Name: Lindokuhle Mandyoli
Phone: + 27 (0) 46 603 8083
Email: lindokuhle.mandyoli@ru.ac.za

Biography

Lindokuhle Mandyoli is a Lecturer in the Political and International Studies Department at Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa. He has obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Master of Arts in Political Studies and recently his PhD degree at UWC. He was a student leader at UWC for a period of 6 years – which is where his interest in understanding the relations of power in society stems. He served as the Deputy Secretary and Deputy President of the SRC in the years 2012/13 and 2014/15 respectively.

He is a recipient of the Centre for Humanities Research PhD Fellowship in the National Research Foundation’s Flagship for Critical African Humanities and the UWC DVC Research & Innovation’s Developing Early Career Researchers award. In his PhD research, he investigated the hegemonic continuities in democratic South Africa through the lens of the state’s response to dissent. Drawing a comparison between the 1976 Uprisings and the 2015 #FeesMustFall movement in South Africa, he explores how hegemony manifests itself differently in both these moments, while under a consistent logic of capitalist hegemony in two qualitatively different regimes. Nowadays, he is occupied with thinking critically against the growing acceptance of the “Rainbow Nation” as the end of freedom and possibility. 

Publications

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