Sakhela Buhlungu | |
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| Occupation | Sociology |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Transkei University of Cape Town University of the Witwatersrand |
| Thesis | Democracy and modernisation in the making of the South African trade union movement: the dilemma of leadership, 1973 - 2000 (2001) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Fort Hare |
Maxwell Sakhela Buhlungu is a South African sociology professor and university administrator. He is the current vice chancellor of University of Fort Hare and the former dean of humanities at University of Cape Town. Buhlungu's work focuses on the labour and other social movements. He has also taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Johannesburg, and the University of Pretoria. At Fort Hare, his efforts to combat corruption lead to threats that culminated in a January 2023 assassination attempt that killed his bodyguard. Before academia, Buhlungu worked as a teacher and was the assistant general secretary of the Paper, Printing and Allied Workers' Union.