Staff Profile

QUALIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. Sociology (UKZN)
• MA Sociology- Cum laude (UL) 
• BA Hons. Psychology (UL)
• BA Hons. Sociology (UL)
• BA Political Science, Sociology (UL)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Tertiary Education (MSU)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Migration
• Climate governance 
• Indigenous Knowledge Systems
• Sustainable Livelihoods and Food Security 

PUBLICATIONS

Selected Refereed Journal Articles 

• 2023. Rethinking the nexus of food insecurity, Climate Change and Migration in the Developing World: A case of Sub-Saharan Africa. Research in Business & Social Science, 12 (1), 249-253.
• 2022. Community Perceptions on the Effects of Climate Change on Socio-Economic and Health Conditions of Dikgale Community, Limpopo Province South Africa. African Journal of Development Studies (AJDS), 12 (1), 183-200.
• 2022. The Politics of Employment in South Africa under the African National Congress: An Afrocentric perspective. African Journal of Development Studies. 12 (1), 151-168.
• 2022. Towards ‘leaving no one behind’: A case study of climate change adaptation in Mutoko district, Zimbabwe. Eurasian Journal of Social Sciences. 10 (2), 131-142
• 2021. Implications of the Marginalisation of Social Sciences in the Fight against the Covid 19 Pandemic: A Humanities Perspective. International Journal of Criminology and Sociology, 10 (1), 1533-1541.
• 2021. Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Entrepreneurship: A Case of Horticulture Farmers in Mutoko District of Zimbabwe. Indonesian journal of social andenvironmental issues (IJSEI). 2 (3), 221 – 226.
• 2021. ‘Evoking the epistemology of climate governance through Indigenous Knowledge Systems for sustainable development in rural Zimbabwe’, Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 13(1), a1024.
• 2021 Multilevel approach to climate change adaptation in rural Zimbabwe: a well- articulated framework devoid of effective implementation. African Journal of Development Studies. 11 (1) 165-181.
• 2021. Indigenous knowledge Systems based climate governance in water and land resource management in rural Zimbabwe. Journal of Water and Climate Change. 10 (2), 1-13. 
• 2021. Implications of the Marginalisation of Social Sciences in the Fight against the Covid 19 Pandemic: A Humanities Perspective. International Journal of Criminology and Sociology.10(1), 1533-1541
• 2021. The Toxicity of Welfare State: Discourse Analysis of #FeesMustFall Movement in South Africa, African Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies (formerly Ubuntu: Journal of Conflict and Social Transformation) Vol. 10, No. 2.
• 2020. Climate Change and Variability Discourse among Community Members and Smallholder Farmers in Mutoko District, Zimbabwe. Mankind Quarterly, 61(2):225-250.
• 2019. Rethinking Indigenous climate governance through climate change and variability discourse by a Zimbabwean rural community. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 11 (5), pp. 730-743.
• 2019. Climate change and variability perceptions in Ga-Dikgale community in the Limpopo province of South Africa. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 11 (3), pp. 392-405.
• 2018. ‘Adaptation measures to sustain indigenous practices and the use of indigenous knowledge systems to adapt to climate change in Mutoko rural district of Zimbabwe’, Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 10(1), a388.
• 2018, ‘Climate change and vulnerability discourse by students at a South African university’, Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 10(1), a476.
• 2017. Climate change: A threat towards achieving “Sustainable Development Goal number two” (end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture) in South Africa’, Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 9(1), a350.
• 2017. Dichotomies of chronic and episodic rural-urban poverty: A South African context. Africa Insight. 47 (1), 1-12.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• “Emergence of the wave of democratisation in Africa and its aftermath: a focus on governance in South Africa” SAAPAM 4th Annual Conference proceedings: Limpopo Chapter, 28-30 October 2015, ISBN no. 978-0- 620-66009- 9), pp.387-398.
• “Lessons from post- apartheid South Africa for a violence imbued protest culture” 1st International Annual conference on Public Administration and Development Alternatives. 06-08 July 2016 (ISBN: 978-0-620- 69682-1 print) and (ISBN: 978-0-620-69683-8 e-book). pp.273-282.
• Citizenship crisis or xenophobia? A critical analysis of service delivery protest in South Africa. Presented at SAAPAM 5th Annual Conference proceedings: Limpopo Chapter, 26-29 October 2016, ISBN no. 978-0- 620-66009-9). pp.41-48.
• Local government elections: A beacon of ‛service delivery hope’ in South Africa. International Conference on Public Administration and Development Alternatives (IPADA), the 2nd Annual Conference on “ The Independence of African States in the Age of Globalisation”, July 26-28, 2017.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• 2023. Sustainable agriculture and sustainable developmental goals: a case study of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Chapter 3 (pages 91-103). In Farooq, M., Gogoi, N., & Pisante, M. (ed) Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90500-8.00002-6