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Zimingonaphakade Sigenu

UCT

Zimingonaphakade Sigenu is doing a postgraduate honours degree in Sociology at the University of Cape Town and holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree in Political Sciences and Sociology, also from UCT. She is passionate about mentorship and believes that alongside education, mentoring is another avenue through which young people - especially those in secondary school from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds - can be inspired to strive towards growth and positive change. Currently she holds the position of Program Assistant for the Humanities Faculty Mentorship Programme at UCT. She is very interested in South African politics and in her free time she reads about it, she also reads romance novels. She has a love for theatre which originated in her primary school years when she was actively doing drama and poetry. Her hope is to pursue a career in academia and her research interests lie in languages, decolonial studies as well as historical discourse