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Contact Info

Inkanyiso Building, Office 301 (KwaDlangezwa Campus)

Phone: 035 902 6440

Dr Khayelihle Gqibitole

Lecturer

Qualifications:

STD (Mxenge College of Education), Hons, MA, PhD (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

About

Dr Khaya Gqibitole was born in the Eastern Cape. He attended the former Griffiths Mxenge College of Education, where he obtained a Senior Teachers’ Diploma with majors in English and History. He later enrolled at the then University of Natal (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal), completing a PhD in English Studies.

Gqibitole has written several radio plays and is the author of the novel Tutaishi: The African Tale (2005). His short story publications include Fresh Scars (Kwela Books, 2004) and My Blood is Red Too (Short Story Review of South Africa, 2005). His later works include three short stories“Pain,” “Voiceless,” and “Dark Light”—published in Is My Body Not Strong Enough? Pan-African Writings and Artworks (Layla Cassim ERS Consultants CC & Redcord (Pty) Ltd., 2022).

Research Interests

  • Radio Drama
  • African literature
  • Culture
  • Gender
  • Language
  • Identity

Professional Membership

  • The English Academy Review

Research Database/ Publications 

  • 2020 – ‘Imagining Women: Cultural Representation of Women and Gender in Xhosa Radio             Plays Pre-1994’. In: Open Journal of Social Sciences 8, 265 – 277.             https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2020.88022
  • 2020 – ‘The Quiet Violence of Rape: Unnamed Survivors, Unnameable Scars’. In: Open Journal of Social Sciences 8, 86 – 104. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2020.88007
  • 2019 – ‘Black Youths’ Challenges in the ‘New’ South Africa: Education, Language and Identity             in Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut (2007)’ In: Open Journal of Social Sciences 7(12), 238 –             255.
  • 2018 – ‘Identity, Politics and Restriction in Athol Fugard’s Art: Writing and Liberalism in Apartheid South Africa’ In: Literator 39 (1), 2018.
  • 2009 – Tutaishi: The African Tale (A Novel). Published by Golden Sky Books
  • 2009 – ‘The Politics of Love in Mandla Myeko’s Apho Sikhala Khona Isakhwatsha.’ In: English in Africa 34 (2), 67 – 79.
  • 2007 – ‘Ethno-lingual issues in South African radio drama’. In: Journal of Language and             Culture 4, 205 – 210.
  • 2004 – ‘Contestations of Traditions in Xhosa Radio Drama’. In: English in Africa, 45 (2), 2002, 33 – 46.