Publications

Publications & Articles

Selected recent publications from academic staff in our department. Most of these works are available online through a quick Google Scholar search.

Prof. Ntsikelelo Breakfast

Breakfast, N. (2025) ‘A Foucauldian critique of South Africa’s transformative nation-building discourse’, Journal of Nation-Building and Policy Studies, 9(3).

Breakfast, N. (2025) ‘Re-imaging democratic theories: a Gramscian standpoint’, African Renaissance, 22(3).

Breakfast, N. (2025) ‘The symbiotic relationship between development theory and policy: an exploration of the influence of development studies’, African Journal of Development Studies, 15(3).

Breakfast, N., Poggi, G., Barnes, D. (2024) “Exploring Conflict Management Theory and Techniques in Navigating Evolving Coalition Politics in South Africa”, African Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, Volume 13 Issue 3, Pages 57-78.

Dr. Vusumuzi Kumalo

Kumalo, V. (2026 -forthcoming) “The Rise and Demise of Cross-Cultural Artistic Expression and Interracial Creative Collaboration, circa 1920-1970” in Magaziner, D. (ed) The Oxford Handbook of South African History. Oxford: OUP

Kumalo, V. (2025) “Orlando Stadium: The Struggle over Soweto’s First Sports Arena and Cultural Hub”, The International Journal of the History of Sport, pp. 1–20.

Benjamin N. Lawrance, Vusumuzi R. Kumalo (2021) “A Genius without Direction”: The Abortive Exile of Dugmore Boetie and the Fate of Southern African Refugees in a Decolonizing Africa, The American Historical Review, Volume 126, Issue 2, Pages 585–622.

Prof. Nomalanga Mkhize

Van der Westhuizen, C., Maqabuka, Q., Mkhize, N., Magoqwana, B. and Holtzman, G. (eds) (2025) In the belly of the university: challenging institutional cultures in higher education. Gqeberha: Mandela University Press

Mkhize, N. and Ncityana, M. (2024) ‘Depictions of Black Defiance and Sovereign African Personhood in SEK Mqhayi’s U-Don Jadu’, Critical Arts, 38(1), pp. 62–76. doi: 10.1080/02560046.2023.2227892.

Nomalanga Mkhize & Mathe Ntšekhe (2023) Ukuzwa ngenkaba: connecting with African ways of knowing through the umbilical cord, Social Dynamics, 49:3, 405-420, DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2023.2277597.

Mkhize, N. (2023) ‘Politics and Music in Colonised South Africa - The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa’s Eastern Cape By Lindsay Michie. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. 298-.

Dr. Ongama Mtimka

Ngwabeni, S. and Mtimka, O. (2024) ‘Engaging community perspectives in South Africa: evaluating public participation in the Expropriation of Land Without Compensation Bill’, Journal of Public Administration, Finance and Law, (31), pp. 320–332. doi: 10.47743/jopafl-2024-31-30.

Mtimka, O. and Prevost, G. (2021) ‘The Economic Freedom Fighters of South Africa: what do they stand for, and who votes for them?’, Africa Insight, 51(1), pp. 17–32. doi: 10.4314/ai.v51i1.2

Poggi, G. & Mtimka, O. (2021) “The Prospects for Socialist Politics in South Africa”, Theoria, Volume 68 Issue 169, Pages 1-30.

Prof. Phakama Ntshongwana

Ntshongwana, P. (2024) Who cares? The plight of lone mothers: Social security provision and autonomy, ITUTA Books: Cape Town.

Ntshongwana, P. (2024) ‘Socioeconomic transformation in SA must begin with children and be based on social justice’, Daily Maverick, 13 September. Available at: [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2024-09-13-socioeconomic-transformation-in-sa-must-begin-with-children-and-be-based-on-social-justice/]

Noble, M., Wright, G. and Ntshongwana, P. (2019) Women, work and social protection: lone mothers in South Africa: the role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity. ESRC-DFID Research for Policy and Practice. [Online]

Giovanni Poggi

Poggi, G. (2023) [Book Review] “A fledgeling democracy: Tunisia in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings” edited by Mohamed Zayani, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, $35.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978 0 197661635.’, Politikon, 50(3), pp. 306–308. doi: 10.1080/02589346.2023.2246181.

Poggi, G. & Mtimka, O. (2021) “The Prospects for Socialist Politics in South Africa”, Theoria, Volume 68 Issue 169, Pages 1-30. https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2021.6816901

Danielle Barnes

Siyakudumisa Zicina

Sidiropoulos, E., and Zicina, S. (2023). "Respect, please! Why dismantling colonial continuities is key for international reform". In The Berlin Pulse 2023/2024: Of Paradigms and Power Shifts. Berlin: Körber-Stiftung.

Melathisi Ncityana

Mkhize, N. and Ncityana, M. (2023). ‘Depictions of Black defiance and sovereign African personhood’ in SEK Mqhayi’s U-Don Jadu, Critical Arts, Special issue on Ntongela Masilela.

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