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South African academic and writer

Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele is an academic and writer of fiction who is the former vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Cape Town (UCT).

On 16 November 2012 he was inaugurated as the chancellor of the University of Johannesburg.

As of December 2023^[update], he is the chairman of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.^[1]

Life and career

Ndebele's father was Nimrod Njabulo Ndebele and his mother was Makhosazana Regina Tshabangu.

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He married Mpho Kathleen Malebo on 30 July 1971. They have one son and two daughters. Ndebele was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in English and philosophy by the University of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland in 1973; a Master of Arts in English literature by the University of Cambridge in 1975; and a Doctor of Philosophy in creative writing by the University of Denver in 1983.

He also studied at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, where he was the first recipient of the