Francis Lewu (BSc Agriculture, MSc Agronomy & PhD in Botany) started his career as a Genebank Research Assistant in the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, (IITA). After a postdoctoral study at Fort Hare University, he joined the Department of Agriculture, University of Zululand, South Africa as a Lecturer in 2008 and was appointed acting HOD, of the department in January 2009; a position he held till end of May 2011. Francis Lewu joined the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) as HOD of Agriculture Department in the Faculty of Applied Sciences in June 2011. He was appointed Associate Professor in 2014 and he is C3 Established NRF Scholar of South Africa since 2014. In September 2018, Lewu was appointed a Professor in Plant Science at CPUT. Prof Lewu is a qualified Professional Natural Scientist (Pr. Sci. Nat) and has supervised and mentored masters doctoral and postdoctoral students. Lewu concentrates his research effort on the autecology and propagation of medicinal species and alternative cultivation protocols for field crops and horticultural species. He is an editorial member of many journals and serves as a reviewer and evaluator to the NRF and reviewer to several local and international journals. He examines many masters and doctoral theses for several universities. Lewu has published over fifty articles in several fields of plant, soil and environmental sciences with a citation index of 14 on Scopus and 19 h-index on Google Scholar.