Prof. Tinyiko Maluleke

Born and bred in Soweto, Prof Tinyiko Maluleke is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Tshwane University of Technology. 

For two decades, he served in the following executive management roles in the South African higher education sector: 

• Deputy Executive Dean, Dean, Executive Director (Research) and Deputy Registrar at UNISA; 
• Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Internationalisation, Student Affairs and Advancement), University of Johannesburg; 
• Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor and Principal at the University of Pretoria 

As part of his science advocacy and community engagement, Prof Tinyiko Maluleke is a non-executive director of the MTN South Africa Foundation and the Deputy Chairperson of the National Planning Commission. He was recently appointed to the Sixth Umalusi Council for General and Further Education and Training Quality Assurance. 

For multiple times he has been on the panel of judges for the most prestigious non-fiction book prize in South Africa – the Sunday Times Alan Paton book prize. He has also served on the panel of judges for the non-fiction book prize of the National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences. 

Professor Tinyiko Maluleke is a well published scholar in his area of expertise and one of the most well rounded and interdisciplinary scholar of the humanities and social sciences. 

The South African National Research Foundation currently rates Prof Maluleke at the level of B1 as a researcher. This means that while all of the peer reviewers of his research outputs agreed that he is an internationally acclaimed researcher, some of them actually rated him as a leader in his field. He is also an elected member of the South African Academy of Science. 

Prof Maluleke has been a visiting professor and/or research fellow at: 

• Hamburg University, Germany 
• University of Vienna, Austria 
• University of Nairobi, Kenya 
• Calvin University, USA 
• University of Helsinki, Finland 
• University of Lausanne, Switzerland 
• University of Lund, Sweden 
• University of Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz, Germany 
• Emory University, Atlanta, USA. 

In addition to his many accolades and scholarly publications, Prof Maluleke also disseminates his knowledge through the regular publication of opinion pieces in media platforms such as, The Mail and Guardian, Sunday Independent, Sunday World, as well as various television and radio stations.