Prof Abel Mafukata

Qualifications

• PhD in Development Studies (Free State, 2012)
• Post.Grad. Certificate in Organisational Management (Rhodes, 2009)
• Masters in Gov. & Political Transformation (Free State, 2004)
• BA in African Politics and Education (UNISA (1998)
• Secondary Teachers Diploma (Venda College, 1989)

Fields of academic interests

• Rural economies, livelihood systems, commercialisation and entrepreneurship
• Higher education transformation, and Higher Education-Community engagement  
• Theories in development Studies
• Cultures and traditions and their interconnectedness with development issues

Field of Specialisation

• Rural livelihood systems
• Commercialisation of small-scale economies
• Rural development
• Agricultural extension and farmer assistance
• Microfinance and development
• Rural households economic productivity
• Rural entrepreneurship
• Global political economy
• Education and development

Books

1. Mavhungu Abel Mafukata and Mavhungu Elias Musitha, 2018. Mainstream Politics and the South African SOEs Dynamics". Strategic Design and Innovative Thinking in Business Operations, Springer Nature in Hasan Dincer et al. (Ed): Springer Nature.
2. Mavhungu Abel Mafukata. The impact of the 20082009 global financial crisis on the South African Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) mining subsector. Book Series: Global Financial Crisis and its ramifications on Global Economic Activity.
3. Mavhungu Abel Mafukata & Grace Kancheya (2015). The Nature of Informal Trade Sector in Zambia and Its Implications for Government’s SMEs Regulatory Framework. Handbook of Research on Strategic Developments and Regulatory Practice in Global Finance. IGI International, USA. 

Journal articles

• Mafukata MA, Moseki M, Khan A. The paradoxical meanings of the artifact owls (Athene noctua) at the University of South Africa: An impediment to transformation, decolonization, and Africanization discourse.  J Public Affairs. 2019;e1965. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.1965

• Mavhungu Abel Mafukata & Mavhungu Elias Musitha. 2018. Vho (Ms) Denga na (and) Vho (Ms) Masindi: role-model rural bricoleur women entrepreneurs. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. XXXX, No, YYYYY, pp, 1-37. (finalised).

• Mavhungu Abel Mafukata and Mavhungu Elias Musitha. 2017. Complexities influencing low output rates of black South African professors. International Journal of Higher Education and sustainability, Vol. 1, Number 4, pp317-346.
• Mavhungu Abel Mafukata. 2017. Rethinking progression of (black) South African doctoral graduates to professorship. Int. J. Higher Education and Sustainability, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp 220-243.
• Mavhungu Abel Mafukata. 2017. (Vho) Abel Mphagi – The Barefooted Native ‘Prophet’ and ‘Evangelist’ of Vendaland. Scriptura 116 (2017:1), pp. 1-27.
• Mafukata, M.A. 2016 ‘South Africa and its second student revolution in the transformation of university education: the case of a rural-based university’, International Journal of Higher Education and Sustainability, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp.147–166.
• Mavhungu Abel Mafukata., Willie Dhlandhlara & Grace Kancheya. 2014. Socio-Demographic Factors Affecting Social Capital Development, Continuity and Sustainability Among Microfinance Adopting Households in Nyanga, Zimbabwe. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp 70-79.
• Mavhungu Abel Mafukata, Kancheya Grace & Dhlandhlara Willie. 2014. Factors influencing poverty alleviation amongst microfinance adopting households in Zambia. International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science, Volume 3, No. 2,
• Mavhungu Abel Mafukata, 2015. Grace Kancheya & Willie Dhlandhlara. Adoption and non-Adoption of mainstream formal banking systems amongst low Income Earners in South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. International Journal of Finance & Banking Studies Volume 4, Number 1.
• Mavhungu Abel Mafukata, 2015. Factors having the most significance on the choice and selection of marketing channels amongst communal cattle farmers in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, Journal of Human Ecology, Vol. 49, No. 1-2, 77-87.
• Mavhungu Abel Mafukata, 2016. Performance of the Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme (CASP) and its infrastructure development project at Dolidoli Village, Musekwa Valley, Limpopo Province: Solutions through social capital adoption. Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp1-19.
• Abel M. Mafukata & Awelani V. Mudau. 2016. Exploring teacher mass resignation and early retirement from public schools. Dirasat, Human and Social Sciences, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp 2243-2254.
• Mavhungu Mafukata., Willie Dhlandlara & Grace Kancheya. 2016. Reciprocal output of microfinance and social capital in community development in Zimbabwe. Development in Practice, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp 77-89.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

• Merit Award for Distinction in African Politics 100 (1995, UNISA)
• Advisory Board Member of Book Project “Innovative Managerial Thinking in Global Business Economics” (IGI: Prof. Sehart Yuksel, Medipol, University, Turkey)

Projects

• Zwahashu-Mandevu (Musekwa Valley, Makhado Municipality)
• Education and development: From dysfunctional to performing schools