CURRICULUM VITAE 1. Family name :

Ntsebeza

2. First names :

Lungisile

3. Nationality

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South African

4. Education

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Phd

Institution (Date from/to) Rhodes University, Grahamstown (Sociology) 2002 University of Natal, Durban (Economic History) 1993 University of Cape Town Centre for African Studies (Economic History as home department) 1988 University of South Africa (Philosophy and Political Science) From 1978 - 1980

Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: PhD Sociology M.A B.A (Hons)

B.A

5. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - excellent; 5 - basic) Language(s) IsiXhosa English Afrikaans IsiZulu

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Membership of the Editorial Boards

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Review of African Political Economy

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Writing 1 1 2 1

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Journal of Contemporary African Studies

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Social Dynamics, University of Cape Town

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South African Review of Sociology

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Agrarian South

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Socialist History, Manchester, UK

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International Political Science Review

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South Africa-Vrije Universiteit Strategic Alliance (SAVUSA), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands which publishes books in the African Studies series of Brill Academic Publishers in Leiden

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South African Democracy Education Trust, Pretoria

7. Membership of Professional Bodies and Research Initiatives 

CODESRIA

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South African Association for Canadian Studies South African Sociological Association

8. Other skills Fully computer literate, Microsoft Office user Workshop Facilitation and Programme evaluation.

9. Present position Full Professor and Acting Director, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town Holder of the NRF Research Chair in Land Reform and Democracy in South Africa – University of Cape Town

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Date Institution Description

January 2008 to present Location Cape Town University of Cape Town Position Full Professor Research and teaching on land and governance issues in southern Africa

Date Institution Description

January 2008 to present Location Cape Town National Research Foundation Position NRF Research chair Holder of the National Research Foundation Chair in land reform and democracy in South Africa. This is a joint chair involving the University of Cape Town and the Democracy and Governance Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

Date Institution Description

January 2006 to 2011 Location Cape Town University of Cape Town Position UCT Principal Researcher and Manager This research initiative, involves the Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town and the Democracy and Governance Programme of the HSRC. It is part of a wider collaborative relationship that is developing between UCT and the HSRC. The current joint research project is on the manner recent legislation is improving the land rights of women living in areas under the jurisdiction of chiefs in South Africa’s countryside.

Date Institution Description

January 2004 to December 2007 Location Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town Position Research and teaching on the land question in southern Africa

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April 2003 to July 2003 Location Western Cape University of Western Cape Position Acting Director Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, School of Government, University of the Western Cape.

Date Institution Description

January 1997 to December 2003 Location Western Cape University of Western Cape Position Senior Researcher Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, School of Government, University of the Western Cape.  

Cape Town Associate Professor

Research areas: in-depth research on Land Tenure Reform and Rural Local Governance in the former Bantustans, Traditional Authorities, and Land Redistribution in post – 1994 South Africa.

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I was also a guest lecturer on rural local government, land and rural development in the Development Studies and Sociology/Anthropology departments at UWC. Participated in 2000 in the establishment of a semi-distance learning Post-Graduate Diploma and Mphil in Land and Agrarian Studies which is hosted by the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies and involves participation from academics at UCT, Stellenbosch as well as the Legal resources Centre in Cape Town. The programme commenced in 2001. I presented lectures on the land and agrarian debate in Africa and the South African land reform programme with particular focus on tenure reform in communal areas. I also gave guest lectures in the Rural Masters programme at Rhodes University since 2000.

Date Institution Description

June 1995 to December 1996 Location Head Office, Durban Institute for Multi – Party Democracy Position Research and Programmes Manager Conducted research on multi-party democracy and managed programmes and training on multiparty democracy in South Africa.

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February 1994 to May 1995 Location Grahamstown Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes Position Researcher University Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Research interests: youth politics in urban areas, democracy (with particular reference to rural areas), land reform and use, and urban -rural interaction.

Description

Date Institution Description

January 1991 to January 1994 Location Durban University of Natal Position Lecturer Teach Test Teach programme, University of Natal (Durban). This was students’ selection and academic development programme.

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January – December 1993 University of Durban - Westville  Part – time Lecturer in Philosophy,

Location Position

Durban, Westville Part – time Lecturer

Date Institution Description

January – December 1992 University of Natal  Seconded to the philosophy department

Location Position

Durban Lecturer

Date Institution

January 1989 – December 1990 University of Natal

Location Position

Durban Researcher

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Description

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Natal Family Project, a research project based at the University of Natal, Durban, which tried to investigate the effects of violence in Natal on the family. The project was suspended due to violence in Natal.

