I have dedicated my academic and professional career to advancing language education, literacy development, multilingualism, and African language scholarship in South Africa. I began my career at Potchefstroom Onderwys Kollege, where I lectured in Library and Information Science and coordinated activities of the then Teachers’ Centre.
Muchativugwa Liberty Hove is a Full Professor in Applied English Language Studies & Literature in English at North-West University and formerly a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Limpopo. He is Director for the Research Incubation Hub and formerly Deputy Director in the School for Literature and Language Education.
Kotie Kaiser is an associate professor and the Deputy Dean for Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Education at the North-West University in South Africa. Her work focuses teacher professional development and on the teaching and learning of English as a second language within the multilingual context of 21st century South Africa.
Dr Lucé Pretorius is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at North-West University’s Vanderbijlpark Campus. She holds a PhD in Social Work and her work focuses on client violence, workplace wellbeing, the safety of social service professionals, social work education, policy development and the digitalisation of social work practice. Her research has contributed to the development of knowledge on how South African social workers experience client violence and how policy frameworks can be strengthened to improve their protection.