CAPSI is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Hlengiwe Ndlovu as Deputy Director: Special Initiatives and Partnerships.

Professor Ndlovu is an Associate Professor at the Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, and holds a PhD in Sociology from Wits University. Her scholarship focuses on governance, gender, social justice, democratic practice, protest politics, violence, and decolonial feminist thought, with a strong commitment to understanding how African societies confront inequality and imagine more just futures.

She has published extensively on state-society relations, social movements, democratic practice, and justice in South Africa and across the continent. Her work is recognised for centring everyday political agency, care, resistance, and community-making among those often located at the margins of public policy and institutional reform.

Professor Ndlovu has held academic positions at the University of the Western Cape and the University of the Free State. She has also held postdoctoral fellowships at Nelson Mandela University’s Centre for Women and Gender Studies and the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Social Change.

She brings extensive experience in academic leadership, postgraduate supervision, research development, and public engagement, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Soul City Institute and as Associate Editor of Africa Spectrum.

In her role at CAPSI, Professor Ndlovu will lead the centre’s outward-looking programmes and partnerships. Deputy Director: Academics, Professor Jacob Mati, will continue leading CAPSI’s academic programmes.

Please join us in welcoming Professor Ndlovu to this important leadership role at CAPSI.