Date Institution Description

January 1988 – December 1989 Location Eastern Cape Khanya college Position Planning coordinator  Khanya College, an affirmative action university project of the South African Committee for Higher Education (Sached) Trust, which offered a year long course, including two university credits.  On completion of the course, students transferred to established South African universities, such as the University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand.

Date Company Description

1981 - 1986 Location Eastern Cape Cala Bookshop Position Bookshop manager  Owned and managed a bookshop in Cala, Eastern Cape after serving a 5.5 year prison term for a political offence involving study groups.

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PUBLICATIONS

Books With Thembela Kep (eds) 2011. Rural Resistance in South Africa: the Mpondo Revolts after Fifty Years. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. Published in 2012 by the UCT Press, Cape Town. With Ruth Hall (eds.). 2007. The Land Question in South Africa: the Challenge of Transformation and Redistribution. Cape Town: HSRC Press. Ntsebeza, L. 2005. Democracy Compromised: Chiefs and the Politics of Land in South Africa. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. Published in 2006 by the HSRC Press, Cape Town

Book chapters Ntsebeza, L. (forthcoming, June 2012). The Re-incorporation of Transkei into South Africa, 1987-1994: Turning against the Master? in SADET, Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 6 UNISA Press. Ntsebeza, L. (with Thembela Kepe) 2011. Introduction. In Thembela Kepe and Lungisile Ntsebeza. Rural Resistance in South Africa: the Mpondo Revolts after Fifty Years. Pp 1-18 Ntsebeza, L. 2011. Resistance in the Countryside: The Mpondo Revolts Contextualised. In Thembela Kepe and Lungisile Ntsebeza. Rural Resistance in South Africa: the Mpondo Revolts after Fifty Years. Pp 2142. Ntsebeza, L. 2011. Traditional Authorities and Democracy: Are we Back to Apartheid? In Ruiters, G. (ed). The FATE of the EASTERN CAPE: History, Politics and Social Policy. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu Natal Press. Pp. 75-92. Ntsebeza, L. 2011. The Land Question: exploring obstacles to land redistribution in South Africa. In Shapido, I and Tebeau, K. (eds.). After Apartheid: Reinvesting South Africa. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. Pp 294-308. Ntsebeza, L. 2010. Reconciliation and the Land Question. In du Toit, F and Doxtader, E. (eds.). In the Balance: South Africans debate reconciliation. Sunnyside: Jacana Media. Pp. 85-92. Ntsebeza, L. (with Fred Hendricks). 2010. Black poverty and white property in rural South Africa. In Maharaj, B; Desai, A and Bond, P (eds.). Zuma’s Own Goal: Losing South Africa’s `War on Poverty’. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, Inc. pp. 213-240. Ntsebeza, L. 2008. The resurgence of Chiefs. In Readings in Modernity in Africa. Edited by Peter Geschiere, Birgit Meyer and Peter Pels. Oxford: James Currey. Ntsebeza, L. 2008. Chiefs and the ANC in South Africa: the reconstruction of tradition. In Land, power and controversies generated by South Africa’s Communal Land Rights Act. Edited by Classens, A and Cousins, B. Cape Town: UCT Press Ntsebeza, L. 2007 [with] Ruth Hall. 2007. Introduction. In The Land Question in South Africa: the Challenge of Transformation and Redistribution. Edited by Ntsebeza, L and Ruth Hall. Cape Town: HSRC Press. Ntsebeza, L. 2007. Land Redistribution in South Africa: the Property Clause revisited. In Lungisile Ntsebeza and Ruth Hall, The Land Question in South Africa: the Challenge of Transformation and Redistribution. Cape Town: HSRC Press. Pg 107-132

