 2001, pp.244-246.

Monograph

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1 MUSHONGA, M., Raftopoulos, B., Mupawaenda, A., Richardson-Kageler, S. and

Chawatama, S., Baseline Study on the Situation of Coloured People in Zimbabwe, NAAC &

CIDA, Harare, 2003.

Conference Proceedings

1 MUSHONGA, M., “From ‘Barbarism’ to ‘Civilisation’: An Interpretation of Colonial

Statues and Monuments in Southern Africa”, in F. C. L. Rakotsoane & R. Meinhold (eds.),

BOLESWA Occasional Papers in Theology and Religion, National University of Lesotho,

Roma, 2007, pp.21-35.

2 MUSHONGA, M., “Neoliberalism and New Public Management (NPM) Discourses and

Reforms and the Assault on Academic Freedom and Institutional Autonomy in Higher

Education Institutions: Lessons for the National University of Lesotho”. Proceedings of the

Conference: From Pius XII to National University of Lesotho: Seventy Years of Contribution

to Development, Education, Research, and Political Activism, 1945-2015, held at NUL,

Roma Campus, 29–30 October, 2015.

Consultancy Reports

1. MUSHONGA, M., Raftopoulos, B., Mupawaenda, A., Richardson-Kageler, S. and

Chawatama, S., Report for National Association for the Advancement of Coloureds in

Zimbabwe Funded by The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Report on

the Situation of Coloured People in Zimbabwe, August, 2003.

2. MUSHONGA, M. and Mothibe, T. H., “In the Belly of The Beast: Lesotho’s Contribution

to the Liberation of South Africa”, Report on the Documentation of the History of the

Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa under The Hashim Mbita SADC Secretariat

Research Project, December 2008.

Opinion Pieces

1. From a pre-colonial to a COVID-19/post- university. Available at:

https://www.ufs.ac.za/templates/news-archive/campus-news/2020/may/from-a-pre-colonial-

to-a-covid-19-post--university

2. COVID-19 and a borderless and stateless Africa: a decolonial moment ‘acome’. Available

at: https://www.ufs.ac.za/docs/librariesprovider43/international-affairs/covid-19_and_a-

bordeless_and-statelessa_africa_mushongapara.pdf?sfvrsn=555b6220_2

3. Lesotho and South Africa: A Clarion Call for a Pan-Africanist Future. Available at:

https://www.ufs.ac.za/supportservices/departments/international-affairs/unlisted-

pages//africa-month-2022/africa-month-opinions-2022

(5) RESEARCH PROJECTS AND GRANTS

Name Amount

1. Co-Investigator. In the Belly of the Beast: Lesotho’s Contribution to the Liberation of

South Africa: Documentation of the History of the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa

US$15 000

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under the Hashim Mbita SADC Secretariat Research Project Funded by the SADC

Governments, 2008-2010

2. Co-Investigator. Debating Higher Education in Lesotho Funded by Organisation for

Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), 2013

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3. Co-Investigator. Understanding Persistence of Political Instability in Lesotho, 1966–

2016, Funded by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), 2016-2017)

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4. Co-Investigator. Liberation War Radios in Southern Africa, 1960-1990s, Funded by

the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017-2019

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5. Principal Investigator: The Humanities and the Decolonial Challenge: A

Comparative Study of the University of the Free State, University of the Western Cape,

and Sol Plaatje University. Being a Research Project funded by the Mellon Foundation

(R120 000) under the theme, Unsettling Paradigms: The Decolonial Turn in the

Humanities Curriculum at Universities in South Africa, 2020 – 2021

R145 000.00

6. Principal Investigator: The Border, the ‘Bantustans’ and the Rainbow Nation: a

contradictory mix of discreteness and continuity in the oral histories of transnational

communities in the borderlands of Lesotho/South Africa. Being a 2020/2021 Working

Groups Programme Research Project funded by the National Institute for the Humanities

and Social Sciences (NIHSS)

R493 005.49

7. Principal Investigator. The Border, the ‘Bantustan’ and the Rainbow Nation: a

contradictory mix of discreteness and continuity in the oral histories of the Joe Gqabi

District in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Being a 2020/2021 Faculty of

Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Project funded by the UFS Faculty of the

Humanities

R50 000

8. Co-Investigator. Re-humanizing the Medical Profession: A case for Accessible

Vocabularies for Maternal and Child Health, Infectious and Non-communicable Diseases

in South Africa. Being a 2021/2022 Interdisciplinary Research Project funded by the

Office of the Vice-Rector Research, University of the Free State

R150 000

9. Team-Member & Researcher. Internationalisation of the Curriculum (IoC),

Curriculum Transformation, and Curriculum Decolonisation & Collaborative Online

International Learning (COIL). Being a EU-funded Capacity Building in Higher

Education (CBHE) involving 10 universities namely: University of the Free State

(coordinator); University of Antwerp (co-coordinator); University of Siena; Coventry

University; The Hague University of Applied Sciences; Amsterdam University of

Applied Sciences; Central University of Technology; Durban University of

Technology; University of Limpopo; and University of Venda

Eur999

881.00

(Approx.

R16 000 000)

Co-Investigator. The ABC of decoloniality: a guide for university students and staff.

Being a 2022/2023 Interdisciplinary Research Project funded by the Office of the Vice-

Rector Research, University of the Free State

R20 000

Co-Investigator. Selves within Selves on a University Campus: The intersectionality of

student identity development in a transitional society. Being a 2022/2023 Interdisciplinary

R75 000

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Research Project funded by the Office of the Vice-Rector Research, University of the Free

State

(6) KEYNOTE ADDRESSES AND LECTURES DELIVERED

1. “Teaching, Research and Community Engagement in, and on Africa: The Reminiscences

of Francina Liako ‘Mawetzie Moloi, 1963 – Present”. Keynote address during the Closing

Plenary of the F. L. M. Moloi International Conference, National University of Lesotho,

25-27 April, 2012.

2. “History Matters: Reflections on the Predicament of History Teaching in Lesotho”.

