Former Alex and now a Lyndhurst resident’s love for books pays off
JOBURG – A love of books has seen a former Alex and now Lyndhurst resident, Tshepo Mvulane Moloi, obtaining his doctorate degree from UJ.
Former Alexandra and now Lyndhurst resident, Tshepo Mvulane Moloi, has obtained his doctoral degree in political studies from the University of Johannesburg (UJ) after his graduation last week.
A son of Alex residents, Mark Antony Lepoma Moloi and Dr Nombuyiselo Hilda Mvulane, Tshepo was born in Morogoro, Tanzania, on 28 February 1980 and grew up in Mazimbu in Tanzania after both his parents fled the iconic township and went into exile in 1979.
His mother left him with a caregiver at the age of two when she left Tanzania bound for Russia, then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) to pursue her studies in epidemiology and is now in the employ of the Gauteng Department of Health as a health information officer.
When former President Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in prison in 1990, the family moved back to South Africa and Alex in particular but unfortunately his parents separated and his father took up employment in the mining industry in Welkom, Free State, but Tshepo remained with his mother who lived with her family on 15th Avenue.
Tshepo and his mother moved out of Alex in 1997 when his mother bought a house in Lynhurst and lived there until 2000 when he moved to KwaZulu-Natal to further his studies at the then University of Zululand in KwaDlangezwa and obtained his BA degree in Heritage Studies (2002–2005), a B Admin (Hons) in 2006 and a Master of Arts degree in Systematic Philosophy (2010–2013).
In 2014, he returned to Johannesburg and enrolled for his Ph D in political studies at UJ, specialising on a pioneering South African scholar, Dr Es’kia Mphahlele, born in 1919 and died in 2008. Tshepo, who is single with no children, is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Studies (JIAS), which is an affiliated research centre of University of Johannesburg in Melville.
Moloi, who said his love for books and the desire to be educated drove his passion, focused his doctorate thesis on Mphahlele’s philosophy of humanism which was also espoused by former Zambian President Dr Kenneth Kaunda in his rule in the 1960s to the 1980s.
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