Welcome to KFG Fellow Gideon Hlamalani Chitanga

We are glad to welcome our Junior Fellow Gideon Hlamalani Chitanga at the KFG.

Gideon Hlamalani Chitanga holds a PhD in political science, a Master in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies, Part of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. A BA, and Diploma in education. His research interests include geopolitical contentions and contestations, and impacts on democracy and development in the global south, (African) International relations, diplomacy and foreign policy(ies), democratization, and democratic roll back, governance, democracy, and human rights.
Gideon Hlamalani Chitanga is visiting scholar, and fellow of the Democratizing the Developmental state hub at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape town, in South Africa, and, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Africa China Studies (CACS), University of Johannesburg. He is a former Research Associate at the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg.
Gideon Hlamalani Chitanga has worked in civil society organizations, Think tanks, academia, research, education, and the media. He is a regularly sought-after political analyst at South African and international Radio, TV channels and print media. He is a contributor to the Star Newspaper in South Africa.