Keynote address to the Lesotho History Teachers Association (LHTA), Mazenod High

School, Maseru, Kingdom of Lesotho, 11 January, 2019.

3. “Decolonising History, Decolonising Knowledge, Decolonising Humanity”. Keynote

address to the Free State Provincial History Symposium under the theme, Decolonising

History as a School Subject and its Relevance towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution,

Bain’s Game Lodge, Bloemfontein, 5 September 2019.

4. “Going (back) to the Beginning: Lesotho-South Arica Human Entanglements and the Crisis

of Living Together in the 21st Century”. Public Lecture organized by the Academic Forum

for the Development of Lesotho (AfdeL) E-dialogue Series under the theme: Can RSA-

Lesotho ‘Integration’ Achieve Sustainable Development Agenda of Inclusive Prosperity

and Political Stability in Lesotho? 11 November, 2020.

5. “In Living Memory of Moshoeshoe I: The Decolonial Philosopher-King of Love, Peace,

Co-existence and Pluriversal Humanism”. Memorial Lecture organized by the Moshoeshoe

I Institute of Peace and Leadership (MIPL) in Collaboration with the National University

of Lesotho, 24 March, 2021. https://www.ufs.ac.za/templates/news-archive/campus-

news/2021/april/honouring-moshoeshoe-i-s-decolonial-philosophy

6. “Coloniality of Power and Knowledge in Development Discourses: A Clarion Call for

Decolonisation”. Keynote address on Decolonizing the Curriculum, Centre for

Development Support (CDS), Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, UFS, 10

November 2021.

7. “Decoloniality: A Re-humanizing/Re-memebering Project”. Keynote address on

Decolonization, Division of Student Affairs, University of the Free State, 25 November,

2021.

8. “The Resilient Epistemic Empire and Imperatives for Decolonization”. Keynote address

on Decolonizing Knowledge, Faculty of Humanities, National University of Lesotho, 6

December 2021.

9. “Rhodes-Fees Must Fall Movements: The Struggle for an (South) African University and

Imperatives for a Decolonized (Global University”, Lecture delivered to the University of

Groningen, The Netherlands, under the theme Decolonizing the Classroom, 2 June 2022.

10. “The 21st century History Teacher/Lecturer and the Re-humanization and Re-education of

the African Child”, Forthcoming Keynote address to the History Teachers Association of

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Zimbabwe (HTAZ) under the theme The 21st History Teacher/Lecturer and the

reconstruction of African History, 26-27 August, 2022, Msasa Training Bureau, Harare,

Zimbabwe.

(7) CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS & LECTURES ORGANISED/CO-

ORDINATED

1. Co-ordinated with Motlatsi Thabane, Understanding Persistence of Political Instability in

Lesotho, 1966–2016, Funded by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA),

2016-2017).

2. Organised the 2020 Africa Day Memorial Lecture (first) virtual lecture) by Professor

Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni under the title, Revisiting the African Idea of Africa during the

moment of Covid-19 Pandemic, 26 May 2020. https://www.ufs.ac.za/templates/news-

archive/campus-news/2020/may/africa-day-webinar-on-reflections-on-africa-amidst-

covid-19

3. Organised the 2021 Africa Day Memorial Lecture (second virtual lecture) by Professor

Walter D Mignolo under the title, The Power and Beauty of the Sovereign People: Jean

Casimir and the Decolonial History of Haiti, 19 May 2021.

https://www.ufs.ac.za/templates/news-archive/campus-news/2021/may/ufs-africa-day-

memorial-lecture-2021

4. Organised a seminar presentation by Professor Motlatsi Thabane titled Ubuntu and a Plea

for Systematisation of its Social Welfare Idea, Presented 3 March, 2022, University of the

Free State.

5. Organized together with colleagues from Lesotho the AfdeL/UFS Online Think Tank

Conference under the theme, Lesotho and South Africa: A Clarion Call for a Pan-Africanist

Future, 19-21 March, 2022.

6. Organised the 2022 Africa Day Memorial Lecture by Professor Bagele Chilisa under the

title, Research and Knowledge Production: Africa and the Call for a Fifth Research

Paradigm, 25 May 2022. https://www.ufs.ac.za/templates/news-archive/campus-

news/2022/june/africa-s-indigenous-knowledge-can-lead-in-global-knowledge-production

(8) RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: ONGOING AND PLANNED

1. European Colonial Discourse and the ‘Otherness’ of Shona Rulers (Zimbabwe) in the late

19th and early 20th Centuries.

2. Academic and Non-Academic Unionisation at the National University of Lesotho (NUL)

in a Fast Neoliberalising Era.

3. Neoliberalism and the New Public Management at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) in the

late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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4. White Missionaries in Lesotho and the ‘Desiring Machine’.

5. Moshoeshoe I: The Decolonial Philosopher-King and the quest for Pluriversal Humanism.

6. Revisiting the African Idea of Multiplicity during the Moment of Crisis: Lessons from the

Life and Times of Moshoeshoe I.

7. The Regulation and Ostracisation of Sex and Marriages between ‘Black Men’ and ‘White

Women’ in Southern Africa.

8. The Politics of Funding Higher Education in Lesotho.

9. ‘Hidden transcripts’ of Power and Resistance at the National University of Lesotho.

10. Xenophobia: the darker side of South African Exceptionalism.

(9) CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS & LECTURES ATTENDED AND

PAPERS PRESENTED

1. “The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Rhodesia: An Appraisal,” Seminar paper,

UDU Camp, Nyanga, Zimbabwe, 1992.

2. International Conference on The Historical Dimensions of Democracy and Human Rights in

Zimbabwe, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Sept., 1996.

3. Miscegenation ‘madness’ in Southern Rhodesia: The case of Patrick Matimba: An analysis of

the problem within the colonial and White Rhodesia settler racial ideology, 1956-1959,”

Seminar paper, Institute of Development Studies, University of Zimbabwe, 29th May 1998.

4. International Conference on Landscape, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 1999.

5. “Race and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe,” paper presented to the Group for Environmental

Monitoring and Centre for Defence Studies under the theme Challenges of Reconciliation in

Southern Africa, Institute for Development Studies, University of Zimbabwe, 15th-16th

December 2000.

