Staff Profiles

Mrs Todani Nodoba is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies, and Linguistics. She has worked as a teacher, lecturer, administrator, language practitioner and freelance journalist. She specialises in the news for broadcasting, print, and digital media with a special focus on indigenous languages media.

Full names: Mrs Todani Nodoba
Designation: Lecturer
Qualifications: MPhil Journalism (Stellenbosch University), BA Hons Translation and Interpretation (Wits), BA Hons Media Studies (UL), BA Hons English (UL), BA Education (UL).
Phone: +2715-962-9313
Email: todani.nodoba@univen.ac.za
Office No: 23 Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/todani-nodoba-a98684246

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Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics Department of African Languages

Mr. Mzamani Steven Khosa is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics in the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education at the University of Venda.  He has an extensive experience in the higher education sector specializing in academic literacies. As an aspirant scholar, his areas of interest include among others academic writing, language acquisition impediments, and pedagogic practices in the teaching of English as a second language.

Full names: Mr. Mzamani Steven Khosa
Designation: Lecturer
Qualifications: Master of Arts (English) (Univen), Bachelor of Arts Honours (English) (Univen), Bachelor of Education (Univen)
Phone: +27 15 962 8000
Email: mzamani.khosa@univen.ac.za
Office No: 28, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics School of Human and Social Sciences

Full names: Pfunzo Lawrence Mashau
Designation: Lecturer
Qualifications: MA (Linguistics), BA (Hons) (Linguistics), BA (Media Studies and English) (UNIVEN)
Phone: +27 (0)15 962 9415
Email: pfunzo.mashau@univen.ac.za
Office No: School of Humanities Block C Building, Office Number 24

Mr Pfunzo Lawrence Mashau is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics. He has worked for over six (6) years in the higher education sector. He specialises in Sociolinguistics, Sign Language Linguistics and Legal Linguistics. He supervises Honours students in the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at the University of Venda.

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Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bZNZa1UAAAAJ&hl=en
Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mashau-Lawrence
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mashau-lawrence-7754b787/
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6604-0086

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Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics Research and Postgraduate Office – Faculty of Humanities, Social Science and Education

Designation: Part-time Junior Lecturer
Qualifications: CCBEN, BA, (Univen), BA(Hons) (UP)
Phone: +2715 962 8305
Email: hulisani.mulaudzi@univen.ac.za
Office no: 26 Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Dr Phyllis K Kaburise is a Part-Time Senior Lecturer in the Department of English. She has worked for over 40 years in the higher education sector. She specializes in English Language Structure, English Usage, Semantics and Pragmatics. She has supervised Honours, Masters and PhD students. Dr Kaburise has published extensively in peer reviewed and accredited journals. Among her recent publications are:
1) Kaburise, P., Ramavhona, G. 2018. West African anansesem as timeless conversation pieces: a Gricean approach. Southern African Folklore Society (SAFOS). 28 (1):13 pages. https://doi.org/10.25159/1016-8427/4299. Unisa.
2) Kaburise, P. Ramavhona, G. 2016. Language and climate change: a case study of Tshivenda and English. Indilinga, Vol 15 (1) pp 205 – 216.
3) Mareva, R., Kaburise, P., Klu, E. 2016. Teaching ‘standard’ English or local code-switched new Englishes in schools in ‘outer circle’ countries? Insights from selected secondary school teachers of Zimbabwe. IRA – International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies; Vol 4 (1) pp. 114 – 124

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Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/DominiqueSantos
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominiquesantos-phd-694ba436?originalSubdomain=za
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4053-3453

Department: Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics
Designation: Part-time Senior Lecturer
Qualification: BA (Hons) Univ. of Ghana (Legon, Ghana); MEd Univ. of East Anglia (Cambridge/East Anglia, UK); Cert. TEFOL (Cambridge, UK); Cert. TESOL, (Wellington, NZ); PhD Univ. of Pretoria (South Africa).
Telephone: 0159628331
Email: phyllis.kaburise@univen.ac.za
Office: SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES BLOCK C Building, Office Number , Floor Number

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Mr. Vincent Tinyiko Bvuma is a lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics. He is attached to the Language Section. He has taught the following modules at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and language usage, pragmatics, and semantics, as well as English for Law Students (all undergraduate). He has also taught the following post-graduate modules: language testing, language teaching methodology, language research methods, syllabus design. His research interests are in derivational morphology and syntax. He has successfully supervised several postgraduate students.

