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Lebakeng, Gontse
Department: Philosophy & Applied Ethics
Research Interest(s): Structural injustice, Epistemic injustice, Philosophy of race.
Active Research Project(s): Departmental project in collaboration with Thuthukani special school for the disabled.
Organizing Departmental seminars.
An organizational committee member for the Ethics and Justice for Sustainable World International Conference.
An organizational committee member of the UNIZULU 14th FHSS International Conference.
Active Community Engagement: Departmental project in collaboration with Thuthukani special school. Organizing departmental seminars. An organizational committee member for the Ethics and Justice for a Sustainable World international conference. An organizational committee member of the UNIZULU 14th FHSS international conference.
Biography: Ms Gontse Lebakeng is an nGAP lecturer of Philosophy and Applied Ethics at the University of Zululand and a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg. She is a member of the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science and Philosophical Society of Southern Africa. Gontse’s work focuses on the intersection of gender, race and social epistemology. Currently, she is researching how epistemic injustice can help in understanding imposter syndrome as if affects black women. In 2019, she won the Lembede essay prize competition and has recently published a paper entitled The Power-Corruption Link in Politics: A Philosophical Analysis. OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development (2024).