Department of History
Dr Butholezwe Mtombeni
| College of Human Sciences | |
|---|---|
| School of Humanities | |
| Department: History | |
| Lecturer | |
| Tel: | 012 429 4193 |
| Fax: | 012 429 3221 |
| E-mail: | mtombb@unisa.ac.za |
Qualifications
BA Tourism Development (UJ), Honours in History (UJ), Masters in History (UJ), Post Graduate Certificate in Education- PGCE (UJ), Masters in Business Administration- MBA (MANCOSA), Masters of Education in ICT (UJ), PhD in History (UNISA).
Fields of academic interests
- Sports history
- Tourism history
- Agrarian history
- Pre-colonial and post-colonial African history
- Religion and Slavery
Field of Specialisation
- Social History,
- Sports History- Soccer History,
- Political History-Sub-Saharan Africa political history,
- Agrarian history,
- Women’s History.
Books
Book Chapters:
- Mtombeni, B. (2020). Women and Colonialism: Southern Africa. In: Yacob-Haliso O., Falola, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77030-7_129-1.
- Moagi, A.L and Mtombeni, B. (2020). Women in Pre-colonial Africa: Southern Africa. In: Yacob-Haliso, O., Falola, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77030-7_125-1.
- Mtombeni, B. (2022). Remove Your Knee from My Neck: A Radical Call to Collapse the Politics of Race Through Black Lives Matter Movement in the USA and Beyond. In Baikady, R., Sajid, S., Nadesan, V., Przeperski, J., Islam, M.R., Gao, J. (Eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_314-1.
- Mtombeni, B. (2023). Examining the Impact of Hashtag Activism in Influencing Social Change in South Africa: The Case of #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall Movements. In, The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_265-1.
- Mtombeni, B. (2024). Creating an equal and safe world for women: A cry to combat Gender-Based Violence (GBV) through social movements in South Africa. In, Baikady, R., Sajid, S., Nadesan, V., Przeperski, J., Islam, M.R., Gao, J. (Eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
- Moagi, L and Mtombeni, B. (2024). The Modjadji Rain Queendom of South Africa: Women as Guardians of the Traditional Mantle. In M, W. Dube., T, K. Musili and S. Owusu-Ansah (Eds) African Women Legends and the Spirituality of Resistance. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003460978.
Professional positions, fellowships & awards
- Golden Key International Honour Society member
- South African Council of Educators (SACE) member
- South Africa Society of History Teaching (SASHT) member