6. “Towards a Historiography of the Midlands,” paper read at The Historical Dimensions of

Development in the Midlands Conference, Midlands State University, Gweru, 10th-11th May

2001.

7. “Miscegenation: A Study of Inter-racial Sex and Marriages in Southern Rhodesia”, paper

presented at the CODESRIA/SEPHIS Extended Workshop on Social History, Dakar, 16th

September-7th October 2002.

8. “Curfew and the ‘man in the middle’ in Zimbabwe’s war of liberation, 1977-1980”, paper

delivered at CODESRIA’s 30th Anniversary Celebrations Conference under the theme, From

National Liberation to Democratic Renaissance, 18-19 October, 2003, Gaborone, Botswana.

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9. “Nepad and the Brain Drain in Southern Africa: The Opportunities and Challenges”, paper

presented at the 23rd Southern African Universities Social Sciences Conference (SAUSSC) on

NEPAD and the African Union: Debates, Opportunities and Challenges, Pretoria, South

Africa7-11 December 2003.

10. “The Extent of the Brain Drain in Zimbabwe’s Institutions of Higher Learning: Causes, Trends,

Implications, Challenges, Constraints and Prospects for the country’s Universities” Conference

paper read at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair Indaba Conference, Harare, 1-3 August

2004.

11. “Universities in Zimbabwe and the Brain Drain: The Case of the University of Zimbabwe”,

Conference paper presented at the South African Association for Research and Development in

Higher Education (SAARDHE), Durban, 26-29 June 2005.

12. “Teacher-student conceptions of teaching and learning in higher education”, Conference paper

presented at the South African Academic Development Association (SAADA), Durban, 28-30

November 2005.

13. “African Universities and African Intellectuals: Rethinking Development*”, Paper presented at

the 24th Biennial Southern African Universities Social Sciences Conference, Gaborone, 4-7

December 2005.

14. “From Barbarism to Imperial Custody: The Meaning of Colonial Statues and Monuments in

Southern Africa”, Paper presented at the Tradition and Modernity BOLESWA CONFERENCE,

ISAS, NUL, 27-28-February 2006.

15. “The Brain Drain Dilemma in Southern Africa”, paper presented at The Africa-Europe Group

for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS) Second European Conference on African Studies (ECAS),

Leiden, Netherlands, 11-14 July 2007.

16. “African universities and the brain drain dilemma in southern Africa”, paper presented at the 1ST

Congress of the African Sociological Association on Sociology the African Challenge:

Reflections on Sociological Practice in Africa, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 15 -18 July

2007.

17. International Conference on The Bloody Writing is for Ever Torn: Domestic and International

Consequences of the First Governmental Efforts to Abolish the Atlantic Slave Trade,

Accra/Cape Coast, Ghana, 7-12 August 2007.

18. “White Power, White Desire: Miscegenation in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)”, paper

presented at the 4th Global Conference on Persons and Sexuality: Probing the Boundaries,

Salzburg, Austria, 19 – 21 November, 2007.

19. “The Catholic Church and the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa”, paper presented at the

International Conference on Africans and the Catholic Church, Global African Studies, Seattle

University, Washington, USA, 31 January – 2 February 2008.

20. Attended the First Annual Mhlomi Memorial Lecture, Lesotho Sun, Maseru, 3 April 2008

21. (with Nyakudya, M), “Against All Odds: The Academic Brain Drain and the ‘Walking Dead’

in Zimbabwe”, paper presented at the International Conference on Political Economies of

Displacement in Post-2000 Zimbabwe, Wits University, Johannesburg, 9-11 June 2008.

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22. (with Mataga, J), “Sisonke! Zimbabwean Professionals in Lesotho: Prospects, Challenges,

Adaptation and Coping Strategies”, paper presented at the International Conference on Political

Economies of Displacement in Post-2000 Zimbabwe, Wits University, Johannesburg, 9-11 June

2008.

23. “The perils of Inter-racial Intimacy and Love in Colonial Southern Africa: Publicity and

Controversy in the Love Story of Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams, 1948 – 1956”, seminar

paper presented at the Historical Studies Seminar Series, National University of Lesotho, ISAS,

12 September, 2008.

24. CODESRIA Sub-Regional Methodology Workshop on Social Sciences in Africa on Fields and

Theories of Qualitative Investigation, 16 – 20 September, Gaborone, 2008.

25. “African Nationalist Leaders in Contemporary Africa: From False Messiahs to Monsters”, paper

presented at the BOLESWA Conference on Being Human in Contemporary Africa, National

University of Lesotho, 23-25 February 2009.

26. Attended the Second Annual Mhlomi Memorial Lecture, Lesotho Sun, Maseru, 29 April 2009

27. “Neither White Enough Nor Black Enough’: Feelings of Marginality among the Coloured

people in post-colonial Southern Africa”, Seminar paper, Department of Historical Studies,

NUL, 12 February 2010.

28. Attended the Third Annual Mhlomi Memorial Lecture, Lesotho Sun, Maseru, 24 March 2010.

29. Attended the Fourth Annual Mhlomi Memorial Lecture, Lesotho Sun, Maseru, 12 April 2011.

30. SAPES SEMINAR on Roadmap on Zimbabwe, Harare, 9 August 2011.

31. UNESCO Open Access Workshop on Online Publishing, Thomas Mofolo Library, National

University of Lesotho, 26 January 2012.

32. “The Politics of Crossing Racialised Boundaries in Southern Africa: The Experiences of

Seretse Khama of Bechuanaland and Patrick Matimba of Southern Rhodesia Compared and

Contrasted, 1948 – 1959”, Seminar paper, Department of Historical Studies, NUL, 16

February 2012.

33. Council for Higher Education (CHE) Workshop on Higher Education and Accreditation,

National University of Lesotho, March 2012.

34. Commonwealth of Learning Review and Improvement Model (COLRIM) Workshop on

Quality Assurance in Higher Education, National University of Lesotho, 27-30 March 2012.

