Female Academic Leaders Fellowship NPC mourns the passing of Professor Keo Motaung
12 November 2025 It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news of the passing of Prof Keolebogile
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107
Number of Chancellors Fellows
17
Number of Associate Professors
21
Leadership Positions
149
Number of publications (2021-2025)
247
Masters Students supervised and graduated
58
PhD students supervised and graduated
WHO ARE WE ?
About Us
Female Academic Leaders Fellowship (FALF) NPC is a non-profit company that seeks to develop a pipeline of women academic leaders, using an intersectional lens to ensure no demographic group is left behind. Based on the Ministerial Task Team Report (2020) the social group that lacks representation in academic leadership and senior research is Black Women, namely African and Coloured South African women, as defined by the Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment Act 53 of 2003, as may be amended from time-to-time B-BBEE Act), (the Designated Group).
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Join us in empowering future female academia and solving tomorrow’s problems today. The FALF was created to ensure that our best and brightest female academics get the recognition and more importantly the resources they deserve.
Become a donor today and impact the lives of all South Africans.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
Funding
The FALF is committed to enhancing the potential of previously disadvantaged females. Our aim is to create a sisterhood of talented, educated and strong leaders. We are building a network unlike anything before and need you to join us.
Join our cause today, and join the many thought leaders and revolutionary minds paving the way for all South Africans.
Our Vision
We envision a country where academic leadership reflects the social demographics of the nation, where men and women work together towards equity at all levels and where every FALF Fellow lifts as she rises, transforming South Africa, the African continent, and the world.
Our Mission
- To work with University leadership to develop women academic leaders in the least transformed area, African and Coloured women (South African).
- To assist FALF Fellows to develop themselves to qualify for promotions and to positions of professoriate
- To assist the University to create role models for the majority of the student body who are Black females.
- To assist in the diversification of knowledge production.
- To help create peer-to-peer mentorship across disciplines and across institutions.
- To encourage multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration on research and community out-reach.
- To collaborate with international institutions to internationalise the FALF.
- To establish Research Chairs to conduct research on the country’s challenges.
Donors
Companies and individuals that have joined as donors and are working with us to empower the next generation of female academics in South Africa.
- South African, African and Coloured women academics on permanent condition of employment
- South African, African and Coloured Women academics on contract: the researcher’s term of employment should exceed the fellowship period
- Applicants must be employed at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer levels (or equivalent)
- Master’s degree and PhD holders
- Applicants may concurrently hold grant awards from other sources; however full disclosure will be required
“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.”
Nelson Mandela
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