Mzikazi Nduna (PhD) is a freelance academic and an advocate for justice. Mzi Nduna has research interests in sexual and reproductive health, gender and sexual identities, and father (dis)connections. Amongst others, Mzi Nduna’s research outputs include 69 peer-reviewed journal articles, 3 books, 4 special issue journals, 9 book chapters. On Google Scholar, Mzi has 7259 citations and an H-index of 32. Mzi Nduna’s research contributes to interventions, and policy advocacy. Currently, Mzi consults on climate justice and gender, decolonial feminist development, gender mainstreaming and sexual harassment.

Current Research Project

Dr Nduna’s current research responds to the needs of her consultancy where she addresses gender and systemic oppression of women through a Feminist lens in the following:

  • Climate justice and gender implications in Southern Africa.
  • Gender mainstreaming in the South African public sector
  • Decolonial feminist approaches to address poverty, hunger, and inequality
  • Addressing queer programming from a decolonial feminist lens

Recent Publications

Nduna, M., Mayisela, S., Balton, S., Gobodo-Madikizela, P., Kheswa, J.G, Khumalo, I.P., Makusha, T., Naidu, M., Sikweyiya, Y., Sithole, S.L., Tabane,C. (2022). “Research Site Anonymity in Context.” Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 17: 155626462210848.

Kiguwa P., Nduna M., Mavhandu-Mudzusi, A. Bandawe C. & Mooketsane K. (Eds.) (2022). (Un)silence LGBTI experiences and identities in Institutions of higher learning in Southern Africa. UNISA Press South Africa

Nduna, M., Packery, J., Sefanyatso, K., Nkomo, T., Mdanda, S., Kheswa, J., Nkala, BA. Oliphant, B. (2022). Integrate towards dual therapy interventions for Mental Health services in South Africa. Mental Health Matters 9 (1), 23-24

Nduna M (2022). It is ‘unAfrican’. it is ‘Western’, it is ‘urban’, it is ‘learnt’, it is ‘fashion’, it is a ‘lifestyle’: The silencing discourses of Africanism. In Section 1, Chapter 2. Kiguwa, Mavhandu-Mudzusi, Nduna, Mooketsane and Bandawe (eds). (un)Silence LGBTI Experiences and Identities in Institutions if Higher learning in South Africa

For more information: www.drmzi.co.za