Department of Development Studies

Prof S Mazibuko

College of Human Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Department: Development Studies
Chair
Tel:
012 429 2250
E-mail:
mazibsg@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • PhD in Development Studies (UFS)
  • Master of Administration (Unisa)
  • Bachelor of Arts Honours (RAU/UJ)
  • Bachelor of Administration (Unisa)
  • Secondary Teachers Diploma (Sebokeng)

Currently teaching

Honours, Masters’ & Doctoral supervision

Fields of academic interests

  • Land Issues
  • Global Political Economy
  • Natural Resource Management

Field of Specialisation

  • Development Theory
  • Development Planning

Books

  • Reflections on Post-Apartheid South Africa, 2020, Staging Post, Auckland Park
  • Quality access in ODL. Assuring institutional quality in open distance learning (ODL) in the developing contexts. Editor: Moeketsi Letseka. Nova Publishers.
  • The meaning of African freedom and independence: The road from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, in Nationalism and National Projects in Southern Africa: New Critical Reflections. Editors: Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni & Felix Ndlovu. Africa Institute of South Africa: Pretoria. 

Journal articles

  • The Freedom Charter: the contested land issue in South Africa, Third World Quarterly, 2018.
  • The Freedom Charter: South African contested land issue. Third World Quarterly. 38 (2).
  • Speaking about South Africa’s economic development strategies: The theoretical and rhetorical limits of the modernist approaches. African Journal of Rhetoric, 6.
  • Understanding underdevelopment through the sustainable livelihoods approach. Community Development, 44 (2).

 

Paper presentations

  • Biomass energy: raising anew old paradigms and narratives in development. Sustainability and Development Conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 09-11 November 2018.
  • The liberating ethos of the 1959 Status Campaign. Colloquium on Liberation, Memory and Contestation. University of Venda, Khoroni Hotel, Thohoyandou, 15-17 March 2017.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

Other

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