Nombulelo holds a Master’s degree in Sociology, as well as an honours and undergraduate qualification in Political Science and International Relations, obtained at Rhodes University. Her Master’s thesis is titled: Shembe Religion’s Integration of African Traditional Religion and Christianity: A Sociological Case Study. She has a background as a social researcher and has over 5 years’ experience as an educator, she has taught everything from kindergarten to university level. She has also worked with young children and spent some time teaching primary school English in South Korea. She is passionate about writing and education and believes that it can and should be used as a vehicle for change and equality. She also believes in people led storytelling and knowledge production that is decolonized and free of government and corporate control. She has also occupied a role as a Gender Studies, Classical and Contemporary Theory lecturer at University of Kwa Zulu Natal.

Nombulelo is currently working on her PhD, which is provisionally titled: An Ethnographic study on the Emerging Mountain Doctors of Cape Town: Their Revitalisation of African Indigenous Medicine and Their Struggle for Land and Acceptance in Modern Day South Africa. She is supervised by Prof Pearl Sithole and her research is housed in the Anthropology department. 

She is a member of Golden Key International Society and has also presented at the South African Sociology Association Conference twice: in 2012 where she presented the history chapter of her MA research and in 2018 where she presented her first academically published work, published by Agenda Feminist Media. In 2018 she was also involved in her first peer review process, where academic journal; Gender Place and Culture invited her to review an article titled: Art(s) of Visibility: Resistance and Reclamation of University Spaces by Women Students in Delhi

E-mail: shangent@ufs.ac.za