 |
Name |
Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu |
| Highest qualification |
PhD (University of the Witwatersrand) |
| Position |
Full-time research professor responsible for South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET) |
| Contact details |
ndlovsm@unisa.ac.za |
| Research interests/expertise |
Precolonial, colonial and contemporary history |
| Current projects |
The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 10 (multi-volume series) |
Short biography
Sowetan by birth, Ndlovu was educated at Emisebeni Lower Primary School, Vukuzenzenzele Higher Primary School and Orlando West Junior Secondary School (all located in Soweto). He completed O levels at Turret Correspondence College (Johannesburg) and A levels at St Mark's High (Mbabane, Swaziland), prior to obtaining undergraduate, Honours and Master's qualifications (University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg campus), and a doctorate from the University of the Witwatersrand. He worked at the University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg), Vista University, the Natal Technikon, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), the NRF, the
Africa Institute of South Africa. At present he works for the Thabo Mbeki Foundation and Unisa. He is also an NRF-rated Full Professor at Unisa. He is currently the Chairperson of the Ministerial Task Team of the Department of Basic Education currently reviewing the school history curriculum in South Africa. He was the Chairperson of the South African Heritage Resources Agency under the Department of Arts and Culture and also a member of the Department of Education's South African History Project that was appointed by Minister Kader Asmal.
Selected publications
- The Road to Democracy in South Africa (multi-volume series/ 9 volumes).
- The Soweto Uprisings: Counter-memories of June 1976 (Johannesburg: Picador Africa, 2017)
- The Thabo Mbeki I Know co-edited with Miranda Strydom (Johannesburg: Picador Africa, 2016)
- African Perspectives of King Dingane ka Senzangakhona: The Second Monarch of the Zulu Kingdom (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
- Public History and Culture in South Africa: Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage sites in Johannesburg and the Township space co-authored with Ali Khangela Hlongwane (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
- The History and Geopolitics of Soviet Phobia and anti-communism in South Africa (Johannesburg: Skotaville Publishing 2021)
- The Union of South Africa and the Soviet Union: Fractured Solidarity between the African Nationalist Movement, the Trade Union Movement, the Third Communist International and the Communist Party of South Africa, 1910-1961 (Johannesburg: Skotaville Publishing, 2020)
- Public History, Heritage and Culture in South Africa: The Struggle Continue co-edited with Ali Khangela Hlongwane (Johannesburg: Skotaville Publishing, 2021)
- Soweto '76: Reflections on the Liberation Struggles: Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of June 16, 1976 co-edited with Ali Khangela Hlongwane and Mothobi Mutloatse (Johannesburg: Mutloatse Arts Heritage Trust, 2006)
- 'Heritage Routes of Liberated South Africans: Using Oral History to Reconstruct unsung Heroes and Heroines' routes into exile in the 1960s', Historia, Volume 47 (2), 2002
- 'Sports as Cultural Diplomacy and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa', Soccer and Society, Volume 11, No 1, 2009
- 'The Western Super-Powers and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa: The Politics of Imperialism, Domination and Resistance, Afrika Zamani, 17, 2009
- 'On Nkosi Albert Luthuli's Nobel Speech Prize Speech', Presence Africaine, No 185-186, 2012
- 'A Tribute to Bernard Magubane', Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, Volume 16, 2, 2015
- 'The Struggle continues towards genuine and lasting emancipation: South Africa in the past twenty years', African Identities, Volume 12, Issue 3-4, 2015
- 'The Political Legacy and Symbolism of the SS Mendi Disaster', Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, Volume 71, (1), 2017
- 'The Use of African Oral Traditions in Teaching Gender History', South African Historical Journal, Volume 71, (2), 2019
- 'Literature and Communism in the Treason Trial', Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa', Volume 74, (2), 2020
- 'Russia and South Africa: Historical Memory, Part 1', Journal of the Institute for African Studies, Volume 53, (4), 2020
