ࡱ> >@=Y bjbjzKzK 4,! b! b% $$$$$8888p$8%t" % % % % % % %$')V1%$?!?!?!1%$$F%###?!$$ %#?! %###F&!"j#$\%0%# *" *# *$#h|!#lS1%1%#v%?!?!?!?! * B : CITATION: NJABULO SIMAKAHLE NDEBELE Professor Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele enjoys international acclaim as one of South Africas most distinguished writers, critics, educationists and public intellectuals. Njabulo Ndebele was born on 4 July 1948 in Western Native Township. In 1954 the family moved to Charterston Location, near Nigel, where Ndebele completed his primary education. His parents sent him to Saint Christopher High School in Swaziland for his secondary education where he achieved the Cambridge Overseas School Certificate in 1966. After a short stint as a teacher in Witbank, he enrolled in 1970 at the then University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (BOLESWA). He majored in English and Philosophy and graduated in 1973. Between 1973-74 he read for his M.A. in English at Cambridge University and in 1983 he completed his doctorate at the University of Denver. He returned to the University of Lesotho in 1983 as Professor of Literature. In 1987 he served as the Dean of Humanities and in 1988 he became the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Lesotho. He returned to South Africa in 1991 where he assumed the mantle of Head of Department of African Literature at 91Ƭ University. The next year saw him move to the University of the Western Cape where he became Vice-Rector. Between 1993-1998, Ndebele served as the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the North. In 2000 he was appointed Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Cape Town, designations that he held for two terms until 2008. Professor Ndebele is the recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Denver (USA), Wesleyan University (USA), Soka University (Japan), Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam), Chicago State University (USA), University of Kwazulu-Natal) , University College London (UK) and Cambridge University (UK). He is also a fellow of the University of Cape Town. Professor Ndebele has made stellar contributions in the higher education sector in South Africa. He was Chair of the Human Science Research Council; Chair of the South Africa Universities Vice Chancellors Association from 2002-2005; served on the Executive Board of the Association of African Universities since 2001 and became its President in 2006. In the same period, Professor Ndebele was also the Chair of the Southern African Regional Universities Association. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the Nelson Mandela and Mandela-Rhodes Foundations. Professor Ndebele has done public service in South Africa across an impressive range of initiatives. He has contributed in the areas of education policy, school curriculum development, African language policy and broadcasting policy. He acted as Task Team Chair of the South African Broadcasting Policy Project (Ministry of Post, Telecommunications and Broadcasting), Chair of History Panel of the Department of Education, and Chair of a Ministerial Task Team for the development and use of African languages as media of instruction in South African higher education. Professor Ndebele is also a seminal actor and influence in the countrys cultural, literary and socio-political scene and he is highly respected as a public intellectual. In 1995 he was appointed President of the Congress of South African Writers, a position that he held for several years. Professor Ndebele also served as the Chair of the Jury for the 100 Best Books in Africa in the 20th Century Project. Ndebeles creative writing started to appear in the early seventies in anthologies and journals. His first collection consisting of a novella and short-stories - was published in 1983 as Fools and Other Stories. It won the Noma Award, Africas highest literary award which is bestowed on the best published book in a particular year. Fools and Other Stories was followed by Bonolo and the Peach Tree in 1992 and The Cry of Winnie Mandela which appeared in 2003. Starting in the early eighties, Ndebele presented and published a series of talks and articles that were to have a major influence on the practice and interpretation of South African literature, culture and society. A selection of the essays appeared in 1991 under the composite title of Rediscovery of the Ordinary: Essays on South Africa Literature and Culture. More recently, a collection of his essays that span literary, cultural and socio-political concerns was published as Fine Lines from the Box: further thoughts about our country. The literary, cultural and socio-political writings of Njabulo Ndebele are impressively wide-ranging, multi-faceted, deeply reflective and always elegantly phrased in ways that add to the insights, openness and self-reflexivity of his ideas. As a result, it is no wonder that engagements on aspects of South Africas social and cultural life often commence with or make some detour to Ndebeles writings. As such, his work and ideas do not lend themselves to easy summation. We can only sketch a few key observations and interventions that, in our opinion, illustrate why the works and ideas of Ndebele continue to speak profoundly to the many challenges that face South Africa in the realms of the arts, education, politics and the search for nationhood. In short, the gift of Njabulo Ndebele is his dedication to the formation of a democratic culture and society that is committed to the production of culture and knowledge that is informed by a critical and self-reflexive imagination and that can facilitate the promotion of a humanist, generous and ethical sense of self, care and conduct amongst all South Africans. It is befitting that the University confer an honorary degree of Doctor of Literature on Professor Njabulo Ndebele because he is a fine and inspirational embodiment of a rigorous, visionary, committed and ethical writer and scholar.     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