UWC 60th Anniversary - Virtual Programme: Ntombi Wonci

Описание: Today, the Gender Equity Unit introduces and celebrates Ms Sivuyiswe Wonci. Ms Wonci is an alumna of the University of the Western Cape and a 2013 recipient of the Fullbright Program which enabled her to pursue a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) at Montclair State University in New Jersey, United States. Currently, Ms Wonci is a full-time lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Nelson Mandela University and also works as a researcher at the Institute for Gender Studies at the University of South Africa. Ms Wonci is also currently pursuing her PhD in Sociology at the University of South Africa where her doctoral focus is on the implementation of the National Health Insurance pilot in the Tshwane District. Before this, Ms Wonci worked for the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Centre for Research and Evaluation on Education and Human Services as well as the East Orange Department of Health. She is also the recipient of various international travel and domestic research grants from the National Research Fund (NRF), the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation as well as the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship.

In addition to the above, Ms Wonci is a performance poet. She primarily writes and performs her poetry in her home language, isiXhosa. As a woman with radical black feminist ideologies, Ms Wonci’s poetry is particularly centred around issues of gender, gender-based violence, social justice, politics, socioeconomic inequalities, HIV/AIDS and mental health disorders. In 2009, one of Ms Wonci’s poems on HIV/AIDS was incorporated into Reclaiming the P… word production by the Gender Equity Unit. In incorporating Ms Wonci’s poem into the production, Reclaiming the P… word became representative of all three official languages of the Western Cape province.

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