Hons in Philosophy, Masters in Philosophy, and Doctorate of Philosophy Tony Shabangu is a Postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa, based at the University of Fort Hare. He joined the University of Johannesburg in 2008 and recently received his Ph.D. at the Department of Philosophy in 2022.

His main area of specialization is African Ethics, primarily Ubuntu. Prior to that Tony was the on-site Research Writing Consultant at UJ’s Research Capacity Development unit located at the Postgraduate School. Tony has lectured 3rd Year Ethics (UKZN), Optometry for Ethics (fourth-year level), Social Work Ethics (Honours) and taught. Ethics for Engineering, Ethics for Accounting and English for Law.

Tony has presented work in various conferences, with the most recent being the Philosophy Society of Southern Africa conference in 2023 (at UJ). Other conferences include University of Durham (May 2019),21 Years of South African Democracy Conference (June 2019) and the 3MT (3 Minute Thesis 2019), which both took place at UJ.