Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi
Biographic Data
| ID | 284835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ndumiso Daluxolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Ngidi |
| SIGNATURE | NGIDI N D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durban University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5287-8531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘I Did Not Choose This’: Teenage girls and the reproductive pipeline in rural Zimbabwe
This article rethinks teenage pregnancy in rural Zimbabwe through a decolonial Afro-feminist lens, foregrounding the lived narratives of 26 teenage mothers in Shamva. Rather than pathologising their experiences or framing early pregnancy as a failure of knowledge or morality, we conceptualise the notion of a reproductive pipeline-a system through which poverty, gendered power, inadequate healthcare, and emphasised femininity converge to constrain…
Sexual Sanctions and Solidarity: Heterosexual Schoolgirls’ Negotiations of Cisheteronormativity in two South African High Schools
This paper examines how female heterosexual learners negotiate cisheteronormativity within South African school contexts. Using a qualitative design, we draw on two single-sex focus groups with girls aged 15–17 in two KwaZulu-Natal high schools. Cisheteronormativity is utilised as a conceptual lens to show how gendered norms naturalise a sex/gender binary and privilege heterosexuality while also opening avenues for contestation. The findings illu…
Charting the Global Science on Sexual and Gender Diversity Across the Life Course: Lessons from the Global Pride Study
“ Things here in township schools are different ”: Crime, insecurity, and schooling in a South African township
This paper examines how crime, insecurity, and social disorganisation affect the educational experiences of learners and teachers in two secondary schools in Umlazi township, South Africa. Drawing on social disorganisation theory and qualitative data from interviews and focus groups, the study shows how crime is normalised within school environments, while community-led safety initiatives often destabilise rather than protect learning spaces. The…
Girls negotiating schooling after pregnancy in rural Zimbabwe
Teenage pregnancy continues to disrupt girls’ schooling in rural Zimbabwe despite the Education Amendment Act (2020), which guarantees readmission after childbirth. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 out-of-school young mothers aged 16–19, this study uses an Afro-feminist intersectional framework to examine how pregnancy reshapes educational trajectories within contexts of poverty, moral regulation, and patriarchal authority. The findings sho…
They call you mother of the injection’: Reproductive anxiety in the lives of rural girls in South Africa
This article examines the reproductive anxieties of girls and young women in rural Mthwalume, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, which is a context marked by high fertility expectations and limited access to confidential, non-judgemental, accessible, developmentally responsive, youth-friendly reproductive health care. Guided by African feminist and social constructionist frameworks, we analyse how fears surrounding contraception, fertility, and bodily …
Rural girls and porn: Navigating place, gender, desire, and power
This article examines how rural South African adolescent girls navigate and interpret porn within their sexual and social worlds. Drawing on interviews and focus group discussions with 48 girls aged 15–18 years, and using the block porn/play porn framework, the study explores porn as a contradictory cultural resource shaped by rurality, gendered power, and digital inequality. Peer networks normalize the circulation of porn yet reproduce gendered …
Reflective masculinities: Black boys contesting hegemony in peri-urban South Africa
This article introduces the concept of reflective masculinities to explore how Black adolescent boys in a peri-urban South African community make meaning of masculinity in ways that defy dominant, deficit-based representations. Drawing on a critical African masculinities framework and participatory visual methodologies, the study engaged 15 teenage boys through photo-elicitation and focus group discussions to examine how they navigate gender in r…
‘Our options are limited, so we get married: ’ Girls, early marriage and health risks in rural Zimbabwe
This article explores the intersection of poverty, sociocultural norms, religious beliefs, and health risks in shaping adolescent girls’ perceptions of early marriage in rural Zimbabwe. Based on qualitative interviews with girls aged 12 to 17, the study highlights how economic hardship and gendered power dynamics frame early marriage as a survival strategy, with male authority figures often sanctioning it. Sociocultural norms, such as puberty mar…
Black Rural Girlhood and the Moral Economies of Transactional Sex in South Africa: Survival, Desire, and Inequality