35. “Academic Unionisation in Universities in Africa: Theory and Practice”, Paper presented

at the F. L. M. Moloi International Conference, National University of Lesotho, 25-27 April

2012.

36. (with Makatjane, T., Rapeane, M., & Seloma T. M), “A Comparative Study of Sexual

Harassment in Institutions of Higher Learning in Lesotho: The Case of the National

University of Lesotho (NUL) and Lesotho College of Education (LCE)”, Paper presented

at the F. L. M. Moloi International Conference, National University of Lesotho, 25-27 April

2012.

37. “Names more Lasting than Bronze: The Politics of the Immortalisation and

Mythologisation of White Settler Achievements in Southern Africa”. Paper presented at

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the 17th International Congress of the Names Society of Southern Africa, Mohale Lodge,

Lesotho, 25September 2012.

38. Attended the Fifth Annual Mhlomi Memorial Lecture, Lesotho Sun, Maseru, 26 September

2012.

39. (with Mapara, J), “The African University and the African Intellectual: Rethinking the

Language Issue”. Paper presented at the 39th Southern African Society for Education

(SASE) International Conference, Great Zimbabwe University, 4-6 October 2012.

40. (with Seloma, T. M) “The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) in Lesotho:

An Evaluative Study. Paper presented at the Eugene Casalis Symposium: Morija, Lesotho,

29-31 October 2012.

41. OSSREA Lesotho Chapter Youth Unemployment in Africa Conference, ISAS, National

University of Lesotho, 18 January, 2013.

42. (with Mothibe, T. H), “Why Academic Unions Matter: The Case of the Lesotho University

Teachers and Researchers Union (LUTARU)”, Paper presented at the Organisation for

Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) Lesotho Chapter,

ISAS, National University of Lesotho, 24 October, 2013.

43. “Interrogating Hybridity and Resistance in an African University: The Case of the National

University of Lesotho”, Paper presented at the AEGIS Summer School under the theme

Mobilisation and State in Africa: Multiple Spaces for Political Action, Cagliari, Italy, 24-

28 June 2014.

44. “Neoliberalism and New Public Management (NPM) Discourses and Reforms and the

Assault on Academic Freedom and Institutional Autonomy in Higher Education

Institutions: Lessons for the National University of Lesotho”, Paper presented at the NUL

70th Anniversary Conference under the theme From Pius XII to National University of

Lesotho: Seventy years of Contribution to Development, Education, Research, and

Political Activism, 1945-2015, NUL, Roma, 29-30 October, 2015.

45. PhD Winter School, Centre for Africa Studies, The University of the Free State, 18-20 July,

2016.

46. “The Era of a large ‘elephant in the room’: Overt and Discursive Struggles and Instabilities

at the National University of Lesotho during the BNP Dictatorship and Military Rule, 1980-

1992”, Paper presented at the Understanding Political Instability in Independent Lesotho

Conference, 1966—2016, NUL, Roma, 6-7 October, 2016.

47. (with Hazvineyi, L. and Nyakudya, M), “ZAPU and the Radicalisation of Nationalism in

the post-UDI Era in Rhodesia: The Role of War Radios, 1965-1980”, Paper presented at

the Comparative Workshop on Liberation War Radios in Southern Africa, 1960-1990s,

University of the Witwatersrand, 16-19 February, 2017.

48. (with Hazvineyi, L. and Nyakudya, M), “The Life Histories of Zimbabwe’s Liberation War

Radio Broadcasters”, Paper presented at the Comparative Workshop on Liberation War

Radios in Southern Africa, 1960-1990s, University of the Witwatersrand, 16-19 February,

2017.

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49. (with Mothibe, T. H), “The Lesotho Liberation Army (LLA) and the Political and

Liberation History of the Free State, 1979 -1986”, Paper presented at the Political and

Liberation Struggle History of the Free State, 1961-2012, University of the Free State,

Bloemfontein, 24 February 2017.

50. (with Seloma, T. M), “Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: Oral Testimonies from QwaQwa

on the Impact of the Liberation Struggle of the Free State and South Africa”, Paper

presented at the Political and Liberation Struggle History of the Free State, 1961-2012,

University of the Free State, QwaQwa Campus, 24 March 2017.

51. Attended the Africa Day Memorial Lecture, University of the Free State, 24 May, 2017.

52. Colloquium on Decolonising the University? Centre for Africa Studies & Department of

Philosophy, University of the Free State, 26-27 October, 2017.

53. (with Hazvineyi, L. and Nyakudya, M), “The Reminiscences of Zimbabwe’s Liberation

War Radio Broadcasters – Jane Lungile Ngwenya, Sobusa Gula-Ndebele and Nyasha

Donald Musiiwa”, Paper presented at the Comparative Workshop on Liberation War

Radios in Southern Africa 1960s-1990s, Pedagogic University, Maputo, Mozambique, 24-

26 November 2017.

54. (with Hazvineyi, L. and Nyakudya, M), “ZAPU’s Voice of the Revolution War Radio and

the Radicalisation of the Nationalist Struggle in Post-UDI Rhodesia, 1965-1980”, Paper

presented at the Comparative Workshop on Liberation War Radios in Southern Africa

1960s-1990s, Pedagogic University, Maputo, Mozambique, 24-26 November 2017.

55. (with Thabane, M), “Towards an Anatomy of Persistent Political Instability in Lesotho,

1966-2016”, Poster presentation at the National University of Lesotho International

Science & Technology Innovation Conference and Expo (NULISTICE), Maseru, 23-26

January, 2018.

56. “The Politics of the Dwindling Government Financial Subvention to the National

University of Lesotho & Implications for National Development”, Paper presented at the

Academic Forum for Development of Lesotho (AFDeL), NUL, ISAS, 12 April, 2018.

57. “Power and Resistance: Struggles over Organisational Restructuring at the National

University of Lesotho (NUL) in the 21st Century”, Seminar paper presented at the

University of the Free State, Department of History, 23 May, 2018.

