Contact Info

Inkanyiso Building Office 213 (KwaDlangezwa Campus)

Phone: +27 35 902 6050

Dr ZG Buthelezi

Acting Deputy Dean: Teaching and Learning

Qualifications:

  • Junior Secondary Teachers Certificate: Amanzimtoti/Adams College (1980)
  • Secondary Education Diploma: Vista University (1989)
  • Bachelor of Arts: University of Zululand (1995)
  • BA Honours: University of Zululand (1998)
  • Master of Education: University of KwaZulu-Natal (2006)
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD): University of KwaZulu-Natal (2016)

About

Zanele Gladness Buthelezi is an Associate Professor in the Department of African Languages & Culture at the University of Zululand, South Africa. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy obtained from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is one of the pioneers in publishing academic books on African language matters in isiZulu including Izisekelo Zokulungisa Okubhaliwe: Izinsizakuhlaziya Nokwenziwayo (2022) and, IsiZulu and Social Trandformation (2021) which has academic chapters written in isiZulu thus contributing to intellectualisation of an African language. She is an author of numerous isiZulu schoolbooks, an ANFASA/AGSA Award winner (2018) and a runner-up for the JVET Paper of the year award (2018)

Research Interests

  • African Literature;
  • Translation and Interpreting;
  • IsiZulu morphology;
  • Heritage and Culture;
  • Indigenous Knowledge systems

Professional membership

ALASA; SAFOS; ANFASA; ALTA

Research Databases / Publications 

ORCiD- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4330-8094

Research Gate: Zanele Gladness Buthelezi