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Mr TLS Mbatha

Lecturer | College of Human Sciences
School of Arts | Department: Information Science

Tel: 012 429 8999
Email: embathtl@unisa.ac.za
Campus: Muckleneuk
Building: WMM
Office: 10-83

  • Master of Arts, Information Science (Cum Laude) - UNIZULU
  • Bachelor of Library and Information Science - UNIZULU

Introducing information management (INS2603)

Investigating information ethics in the information era (INS2602)

  • Electronic records management
  • Blockchain technology and records management
  • Data preservation
  • Information security

  • Archives and Records management
  • Information management
  • Information ethics

Mbatha, L.S., Luthuli, L.P. and Masenya, T.M., 2020. Prison breakthrough. Journal of the South African Society of Archivists, 53, pp.54-64.

Mbatha, L.S. and Luthuli, L., 2021. Records management practices to improve efficiency and service delivery at Qalakabusha and Westville correctional facilities.

Mthembu, M. and Mbatha, L.S., 2022. Supporting Data Preservation Through Institutional Repositories of the Academic Libraries in South Africa: A Case Study of Three Academic Libraries. In Innovative Technologies for Enhancing Knowledge Access in Academic Libraries (pp. 176-195). IGI Global.

  • Mbatha L.S. 2019. The management of prison records in correctional facilities in Kwa-Zulu Natal: Qalakabusha Prison and West-Ville prison. SASA Annual Conference. 4 July 2019, Birchwood hotel & OR Tambo Conference Centre, Boksburg.

 

  • Project member - Computer and Information Literacy / CA5300 - uMkhanyakude District

Mr Mbatha is a lecturer at the Department of Information Science and assumed his duties on August 2022, and is currently pursuing his PH.D degree in Information Science at the University of South Africa.