58. Attended the Africa Day Memorial Lecture, University of the Free State, 23 May, 2018

59. “The Politics of the Dwindling Government Financial Subvention to the National

University of Lesotho & Implications for Development”, Paper presented at the Historical

Association of South Africa (HASA) Conference, Thaba Nchu, 20-22 June, 2018.

60. “#FeesMustFall Campaign: The Struggle against Neoliberal Education and ‘Epistemic

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Violence’ in the New South Africa”, Paper presented at the Historical Association of South

Africa (HASA) Conference, Thaba Nchu, 20-22 June, 2018.

61. Attended the Africa Day Memorial Lecture, University of the Free State, 22 May, 2019.

62. Resource Person: “Book Reviewing Explained”, JSAS/NUL Early-Career Scholars

Writing Workshop, National University of Lesotho, Roma, Lesotho, 15-16 July, 2019.

63. Resource Person: “A Step-by-Step Process to Spot Predatory Journals”, JSAS/NUL Early-

Career Scholars Writing Workshop, National University of Lesotho, Roma, Lesotho, 15-

16 July, 2019.

64. Panelist: Reflections on Prof. Walter D Mignolo’s 2021 Africa Day Memorial Lecture

titled: The Power and Beauty of the Sovereign People: Jean Casimir and the Decolonial

History of Haiti, 27 May, 2021.

65. “Against All Odds: Publicity and Controversy in the love stories of Ruth Williams &

Seretse Khama, and Adriana Van Hoorn & Patrick Matimba”. Online paper presented at

the Womandla! Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South, 7 July 2021.

66. “Choosing a Research Topic: Panacea for A Good Postgraduate Research Proposal”.

Online presentation at the University of the Free State Faculty of Humanities Research

Webinar Series, 14 July, 2021.

67. Attended several Virtual Conferences/Seminars/Webinars since March 2020.

68. “COVID-19: Nail in the Coffin for Oral Historical Research?” Paper presented at the 18th

Annual OHASA Conference, Clarens, Free State, 13-15 October, 2021.

69. “Unlocking Hidden Stories and Unspoken Histories: The Case of the Senqu and Matatiele

Municipalities in the Eastern Cape”, Paper presented at the 18th Annual OHASA

Conference, Clarens, Free State, 13-15 October, 2021.

70. “You have to pay with your body’: women’s experiences of sexual assault and rape at the

Lesotho-South Africa ‘paqama gates’’, Paper presented at the Gender Talks Seminar

Series, Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State, 25 Feb. 2022.

71. “Lesotho, South Africa, Africa, and planetary human entanglements: towards a

decolonized Pan-Africanist future”, Paper to be presented at the AfdeL/UFS Online Think

Tank Conference under the theme, Lesotho and South Africa: A Clarion Call for a Pan-

Africanist Future, 19-21 March, 2022.

72. “Planetary non(h)uman entanglements at the Lesotho-South Africa border in pictorial

form”, Poster presentation to be presented at the AfdeL/UFS Online Think Tank

Conference under the theme, Lesotho and South Africa: A Clarion Call for a Pan-Africanist

Future, 19-21 March, 2022.

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73. (with Paballo Seseli) ‘You have to pay with your body’: women’s experiences of sexual

assault and rape at the Lesotho-South Africa ‘paqama gates’’. Revised version of paper to

be presented at the AfdeL/UFS Online Think Tank Conference under the theme, Lesotho

and South Africa: A Clarion Call for a Pan-Africanist Future, 19-21 March, 2022.

74. (with Grey Magaiza), “Voices from below: representations and narratives of school

children and students from Lesotho studying in South African borderland schools”, Paper

to be presented at the AfdeL/UFS Online Think Tank Conference under the theme, Lesotho

and South Africa: A Clarion Call for a Pan-Africanist Future, 19-21 March, 2022.

75. (with Celina Mahula), “The geopolitics and geo-economics of enclavism: a clarion call for

revisiting South Africa-Lesotho’s tourism relations”, Paper to be presented at the

AfdeL/UFS Online Think Tank Conference under the theme, Lesotho and South Africa: A

Clarion Call for a Pan-Africanist Future, 19-21 March, 2022.

76. (with Ellen Matseliso Chobokoane), “The paradox of Famo music: migration, violence and

killings”, Paper to be presented at the AfdeL/UFS Online Think Tank Conference under

the theme, Lesotho and South Africa: A Clarion Call for a Pan-Africanist Future, 19-21

March, 2022.

77. (with John Aerni-Flessner, Chitja Twala & Grey Magaiza), “A transnational history of

stock theft on the Lesotho-South Africa border, 19th to the present”, Paper to be presented

at the AfdeL/UFS Online Think Tank Conference under the theme, Lesotho and South

Africa: A Clarion Call for a Pan-Africanist Future, 19-21 March, 2022.

78. (with Grey Magaiza, John Aerni-Flessner, Chitja Twala & Mohlomi Masooa”, “We are

wholly surrounded”: evolving paradoxes of spatiality, communitarianism, bordering and

mobility along the Lesotho-South Africa border communities”, Paper to be presented at the

AfdeL/UFS Online Think Tank Conference under the theme, Lesotho and South Africa: A

Clarion Call for a Pan-Africanist Future, 19-21 March, 2022.

79. (with Chitja Twala, Mohau Soldaat, Grey Magaiza & John Aerni-Flessner: Of ‘paqama

gates’ and ‘paqama scouts’: the innerworkings of regulated illegal and irregular border

crossing between Lesotho and South Africa”,

80. “The Emperor is Naked: Unmasking Epistemic Racism and Gladiatory Scholarship in the

Teaching of History at the University of Zimbabwe”, Forthcoming presentation at the

Zimbabwe Historical Association (ZHA), 16 June 2022.

(10) DISSERTATIONS/THESES COMPLETED

1 The Formation, Organisation and Activities of the Catholic Commission for Justice and

Peace in Rhodesia with Particular Reference to the Rhodesian War, 1972-1980,

Unpublished BA (Honours) thesis. 76pp. History Department, University of Zimbabwe,

1990.

