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CURRICULUM VITAE 1. Family name : Ntsebeza 2. First names : Lungisile 3. Nationality : South African 4. Education : Phd Institution (Date from/to) Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: Rhodes University, Grahamstown PhD Sociology (Sociology) 2002 University of Natal, Durban (Economic M.A History) 1993 University of Cape Town B.A (Hons) Centre for African Studies (Economic History as home department) 1988 University of South Africa B.A (Philosophy and Political Science) From 1978 - 1980 5. Language skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - excellent; 5 - basic) Language(s) Reading Speaking Writing IsiXhosa 1 1 1 English 1 1 1 Afrikaans 1 3 2 IsiZulu 1 1 1 6. Membership of the Editorial Boards . Review of African Political Economy . Journal of Contemporary African Studies . Social Dynamics, University of Cape Town . South African Review of Sociology . Agrarian South . Socialist History, Manchester, UK . International Political Science Review . South Africa-Vrije Universiteit Strategic Alliance (SAVUSA), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands which publishes books in the African Studies series of Brill Academic Publishers in Leiden . South African Democracy Education Trust, Pretoria 7. Membership of Professional Bodies and Research Initiatives . CODESRIA . South African Association for Canadian Studies . South African Sociological Association 8. Other skills Fully computer literate, Microsoft Office user Workshop Facilitation and Programme evaluation. 9. Present position Full Professor and Acting Director, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town Holder of the NRF Research Chair in Land Reform and Democracy in South Africa – University of Cape Town 10. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Date January 2008 to present Location Cape Town Institution University of Cape Town Position Full Professor Description Research and teaching on land and governance issues in southern Africa Date January 2008 to present Location Cape Town Institution National Research Foundation Position NRF Research chair Description Holder of the National Research Foundation Chair in land reform and democracy in South Africa. This is a joint chair involving the University of Cape Town and the Democracy and Governance Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). Date January 2006 to 2011 Location Cape Town Institution University of Cape Town Position UCT Principal Researcher and Manager Description This research initiative, involves the Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town and the Democracy and Governance Programme of the HSRC. It is part of a wider collaborative relationship that is developing between UCT and the HSRC. The current joint research project is on the manner recent legislation is improving the land rights of women living in areas under the jurisdiction of chiefs in South Africa’s countryside. Date January 2004 to December 2007 Location Cape Town Institution Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town Position Associate Professor Description Research and teaching on the land question in southern Africa Date April 2003 to July 2003 Location Western Cape Institution University of Western Cape Position Acting Director Description Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, School of Government, University of the Western Cape. Date January 1997 to December 2003 Location Western Cape Institution University of Western Cape Position Senior Researcher Description Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, School of Government, University of the Western Cape. Research areas: in-depth research on Land Tenure Reform and Rural Local . Governance in the former Bantustans, Traditional Authorities, and Land Redistribution in post – 1994 South Africa. I was also a guest lecturer on rural local government, land and rural development in the Development Studies and Sociology/Anthropology departments at UWC. Participated in 2000 in the establishment of a semi-distance learning Post-Graduate Diploma and Mphil in Land and Agrarian Studies which is hosted by the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies and involves participation from academics at UCT, Stellenbosch as well as the Legal resources Centre in Cape Town. The programme commenced in 2001. I presented lectures on the land and agrarian debate in Africa and the South African land reform programme with particular focus on tenure reform in communal areas. I also gave guest lectures in the Rural Masters programme at Rhodes University since 2000. Date June 1995 to December 1996 Location Head Office, Durban Institution Institute for Multi – Party Democracy Position Research and Programmes Manager Description Conducted research on multi-party democracy and managed programmes and training on multiparty democracy in South