Post on 12-Feb-2020
CURRICULUM VITAE
1. Family name : Ntsebeza
2. First names : Lungisile
3. Nationality : South African
4. Education : Phd
Institution (Date from/to) Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
Rhodes University, Grahamstown (Sociology) 2002
PhD Sociology
University of Natal, Durban (Economic History) 1993
M.A
University of Cape Town Centre for African Studies (Economic History as home department) 1988
B.A (Hons)
University of South Africa (Philosophy and Political Science) From 1978 – 1980
B.A
5. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - excellent; 5 - basic)
Language(s) Reading Speaking Writing
IsiXhosa 1 1 1 English 1 1 1 Afrikaans 1 3 2 IsiZulu 1 1 1
6. Membership of the Editorial Boards
Editorial co-manager of the African Studies series published by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden
Review of African Political Economy
Journal of Modern African Studies
Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Social Dynamics, University of Cape Town
South African Review of Sociology
Agrarian South
Socialist History, Manchester, UK
International Political Science Review
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
South African Democracy Education Trust, Pretoria (up to 2012)
7. Membership of Professional Bodies and Research Initiatives
Inaugural President of African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA)
CODESRIA
South African Association for Canadian Studies (until 2012)
South African Sociological Association
8. Other skills
Fully computer literate, Microsoft Office user
Workshop Facilitation and
Programme evaluation.
9. Present position
Full Professor of Sociology and African Studies
Director, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town
Holder of the A.C. Jordan Chair in African Studies, University of Cape Town; and the
NRF Research Chair in Land Reform and Democracy in South Africa – University of Cape Town
10. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Date January 2008 to present Location Cape Town
Institution University of Cape Town Position Full Professor
Description Research and teaching on land and governance issues in Africa.
Holder of the A.C. Jordan Chair in African Studies, with a focus on the history of African Studies at the University of Cape Town, Ghana and Mozambique.
Date January 2008 to present Location Cape Town
Institution National Research Foundation Position NRF Research chair
Description Holder of the National Research Foundation Chair in land reform and democracy in South Africa. The Research Chair has, after being reviewed in 2012, been extended for another period of five years.
Date January 2006 to 2011 Location Cape Town
Institution University of Cape Town Position UCT Principal Researcher and Manager
Description 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 January 2004 to December 2007 Location Cape Town
Institution Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town Position Associate Professor
Description Research and teaching on the land question in southern Africa
Date April 2003 to July 2003 Location Western Cape
Institution University of Western Cape Position Acting Director
Description Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, School of Government, University of the Western
Cape.
Date January 1997 to December 2003 Location Western Cape
Institution University of Western Cape Position Senior Researcher
Description Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, School of Government, University of the Western
Cape.
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.
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 June 1995 to December 1996 Location Head Office, Durban
Institution Institute for Multi – Party Democracy Position Research and Programmes Manager
Description Conducted research on multi-party democracy and managed programmes and training on multiparty democracy in South Africa.
Date February 1994 to May 1995 Location Grahamstown
Institution Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University
Position Researcher
Description 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.
Date January 1991 to January 1994 Location Durban
Institution University of Natal Position Lecturer
Description Teach Test Teach programme, University of Natal (Durban). This was students’ selection and academic development programme.
Date January – December 1993 Location Durban, Westville
Institution University of Durban – Westville Position Part – time Lecturer
Description Part – time Lecturer in Philosophy,
Date January – December 1992 Location Durban
Institution University of Natal Position Lecturer
Description Seconded to the philosophy department
Date January 1989 – December 1990 Location Durban
Institution University of Natal Position Researcher
Description 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 January 1988 – December 1989 Location Eastern Cape
Institution Khanya college Position Planning coordinator
Description 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 1981 – 1986 Location Eastern Cape
Company Cala Bookshop Position Bookshop manager
Description Owned and managed a bookshop in Cala, Eastern Cape after serving a 5.5 year prison term for a political offence involving study groups.
11. PUBLICATIONS
Books With Fred Hendricks and Kirk Helikker (eds). 2013. The Promise of Land: undoing a century of dispossession. Johannesburg: Jacana. With Thembela Kepe (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. (2013). 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. 2013. The more things change, the more they remain the same: Rural land tenure and
democracy in the former Bantustans. In Fred Hendricks, Lungisile Ntsebeza and Kirk Helikker (eds). 2013. The Promise of Land: undoing a century of dispossession. Johannesburg: Jacana.
Ntsebeza, L. 2013. South Africa’s countryside: Prospects for change from below. In Fred Hendricks, Lungisile
Ntsebeza and Kirk Helikker (eds). 2013. The Promise of Land: undoing a century of dispossession. Johannesburg: Jacana.
Ntsebeza, L (with Fred Hendricks and Kirk Helliker). 2013. Land Questions in South Africa: Introduction. In
Fred Hendricks, Lungisile Ntsebeza and Kirk Helikker (eds). 2013. The Promise of Land: undoing a century of dispossession. Johannesburg: Jacana.
Ntsebeza, L (with Fred Hendricks and Kirk Helliker). 2013. Colonial Pasts and Democratic Futures:
Conclusion. In Fred Hendricks, Lungisile Ntsebeza and Kirk Helikker (eds). 2013. The Promise of Land: undoing a century of dispossession. Johannesburg: Jacana.
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 21-42.
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. (2014) The Mafeje and the UCT Saga: unfinished business? Social Dynamics With Chitonge, H. 2012. Land Reform and Rural Livelihood in South Africa: Does Access to Land Matter? Review of Agrarian Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, available at http://ras.org.in/land_reform_and_rural_livelihood_in_south_africa 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.
Conference Papers, Research Reports and Occasional Papers With Chris Saunders. 2014. Papers from the pre-colonial catalytic project – Volume 1. Cape Town: Centre for African
Studies – Rethinking Africa series. Ntsebeza, L. 2012. African Studies at UCT: an overview. In Nhlapo, T and Garuba, H. (eds). African Studies in the post-
colonial universities. Cape Town: University of Cape Town with the Centre for African Studies. 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. (2013). Land Reform: Colonial Pasts & Democratic Futures. South African Labour Bulletin. Vol
37,4, October/November. 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. Keynote speaker, African Studies Association – UK, Oxford University, September 2010 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. 13th – 15th August,
2008 (Masifunde Education and Development Project Trust, Easter Cape, South Africa Ntsebeza, 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
Review of African Political Economy Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers
Pickering and Chatto
Palgrave MacMillan
University of Calgary Press
HSRC Press
Oxford University Press
External examination External examiner for:
University of Fort Hare (Sociology Department)
University of the Witwatersrand (History, Politics, Sociology and the School of Development Studies)
University of KwaZulu Natal (School of Development Studies)
Rhodes University, Grahamstown (Sociology)
University of the Western Cape (Anthropology and Sociology; Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies)
University of York, UK (Politics)
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: Board of the Centre for African Studies,
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
REFERENCES
Professor Fred Hendricks Dean: Faculty of Humanities Rhodes University Grahamstown 6140 South Africa. E-mail: F.Hendricks@ru.ac.za Professor Gillian Hart Department of Geography University of California Berkeley USA e-mail: hart@Berkeley.edu Professor Allison Drew Department of Politics University of York England e-mail: allisondrew@binternet.com
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