Staff

Ms Rosa Da Costa-Bezuidenhout  – Departmental Secretary and Administrator

Office: Humanities Building 19-14
Telephone: 012 420 2330
Fax: 012 420 2873
E-mail: Rosa.DaCosta-Bezuidenhout@up.ac.za

Professor Sakhela Buhlungu – Professor
BA (Transkei) BA Hons (Cape Town) MA PhD (Witwatersrand)

Recent publications:

Bezuidenhout, Andries & Sakhela Buhlungu (2012): Shifting Boundaries of Exclusion and Citizenship: Geographies of Power in South African Mine Compounds. In: Tina Uys & Sujata Patel (eds.) Exclusion, Social Capital and Citizenship: Contested Transitions in South Africa and India. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan.

Buhlungu, Sakhela & Malehoko Tshoaedi (eds).(2012): COSATU's Contested Legacy: South African Trade Union in the Second Decade of Democracy. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 

Bezuidenhout, Andries & Sakhela Buhlungu (2011): From Compounded to Fragmented Labour: Mineworkers and the Demise of Compounds in South Africa, Antipode, 43: 2, 237-263.

Professor Andries Bezuidenhout – Associate Professor
BA Hons, MA (Industrial Sociology) [Pretoria], MA (Creative Writing) [Stellenbosch], PhD (Witwatersrand)

Recent publications:

Bezuidenhout, Andries & Sakhela Buhlungu (2012): Shifting Boundaries of Exclusion and Citizenship: Geographies of Power in South African Mine Compounds. In: Tina Uys & Sujata Patel (eds.) Exclusion, Social Capital and Citizenship: Contested Transitions in South Africa and India. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan.

Lambert, Rob, Edward Webster & Andries Bezuidenhout (2012): Global Labour Studies: The Crisis and an Emerging Research Agenda, Labor History, 53: 2, 297-303 (Response to book symposium on Grounding Globalisation.)

Bezuidenhout, Andries & Søren Jeppesen (2011): Between market, state and society: Labour codes of conduct in the southern African garment industry, Development Southern Africa, 28:5, 653-668

Office: Humanities Building 19-21
Telephone: 012 420 4908
Fax: 012 420 2873
E-mail: Andries.Bezuidenhout@up.ac.za
 

Dr  Irma du Plessis –  Senior Lecturer
BA Hons (Philosophy & Afrikaans) [Pretoria] BA Hons (Industrial Sociology) [RAU] MA (Literary Theory) DLitt [Pretoria]

Recent publications:

Du Plessis, Irma (2011): Nation, Family, Intimacy: The Domain of the Domestic in the Social Imaginary, South African Review of Sociology, 42:2, 45-65

Office: Humanities Building 19-11
Telephone: 012 420 2711
Fax: 012 420 2873
E-mail: Irma.DuPlessis@up.ac.za

Dr Charles Puttergill – Senior Lecturer
BA (Hons) (Sociology) BA (Hons) (Anthropology) [RAU] MA (Sociology) (South Africa) DPhil (Stellenbosch) HDipEdAd (Witwatersrand)

Recent publications:

Puttergill, Charles (2012): Drawing Boundaries: Inclusion and Exclusion in Conversations on Social Transformation Amongst Middle-Class White South Africans. In: Tina Uys & Sujata Patel (eds.) Exclusion, Social Capital and Citizenship: Contested Transitions in South Africa and India. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan.

Puttergill, Charles, Nolunkcwe Bomela, Janis Grobbelaar & Khumisho Moguerane (2011): The limits of land restitution: Livelihoods in three rural communities in South Africa, Development Southern Africa, 28:5, 597-611

Office: Humanities Building 19-06
Telephone: 012 420 2715
Fax: 012 420 2873
E-mail: Charles.Puttergill@up.ac.za

Ms Khumisho Moguerane –  Lecturer
BSc (Biology) BSocSci (Hons) (Gender Studies) MSocSci (Sociology) [Pretoria] MSt (Imperial and Global History) [Oxford]

Recent publications:

Moguerane, Khumisho (2007): Post-apartheid Politics of Integration at a Residential Student Community in South Africa: A Case Study on Campus: African Sociological Review, 11:2, 42-63.

Office: Humanities Building 19-10
Telephone: 012 420 3299
Fax: 012 420 2873
E-mail: Khumisho.Moguerane@up.ac.za

Dr Sepetla Molapo – Lecturer
Dip. Theo (Teologie)  [Baptist Convention College], BA Hons, MA (Religious Studies) [Witwatersrand], MA (Development Studies) [Manchester], PhD (Witwatersrand)

Recent publications:

Von Holdt, Karl, Malose Langa, Sepetla Malopo, Sepetla, Nomfundo Mogapi, Kindiza Ngubeni, Jacob Dlamini & Adèle Kirsten (2011): The smoke that calls: Insurgent citizenship and the struggle for a place in the new South Africa. Centre for the Study of Violence and Society, Work and Development Institute.