Africa. Date February 1994 to May 1995 Location Grahamstown Institution Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes Position Researcher University Description Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Research interests: youth politics in urban areas, democracy (with particular reference to rural areas), land reform and use, and urban -rural interaction. Date January 1991 to January 1994 Location Durban Institution University of Natal Position Lecturer Description Teach Test Teach programme, University of Natal (Durban). This was students’ selection and academic development programme. Date January – December 1993 Location Durban, Westville Institution University of Durban - Westville Position Part – time Lecturer Description . Part – time Lecturer in Philosophy, Date January – December 1992 Location Durban Institution University of Natal Position Lecturer Description . Seconded to the philosophy department Date January 1989 – December 1990 Location Durban Institution University of Natal Position Researcher Description . Natal Family Project, a research project based at the University of Natal, Durban, which tried to investigate the effects of violence in Natal on the family. The project was suspended due to violence in Natal. Date January 1988 – December 1989 Location Eastern Cape Institution Khanya college Position Planning coordinator Description . Khanya College, an affirmative action university project of the South African Committee for Higher Education (Sached) Trust, which offered a year long course, including two university credits. On completion of the course, students transferred to established South African universities, such as the University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand. Date 1981 - 1986 Location Eastern Cape Company Cala Bookshop Position Bookshop manager Description . Owned and managed a bookshop in Cala, Eastern Cape after serving a 5.5 year prison term for a political offence involving study groups. 11. PUBLICATIONS Books With Thembela Kep (eds) 2011. Rural Resistance in South Africa: the Mpondo Revolts after Fifty Years. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. Published in 2012 by the UCT Press, Cape Town. With Ruth Hall (eds.). 2007. The Land Question in South Africa: the Challenge of Transformation and Redistribution. Cape Town: HSRC Press. Ntsebeza, L. 2005. Democracy Compromised: Chiefs and the Politics of Land in South Africa. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. Published in 2006 by the HSRC Press, Cape Town Book chapters Ntsebeza, L. (forthcoming, June 2012). The Re-incorporation of Transkei into South Africa, 1987-1994: Turning against the Master? in SADET, Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 6 UNISA Press. Ntsebeza, L. (with Thembela Kepe) 2011. Introduction. In Thembela Kepe and Lungisile Ntsebeza. Rural Resistance in South Africa: the Mpondo Revolts after Fifty Years. Pp 1-18 Ntsebeza, L. 2011. Resistance in the Countryside: The Mpondo Revolts Contextualised. In Thembela Kepe and Lungisile Ntsebeza. Rural Resistance in South Africa: the Mpondo Revolts after Fifty Years. Pp 21- 42. Ntsebeza, L. 2011. Traditional Authorities and Democracy: Are we Back to Apartheid? In Ruiters, G. (ed). The FATE of the EASTERN CAPE: History, Politics and Social Policy. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu Natal Press. Pp. 75-92. Ntsebeza, L. 2011. The Land Question: exploring obstacles to land redistribution in South Africa. In Shapido, I and Tebeau, K. (eds.). After Apartheid: Reinvesting South Africa. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. Pp 294-308. Ntsebeza, L. 2010. Reconciliation and the Land Question. In du Toit, F and Doxtader, E. (eds.). In the Balance: South Africans debate reconciliation. Sunnyside: Jacana Media. Pp. 85-92. Ntsebeza, L. (with Fred Hendricks). 2010. Black poverty and white property in rural South Africa. In Maharaj, B; Desai, A and Bond, P (eds.). Zuma’s Own Goal: Losing South Africa’s `War on Poverty’. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, Inc. pp. 213-240. Ntsebeza, L. 2008. The resurgence of Chiefs. In Readings in Modernity in Africa. Edited by Peter Geschiere, Birgit Meyer and Peter Pels. Oxford: James Currey. Ntsebeza, L. 2008. Chiefs and the ANC in South Africa: the reconstruction of tradition. In Land, power and controversies generated by South Africa’s Communal Land Rights Act. Edited by Classens, A and Cousins, B. Cape Town: UCT Press Ntsebeza, L. 2007 [with] Ruth Hall. 2007. Introduction. In The Land Question in South Africa: the Challenge of Transformation and Redistribution. Edited by Ntsebeza, L and Ruth Hall. Cape Town: HSRC Press. Ntsebeza, L. 2007. Land Redistribution in South Africa: the Property Clause revisited. In Lungisile Ntsebeza and Ruth Hall, The Land Question in South Africa: the Challenge of Transformation and Redistribution.