Social Memory as a force for Social and Economic Transformation

Muxe Nkondo is a social policy, national strategy development, and discourse analysis scholar and practitioner. He is a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs) at the University of North (now Limpopo) and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Venda, South Africa, a Harvard Andrew Mellon Fellow in English. Over the years, Nkondo has been involved in national policies and strategies in several South African government departments. He has lectured at various universities, including Harvard, Oxford, Northwestern University in Chicago, Northeastern University in Boston, University of Connecticut, University of Oklahoma, Colorado College, Denver, USA, and Vassar College. He has served on various national and international associations. Recently, he provided professional advice on curriculum development and governance by the University of South Africa, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Tshwane University of Technology, Central University of Technology, and Walter Sisulu University. He also served as an anchor for the Eastern Cape Planning Commission, Chairperson of the Gauteng ETolls Advisory Panel, and Chairperson of the Think Tank that drafted the National Framework of the Liberation Heritage Route.