Biography

Dr Thulani Tshabangu (PhD) is a Lecturer in the Department of Languages. He holds a PhD in Journalism (2019) from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. For two years between May 2020 and May 2022, he served as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Indigenous Language in Media research entity at North West University, Mahikeng, South Africa. He has work experience cuts across academia as a researcher and lecturer and in the non- profit sector having worked in middle to senior management for various non-governmental organisations and UN agencies in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Kenya specialising in Information and Communications, Reporting, Donor Relations, Fundraising/ Resource Mobilisation, Project Management, and Monitoring and Evaluation.. He is an active academic citizen who serves as a periodic reviewer for Journalism Practice, Communicare, African Journalism Studies, Journal of African Media Studies and Africa Renaissance.

Education

  •  PhD Journalism (2019), Stellenbosch University, ZA
  •  MSc Journalism and Media Studies (2011), National University of Science and
  • Technology, ZW
  •  BSc Journalism and Media Studies (2006), National University of Science and
  • Technology, ZW.