From the Foundation

The University of KwaZulu-Natal has appointed Professor Nompumelelo Zondi as the inaugural Mazisi Kunene Research Chair in the School of Arts.

The Chair supports research in African languages, indigenous knowledge systems, literature and the interdisciplinary humanities. It rests on a standing partnership between the College of Humanities and the Mazisi Kunene Foundation, directed at preserving the archive and widening access to the work.

The Bidvest Group funded the development of the Professor Kunene Science Lab at Amahlongwa. The facility serves five partner schools in the area.

It builds on the family's education programme at Amahlongwa, which the US Consul General cited in 2016 for lifting the matric pass rate from 33% to 89%.