Noel Chabani Manganyi


Noel Chabani Manganyi was a South African professor of forensic psychology.

Early life and education

Noel Chabani Manganyi was born around 13 March 1940 in Mavambe. There, he was raised by his mother and attended a one-classroom school for a year. His father had remarried and migrated to Johannesburg for work. After completing his early education, he enrolled at the University of Limpopo, then affiliated with the University of South Africa, earning his bachelor of arts in 1963, bachelor of psychology in 1965, and later his master's, and PhD degrees there. From 1973 to 1975, he completed a fellowship in clinical psychology from the Yale School of Medicine, under the supervision of Daniel Levinson.

Career

In 1976, Manganyi established the department of psychology at the University of Transkei, and later joined the University of the Witwatersrand.
Manganyi's work covered psychology with a focus on Black subjectivity under apartheid, as well as on memory, biography, exile, and political violence. His biographies included that of Es'kia Mphahlele, Gerard Sekoto, and Dumile Feni. He also contributed his knowledge and insight to public institutions in South Africa. In 1973 he published a small book titled Being Black in the World, containing the essay Us and Them, followed by Mashangu's Reveries and other Essays in 1977. In 2016 he published his memoir titled Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist. From 1994, he held several senior posts in education and academia, including Director-General of the national Department of Education under Sibusiso Bengu in Mandela's government, vice-chancellor of the University of the North, vice-chancellor of the University of Pretoria from 1999 to 2003, vice-principal of that university from 2003 to 2006, and chairperson of the Council on Higher Education.

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