Dr. Hlengiwe Phetha

Dr Hlengiwe Phetha is a Political Science and International Relations postdoctoral fellow with a keen interest in international relations, youth development, gender based, and ICT. She has researched extensively on peace, peacekeeping, and conflict resolution. She has also researched South Africa’s foreign policy, access to education, employment, and unemployment. Currently, she is conducting a study on young women in the workplace and . She holds a PhD in International Relations,
Political Science: A comparative analysis of South Africa’s foreign policy on the
Central African Republic and Nigeria since 1994, BSoc Science (Hons), MSoc Science in Political Science, and BA. The challenges facing South Africa as a developing country are many due to the economic structure, demographics, and globalization. Even though there has been a steady increase in the literature on ICT and policy discourse on the absorption of graduates in the labor market, unemployment continues to rise in developing countries.