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Professor Sakhela Buhlungu serves as Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Fort Hare, a position he has held since 2017 with his second term confirmed in November 2021. He previously held senior academic and administrative roles at several South African universities, including Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town, Deputy Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Pretoria, and positions at the University of the Witwatersrand, University of Johannesburg, and University of Pretoria.
Buhlungu holds a PhD in Sociology (2002) and a Master’s degree in Industrial Sociology (1996), both from the University of the Witwatersrand, a BA Honours in African Studies from the University of Cape Town (1986), and a BA in History and Political Science from the University of Transkei (1982). His research and publications focus on labour studies, trade unions, and social movements. He is the author of A Paradox of Victory: Unions and the democratic transformation of South Africa (2010) and co-editor of COSATU’s Contested Legacy: South African Trade Unions in the second decade of democracy (2012) and Trade Unions and Democracy: COSATU Workers' Political Attitudes in South Africa (2006). He has authored or co-authored more than seventy scholarly publications in the field of labour studies. Professional Email: null
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