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Dr Sizwe Zwelakhe Dlamini

Senior Lecturer
Name: Sizwe Zwelakhe Dlamini
Department of African Languages Staff  Staff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: 011 559 3611

Email: sizwed@uj.ac.za

About Dr Sizwe Zwelakhe Dlamini

Qualifications:

  • B.ed in Senior and FET Phase
  • BA Honours in African Languages
  • M.A in African Languages
  • PhD in African Languages

 Overview/bio:

Sizwe Zwelakhe Dlamini is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of African languages, under the Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Johannesburg. He holds a Bachelor of Education degree in Senior and FET Phase, a BA Honour’s degree in African languages (both obtained with distinctions) a Master’s degree and a PhD (both in African Languages as well). Sizwe is a recipient of the National Research Fund (NRF) (for honours in 2018), Global Excellence Scholarship (for Masters in 2019), and NIHSS-SAHUDA Doctoral Scholarship (from 2021-2023). He has published several research articles in local and international journals. Some of these articles have been presented in local conferences.

Research Interests:

  • African Literature
  • Creative Media
  • Linguistic stylistics
  • Socio-stylistics
  • Visual language

Supervision:

  • Honours: 7 (completed) 2 (in progress)
  • Masters: 2 (completed) 4 (in progress)
  • Phd: 2 (in progress)

Publications:

Chapters in books

  • Mtumane, Z., Dlamini, S.Z. (2022). ‘Some Forms of Repetition in N.G. Sibiya’s Essays’. In: Z. Mtumane, E.D.M. Sibiya (eds). Trends and Troops, Some Aspects of the African Languages of South Africa: UKZ Press.
  • Dlamini, S.Z. (2024) ‘Code Switching in Mqapheli Mngadi’s Cartoons’. In: Z, Mtumane, E.D.M. Sibiya (eds). Broadened Horizons: African Languages Literatures, Film, and Creative Media. Oxford: Peter Lang Publishers.
  • Dlamini, S.Z. (2024). ‘Visual Language as a Narrative and Stylistic Technique: A Literary Critique of Mqapheli Mngadi’s Cartoons’. In: N. Zulu, T. Mkhize. African Literature: Beyond the Western Gaze. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press.

Most recent journal articles

  • Mtumane, Z., Dlamini, S.Z. (2020). ‘Types of Sentences in Mqapheli Mngadi’s Cartoons’. Ponte: International Journal of Science and Research. 76 (12/1): 37-53.
  • Dlamini, S.Z. (2022). The Tenor of Discourse in Mqapheli Mngadi’s Cartoons: A Linguistic Stylistic Approach. Ponte: International Journal of Science and Research. 78 (12/1): 64 – 80.
  • Dlamini, S.Z., Maphala N.G. (2023). A Literary Critique of Some Poetic Aspects in Jabulani ‘Sjava’ Hadebe’s Music. Ponte: International Journal of Science and Research. 79 (5): 36-56.
  • Dlamini, S.Z. (2023). A Grapho-stylistic Analysis of Paragraphing in E.D.M. Sibiya’s Novels. International Journal in Social Science Research and Review. 6 (10): 270-281.
  • Mtumane, Z., Dlamini, S.Z. (2023). The Lexico-semantic Features of ideophones in E.D.M. Sibiya’s Novels: A Stylo-lexicon analysis. Wulfenia Journal, 30 (11): 61-73
  • Dlamini, S.Z. (2023). Asyndetic Sentence Patterns in E.D.M. Sibiya’s Novels: A Syntactic-stylistic Critique. Wulfenia Journal, 30 (11): 44-60
  • Dlamini, S.Z. (2023). A Thematic Analysis of N.G. Sibiya’s essays in Amalangabi. The Thinker. 97 (4) : 49-57
  • Mtumane, Z., Dlamini, S.Z. (2023). Colloquial Language in Mqapheli Mngadi’s Cartoons: A Socio-stylistic Critique. International Journal in Social Science Research and Review. 6 (10): 625-636
  • Dlamini, S.Z. (2023). A Stylo-rhetoric Critique of Rhetorical Questions in N.G. Sibiya’s Essays in International Journal of Research in Business and Social Sciences. 12 (7): 657-663
  • Dlamini, S.Z. (2023). The Artistic Significance of Vowel Elision and Ellipsis in Mqapheli Mngadi’s Cartoons. International Journal of Research in Business and Social Sciences. 12 (5): 402-410.
  • Dlamini, S.Z. (2024). Isocolon in E.D.M. Sibiya’s novels: A Stylo-syntactic Evaluation. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies: 1-10

 Conference participation:

  • ALASA Conference. (2022). Paper presented: ‘Visual Language as a Narrative and Stylistic Technique in Mqapheli Mngadi’s Cartoons’. Hosted by the University of Western Cape in Stellenbosch.
  • SALALS Conference. (2023). Paper presented: ‘Isocolon in E.D.M. Sibiya’s Novels: A Stylo-syntactic critique’. Hosted by Walter Sisulu University in Umtata.
  • ALASA Conference. (2023). Paper presented: ‘The Folktale Influence on isiZulu Cartoons with Reference to Selected Salient Features’. Hosted by Tshwane University of Technology in Birchwood Hotel (Johannesburg).