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Department of Marketing, Retail Business and Sport Management
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STAFF COMPLEMENT:
The department has dedicated staff members who are affiliated to professional bodies such as the Marketing Association of South Africa (MASA), the Southern African Institute of Management Scientists (SAIMS) and the Southern African Marketing Research Association (SAMRA).
The curriculum is regularly updated in consultation with various stakeholders included in our advisory boards, specialist consultations and other industry benchmarking initiatives to ensure that the needs of industry are met and reflect contemporary trends across the marketing, retailing and sport management disciplines.
Office of the Head of Department
PROF NOBUKHOSI DLODLO
PhD: Marketing Management
Specialisation: Consumer perceived value in online/digital domains
Personal statement: I seek to serve faithfully and ethically while demonstrating excellence, justice and a graceful posture throughout the journey.
MR RICHARD AKANI MASHABA
AD: MANAGEMENT & BTECH Business Administration
Specialisation: Personnel Management & General Administration
Personal statement: My mission is to deliver an efficient office and become a responsive and agile problem-solver for the team.
Senior lecturers
DR XITSHEMBHISO DIFFERENCE CHAUKE
DPhil: Business Sciences (Marketing)
Specialisation: Green Marketing & Sustainability
Personal statement: My mission is to enhance quality learning, foster intellectual growth in my students, encourage engaged and creative minds through ongoing and daily student-centred active-learning lessons. Achievement of this mission will lead to my students becoming independent and critical thinkers.
DR MANTI MOTALE
PhD: Marketing Management
Specialisation: Consumer studies & Social media marketing
Personal statement: My goal is to provide my students with the very best learning experience/s to hone and elevate their skills.
DR ELMARIE STRYDOM
PhD: Marketing Management
Specialisation: Customer value; Services Marketing and Retailing
Personal statement: My aim is to facilitate each student’s discovery of their ultimate personal value and their potential as future contributors to the world.
DR SUMARI TESNEAR
PhD: Recreation Sciences
Specialisation: Consumer Studies in Leisure (including Sport, Recreation and Tourism)
Personal statement: I strive to facilitate the self-development of youth for self-actualisation to occur. I want people to experience life to the fullest and to become the best they can be.
Lecturers
DR PAULIN LENTEU
Lecturer
D Tech: Marketing
Specialisation: Brand management and digital marketing
Personal statement: My goal is to help our students develop their communities by transferring the most relevant business and skills.
MS NOKUTHULA MTSHALI
Lecturer
Personal statement: I foster a pedagogically supportive learning environment that integrates enjoyment and intellectual rigour, to deliver an engaging educational experience.
MR PEACE MABASA
Lecturer
Master of Management: Business Administration (Cum laude)
Specialisation: Sport Consumption Motives
Personal statement: As a facilitator, I believe that I am here to not only provide knowledge and insight into the subjects I teach, but to guide, mentor and inspire.
MR THEBE MAGAPA
Lecturer
Master of Business (Marketing specialisation)
Specialisation: Permission Marketing, Direct Marketing and Green Energy Marketing.
Personal statement: My goal is to help students realise their potential through guidance, mentoring and a Student-centred approach.
MR MDUMISO MAZIBUKO
Lecturer
M Tech: Marketing (Cum Laude)
Specialisation: eWOM Credibility
Personal statement: I dedicate my profession to students so they can get quality education.
MR LEGODI PHOKWANE
Lecturer
MCom: Business Management
Specialisation: Marketing strategy, SMEs and social media marketing
Personal statement: My goal is to make a positive contribution to the academic wellbeing of others.
MS BHEKIWE SIMELANE
Lecturer
Specialisation: Retailing and Service Quality
Personal statement: I nurture students’ abilities and seek to accentuate their potential by imparting an industry-based perspective, that advances innovativeness, responsiveness and adaptability in the retailing sector.
Ms MARGELIZE WILLIAMS
MCom: Business Management
MR OSWELL CHIDHUZA
Lecturer
M Tech: Marketing
Specialisation: Digital Sensory Marketing and Consumer behaviour
Personal Statement: I am dedicated to inspiring students and developing the next generation of leaders while promoting effective and competitive marketing practices in and out of the classroom.
Mr Confidence Booi
Lecturer
Personal statement: I live as if I were to die tomorrow but learn as if I were to live forever.
MR ROY SHAMHUYENHANZVA
Lecturer
M. Comm Marketing Management
Personal statement: I strongly believe in the empowerment of students to realise their full potential, become more knowledgeable and skilled.
MR ITANI RAMUTHIVHELI
Lecturer
Specialisation: Brand communication and service quality
Personal statement: I am committed towards improving the lives of students and making a difference in the community.
MR HUGH THABANG MOTAU
Lecturer
Personal statement: My aim is to empower students with the knowledge and understanding needed to be competent in the world of work.
Junior lecturers
MR LUCKY MOGWASA
BTech: Marketing
Specialisation: Consumer decision-making within retail settings.
Personal statement: My aim is to nurture talent(s) and equip students with the necessary tools to thrive within the corporate landscape.
MS THOLOANA PEU
Post-graduate diploma: Sport Management
Specialisation: Sport management & Sport and Recreation
Personal statement: I aim to serve and guide students through empowering them with knowledge and skills necessary for the industry.
MS NOMALANGA DLAMINI
PGD: Retail Business Management Masters Student
MR THULANI MAPHANGA
Appointed under the W&RSETA Retail Leadership Chair PGD: Marketing Management