This paper explores how adolescent girls in a rural KwaZulu-Natal community navigate transactional and survival sex within intersecting conditions of poverty, patriarchy, and postcolonial inequality. Drawing on qualitative interviews and focus groups with forty-eight schoolgirls aged fifteen to eighteen, the study uses an intersectional Afro-feminist framework to examine how material scarcity, emotional neglect, and gendered expectations shape gi…
Violence and Discrimination against LGBTIQ + Individuals in South Africa: Legal Rights vs. Lived Realities
Geographies of adolescent heterosexual dating and intimacy in a rural community in South Africa
Gender and school journeys: Mobilities, sexual geographies and girls’ risk in rural Zimbabwe
In rural Zimbabwe, long and unsafe school journeys expose girls to significant risks, including sexual violence, which often curtail their mobility and autonomy. Informed by the concept of sexual geographies, this study examines girls’ school journeys and how they navigate sexual risk in the context of economic volatility, inadequate infrastructure, cultural norms and male power. While previous studies have explored the gendered risks associated …
Geographies of masculinities: Young men, inequality, and space in the township
Early Marriage in Rural Zimbabwe: Girls, Constrained Agency and Sociocultural Barriers
In this article, we explore the sociocultural constraints that undermine rural adolescent girls’ agency in resisting early child marriage in a gender-unequal context in Zimbabwe. Drawing on interviews with 20 rural high school girls aged 14 to 17, we analyze how intersecting forces—patriarchal authority, family control, economic precarity, and institutional complicity curtail girls’ autonomy. Findings reveal how fear of familial rejection, the la…
Becoming 'Fully a Boy: Ukufikisana and the Construction of Masculinities in a South African Urban Township High School
This paper examines a phenomenon called ukufikisana , a school-related initiation practice where senior boys assert dominance through violence and intimidation over junior boys, shaping two distinct masculine identities. Senior boys embody hegemonic masculinity, marked by physical power, control, and social authority, while junior boys are relegated to a subordinated masculinity, characterized by enforced submission and vulnerability. The paper d…
Beyond controversy – International perspectives on sexual and reproductive health education
Girls’ experiences of cellphone porn use in South Africa and their accounts of sexual risk in the classroom
Violence remains a persistent challenge in South African schools, prompting investigations into underlying risk factors and mitigation strategies. However, an under-explored aspect of this violence is the potential link between the consumption of Internet porn via cellphones among girls and boys, and girls’ risks to sexual violence inside the classroom. To address this gap, we used focus group discussions with 14–17-year-old South African girls t…
Adultification, neglect and sexual abuse at home: Selected narratives of orphaned girls in KwaMashu, South Africa
This paper explores two orphaned girls' accounts of victimization and vulnerability to child sexual abuse in their family homes. Interviews with these girls revealed a trend of neglect, adversity and processes of adultification which involved accounts of sexual abuse within their family homes. According to the data, the participants are vulnerable and they experience victimization as they are routinely sexually abused by older male relatives and …
South African Rural Girls’ Safety Strategies on the School Journey
In this article, we use data generated through photovoice and focus group discussions to examine how primary school girls from two resource-poor and high-risk rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, negotiate their safety on the dangerous journey to and from school. Our findings show that girls actively identify and apply specific safe-seeking strategies by drawing on available community and interpersonal resources as they navigate thei…
Geographies of school-related gender-based violence: Children's visual accounts of school toilets
We report on a qualitative study that engaged learners in understanding their experiences of school-related gender-based violence in and around their school toilets in a township high school in South Africa. The study used photovoice to address the research question. In this paper, we do a close reading of the photovoice images produced by the participants to uncover the meanings they communicate. In their images, participants presented school to…
The geographies of sexual violence in education: A photovoice study in and around a South African township secondary school
This paper centers on the voices of adolescent school children to examine the geographies of sexual violence in a South African township secondary school. In doing so, I analyze data generated through photovoice to show how school children identified and described school-related geographies of sexual violence. Using their visual artifacts, adolescents identified certain spaces as ‘hotspots’ for sexual violence, and these spaces, in turn, shaped t…
