Staff Profiles

Bachelor of Finance (UB)

International Diploma in Computer Studies (NCC)  (IDM)

Higher National Diploma in Secretarial Studies (BIAC)

Mrs Gaanaope Foda completed her Bachelor of Finance in 2018 at University of Botswana and NCC in Computer Studies at IDM Botswana in 2010.  She trained as a Personal Secretary at Botswana Institute of Administration and Commerce (BIAC) in 2000/2001,  Prior to joined UB in 2011, she served as a Senior Personal Secretary at the Department of Police Service from 1993 to 2009 and as a Personal Assistant at Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana from 2010 to 2011.  She is responsible for the Adminstration Support duties for the Department of Surgery in Faculty of Medicine.

National Diploma Nature Conservation (Pretoria Tech)

BSc (Botany and Grassland Science)

BSC (Hons)

MSc

PhD

Having developed a love for African wildlife during my teenage years spent in the Timbavati Game Reserve on the edge of Kruger with my fathers game lodge business I started my career with a Diploma in Nature Conservation at Pretoria Tech followed by a BSc and Hons at UKZN in Pietermaritzburg. My MSc was on rangeland science in Zululand followed by a PhD on plant ecology, both at UKZN. Following a year of Post Doc work at UKZN I was employed as a Post Doc with Colorado State University under Alan Knapp on a large inter-continental project (Savanna Convergence Experiment) studying the effects of grazing and fire on savannas at the Ukulinga Long-Term experiments at Pietermaritzburg, at the Satara Long-Term burning experiments in central Kruger National Park and at Konza Prairie LTER in Kansas in 2004. This work continued until 2009 when I was employed as a rangeland ecologist at the Okavango Research Institute (ORI) in Maun Botswana and I have been in this position now for 11 years. My key research interests in Botswana have been on various aspects of rangeland ecology, as well as herbivore ecology. In the last few years I have become increasingly interested in conservation science, especially on conservation through local communities (CBNRM) and the problems associated with centralised government control of conservation.

Rangeland ecology

Herbivore ecology

Conservation Science

Main supervisor, Tshephang Keemekae (MPhil rangeland ecology)

Co-supervisor, Mogae Makonyela (MPhil local communities in conservation)

Co-supervisor, Ben Heermans (PhD community conservation)

Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow- Bamberg University-2017-2018

Ph.d- Doctor of Philosophy- University of Kwazulu-Natal 2013

Masters of Arts in Religion-Yale University 2004

P.G.D.E- University of Botswana

Bachelor of Arts- Humanities

Dr Rosinah Gabaitse is a Biblical Scholar who researches, writes and publishes in the area of Luke-Acts and Pentecostal hermeneutics. She has written and published papers in the area of the Bible and Violence against women , the Bible and the construction of Masculinities, the Bible and violence against the girl-child and HIV. Beyond her academic engagements,  Dr Gabaitse hosts a Call in Radio Program called Bridging the Gap, which deals with Social and Contextual issues such as the Violence against women.  Further, Dr Gabaitse is a transformational speaker in the areas of academic excellence and discipline in schools,  hence she is often invited as a  Key note Speaker in schools such as Bonnington CJSS, Baobao Primary School, Kwena Sereto CJSS, Regent High Secondary School, Diratsame Secondary and many more.

Introduction to Biblical Studies

Introduction to Greek

Hospital Ministry

Religion and Modernity

Politics and Development of Biblical Thought

Introduction to Greek

Politics and Development of Biblical Thought.

Johannine Corpus

Media and Pastoral Studies

Homelitics.

The Art of Biblical interpretation

Violence against women and children

Construction of sexualities using the Bible

Construction of Masculinities

Pentecostal Hermeneutics

New Testament

Luke-Acts

Biblical Interpretation

Violence Against Women

Pentecostal Hermeneutics

1. Rosinah Mmannana Gabaitse and Raymond Kumalo. ‘A Critical Engagement of Botho/Ubuntu and Mt 25:35 in the debate on the provision of ARV’S to cross border migrants in Botswana.’ Religion, Gender-Based Violence, Immigration and Human Rights. Ed. Mary Nyangweso  (Routledge 2019)
2. Kügler, Joachim, Gabaitse Rosinah and Stiebert Johanna eds.  The Bible and Gender troubles in Africa (University of Bamberg Press: Bamberg, 2019).
3. Rosinah Mmannana Gabaitse (2018). “Contextual Reading of Luke-Acts with Pentecostal women in Botswana.”  Luke-Acts: Texts in Contexts. ed James Grimshaw (T&T Clark: New York), pp.137-155.
4. Rosinah Mmanana Gabaitse (2017). “Luke 4:18-19 and Salvation: Marginalization of women in the Pentecostal Church in Botswana.”  So Great a Salvation:  Soteriology in the Majority World. eds Green Gene, Pardue, S & Yeo K.K.  (Wm.B Eerdmans: Michigan), pp. 59-77
5. Gabaitse, R.M. (2012). “Passion Killings in Botswana: Masculinity at A