Degrees Held
- UPGDE (UKZN)
- BA
- BAHon
- MA
- DLitt (UDW)
Projects
Experience
- She has 24 years’ experience in academia. She joined the then University of Durban Westville in 1998 as a Lecturer. She is the former Dean of Teaching and Learning in the College of Humanities (2012-2017). She provided strategic leadership on issues of teaching and learning in the College of Humanities. She is the former Deputy Dean of the Undergraduate Studies in the faculty of Humanities, Development and Social Sciences. She is the former Head of the School of isiZulu Studies (2005-2007). She is a representative of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in the Community of Practice for the teaching and learning of African Languages (CoPAL) which forms part of the devolved governance structure of Universities of South Africa (USAF). She has supervised several MA and PhD students to completion. She has examined 13 MA and 15 PhD thesis from UNISA, Rhodes, Wits, UCT, UWC, Stellenbosch, UNIZULU and UKZN.
Accomplishments
- She is a C2 rated social scientist by the National Research Foundation (NRF). She has a Google Scholar H-Index of 10. Hlongwa is an established researcher with many publications, and some of her publications are written in isiZulu thus contributing towards the promotion and intellectualization of isiZulu as a language of scholarship in Higher Education. Her book entitled “Ukuhlelwa Kolimi” translated as Language Planning, published in 2009 is still the only book written in isiZulu in the area of Sociolinguistics. She has co-guest edited several special issues of Alternation Journal. Hlongwa is a representative of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in the Community of Practice for the teaching and learning of African Languages (CoPAL) which forms part of the devolved governance structure of Universities of South Africa (USAF). As of January 2023, she will assume the role as the Chairperson of CoPAL. She has served as a member of the Ministerial Advisory Panel on the development of African Languages in Higher Education. She is the treasurer of the African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA). She is the principal investigator in several national and international research projects funded by Andrew Mellon Foundation, National Institutes for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and BAQONDE, European Union- funded Erasmus + projects. She is also a leader of the content team in a project funded by the National Department of Sports Arts and Culture. She was appointed by Pan South African Languages Board as a Commissioner for Linguistic Human Rights Tribunal. She is the reviewer of the following international journals: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, International journal of Nordic Names (Norna), Journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (Onoma), Journal of the African Language Teachers Association (JALTA), USA. Social Inclusion (Open Access Journal). She is also the reviewer of the following South African journals: African Journal of rhetoric, South African journal of African languages, Alternation journal, Nomina Africana journal, Indilinga journal, Language Matters, International Journal of African Renaissance.
Awards
- She was awarded Mellon Merit Award for Younger Scholars in Humanities, Development Social Sciences in 2008/2009. She got a Merit Award in 2007 for 2008 for excellence in University Service and Community Involvement. In 2012 she received Bilingualism/Multilingualism award in the College of Humanities for a commitment to longstanding and sustained promotion of bilingualism at the University and National level. In 2017 she got a Morale Booster Excellence Award in the College of Humanities. In 2018 she was among the top 10 Most published Women Researchers in the College of Humanities.
Research Interests
- African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
- Language Planning and Policy
- Language and Gender
- Onomastics
- Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Teaching Interests
- IsiZulu 1st and 2nd language teaching
- Onomastics
- Comparative Nguni Linguistics
- Historical and Comparative African Linguistics
- Sociolinguistics and Language Planning.
Supervision
- She has successfully supervised many Honours research projects, 13 MA dissertations, and 8 PhDs to completion. She currently supervises 6 MAs and 3 PhD students in the College of Humanities.