Designation: Lecturer
Qualifications: BAEd (Unin), MEd (TesI) (Notre Dame, USA)
Phone: +2715 962 8172
Email: Vincent.Bvuma@univen.ac.za
Office No: 19, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Johannes Maluleke is a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics. He has worked for over 10 years in the higher education sector. He specialises in Academic writing and has published articles in peer reviewed and accredited journals. Among his publications are: using code-switching as an empowerment strategy in teaching mathematics to learners with limited proficiency in South African schools and The role of multilingualism in an academic milieu at a selected South African University. He has supervised Honours, Masters and Co-supervised PhD students.

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Orcid https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1766-7824

Department: Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics
Designation: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: PhD In English Language Teaching (Univen), Master of Arts and B.A Hons in English at University of Limpopo, B.A (ed) University of Limpopo
Phone: +2715 962 8291
Email: Mzamani.maluleke@univen.ac.za
Office no: 25, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Dr Shumani Eric Madima is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies. He has worked for over 13 years in the higher education sector. He specialises in Linguistics and has published extensively in peer reviewed and accredited journals. Among his recent publications are:
1) Mutepe, M; Makananise, FO and Madima, SE. (2021). Experiences of first year students on using English second language for teaching and learning at a rural based university in democratic South Africa. Gender and Behaviour, 19(2). IFE Centre For Psychological Studies. 19(2), pp17795-17803.
2) Madima, SE and Makananise, FO. (2021). Parental involvement in Children’s accessibility to English language in selected public schools in Vhembe District of Vhembe Province. African Journal of Development Studies (AJDS). Copernicus and Sabinet and J-Gate. 11(2), pp183-199.
3) Makananise, FO and Madima, SE. (2021). Exploring the impact of demographic information on news media consumption preferences among the youth at rural based university, South Africa. Journal of African Films, Diaspora Studies, Performance Arts and Communication Studies (JAFDIS). Copernicus and Sabinet. 4 (1), pp 77-101.

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Orcid https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7158-2667

Designation: Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Qualifications: PhD Linguistics, MA Linguistics (Cum Laude) (Univen), BA Hons Applied Linguistics (UP), BA (Unisa), SPTD (TCE)
Phone: +2715 962 9311
Email: Eric.Madima@univen.ac.za

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Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics Department of Public Health – Faculty of Health Sciences

Designation: Part-Time Junior Lecturer
Qualifications: BA (Honours)
Email: maxsitsula@gmail.com
Office No: C 7-4, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Miss Khutso Eunice Mabokela is an nGAP Lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics. She has worked for over 5 years in the higher education sector. She specialises in Media Studies. Ms Mabokela has supervised Honours students. She has published in peer reviewed and accredited journals. Among her recent publications is:
1) Framing Social Deviance: A Comparative Analysis of South African Newspapers’ Representation of Drugs Use and Abuse Among the Youth in Gender & Behaviour, Vol 19, No 1, 2021.

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Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Khutso_Mabokela

Linkedin: https://za.linkedin.com/in/khutso-mabokela-aab54464

https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/ejc-genbeh_v19_n1_a4

Department: Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics
Designation: nGAP Lecturer in Media Studies
Qualifications: BA Hon Media Studies (UL), MA Media Studies (UL)
Phone: +2715 982 8420
Email: Khutso.Mabokela@univen.ac.za
Office No: 09, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics Research and Postgraduate Office – Faculty of Humanities, Social Science and Education

Mr Freddy Mahori is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics. He has worked for over sixteen years in the higher education sector. He joined the Department of English in 2018 as a part-time Junior Lecturer offering Literature modules at intermediate level. He was appointed a substantive Lecturer by the same department in 2019. He specializes in South African literature in English.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/freddy-mahori-7454a1172/

https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-7836-7257

Department: Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics
Designation: Lecturer
Qualifications: BA, BAHons, MA (English Literature) (Univen)
Email: Freddy.mahori@univen.ac.za
Phone: +2715 962 8299
Office no: 23, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics Research and Postgraduate Office – Faculty of Humanities, Social Science and Education

Dr Memory Mabika is a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at University of Venda. She is a lecturer in the Media Studies section for over 10 years and teaches various modules from first year to honours level. She is currently supervising several postgraduate students in the Department. She is a member of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education E-learning Committee. Dr Mabika’s secondary research field is in Communication, Journalism and Media Studies. She specialises in Media & Society and Indigenous Language Media. Dr Mabika has published a book and articles in various peer reviewed and accredited journals. Some of her articles which had significant impact considering the number of citations are:

