Dr. Siphokazi Konyana

Siphokazi Konyana is the director of Edge Training Johannesburg, a Skills Development and Training consultancy. Her expertise in this area grew out of her experiences as an instructor in diverse training programmes in the USA, as well as from her years as a Skills and Fund manager for the Thuthuka Programme at the National Research Foundation. Koyana also consults as a researcher for numerous government departments. She was the first postdoctoral fellow in the Humanities Faculty at the University of Pretoria. She has taught in the English Departments at Rhodes and Wits Universities. She is a member of the Board of the Transnet Foundation. She holds a BA degree in Afro-American Studies from Smith College, Massachusetts, an MA in African Studies from Yale University and a PhD in English from Temple University, Philadelphia.