Staff Profiles

BSc (Hons.) Sociology

MSc Sociology and Social Anthropology

Postgraduate Diploma in Rural and Urban Planning

PhD Sociology (University of Zimbabwe)

Post Graduate Diploma in Labour Law 

Prof. France Maphosa has a PhD from the University of Zimbabwe. The title of his thesis was The Role of Kinship in Indigenous Businesses in Zimbabwe. He joined the University of Botswana at the beginning of 2011 from the National University of Lesotho where he had worked for two years. Before joining the University of Lesotho, Prof. Maphosa worked for the University of Zimbabwe where he was Head of the Department of Sociology for six years. He also worked for the Biomedical Research and Training Institute (BRTI), Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Young Men’s Christian Association as a Research Consultant and Executive Director respectively. He is currently the Department's Coordinator of Graduate Studies.

Sociological Theory

Qualitative Research Methods

Industry and Society

Sociology of Organisations

Urban Sociology

Sociology of Policing

Migration and transnationalism

The sociology of entrepreneurship

Business and society (Corporate social responsibility)

Urban and rural livelihoods

Labour studies

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)

The social impacts of COVID-19

Natural resource management

Organisational behaviour

Migration and transnationalism

Livelihoods

The sociology of entrepreneurship

Business and society (Corporate social responsibility)

Urban and rural livelihoods

Labour studies

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR).

Informal sector

Society and police work

Maphosa, F and Ntau C (forthcoming).Undocumented migrants as homo sacer: Cases from Botswana and South Africa. Journal of Asian and African Studies.

Maphosa, F and Maunganidze, L (eds.). (forthcoming). Business and Society in Botswana: London: Palgrave.

Maphosa, F Ntau, C and Seleka, M, 2019 An appraisal of participation and rural development in Botswana: The case of Mankgodi Village. Botswana Notes and Records, 51: 75-89.

Rugoho, T and Maphosa, F 2019. Socio-economic barriers faced by women with disabilities in Zimbabwe. In T Chataika (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Disability in Southern Africa. London: Routledge.

Maphosa, F and RN Morojele 2013. Changing the culture of migration? Attitudes towards education among Basotho labour migrants to South African mines, Africa Development, XXXVIII (1): 151-169.

Maphosa, F (2011) Multiple Involvements or Multiple Exclusions: Transnational Experiences of Communities on the Zimbabwe-South Africa Borderlands. OSSREA: Addis Ababa.