1) Mabika, M & Salawu, A. (2014). A Tale of Failure: Indigenous Language Radio Broadcasting in Zimbabwe, Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, September 2014, Volume 5 No 20, MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy
2) Masehela, L.M & Mabika, M. (2017). An Assessment of the Impact of the Mentoring Programme on Student Performance, Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, ISSN 2307-6267, Volume 5 No 2, 163-182
3)Mabika, M & Dube, B. (2017). Understanding the prevalence and forms of cyber bullying at UNIVEN: a pilot study Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies (OJCMT) ISSN 1683-0296, Volume: 7 – Issue: 1 January 2017

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Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=On3kQNgAAAAJ&hl=en

ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Memory_Mabika/contributions

LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/in/memory-mabika-1b90b724

Orcid
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4499-6300

Designation: Senior Lecturer in Media Studies
Qualifications: Cert. DTP (UFH), Cert. Web-designing (UZ), Cert. Comm. & Journalism (CCOSA), Dip Comm. & Journalism (CCOSA), Commonwealth CYP Dip, BA, Media Studies (ZOU), MSSc. Comm. (UFH), PGDip HE Teaching & Learning (Stellenbosch), DSS in Communication (UFH).
Phone: +2715 962 8578
Email: memory.mabika@univen.ac.za
Office no: C7-2, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Dr Tendai Chari is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics. He has worked for over 21 years in the higher education sector. He specialises in Media Studies. Dr Chari has supervised over 30 Honours, 12 Masters students and is currently supervising 4 PhD students. He is a C3 National Foundation Research (NRF) Rated researcher (2018-2023) and is the Coordinator of the Media Section in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics and chairs the NRF Rating Committee in the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at the University of Venda. He has published extensively in peer reviewed and accredited journals. Among his recent publications are:

1) Media and Global Pandemics: Continuities and Discontinuities (2021). Journal of African Media Studies, 13, (3): 305-315., Decolonising Conflict Reporting: Media and Election Violence in Zimbabwe, 2022). In Beschara Karam and Bruce Mutsvairo (eds.), Decolonising Political Communication in Africa: Reframing Ontologies, pp11-25. Routledge; London, and Peace-Makers or Peace-Wreckers?

2) Discursive Construction of Domestic Conflict and Peace-building in Zimbabwean Media. In Jacinta Mwende Maweu and Admire Mare (eds.) Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations, pp243-263. London. Routledge.

3) He has also co-authored the following books: African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives: The Legacy of FIFA 2010 World Cup (2014 Palgrave McMillan) (co-edited with Professor Nhamo A. Mhiripiri) and Media Law, Ethics, and Policy in the Digital Age (2017 IGI Global Publishing) (also with Professor N.A Mhiripiri) and Political Transition in Southern Africa: Democratic Consolidation or Change of Façade? (forthcoming, 2022) Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=suYMbWkAAAAJ&hl=en
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Research gate: https://www.reserchgate.net/profile/Tendai-Chari

LinkedIn: https://za.linkedin.com/in/tendai-chari-41761a2a

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tendai.chari

Twitter: @chari_tendai

Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/1377706/dr-tendai-chari

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4651-0738

Department: Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics
Designation: Senior Lecturer in Media Studies
Qualifications: PhD (Media Studies) (Wits) MA (Media and Communication Studies) (UZ), BA (English) (UZ), DMCS (UZ)
Phone: +2715 962 8214
Email: tendai.chari@univen.ac.za
Office No: 22, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics Research and Postgraduate Office – Faculty of Humanities, Social Science and Education

Dr. Lindiwe Melody Pearl Mulaudzi (nee Malange) is a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics. She has worked for over 17 years in the higher education sector. She specializes in Academic Literacy, English Language Teaching and Learning and literature and has published extensively in peer reviewed and accredited journals. Among her publications are Dictionary use, beliefs and students’ preferences: the case of ECS students at the university of Venda; Teachers’ understanding of the Communicative Approach: the case of Thohoyandou English language teachers and the book chapter entitled Students’ self-assessment of their performance in relation to a teaching assessment instrument in the book “Reflections on Professionalism, Pedagogy and the Theoretical Underpinnings of Teaching Practice Revisited”. She has supervised honour, masters and PhD students. Dr Mulaudzi is the former Head of Department of the Department of English in the former School of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Venda.

Department: Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics
Designation: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: BA, B.Ed, UED (Univen), MA (Wits), PhD (Univen) Diploma in Higher Education (Rhodes) PGDIP
Phone: +2715 962 8362
Email: Lindiwe.Mulaudzi@univen.ac.za
Office No: 17, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Dr Isaac Ndlovu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics. He has worked for over fifteen years in the higher education sector. He specialises in African literature in English. He has written book chapters and supervised Honours, Masters and PhD students. Dr Ndlovu is a C3 NRF rated researcher. He has published extensively in peer reviewed and accredited journals. Among his recent publications are:
1) “Writing and Reading Zimbabwe in the Global Literary Market: A Case of Four Novelists” in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing” 57.1, 2020: 106-120;
2) “Rewriting the Colonial Gaze? Black Middle-Class Constructions of Africa in Sihle Khumalo’s Travel Writing” in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 35.3, 2020: 691-710
3) “Writing in and about Prison, Childhood Albinism and Human Temporality in Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory” in the Journal of Literary Studies 34.4, 2018: 1-17.