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2 Shona Rulers in the Perception of Literate Observers, c.1850-1923, Unpublished MA

thesis in African History. 101pp. History Department, University of Zimbabwe, 1996.

3 Government, Community and the University in Africa Today: The Case of the National

University of Lesotho, Unpublished PhD thesis in Africa(n) Studies. 300pp. Centre for

Africa Studies, University of the Free State, 2017.

(11) EMPLOYMENT HISTORY & EXPERIENCE

(7.1) University of Zimbabwe (1992-2004)

Undergraduate courses taught

Survey of African History

Aspects of African History

Introduction to the Study of History

Historiography and Historical Methods

Theory and Methods in History

History of Zimbabwe

History of Asia

History of Political Thought

History of Western Europe.

Historiographical Traditions

History of Southern Africa

Undergraduate supervision

Supervised well over 70 undergraduate mini-research projects on various aspects of the oral

history of Zimbabwe.

Postgraduate courses co-taught (Master’s Level)

Race, Class and Ethnicity in African History (co-taught)

Postgraduate co-supervision (Master’s)

C. H. Mabulala, “Christianity and Chieftainship in Bocha: The Interaction of the Marange

Chiefs with the American Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Apostolic Church of

Johane, c. 1905 to 1963”, Master’s Dissertation, Department of History, University of

Zimbabwe , 2000-2001.

K. Manganga, “Problematising Ethnicity in an Urban Context: the case of Africans in Salisbury,

c. 1890s to the 1950s”, Master’s Dissertation, Department of History, University of Zimbabwe,

2002-2003.

(7.2) Africa University, Mutare, Zimbabwe (1999-2003)

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Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Education, teaching the following courses: Sociology of

Education, Research Methods, and Human Geography.

Assessed more than 100 students on Teaching Practice in the B.Ed Degree Programme.

Supervised +-30 mini-research projects on various aspects of Education.

(7.3) Trust Academy, Harare, Zimbabwe (1998-2002)

Part-Time Lecturer in African History.

(7.4) National University Of Lesotho (July 2004- February 2019)

Undergraduate courses taught

Lesotho and the World

Introduction to Historical Methods

The Study and Writing of History

Southern Africa to 1890

History and Theory

Theory and Practice of Heritage

Europe, 1750-1870

Europe, 1870-1945

Themes in World History

Colonial Africa

Contemporary Africa

History of a Region Other than Africa

Research Methods I

Research Methods II

Themes in Nineteenth Century Southern Africa

Special Subject – The Land Issue in Southern Africa

Special Subject – The Middle East

Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation in Southern Africa

Colonialism and African Cultures

Undergraduate supervision

Supervised over 10 undergraduate Final (Year 4) Research Projects on various aspects of

Lesotho’s history, environmental history, and cultural and heritage history.

Post-graduate courses taught (Master’s Level)

Methodology and Theory

Post-colonial Africa

Oral Traditions and Oral History in Africa

Postgraduate supervision (Master’s Level)

N. Rasethuntša, “Chief Simon Maptela of Masianokeng (Lesotho) and the Politics of the 1979

Land Act”, MA Dissertation, Department of Historical Studies, National University of

Lesotho, (2017-2020) (Main Supervisor).

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(7.5) University of the Free State, March, 2019 – Present

Post-graduate courses taught (Honours level)

Post-colonial History of Africa.

Gender and Decolonisation.

Research Report in Africa Studies.

Postgraduate supervision

Honours

M. E. Chobokoane, “Basotho Famo Music Rivalry and Violence in Lesotho, 2000-Present”,

Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State, 2020-2021 (completed June

2021). (Main Supervisor).

G. Alifandika, “Exploring the Practice of Breast Ironing in Cameroon”, Honours Dissertation,

Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State, 2020-2021 (Completed

November 2021). (Main Supervisor).

L. Woko, “Rape on South African University Campuses: A Textual Analysis of News Reports

on Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education”, Centre for Gender and Africa Studies,

University of the Free State, 2020-2021 (Completed October 2021). (Main Supervisor).

P. Sesenyi, “Rape on University Campuses: A textual analysis of news reports and policy

documents on Gender-based violence in Higher Education”, Centre for Gender and Africa

Studies, University of the Free State, 2020-2021 (Completed October 2021). (Co-Supervisor).

C. Gashi, “Media Representation of Ulwaluko in South Africa”, Centre for Gender and Africa

Studies, University of the Free State, 2020-2021 (completing October 2022). (Co-Supervisor).

P. Letutla, “The Nature of Gender-Based Violence towards Women in the Time of COVID-19

Pandemic in South Africa”, Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State,

2020-2021 (Completed October 2021). (Co-Supervisor).

P. Mohafa, “The Paradoxes and Challenges of Managing Cultural Resources located on Private

Property in South Africa: The Case of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site”, Centre

for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State, 2020-2021 (completing October

2022). (Co-Supervisor).

R. Kome, “The Modelling Industry and African Standards of Beauty”, Honours Dissertation,

Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State, 2020-2021 (deferred

studies). (Main Supervisor).

Master’s

C. Nthala, “Public Perceptions and the Role of First Ladies in Malawi, 1994-2018”, 2018-2019

(Unofficial withdrawal). (Main Supervisor).

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C. Mahula, “From Geographical to Economic Enclavism: a Clarion Call for Revisiting

Lesotho’s Tourism Relations with South Africa”, Centre for Gender and Africa Studies,

University of the Free State, 2021-. (Main Supervisor).

PhD

M. Fisseha, “The African Union’s Right to Intervention: Implications for State Sovereignty and

the Protection of Human Rights, the Case of South Sudan”, Centre for Gender and Africa

Studies, University of the Free State, 2017-2022 (completing November 2022). (Co-

Supervisor).

M. G. Molale, “Feelings of Marginality and Exclusion among Baphuthi of Lesotho”, Centre for

Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State, 2019-. (Main Supervisor).

G. Dandah, “Sporting Discourses of Gender Difference: Media Framing and Gender

Representations in Zimbabwean Football, Cricket, Rugby and Netball, 1980-2018”, Centre for

Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State, 2020-2021. (Deferred studies). (Main

Supervisor).

