Current: Programme Manager at Future Africa-Sustainable Food Systems, University of Pretoria.

Temporary Senior Assistant to the Governing Council of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS).

Assistant to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research, Innovation & Engagement, TUT.

Research Ethics Support, Nelson Mandela University.

Manager: Collections and Conservation Department, National Zoological Gardens, NRF.

Manager Postgraduate Office at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

Senior Lecturer: Ecology and Resource Management, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Venda.

Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Pretoria.

Coordinator in the Sustainable Environment Theme section of the National Research Foundation.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3183-2059

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