Mapping the unsafe school journey: Rural primary school children’s perspectives on dangerous social geographies in South Africa
I feel scared of being a girl”: Adolescent girls’ conversations about heteropatriarchal sexual violence in South African townships
They abduct us and rape us: Adolescents' participatory visual reflections of their vulnerability to sexual violence in South African townships
They abduct us and rape us: Adolescents' participatory visual reflections of their vulnerability to sexual violence in South African townships
I feel scared of being a girl”: Adolescent girls’ conversations about heteropatriarchal sexual violence in South African townships
Exploring queerphobic geographies in Southern Africa
Space in Southern African countries is continuously constructed as heterosexual, putting queer individuals at risk of violence. This paper explores the experiences of queer men and transwomen in spaces that they have identified as queerphobic and violent in South Africa and Namibia. In an effort to locate geographies of queerphobic violence, the paper focuses on how queer men and transwomen are prone to both implicit and explicit violence in thes…
Geographies of school-related gender-based violence: Children's visual accounts of school toilets
We report on a qualitative study that engaged learners in understanding their experiences of school-related gender-based violence in and around their school toilets in a township high school in South Africa. The study used photovoice to address the research question. In this paper, we do a close reading of the photovoice images produced by the participants to uncover the meanings they communicate. In their images, participants presented school to…
Mapping the unsafe school journey: Rural primary school children’s perspectives on dangerous social geographies in South Africa
The geographies of sexual violence in education: A photovoice study in and around a South African township secondary school
This paper centers on the voices of adolescent school children to examine the geographies of sexual violence in a South African township secondary school. In doing so, I analyze data generated through photovoice to show how school children identified and described school-related geographies of sexual violence. Using their visual artifacts, adolescents identified certain spaces as ‘hotspots’ for sexual violence, and these spaces, in turn, shaped t…
Qualitative evaluation of selected social factors that impact sexual risk-taking behaviour among African students in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
BACKGROUND: The incidence of HIV and AIDS continues to be a source of great concern within universities in South Africa. Furthermore, university students constitute an important community in the intervention against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Students in the age group of 15-24 years are at a greater risk of HIV infection than any other group in the country; yet, little is known about why they continue to engage in risky sexual practices. OBJECTIVES: …
Using transformative pedagogies for the prevention of gender-based violence: Reflections from a secondary school-based intervention
This article describes an initiative aimed at addressing gender violence, and in particular sexual violence. Implemented in 2014 in a township secondary school in Durban, the initiative involved six peer educators from the Durban University of Technology and 10 from the secondary school. In its design, the initiative has drawn from what might be called ‘transformative pedagogies’. Moreover, located more broadly within feminist pedagogies, the pro…
Geographies of adolescent heterosexual dating and intimacy in a rural community in South Africa
Becoming 'Fully a Boy: Ukufikisana and the Construction of Masculinities in a South African Urban Township High School
This paper examines a phenomenon called ukufikisana , a school-related initiation practice where senior boys assert dominance through violence and intimidation over junior boys, shaping two distinct masculine identities. Senior boys embody hegemonic masculinity, marked by physical power, control, and social authority, while junior boys are relegated to a subordinated masculinity, characterized by enforced submission and vulnerability. The paper d…
Using transformative pedagogies for the prevention of gender-based violence: Reflections from a secondary school-based intervention
This article describes an initiative aimed at addressing gender violence, and in particular sexual violence. Implemented in 2014 in a township secondary school in Durban, the initiative involved six peer educators from the Durban University of Technology and 10 from the secondary school. In its design, the initiative has drawn from what might be called ‘transformative pedagogies’. Moreover, located more broadly within feminist pedagogies, the pro…
