Sifiso Ndlovu is political science lecturer at the University of Mpumalanga who has taught a number of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She previously held a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies (JIAS)-University of Johannesburg and Public Affairs Research Institute. Her PhD project-obtained from the University of the Witwatersrand- broadly examined intersections and divergences in the articulations of belonging to ethnic identity and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa in the culturally heterogeneous KwaMhlanga region.
She also holds MA in Political Studies, an Honours degree in Political Studies and a BA in Political Studies and Sociology, all from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests include the state in Africa, African politics, public policy, democratization, social justice and the politics of nation-building, ethnic identities, and belonging and citizenship and has published journal articles and book chapters on the politics of belonging, nation-building and Ndebele ethnicity.
She has received academic awards and scholarships, including the prestigious African Humanities Program (AHP), Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa doctoral fellowship, University of the Witwatersrand’s Council Postgraduate Merit Scholarship, National Research Foundation bursary, and University of the Witwatersrand’s Postgraduate Merit Award Doctoral Scholarship.