Selected
Publications
Books
Journal Articles
Chapters in Books
Journal Editorial
Books
- Ramrathan, L., N. Ndimande-Hlongwa, N. Mkhize & J.A. Smit (eds.). 2020. RE-thinking the Humanities Curriculum in the Time of COVID-19. Pietermaritzburg: CSSALL Publishers. (Alternation African Scholarship Book Series, Volume # 01 – ISBN: 978-0-9869936-1-9.) pp: 209. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29086/978-0-9869936-1-9/2020/AASBS01
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N., N. Mkhize, J.A. Smit & L. Ramrathan (eds.). 2020. Technology-based Teaching and Learning in Higher Education during the Time of COVID-19. Pietermaritzburg: CSSALL Publishers. (Alternation African Scholarship Book Series, Volume # 02 – ISBN: 978-0-9869936-3-3.) pp 231. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29086/978-0-9869936-1-9/2020/AASBS02
- Mkhize, N., N. Ndimande-Hlongwa, J.A. Smit & L. Ramrathan (eds.). 2020. Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in the Time of COVID-19. Pietermaritzburg: CSSALL Publishers. (Alternation African Scholarship Book Series, Volume # 03 – ISBN: 978-0-9869936-4-0.) pp: 227. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29086/978-0-9869936-4-0/2020/AASBS03
- Smit, J.A., N. Mkhize, L. Ramrathan, N. Ndimande-Hlongwa (eds.). 2020. Humanities Subject Content and the Student at the Dawn of Digital Online Teaching & Learning during the Time of COVID-19. Pietermaritzburg: CSSALL Publishers. (Alternation African Scholarship Book Series, Volume # 04 – ISBN: 978-0-9869936-5-7.) pp:269. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29086/978-0-9869936-5-7/2020/AASBS04
Journal Articles
- Kamwendo, Gregory, Hlongwa, Nobuhle. & Mkhize Nhlanhla. 2013. On medium of instruction and African Scholarship: The case of isiZulu at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Current Issues in Language Planning, DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2013.858014. (pp75-89)
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N & Ndebele, H. 2014. Digging deep into IsiZulu-English code-switching in a peri-urban context. Language Matters Journal. Vol. 45(2). 237-256.
- Mkhize, N. & N. Ndimande-Hlongwa. 2014. African Languages, Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS), and the Transformation of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Higher Education. Alternation 21(2) 10-37.
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N. 2014. Ukufunda noKufundiswa Kwezilimi Zomdabu Zase-Afrika Ezikhungweni Zemfundo Ephakeme eNingizimu Afrika: Izingqinamba Namathuba Okusetshenziswa Kwezilimi Emikhakheni Eyahlukene. Alternation special issue No.13. 80-101.
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N & Rushubirwa, 2014 Gender reflections and inequality in African Indigenous languages; Comparative cases from Kiswahili and IsiZulu. Alternation special issue No.13. 390-410.
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N & Mazibuko, GB. 2014. Preserving Oral History by standardizing Indigenous Place Names for Towns and Cities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In i Donoda, T. & M i Montagut (Eds) Names in Daily life. Pp1336-1341.
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N & Dlamini, GZ. 2015. Ukuhlaziywa kwemizwa ecashile equkethwe amagama emizi yakwaMkhwanazi, KwaSomkhele. South African Journal of African Languages (SAJAL) 35 (2).
- Phephani Gumbi & Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa. 2015. Embracing the use of African languages as additional languages of teaching and learning in KwaZulu-Natal Schools. South African Journal of African Languages (SAJAL) 35(2).
- Ngcobo, T. & Ndimande-Hlongwa, N. 2015. Preserving and Promoting African indigenous knowledge systems through Street naming in Imbali Township. Nomina Africana Vol 29 (1&2). 113-126.
- Rushubirwa, L, N Ndimande-Hlongwa & N Mkhize. 2015. Globalization, Migration, and its Effects on Local Communities in South Africa: A Case Study of Xenophobia. Journal of Social Development in Africa Vol 30 (1). 97-120.
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N. 2015. The role of Indigenous Place Names in Preserving Cultural Heritage in KwaZulu-Natal. In Felecan, O. Name and Naming: Conventional/ Unconventional in Onomastics. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Onomastics. 533-539.
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N. 2016 Gender inequality and discrimination in South African football: Black women demand a bigger share of the pie and the limelight. Agenda.1-9. ISSN: 1013-0950 (Print) 2158-978X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2016.1191859
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N & Ndebele, H. 2017. Defying ideological odds through information and communication technology localization in Higher education. SAJAL.