Qualitative evaluation of selected social factors that impact sexual risk-taking behaviour among African students in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
BACKGROUND: The incidence of HIV and AIDS continues to be a source of great concern within universities in South Africa. Furthermore, university students constitute an important community in the intervention against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Students in the age group of 15-24 years are at a greater risk of HIV infection than any other group in the country; yet, little is known about why they continue to engage in risky sexual practices. OBJECTIVES: …
Is the HIV epidemic changing views on marriage aspirations? Perspectives of university students in Durban, South Africa
Marriage rates in South Africa have dropped to approximately 37% in recent years. This is particularly marked in the Black African population compared to other race groups. In tandem, the prevalence of HIV in this country has risen to 12.7%, with the highest prevalence among Black Africans. However, no data associates marriage decline with high HIV prevalence. We bridge this gap in knowledge by investigating young students' aspirations to marry i…
Using photovoice to engage orphans to explore sexual violence in and around a township secondary school in South Africa
This article examines the vulnerability of orphans to sexual violence in and around their township secondary school. Using photovoice as a methodology with which to unearth these experiences and narratives, we examine how such an approach might engage the voices of orphans to inform thinking regarding sexual violence. Our analysis was informed by our desire to engage learners as critical and creative thinkers who are capable of grounding and thin…
Exploring queerphobic geographies in Southern Africa
Space in Southern African countries is continuously constructed as heterosexual, putting queer individuals at risk of violence. This paper explores the experiences of queer men and transwomen in spaces that they have identified as queerphobic and violent in South Africa and Namibia. In an effort to locate geographies of queerphobic violence, the paper focuses on how queer men and transwomen are prone to both implicit and explicit violence in thes…
They abduct us and rape us: Adolescents' participatory visual reflections of their vulnerability to sexual violence in South African townships
Mapping the unsafe school journey: Rural primary school children’s perspectives on dangerous social geographies in South Africa
I feel scared of being a girl”: Adolescent girls’ conversations about heteropatriarchal sexual violence in South African townships
Adultification, neglect and sexual abuse at home: Selected narratives of orphaned girls in KwaMashu, South Africa
This paper explores two orphaned girls' accounts of victimization and vulnerability to child sexual abuse in their family homes. Interviews with these girls revealed a trend of neglect, adversity and processes of adultification which involved accounts of sexual abuse within their family homes. According to the data, the participants are vulnerable and they experience victimization as they are routinely sexually abused by older male relatives and …
South African Rural Girls’ Safety Strategies on the School Journey
In this article, we use data generated through photovoice and focus group discussions to examine how primary school girls from two resource-poor and high-risk rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, negotiate their safety on the dangerous journey to and from school. Our findings show that girls actively identify and apply specific safe-seeking strategies by drawing on available community and interpersonal resources as they navigate thei…
Geographies of school-related gender-based violence: Children's visual accounts of school toilets
We report on a qualitative study that engaged learners in understanding their experiences of school-related gender-based violence in and around their school toilets in a township high school in South Africa. The study used photovoice to address the research question. In this paper, we do a close reading of the photovoice images produced by the participants to uncover the meanings they communicate. In their images, participants presented school to…
The geographies of sexual violence in education: A photovoice study in and around a South African township secondary school
This paper centers on the voices of adolescent school children to examine the geographies of sexual violence in a South African township secondary school. In doing so, I analyze data generated through photovoice to show how school children identified and described school-related geographies of sexual violence. Using their visual artifacts, adolescents identified certain spaces as ‘hotspots’ for sexual violence, and these spaces, in turn, shaped t…
Beyond controversy – International perspectives on sexual and reproductive health education