Office: Humanities Building 19-30
Telephone: 012 420 2960
Fax: 012 420 2873
E-mail: Sepetla.Molapo@up.ac.za

Ms Angela Ochse –  Lecturer
BSocSci (Psychology) BSocSci (Hons), MSocSci (Gender Studies) [Pretoria]

Recent publications:

Naidoo, Kammila, Rachel Matsie & Angela Ochse (2011): ‘Resting’, AIDS affliction and marital constraints: Engendered livelihood issues in the aftermath of Lesotho mineworker retrenchments, Development Southern Africa, 28:5, 681-689

Ochse, Angela (2011): ‘Real Women’ and ‘Real Lesbians’: Discourses of Heteronormativity amongst a Group of Lesbians, South African Review of Sociology, 42:1, 3-20

Office: Humanities Building 19-09
Telephone: 012 420 3058
Fax: 012 420 2873
E-mail: Angela.Ochse@up.ac.za
 

Ms Mariana Pietersen –  Lecturer
BSocSc (Free State) MA (Potchefstroom)

Office: Humanities Building 19-04
Telephone: 012 420 2707
Fax: 012 420 2873
E-mail: Mariana.Pietersen@up.ac.za

Ms Vangile Bingma –  Lecturer
BA, BSocSci (Hons), MSocSci (Sociology) [Pretoria]

Office: Humanities Building 19-28
Telephone: 012 420 4897
Fax: 012 420 2873
E-mail: Vangile.Bingma@up.ac.za

  Assistant Lecturers (2013):

Mr Splacgchna Chikarara
BSc Hons (Sociology) [Zimbabwe] BSocSci Hons, MSocSci (Industrial Sociology & Labour Studies) [Pretoria]

Office: Humanities Building 19-26
Telephone: 012 420 5852
Fax: 012 420 2873
E-mail: Splagchna.Cikarara@up.ac.za 

Mr Mpho Mmadi
BSocSci, BSocSci Hons, MSocSci (Industrial Sociology & Labour Studies)  [Pretoria]

Office: Humanities Building 19-26
Telephone: 012 420 5852
Fax: 012 420 2873
E-mail: Mpho.Mmadi@up.ac.za 

Visiting Scholars and Associates

Professor Adbi Samatar - Visiting Scholar, 2012-13

A.B. (Wisconsin, La Crosse), MCRP (Urban/Regional Planning) [Iowa State], PhD (Berkeley)

Recent publications:

Samatar, Abdi (2007): Ethiopian Invasion of Somalia: US Warlordism & AU Shame, Third World Quarterly, 34:111, 155-165

Office: Humanities Building 19-28
Telephone: 012 420 2408
Fax: 012 420 2873
E-mail: samat001@umn.edu
University of Minnesota Website
 

Ass. Professor Cawo Abdi -Fullbright Scholar, 2012-13
PhD (Sussex)

Recent publications:

Abdi, Cawo  Mohamed (2011): Moving beyond xenophobia: Structural violence, conflict and encounters with the ‘other’ Africans, Development Southern Africa, 28:5, 691-704

Office: Humanities Building 19-28
Telephone: 012 420 2408
Fax: 012 420 2873
E-mail: cabdi@umn.edu 
University of Minnesota Website
 

Dr Vasabjit Banerjee - Post Doctoral Research Fellow
BA (Wabash College, Indiana), MA (Political Science) [Miami University, Ohio], PhD (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Recent publications:

Banerjee, Vasabjit & Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury (2006): India and the US: Convergence and Divergence, Journal for Peace Studies 13:3

Office: Humanities Building 19-21.1
Telephone: 012 420 3109
Fax: 012 420 2873
E-mail: vasabjit@gmail.com  or Vasabjit.Banerjee@up.ac.za

Professor Jon Hyslop – Professor Extraordinaire
BA Hons, MA (Oxford) MA (Birmingham) PhD (Witwatersrand) PGCE (London)

Recent publications:

Hyslop, Jonathan (2011): An “Eventful” History of Hind Swaraj: Gandhi between the Battle of Tsushima and the Union of South Africa, Public Culture, 23:2, 299-319

Hyslop, Jonathan (2011): The Invention of the Concentration Camp: Cuba, Southern Africa and the Philippines, 1896-1907, South African Historical Journal, 63:2, 251-276

Office: Sociology and Anthropology, 418 Alumni Hall, Colgate University, USA
E-mail: jhyslop@colgate.edu
Colgate University Website

Tutors (2013):

Ms Bernadete Mendez
BSocSci (Industrial Sociology and Labour Studies) [Pretoria]

Office: Humanities Building 19-29 

Ms Nkululeko Dlamini
BSocSci  (Industrial Sociology & Labour Studies)  [Pretoria]

Office: Humanities Building 19-29 

Ms Bongiwe Gumede (skills tutor)
BPolSci (International Relations), BSocSci Hons (Industrial Sociology and Labour Studies) [Pretoria]

Office: Humanities Building 19-29 or 13-01 

Ms Mukai Jaison
BA, BSocSci Hons (Sociology) [Pretoria]

Office: Humanities Building 19-23

Mr John Mhandu
BSocSci (Sociology) [Great Zimbabwe], BA Hons (Development Sociology) [Wits]

Office: Humanities Building 19-29

Mr John Mashayamombe
BSc Hons (Sociology) [Zimbabwe], BSocSci Hons (Industrial Sociology and Labour Studies) [Pretoria]

Office: Humanities Building 19-24 

Ms Angel Malapane
BSocSci, BSocSci Hons (Industrial Sociology & Labour Studies)  [Pretoria]

Office: Humanities Building 19-24  

Ms Nthabiseng Nkhatau
BA, BSocSci Hons (Industrial Sociology and Labour Studies) [Pretoria]

Office: Humanities Building 19-23

Mr Batsile Matsetse
BSocSci, BSocSci Hons (Industrial Sociology and Labour Studies) [Pretoria]

Office: Humanities Building 19-23 

Teaching Assistants (2013):

Mr Tebogo Mogoru

Office: Humanities Building 19-12

Librarian for Sociology

Ms Gcobisa Xalabile
BBibl (Transkei) BPhil Hons (Information & Knowledge Management) [Stellebosch]

Office: Merensky Library Level 1
Telephone: 012 420 4793
E-mail: Gcobisa.Xalabile@up.ac.za