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N & Ndebele, H. 2017. Embracing African languages as indispensable resources through the promotion of multilingualism. Perlinguam: A journal of language learning, 33 (1): 67-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5785/33-1-692
- Hloniphani Ndebele & Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa (2019) Impediments in promoting the functional status of African languages in higher education, Southern African. Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 37:2, 91-104, DOI: 10.2989/16073614.2019.1617172. To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2019.1617172
- Raquel Asuelime & Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa. An Overview of the Contending Narratives of Individualistic Rights and Communitarian Moralism in Ubuntu. African Renaissance. Vol. 18, (No. 1), March 2021. pp 139-153. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31920/2516-5305/2021/18n1a7
- Raquel Asuelime & Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa. Civil Society, COVID-19 Pandemic and State Corruption implications for Nation Building in South Africa. Journal of Nation-building & Policy Studies (JoNPS) ISSN: 2516-3124 (Print) ISSN: 2516-3132 (Online) October 2022. Pp163-181. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31920/2516-3132/2022/s1s1a9
Chapters in Books
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N & Mazibuko, GB. 2014. Preserving Oral History by standardizing Indigenous Place Names for Towns and Cities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In Donoda, T. (Ed) Names in Daily life. Pp1336-1341.
- Ndimande- Hlongwa, N. & Mazibuko, GB. 2016. Prospects for teaching isiZulu as a second language for specific purposes at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In Multilingual Education for Africa: Concepts and practices. (Eds) Russell H Kashula and H Ekkehard Wolff. Unisa Press, Routledge, Taylor & Francis. Pp149-161. ISBN: 978-1-86888-830-6
- Kamwendo, G. and Ndimande- Hlongwa, N. 2017. Language Planning in South Africa: a History. In Kaschula R, Maseko P & Wolff E. Sociolinguistics, Intercultural Communication and the Workplace: A South African Perspective. Wits Press. Pp63-75.
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N, Gumede, S and Hlongwa S. Time of the Writer Festival from physical to virtual platform: Lessons for online learning during the time of COVID-19. In Ndimande-Hlongwa, N., N. Mkhize, J.A. Smit & L. Ramrathan (eds.). 2020. Technology-based Teaching and Learning in Higher Education during the Time of COVID-19. Pietermaritzburg: CSSALL Publishers. (Alternation African Scholarship Book Series, Volume # 02 – ISBN: 978-0-9869936-3-3.) pp: 197-213. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29086/978-0-9869936-1-9/2020/AA
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N & Mngoma TG. A feminist approach to the naming and circumstances of prominent women in the Bible in relation to the naming of prominent Zulu women In Meyiwa T and Cekiso MP (eds) Names fashioned by Gender: Stitched Perceptions. UNISA Press. Pp 294-310.
Journal Editorial
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N & Wildsmith Cromarty, R. (Guest Editors) 2010. Multilingualism for Access, Language Development and Language Intellectualisation. Alternation Vol.17 no.1,2010.
- Ndimande-Hlongwa, N, Mkhize, N & Kamwendo, G. (Guest Editors) 2014. African Languages in South Africa’s Dispensation of Freedom and Democracy. Alternation Special Edition No.13. 2014. Pp1-7.
- Mkhize, N, Ndimande-Hlongwa, N, Nwoye, A, Mtyende, L & Akintola, O (Guest Editors) 2016. African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) in Mental Health, African Literature, and Education. Alternation Special Edition No. 18. 2016. Pp 1-11.
- Johannes A. Smit, Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa, Denzil Chetty and Beverly Vencatsamy. 2019. Special Edition No. 28 AlterNation Open Issue #04. Pp1-9
- Johannes A. Smit, Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa, Denzil Chetty and Beverly Vencatsamy. 2019. Special Edition No. 24 AlterNation Open Issue #02.Pp 1-8
- Johannes A. Smit, Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa, Denzil Chetty and Beverly Vencatsamy. 2019. Special Edition No. 25 AlterNation Open Issue #03. Pp 1-12
- Johannes A. Smit, Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa, Denzil Chetty and Beverly Vencatsamy. 2018. Special Edition No. 23. AlterNation Open Issue #01. Pp 1-7