Four honorary doctorates were also conferred on Judge Narandran Jody Kollapen Nkemdilim Uwaje Begho, Mandla Langa and Professor Noel Chabani Manganyi.
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Judge Narandran Jody Kollapen.
The University is honouring Judge Kollapen, who progressed from a lawyer during apartheid to a Justice in the Constitutional Court for his contribution to law.
He has devoted his career to championing human rights and accessibility to the courts for the poor. From the outset he wanted to be a human rights lawyer to help change society.
“It was an inevitable path for me and early in my career I was fortunate to work with Mr Brian Currin who went on to establish Lawyers for Human Rights, where I later became its National Director.”
He has devoted his career to championing human rights and accessibility to the courts for the poor.
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Nkemdilim Uwaje Begho
Nelson Mandela University is conferring an Honorary Doctorate in Information Technology on tech expert, in recognition of her impactful contribution to technology ecosystems and policy development across Africa.
Uwaje Begho, CEO of the Nigeria-based Future Software Resources Ltd., one of Nigeria’s leading digital and technology solutions companies, is a renowned digital transformation and brand marketing expert.
Over the years she has served on the leadership of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group Digital Economy Thematic Group, the Nigerian National IT Software Committee, and the Nigerian Electronic Voting Think Tank.
Her accolades include being on the Forbes List of Top Ten Female Tech Founders in Africa in 2014 and being selected as one of the Obama Africa Leaders in 2019.
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Mandla Langa
Author and cultural activist was among the first in South Africa to draw on the arts to advance the liberation struggle.
After 101 days in prison, he fled to Botswana, starting his life in exile in Africa, taking part in Umkhonto we Sizwe military training camps and serving as the ANC’s cultural attaché in the UK. Returning to South Africa in 1992 he led pioneering work in the post-apartheid framework for telecommunications, media and broadcasting that could serve the interests of a democratic South Africa.
Langa has authored several books and in 2020 he graduated with a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Wits University. Among his many honours is South Africa’s National Order of Ikhamanga (Silver) for his literary, journalistic and cultural achievements.
He is currently serving as South Africa’s High Commissioner in Yaounde, Cameroon, and writing his latest novel titled A Special Kind of Darkness about growing up in KwaMashu township, where, during the forced removals in Durban his family was dislocated from their home in the mixed suburb of Mayville to a bleak four-roomed house in KwaMashu.
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Professor Noel Chabani Manganyi,
South Africa’s first post-apartheid director-general of education will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Industrial Psychology.
Prof Manganyi is also the first black South African to be registered as a clinical psychologist. A renowned scholar, he is a Fellow of the Psychological Society of South Africa – an award made in 2012 in recognition of a lifetime dedicated to psychology in our country.
He dedicated himself to the South African psycho-educational landscape, and to intellectual activism, making a seminal contribution to the black consciousness movement and black identity.
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Congratulations to all our graduates and honorary doctoral recipients!