Girls’ experiences of cellphone porn use in South Africa and their accounts of sexual risk in the classroom
Violence remains a persistent challenge in South African schools, prompting investigations into underlying risk factors and mitigation strategies. However, an under-explored aspect of this violence is the potential link between the consumption of Internet porn via cellphones among girls and boys, and girls’ risks to sexual violence inside the classroom. To address this gap, we used focus group discussions with 14–17-year-old South African girls t…
‘Our options are limited, so we get married: ’ Girls, early marriage and health risks in rural Zimbabwe
This article explores the intersection of poverty, sociocultural norms, religious beliefs, and health risks in shaping adolescent girls’ perceptions of early marriage in rural Zimbabwe. Based on qualitative interviews with girls aged 12 to 17, the study highlights how economic hardship and gendered power dynamics frame early marriage as a survival strategy, with male authority figures often sanctioning it. Sociocultural norms, such as puberty mar…
Black Rural Girlhood and the Moral Economies of Transactional Sex in South Africa: Survival, Desire, and Inequality
This paper explores how adolescent girls in a rural KwaZulu-Natal community navigate transactional and survival sex within intersecting conditions of poverty, patriarchy, and postcolonial inequality. Drawing on qualitative interviews and focus groups with forty-eight schoolgirls aged fifteen to eighteen, the study uses an intersectional Afro-feminist framework to examine how material scarcity, emotional neglect, and gendered expectations shape gi…
Violence and Discrimination against LGBTIQ + Individuals in South Africa: Legal Rights vs. Lived Realities
Geographies of adolescent heterosexual dating and intimacy in a rural community in South Africa
Gender and school journeys: Mobilities, sexual geographies and girls’ risk in rural Zimbabwe
In rural Zimbabwe, long and unsafe school journeys expose girls to significant risks, including sexual violence, which often curtail their mobility and autonomy. Informed by the concept of sexual geographies, this study examines girls’ school journeys and how they navigate sexual risk in the context of economic volatility, inadequate infrastructure, cultural norms and male power. While previous studies have explored the gendered risks associated …
Geographies of masculinities: Young men, inequality, and space in the township
Early Marriage in Rural Zimbabwe: Girls, Constrained Agency and Sociocultural Barriers
In this article, we explore the sociocultural constraints that undermine rural adolescent girls’ agency in resisting early child marriage in a gender-unequal context in Zimbabwe. Drawing on interviews with 20 rural high school girls aged 14 to 17, we analyze how intersecting forces—patriarchal authority, family control, economic precarity, and institutional complicity curtail girls’ autonomy. Findings reveal how fear of familial rejection, the la…
Becoming 'Fully a Boy: Ukufikisana and the Construction of Masculinities in a South African Urban Township High School
This paper examines a phenomenon called ukufikisana , a school-related initiation practice where senior boys assert dominance through violence and intimidation over junior boys, shaping two distinct masculine identities. Senior boys embody hegemonic masculinity, marked by physical power, control, and social authority, while junior boys are relegated to a subordinated masculinity, characterized by enforced submission and vulnerability. The paper d…
‘I Did Not Choose This’: Teenage girls and the reproductive pipeline in rural Zimbabwe
This article rethinks teenage pregnancy in rural Zimbabwe through a decolonial Afro-feminist lens, foregrounding the lived narratives of 26 teenage mothers in Shamva. Rather than pathologising their experiences or framing early pregnancy as a failure of knowledge or morality, we conceptualise the notion of a reproductive pipeline-a system through which poverty, gendered power, inadequate healthcare, and emphasised femininity converge to constrain…
Sexual Sanctions and Solidarity: Heterosexual Schoolgirls’ Negotiations of Cisheteronormativity in two South African High Schools
This paper examines how female heterosexual learners negotiate cisheteronormativity within South African school contexts. Using a qualitative design, we draw on two single-sex focus groups with girls aged 15–17 in two KwaZulu-Natal high schools. Cisheteronormativity is utilised as a conceptual lens to show how gendered norms naturalise a sex/gender binary and privilege heterosexuality while also opening avenues for contestation. The findings illu…
Charting the Global Science on Sexual and Gender Diversity Across the Life Course: Lessons from the Global Pride Study
Sociology (16 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (8 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (8 works) · Sexual violence (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Medicine (6 works)