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GoogleScholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=_HoRRJIAAAAJ
Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isaac-Ndlovu

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaac-ndlovu-83842789/?originalSubdomain=za

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2777-6429

Designation: Senior lecturer
Qualifications: Dip. Ed. (UZ); BA (Hons) (UZ); MA & PhD (Stellenbosch University).
Email: Isaac.ndlovu@univen.ac.za
Phone: +2715 962 8361
Office no: 16, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Ernest Kwesi Klu is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics. He has worked for over 20 years in the higher education sector. He specialises in Educational Linguistics and has published extensively in peer reviewed and accredited journals. He has supervised Masters and PhD students. Prof Klu is a former Head of the Department of English. He is also a former Vice Dean of the now defunct School of Humanities and Social Science.

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Orcid https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9551-7325

Department: Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics
Designation: Associate Professor
Qualifications: DEd, MEd (Educational Linguistics) RAU (now UJ), BA (Hons) Linguistics, Ibadan
Phone: +27 15 962 8141
Email: ernest.klu@univen.ac.za
Office no: 20, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics Research and Postgraduate Office – Faculty of Humanities, Social Science and Education

Dr Matodzi Nancy Lambani is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics. She has worked for over twenty-two years in the higher education sector. She specialises in English Language Teaching and has published extensively in peer reviewed and accredited journals. She has supervised Honours, Masters and PhD students. Dr Lambani is the current Head of the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics member of the Executive Board and Higher Degrees committee in the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at the University of Venda.

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Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4878-3414

Designation: Senior Lecturer and Head of Department
Qualifications: DTECH (TUT), MA (PU for CHE), BA (Hons) (UNISA), BA (UNIVEN), JSTC (VECO)
Phone: +2715 962 8391
Email: matodzi.lambani@univen.ac.za
Office No: 18, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Mr. Ditshego Masete is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics. He has worked for over 3 years in the higher education sector. He specialises in Post-Colonial Studies, Feminism, and Crime narratives.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ditshego-masete-375b36135/
Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1093-191X

Designation: Lecturer
Qualifications: BA (Media Studies), BA(Hons), MA (English Literature, Distinction) (Univen)
Phone: +2715 962 8185
Email: ditshego.masete@univen.ac.za
Office no: 4-7, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Dr Farisani Thomas Nephawe is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics. He has worked for over 3 years in the higher education sector. He specialises in English Language and has never published in any accredited journal. Dr FT Nephawe is the current Coordinator of a Community Engagement committee in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics and a Member of Community Engagement in the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at the University of Venda.

Department: Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics
Designation: Lecturer
Qualifications: Secondary Teachers Diploma (Venda College of Education), Mphil (Stellenbosch), PhD (Univen)
Telephone: +27 15962 8267
Email: farisani.nephawe@univen.ac.za
Office No: 28, Humanities, Social Sciences Building

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Dr. Thifhelimbilu Emmanuel Sikitime is a lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics. He has worked for over 11 years in the higher education sector. He specialises in Academic literacy, Multimodal literacy pedagogy and Critical discourse analysis. He has supervised Honours, Masters and Co-supervised PhD students.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-sikitime-6308ba142/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emmanuel-Sikitime

Department: Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics
Designation: Lecturer
Qualifications: BAED, BA Hons ELT (Univen), BA Communication Science; Post Graduate Diploma in Telecommunication and Information Policy; Advanced Diploma in Business Communication (UNISA), MA SLS (Stellenbosch) PhD English studies (Univen).
Phone: +2715 962 8288
Email: Emmanuel.sikitime@univen.ac.za
Office No: 30, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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Demana Ndishunwani Vincent is a lecturer in the Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics. He has worked for over 16 years in the higher education sector. He specialises in English Language Usage and Structure and has supervised Honours students.

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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vincent-Demana
https://za.linkedin.com/in/ndishunwani-vincent-demana-43313a1a

Department: Department of English, Media Studies and Linguistics
Designation: Lecturer
Qualifications: BA (Hons), MA (Univen)
Phone: +2715 962 8363
Email: Vincent.demana@univen.ac.za
Office no: 06, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

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