Ntsebeza, L With Luvuyo Wotshela, Thembela Kepe, Sukude Matoti and Andrew Ainslie. 2006. Resistance and Repression in the Bantustans: Transkei and Ciskei. In SADET. The Road to Democracy in South Africa: Volume 2 (19780 – 1980). Pretoria: Unisa Press. 177-209 Ntsebeza, L. 2006. Rural Development in South Africa: tensions between democracy and traditional authority. In Padayachee, V. (ed). The development decade?: economic and social change in South Africa, 1994-2004. Cape Town: HSRC Press. Pg 444- 460 Ntsebeza, L. 2006. Slow Delivery in South Africa’s Land Reform Programme: the property clause revisited. In Amanda Alexander (ed.). Articulations: A Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture Collection. Trenton and Asmara: Africa World Press Inc. pg 77- 87 Ntsebeza, L. 2005. Land Tenure Reform in South Africa: a focus on the Moravian Church Land in the Western Cape. In Wels, H. and Spierenburg, M. (eds.). Competing Jurisdictions: Settling Land Claims in Africa and Madagascar. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. Pg 55-77 Ntsebeza, L. 2005. Democratic Decentralisation and Traditional Authority: Dilemmas of Land Administration in Rural South Africa. In Ribot, J and Larson, A.M. (eds.). Democratic Decentralisation through a Natural Resource Lens: experiences from Africa, Asia and Latin America. London: Routlege. Pg 71-89 Ntsebeza, L. 2005. Rural governance and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa: democracy compromised? In Daniel, J. Southall, R. and Lutchman, J (eds.). The State of the Nation: South Africa 2004-2005. Cape Town: HSRC Press and Michigan State University Press. pg 58- 85 Ntsebeza, L. 2004. Reconciliation and Reparations in post-1994 South Africa: What role for land? In Erik Doxtader and Charles Villa-Vicencio (eds). Repairing the Irreparable: Reparations and Reconstruction in South Africa. Cape Town: David Philip. Pg 197- 210 Ntsebeza L, with Matoti, S. 2004. Rural resistance in Mpondoland and Thembuland, 1960-1963. In SADET. The road to Democracy in South Africa, Vol 1 (1960-1970) ZEBRA and Struik Publishers. pg 755- 782 Ntsebeza L, 2003. “Traditional Authorities, Local Government and Land Rights”, in Ray, D.I. and Reddy, P.S. (eds.) Grassroots Governance?: Chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribean, Calgary: University of Calgary Press. 173- 227 Ntsebeza L (2001) “Rural development and traditional authorities” Coetzee J, Graaff J, Hendricks F and Wood G (eds). Development: Theories, Policies and Practice. Oxford University Press. Pg 317-330 Ntsebeza L (2000). “Traditional Authorities, local government and land rights”, in Cousins, B. (ed). At the crossroads: Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa into the 21st Century. Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape and National Land Committee, Johannesburg. pg 280-305

Peer-reviewed Journal articles Ntsebeza, L. 2008. The Mafeje and UCT saga: an unfinished business? CODESRIA Bulletin. Nos 3 & 4. Ntsebeza, L. 2007. Land-Reform Politics in South Africa’s Countryside. Peace Review, 19:1, 33-41. Ntsebeza, L. 2004. Democratic Decentralisation and Traditional Authority: Dilemmas of Land Administration in Rural South Africa. European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 16 (1), Spring, pg 71-89 Ntsebeza, L. 2003. Land Rights and Democratisation: rural tenure reform in South Africa’s former Bantustans. Transformation, pg 68- 95 Ntsebeza L (1999). “Democratisation and traditional authority in the new South Africa.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and Middle East, X1X, 1. Pg 83-94. Hendricks F and Ntsebeza L (1999). “Chiefs and rural local government in post-apartheid South Africa.”, in African Journal of Political Science (New Series), Vol 4, No 1, June, pg 99- 126.

Peer-reviewed Research reports and Occasional Papers With S. Afif, N. Fauzi, G, Hart & N. Peluso). 2005. “Redefining Agrarian Power: Resurgent Agrarian Movements in West Java, Indonesia," University of California, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, September http://repositories.cdlib.org/cseas Ntsebeza, L. 2004. Rural and Agrarian Studies since 1994. In Fred Hendricks (ed.). The Social Sciences in South Africa Since 1994: disciplinary and transdisciplinary areas of study. AISA Research Paper No. 74. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa. Pp 27-35. Ntsebeza, L. 2003. Local Government, Power and Natural Resources: a perspective from the Rural Areas of South Africa’s former Bantustans”. Environmental Governance in Africa Working Paper 14, Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute. Pg 1- 10 Ntsebeza L (2002). Decentralisation and natural resource management in rural South Africa: Problems and prospects. Occassional Paper No. 22. Cape Town: Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, May. (Paper originally presented to a workshop in Bellagio, Italy between 18-22 February 2002. pg 1-15 Ntsebeza L. (2002). Cattle production in Xhalanga district, in Ainslie A. (ed). Cattle ownership and production in the communal areas of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Research report no. 10. Cape Town: Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, April. Pg 1-33 Ntsebeza L (2001). “Land allocation in South Africa’s former Bantustans with specific reference to the role of traditional

authorities”, research paper prepared for the MWENGO Land Project based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Ntsebeza L (1999). “Land Tenure Reform in South Africa: An example from the Eastern Cape Province.” Issue Paper no. 82, International Institute of Environment and Development. Ntsebeza L (1999). “Land Tenure Reform, Traditional Authorities and Rural Local Government in Post-apartheid South Africa” Research Report No. 3, Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape.

