A social policy, national strategy development, and discourse analysis scholar and practitioner, former Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs) at the University of North (now Limpopo) and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Venda, South Africa, a Harvard Andrew Mellon Fellow in English, and currently Volume Editor for the 2013/2014 and 2015/2016 HSRC State of the Nation Publication. Muxe Nkondo believes that in modern society, whether in the arts or in the sciences or in education, there has been growth in technical skill and professional competence, but there is no necessary connection between this vast increase in means and the successful bringing about of the end they exist to serve a caring and cohesive society.