P. Muzuva, “Race and Ethnicity in South Africa: The Notion of Inclusivity in Higher

Education. A case study of the Khoi San Group”, Centre for Gender and Africa Studies,

University of the Free State, 2019-. (Main Supervisor).

S. Thambo-Ndiweni, “Exploring Challenges and Survival Strategies of Women with Visual and

Physical Impairments in the pre- and during the COVID 19 crisis in the Venda Community of

the Limpopo Province”, Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State,

2019-. (Main Supervisor).

S. M. Solomon, “The emergence and persistence of Xenophobia in South Africa: Perspectives

from the isolation, scapegoating and bio-cultural hypotheses”, Centre for Gender and Africa

Studies, University of the Free State, 2021-. (Main Supervisor).

(12) INVOLVEMENT WITH SCIENTIFIC BODIES & OTHER UNIVERSITIES

1 Reviewer for the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), Pretoria, June 2007.

2 Editorial and Review Team of the Inter-Disciplinary.Net Project, Oxfordshire, UK, 2007.

3 Liaison Officer for Pax Academica CODESRIA Bulletin on Academic Freedom in Africa,

2012-2018.

4 Reviewer for the Nomina Africana, a Journal for the Names Society of Southern Africa,

2014– Present. https://ufs.on.worldcat.org/oclc/39623391.

5 External Assessor/Examiner for an Honours thesis, Department of History, University of

the Free State, 2017 – 2019.

6 External Assessor/Examiner for a Master’s thesis, Centre for Africa Studies (CAS),

University of the Free State, January 2018 – 2019.

7 External Assessor/Examiner for a PhD thesis, Health Studies Department, University of

South Africa (UNISA), 2019.

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8 Research Fellow, Centre for Gender & Africa Studies (CGAS), University of the Free

State, August 2018 – March 2019.

9 Reviewed a book chapter for and edited book volume (P. Dzimiri and T. Chari, (eds.) titled

Political Transition in Southern Africa: Democratic Consolidation or Change of Façade?

10 External Assessor/Examiner for the History Department, Theory and Methodology

Honours Exam, University of Pretoria, July, 2021.

11 Reviewer for Oral History Journal of South Africa (OHJSA), April 2020.

http://www.upjournals.co.za/index.php/OHJSA

12 Reviewer for Journal HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, April

2021. https://hts.org.za

13 Reviewer for the Southern Journal for Contemporary History, December 2020.

https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/jch/issue/archive

14 Head, Research and Development portfolio for the Oral History Association of South

Africa (OHASA), November 2021-October 2024.

15 Member, Editorial Board for the Oral History Association of South Africa (OHASA), 2021

– 2024.

16 External Assessor/Examiner for a Master’s thesis, Wits Centre for Diversity, University of

the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, April, 2022.

17 External Reviewer, MEd in Humanities Programme (History and Heritage Education;

Social and Heritage Education and Family and Religious Studies), Great Zimbabwe

University, Masvingo, March 2022.

18 External Reviewer & Moderator, National Research Foundation (NRF) Appeals Doctoral

Applications Review for Humanities, 2022.

19 Associate Editor, Southern Journal for Contemporary History, April 2022 – April 2027.

20 Founding Academic Coordinator for the Decolonial International Network (DIN), May

2022-Present.

(13) UNIVERSITY SERVICE & ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

1 Faculty of Arts Representative to the Faculty of Education, University of Zimbabwe, 1998-

2000.

2 Faculty of Arts Representative to the Faculty of Commerce, University of Zimbabwe, 2000-

2004.

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3 Assistant co-ordinator for the SIDA/SAREC-funded project on The Historical Dimensions of

Nationalism, Human Rights and Democracy in Zimbabwe, Department of History, University

of Zimbabwe, 1998-2001

4 Chairperson, Semesterisation Committee, Department of History, University of Zimbabwe,

1999-2000.

5 Postgraduate Tutor, Faculty of Humanities, National University of Lesotho, 2004-2008

6 Head, Department of Historical Studies, National University of Lesotho, July-Dec. 2006.

7 Finance Manager & Editorial Board Member, TSEBO, Journal of Research and Creative

Writing, National University of Lesotho, 2007-2009.

8 Member of Senate (Representing Congregation), National University of Lesotho, (2008-2012).

9 Senate Representative on NUL’s Statutes Committee, 2010/2011 & 2011/2012.

10 Lesotho University Teachers & Researchers Union (LUTARU), Member of the Academic and

Social Welfare Subcommittee, February 2011–2014.

11 Commonwealth of Learning Review and Improvement Model (COL-RIM) Internal Verifier on

Quality Assurance for the National University of Lesotho, 2012-2014.

12 Local Organising Committee (Sec. General) for the OSSREA Lesotho Chapter Youth

Unemployment in Africa Conference, ISAS, National University of Lesotho, 18 January, 2013.

13 Sec. General for the Local Organising Committee for the OSSREA Lesotho Chapter for the

Higher Education in Lesotho: Debating Funding, Governance and Reform Issues Conference,

ISAS, National University of Lesotho, 24 October, 2013.

14 Chairperson, FOH Research and Conference Committee, 2014.

15 Head, Department of Historical Studies & Member of University Senate, National University

of Lesotho, July 2016 –September 2017.

16 Programme Director for Africa Studies, Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the

Free State, September 2019-Present. As Programme Director for Africa Studies, I am

responsible for curriculum update and renewal in Africa Studies; evaluation of applications for

admission to the Honours, Master’s and PhD Africa Studies programmes; offering prospective

candidates advisement on the feasibility of proposed study areas, including assessing pre-

proposals and motivational notes for the programmes. I also act as Programme Director for

CGAS as and when called upon to.

17 Member of the UFS Faculty of the Humanities’ Scientific and Ethical Committees, 2019-Dec.

2021. Main duty is to assess Honours, Mater’s and PhD proposals for sound academic

grounding and ethicalness and offer advice to students on how best to achieve this.