Encyclopedia Ntsebeza, L. 2011. “Land Tenure and Dispossession”. In Johnson, K and Jacobs, S. (eds.). Encyclopedia of South Africa. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Advocacy journals Ntsebeza L. (2003). Democracy in South Africa’s countryside: Is there a role for traditional authorities?”, in Development Update, Vol. 4, No. 1. Ntsebeza L with Kepe T and Pithers L (2001). “Agro-tourism Spatial Development Initiatives in South Africa: are they enhancing rural livelihoods?”, in ODI Natural Resource Perspectives, number 65, March. Ntsebeza L (2000) “Traditional Authorities Rule”, in Land and Rural Digest, No. 15, November/December Ntsebeza L (2000). “Indirect rule may well continue” Land and Rural Digest, No. 15, March/April. Ntsebeza L with Kepe T and Pithers L)(2000). “The impact of the Spatial Development Initiatives (SDIs) on Rural Livelihoods: A case study of the Wild Coast SDI”. Paper prepared for the National Land Committee.

Evaluation Reports 2003 - Church Land Project of the Surplus People Project, Cape Town 2000- Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE) 1999 - Health Care Trust and Calusa (Eastern Cape).

Newspaper articles Ntsebeza, L. 2003. The Making of a Puppet. Mail and Guardian, 4-10 July, p. 27.

SELECTED CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS Academic conferences and workshops Ntsebeza, L. 2008. Keynote speaker, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha. 11th – 12th September, 2008. Ntsebeza, L. 2008. Workshop facilitation on legislation on land reform and governance. 13 th – 15th August, 2008 (Masifunde Education and Development Project Trust, Easter Cape, South Africa Nstebeza, L. 2008. Participated in a panel discussion together with Dr. Kwandiwe Kondlo. The meeting took place in Beiing (Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS) 21- 28 th April, 2008. Ntsebeza, L. 2007. Canada- Participated in the development of a curriculum 6th Aug. – 1st September, 2007 Ntsebeza, L. 2003. Agrarian Movements in South Africa from the 1980s to the present Presentation to a workshop on Resurgent Agrarian Questions in South Africa and Indonesia, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 17 October. Ntsebeza, L. 2003. Land Tenure Reform in South Africa: a focus on the Moravian Church Land in the Western Cape. Paper presented to an international conference on Competing Jurisdictions: Settling Land Claims in Africa, held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Nertherlands, 24 – 27 September. Ntsebeza, L. 2003. Tshisa-tshisa (burn, burn): Resistance against Bantu Authorities in Xhalanga. Paper to be presented to an international conference on The Eastern Cape: historical legacies and new challenges, East London, South Africa, 27-30 August. Ntsebeza L (2000). “What type of Democracy?: The case of rural local government in South Africa”. Paper presented to a seminar at St Antony’s College, Oxford, 8 June. A reworked and updated version presented to the 43rd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 16-19 November Ntsebeza L with Hendricks F (2000) “The Paradox of South Africa’s Land Reform Policy: Failed decolonisation?” Paper presented to Annual Colloqium on Regional Integration in Southern Africa: Past, Present and Future, Harare, Zimbabwe, 24-27 September.

Non-academic – mixed audience Ntsebeza, L. 2003. Looking back and forward – has South Africa addressed the complex issue of land, land redistribution and agrarian reform? Challenges and possible solutions. Address to the Annual Strategic Planning Workshop of the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa, Valley Lodge Hotel, Magaliesburg, 1 - 3 August. Ntsebeza, L. 2003. The Land and Agrarian Question in South Africa: past, present and future. Paper presented to a Learning Event, Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE), Port Elizabeth, 6 – 8 May. Ntsebeza, L. (2003). Neither Citizens nor Subjects: the case of rural South Africa. Paper presented to an International Conference on Chieftaincy in Africa held at the University of Ghana, Accra, 6 – 10. Ntsebeza L (2001). “Land Rights and Decentralisation: rural tenure reform in the South Africa’s former Bantustans. Paper presented to the National Land Tenure Conference: finding solutions, securing rights, organized by the Department of Land Affairs, International Convention Centre, Durban, 26-30 November. Ntsebeza L (2001). “Local Government, Power and Natural Resources: a perspective from the rural areas of South Africa’s former Bantustans”, paper presented to a workshop on Accountability, Decentralisation and the Environment: Local democracy and natural resources in Sub-Saharan Africa, Cape Town, October 15-19.

