Staff


Administration
Sethu Libala
Sethu Libala
Position: Secretary
Department: Languages and Literature
Location: South Campus
Phone: +27415041078
Email: Sethu.Libala@mandela.ac.za
Research Associate
Prof Ernst Kotzé
Prof Ernst Kotzé
Position: Emeritus Professor
Department: Applied Language Studies
Location: South Campus
Phone: 27 41 504 2226
Fax: 27 41 504 1722
Email: ernst.kotze@mandela.ac.za
Qualifications: BA, BA(Hons)(UCT), MA, PhD(Wits)
Lecturers
Andiswa Mvanyashe
Dr Andiswa Mvanyashe
Position: Senior Lecturer
Department: Languages and Literature
Room: Main Building 3rd Floor Room 15
Location: South Campus
Phone: 041 504 4090
Email: Andiswa.Mvanyashe@mandela.ac.za
Qualifications: BA-Media Culture and Communication, Honurs isiXhosa, MA isiXhosa, Dllit Xhosa (All NMU)
Expertise: Sociolinguistics, IsiXhosa for beginners, Translation, Digitalization, IsiXhosa Literature and Oral Literature
Responsibilities: IPB101, IXL201, LXV401, IPC102, LXPV121
Zoliswa Made
Dr Zoliswa Made
Position: Senior Lecturer
Department: Languages and Literature
Room: 0312
Location: South Campus
Phone: 041-5044839
Fax: 041-5042229
Email: zoliswa.made@mandela.ac.za
Qualifications: DLitt (NMMU)
Expertise: Sociolinguistics and other linguistic disciplines, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Feminism and Gender related disciplines.
Responsibilities: Responsibilities from 2023: (IAIL101), (IXLS201), (AIXL301), LXUV401, LXLV401, LXLV401, PG supervision.
Mr Ron Endley
Mr Ron Endley
Position: Lecturer
Department: School of Language, Media and Culture
Room: Main Building 0315
Location: South Campus
Phone: 27 41 5042217
Email: Ron.Endley@mandela.ac.za
Qualifications: MA (STD)
Expertise: Translation Studies / Online teaching programs
Responsibilities: Teaching isiXhosa (non-mothertongue)
Michelle De Wet
Mrs Michelle De Wet
Position: Lecturer
Department: Languages and Literature
Room: MB Fourth Floor 408
Location: South Campus
Phone: 041 504 2242
Email: Michelle.DeWet@mandela.ac.za
Qualifications: MA French NMMU
Expertise: French language and literature and translation
Responsibilities: FFL101/102, IFL201/202, AFL301, 302
Nobesutu Zumani
Nobesutu Zumani
Position: Lecturer
Department: Languages and Literature
Room: 0415
Location: South Campus
Phone: 041 504 4851
Email: nobesuthu.zumani@mandela.ac.za
Qualifications: BA (Vista university), HDE (Vista university), BA HONORS Translation and Language Acquisition (Nelson Mandela, MA in Language policy (Nelson Mandela)
Expertise: Language policy, Translation and Language Acquisition
Responsibilities: LXPV201, LXPV211. LXPV202, LXPV212, LXPV301, LXPV311, LXPV302, LXPV312, JLXV21, LXV211 LXV401, MA Co-supervisor.
Marius Crous
Prof Marius Crous
Position: Professor, Acting Director
Department: Languages and Literature
Room: 0401
Location: South Campus
Phone: 27 41 504 2227
Fax: 27 41 504 2229
Email: marius.crous@mandela.ac.za
Qualifications: D.Litt. (US) PhD(UCT)
Expertise: Literature, literary theory, creative writing, literary translation
Responsibilities: All Afrikaans literature modules (undergraduate and postgraduate), Creative writing (LEV2)
Anna Nel Otto
Prof Anna Otto
Position: Associate Professor
Department: Languages and Literature
Room: 0417
Location: South Campus
Fax: 27 41 504 1172
Email: anna.otto@mandela.ac.za
Qualifications: BA, BA (Hons), MA, D.Litt (US)
Expertise: Lexicography, Sociolinguistics and other linguistic disciplines
Responsibilities: LABV101, LABV102. Afrikaans for dieticians, LAV101, LAV102, LAV201, LAV202, LAV302, LAS401, LAV411, LAV412, LAR402, MA, D.Litt.
My site: http://connect.nmmu.ac.za/Members/ANOtto
Paulette Coetzee
Dr Paulette Coetzee
Position: Senior Lecturer
Department: Languages and Literature
Room: Main Building, Third Floor, room 305
Location: South Campus
Phone: 041 504 2266
Email: paulette.coetzee@mandela.ac.za
Qualifications: PhD English (Rhodes) [2015]
Responsibilities: lectures English Literary Studies in the Department of Language and Literature, School of Language, Media and Culture, Faculty of Humanities at Nelson Mandela University.
Maria do Céu Oliveira Vrancken
Dr Maria Vrancken
Position: Lecturer and French section coordinator
Department: Languages and Literature
Room: Main Building 408
Location: South Campus
Phone: 041 504 2245
Fax: 041 504 2229
Email: Maria.Vrancken@mandela.ac.za
Qualifications: BA Honours in French (UCT); MA in French cum laude (UCT); PhD in Francophone African Literature and cinema (UCT)
Expertise: Translation, Francophone African Literature and Teaching French as a foreign language
Responsibilities: Lecturing all levels of French offered in the section, post-graduate supervision, research and administrative duties for French section as well as for the Higher degrees committee.
Michelle De Wet
Mrs Michelle De Wet
Position: Lecturer
Department: Languages and Literature
Room: MB Fourth Floor 408
Location: South Campus
Phone: 041 504 2242
Email: Michelle.DeWet@mandela.ac.za
Qualifications: MA French NMMU
Expertise: French language and literature and translation
Responsibilities: FFL101/102, IFL201/202, AFL301, 302
Zakhile Somlata
Dr Zakhile Somlata
Position: Lang & Lit HOD
Department: Languages and Literature
Room: Main Building 0312
Location: South Campus
Phone: 041 504 4839
Email: Zakhile.Somlata@mandela.ac.za
Qualifications: BA, HDE (UWC), BA Hons, MA in African Languages (SU), PhD in African Languages (RU)
Expertise: Language in Education, Communication in isiXhosa, Sociolinguistics, Language Policy Planning, Multilingualism, Peace Linguistics and Ecoinguistics
Responsibilities: IPOC102, AIXL301, LXSV401
Andrew Matthews
Mr Andrew Matthews
Position: Lecturer
Department: Languages and Literature
Location: South Campus
Phone: 041 504 4527
Email: andrew.matthews@mandela.ac.za
Qualifications: MA (Cum Laude) (UWC)
Smangaliso Simelane
Mr Smangaliso Simelane
Position: Lecturer
Department: Languages and Literature
Room: Main Building, Third Floor, Room 0306
Location: South Campus
Email: smangaliso.simelane@mandela.ac.za
Qualifications: BSC Honours: English Literature Studies, and Human Kinetics and Ergonomics (Rhodes University), MA: English (Rhodes University)
Expertise: English literature, video game studies
Kate Jennings
Kate Jennings
Position: Part Time Lecturer
Department: Languages and Literature
Location: South Campus
Email: Kate.Jennings@mandela.ac.za