(14) COMMUNITY SERVICE/ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP

1. Examiner for History & Geography for the Zimbabwe Junior Certificate, 1994.

2. Examiner for O’ Level History, Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council, 1996

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3. Chairperson of ZIMRE Park Residence Association, Ruwa, Harare, 2002-2004

4. Secretary General ZIMRE Park Neighbourhood Watch Committee, Ruwa, 2003-2004

5. Secretary General of SISONKE Club, Roma, National University of Lesotho, 2004-2006

6. Committee Member of SISONKE Club, Roma, National University of Lesotho, 2007-2010

7. Public Lecture on Great Zimbabwe 1100-1500 delivered to the Lesotho History Teachers

Association (LHTA) Workshop, Mount Maluti Hotel, Mohale’s Hoek, 22 July 2009.

8. Public Lecture on The Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe delivered to the Lesotho History

Teachers Association (LHTA) Workshop, Mount Maluti Hotel, Mohale’s Hoek, 22 July 2009.

9. Secretary General for the OSSREA Lesotho Chapter, 2012-2015.

10. Public Lecture on The Constitution Making Process in Zimbabwe delivered to the

Development for Peace Education (DPE) and the Zimbabwe Solidarity Forum (ZSF), Maseru,

11 December, 2012.

11. Guest Speaker, Zimbabwe Coup, Transformation Resource Centre (TRC), Maseru, 14

November, 2017.

12. Convener, Zimbabwe Coup, NUL, Roma, 21 November, 2017.

13. Guest Speaker, HERSTEL/ARALEZ, 10 May 2022, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This is a

grassroots network and organization for decolonization based in Amsterdam. Its decolonial

approach for repairing the colonial damage and destruction is anchored on 7 pillars namely

Herdenking (Commemoration), Erkenning (Acknowledgement)

(15) MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS/SOCIETIES

1 Ordinary Member, Oral Traditions Association of Zimbabwe (OTAZI), 1997 - 2004

2 Ordinary Member, The History Association of Zimbabwe (HAZ), 1999 - 2004

3 Ordinary Member, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa

(CODESRIA), 2002 - Present.

4 Ordinary Member, Southern African Universities Social Science Conference SAUSSC),

2003 - Present.

5 Ordinary Member, The Friends of Morija Museum & Archives (FMMA), 2006 - Present.

6 Executive Committee Member (Sec. General) of OSSREA Lesotho Chapter, 2012 - 2015.

7 Ordinary Member, Academic Forum for the Development of Lesotho (AFDeL), 2017 -

Present.

(16) MISCELLANEOUS WORK & REPORTS

1. Research Assistant for Professor Ngwabi Bhebe’s book entitled Simon Vengayi Muzenda

and the Struggle for, and the Liberation of Zimbabwe, Mambo Press, Gweru, 2004.

2. MUSHONGA, M., “The Magical History Tour: National University of Lesotho Historical

Studies Students Tour Cape Town During Easter Holidays 2006: We Wish You Were

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There”, Report of the Educational Trip to Cape Town, Department of Historical Studies,

National University of Lesotho, June 2006.

3. MUSHONGA, M., “Perceptions of Faculty of Humanities Students Regarding Essential

Mathematics and Elementary Statistics and Probability at the National University of

Lesotho”, Faculty of Humanities Report on Essential Mathematics and Elementary Statistics

and Probability, NUL, September 2006.

4. MUSHONGA, M. and Molapo, S. J., “Methodologies of Archiving and Retrieving Local

Records: The Case of the Leribe Collection and Major Bell’s Historical Manuscripts”, Report

of the Leribe Collection and Major Bell’s Historical Manuscripts, Thomas Mofolo Library,

National University of Lesotho, August 2007.

5. MUSHONGA, M. “The Land Question in Zimbabwe”, Guest Lecture Delivered to 4th Year

Students of Development Studies, National University of Lesotho, September 2007.

6. MUSHONGA, M. “African Identities”, Guest Lecture delivered to Final Year Philosophy

Students, National University of Lesotho, October 2007

7. MUSHONGA, M. “Zimbabwe: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, Guest Lecture Delivered

to 4th Year Students of Political and Administrative Studies, National University of Lesotho,

November, 2008.

8. MUSHONGA, M. “Methods of Data Collection: Interviewing Techniques”, Guest Lecture

delivered to 4th Year Students of Law, National University of Lesotho, 21 September 2009.

9. MUSHONGA, M. & Omoyefa, P. S. Report on the Duplication of Courses in the Faculty of

Humanities and between the Faculty and other Faculties at the National University of

Lesotho. Faculty of Humanities Report, National University of Lesotho, July 2010.

10. MUSHONGA, M. & Thabane, M., “A Student Manual of Some Basic Writing and Study

Skills”, Department of Historical Studies, National University of Lesotho, Third Edition,

2013.

(17) HOBBIES

Traveling, Touring & Adventure

Watching & Playing Tennis

Watching Documentaries

Reading & Writing

Watching Soccer

(18) REFEREES

Professor Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Full Professor/Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South

University of Bayreuth, Germany

Tel (Office): +49 921 554781

Email: sjndlovugatsheni@gmail.com

sabelo.ndlovu-gatsheni@uni-bayreuth.de

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Dr Stephanie Cawood Director, Centre for Gender and Africa Studies

University of the Free State

P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300

Republic of South Africa

Tel: +27 (0)51 401 2614

Email: Cawoods@ufs.ac.za

Associate Professor Jesmael Mataga

Head, School of Humanities

Sol Plaatje University

Private Bag X5008

Kimberley, 8300, South Africa

Tel (Office): +27 (0)53 491 0143

Mobile: +27 73 279 4727

Email: Jesmael.Mataga@spu.ac.za

Professor Heidi Hudson Dean, Faculty of the Humanities

University of the Free State

P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300

Republic of South Africa

Tel: +27 (0)51 401 2240

Email: HudsonH@ufs.ac.za

Professor Annette C Wilkinson University of the Free State

P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300

Republic of South Africa

Email: wilkac3@gmail.com

Mobile: +27 84 200 4344