OTHER DISTINCTIONS Visiting fellowships and awards/grants August 2009: University of Brasilia, Brazil 23 May – 11 June 2008: Visiting professor – Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. Offered six seminars in the Post-Graduation Programme in the Department of Sociology and Law. This programme was supported under the auspices of the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico and the Research Project Land Reform, citizenship and participation. June to September 2004. Senior Associate Member: St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, England, U.K.

July 2002. Award from the University of Fort Hare on the occasion of the first “Homecoming” event for having been a student who could not complete a degree at Fort Hare for political reasons April to July 2001. Research Associate, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA April to July 2000. Senior Associate Member: St Anthony’s College, Oxford University, England, UK October - December 1998. Visiting Fellow: Department of Politics, University of York, England, UK. September - October 1998. Visiting Fellow: Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

Review of articles and manuscripts Reviewer articles and manuscripts for the following: Journals Transformation Social Dynamics African Studies World Development Publishers Brill Academic Publishers Pickering and Chatto Palgrave MacMillan University of Calgary Press HSRC Press

External examination External examiner for: University of Fort Hare (Sociology Department): Undergraduate and post-graduate courses.

University of the Witwatersrand (Sociology and the School of Development Studies): theses. University of KwaZulu Natal (School of Development Studies): theses. Rhodes University, Grahamstown

COMMUNITY AND EDUCATIONAL INVOLVEMENT 2006 – 2009

Member of the Executive Committee of the Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust

2002 -

Board member: Surplus People Project. I became chairperson between 2005 and 2009.

2001 - 2003

Board member: Development Action Group.

1999 – 2001

Ministerial appointment to the Board of the Medical and Dental Professional Board. Elected to the Education Committee.

1999 -

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE), an NGO focusing on land matters and community development. Chairperson from 2008

1998 - 2008

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Transkei Land and Service Organisation (Tralso), an Eastern Cape affiliate of the National Land Committee (NLC).

1998 - 2001

Re-appointed member of the Board of Trustees for Health Care Trust (Western Cape), a primary health care organisation.

1997 - 1999

Member of the National Working Committee and National Executive Council of the Trust for Community Outreach and Education

1995 - 1996

Participated in meetings of a predominantly Cape Town based group of historians and social scientists that tried to define their role in the then proposed Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Some members of this group became a “think tank” of the research unit of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

1994 - 1995

Staff representative: Executive Committee of the Board of Management of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.

1993 - 1999

Chairperson of Health Care Trust (Transkei)

1991 - 1995

Trustee of the Prisoners’ Welfre Programme (PRIWELPRO), a non-profit making organisation in Umtata, this focussed on prison conditions in Transkei.

1990 - 1995

Trustee of the Transkei Association of Trade Union Libraries (TATULIBS), an Umtata based labour association whose main aim was to establish resource centres around labour issues.

1988 - 1989

Board member of the Adult Education Board, Faculty of Education, University of Cape Town

1988 -

Founder member and Trustee of Buchu Books, a Cape Town based publishing project established as an association not for gain.

1987

Post-graduate students representative: University of Cape Town.

1987 - 1989

Appointed Trustee of the Health Care Trust, a Cape Town based health organisation that established a village heath worker project in Xalanga in the Eastern Cape (see above).

1983 -

Founder member and Trustee of Cala University Students Association (CALUSA), a community based organisation in Cala which focuses on educational and developmental issues. Chairperson of the Association between 1996 and 2000

Board of the Centre for African Studies,

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REFERENCES Professor Fred Hendricks Dean: Faculty of Humanities Rhodes University Grahamstown 6140 South Africa. E-mail: [email protected] Professor Gillian Hart Department of Geography University of California Berkeley USA e-mail: [email protected] Dr. Allison Drew Department of Politics University of York England e-mail : [email protected] Professor Peter Geschiere Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected]