Dr Noluthando Radebe
Dr Radebe’s research focuses on violence directed towards women in politics (VAWIP) at regional levels and at various spheres of government. The research focuses on the contributing factors that exacerbate VAWIP and the impact of the phenomenon on human rights and democracy.
Ms Mabafokeng Hoeane
Mabafokeng’s research is centred around Zulu ceremonial beads. Her focus area is on beaded pleated skirts known as Izidwaba, worn by Zulu women and girls during various cultural ceremonies.
Prof Puleng Segalo
Prof Segalo is involved in several research projects but one of her current research projects focuses on the challenges and complexities of obstetric violence. Her research offers a historical lens highlighting the colonial legacies of how black women’s bodies were used as tools to advance the medical profession. She uses this history to grapple with current challenges of obstetric violence within the public health system. Her research is at the intersection of public health, psychological well-being and social justice.
Dr Tinyiko Chauke
Dr Chauke focuses on engagement scholarship and research, exploring social justice, gender, and African hidden histories and narratives. Her work draws on stories and personal narratives as valuable contributions to communities’ social constructions of identities and belonging.
Ms Tshegofatso Mosala
Tshegofatso’s research investigates the intricate dynamics of economic migrations in the Gauteng Region, South Africa. She aims at unraveling the underlying factors influencing migration patterns, assess the socio-economic impact on both migrants and host communities, and propose informed policy recommendations for sustainable development in the region.
Ms Lesego Plank
Lesego’s work focuses on reimagining motherhood from a matrifocal perspective, comprehending the experiences of township daughters who have experienced maternal absence
and have mostly been raised by their biological father or paternal family. Her work tries to comprehend the reasons of biological mother absence and the presence of social/other mothers in these daughters’ lives, as her project echoes on the sentiments that motherhood is not biological, and she does this through the use of autoethnography as a methodological tool.
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