BSc (Hons.) Sociology
MSc Sociology and Social Anthropology
Postgraduate Diploma in Rural and Urban Planning
PhD Sociology (University of Zimbabwe)
Post Graduate Diploma in Labour Law
Prof. France Maphosa has a PhD from the University of Zimbabwe. The title of his thesis was The Role of Kinship in Indigenous Businesses in Zimbabwe. He joined the University of Botswana at the beginning of 2011 from the National University of Lesotho where he had worked for two years. Before joining the University of Lesotho, Prof. Maphosa worked for the University of Zimbabwe where he was Head of the Department of Sociology for six years. He also worked for the Biomedical Research and Training Institute (BRTI), Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Young Men’s Christian Association as a Research Consultant and Executive Director respectively. He is currently the Department's Coordinator of Graduate Studies.
Sociological Theory
Qualitative Research Methods
Industry and Society
Sociology of Organisations
Urban Sociology
Sociology of Policing
Migration and transnationalism
The sociology of entrepreneurship
Business and society (Corporate social responsibility)
Urban and rural livelihoods
Labour studies
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
The social impacts of COVID-19
Natural resource management
Organisational behaviour
Migration and transnationalism
Livelihoods
The sociology of entrepreneurship
Business and society (Corporate social responsibility)
Urban and rural livelihoods
Labour studies
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
Informal sector
Society and police work
Maphosa, F and Ntau C (forthcoming).Undocumented migrants as homo sacer: Cases from Botswana and South Africa. Journal of Asian and African Studies.
Maphosa, F and Maunganidze, L (eds.). (forthcoming). Business and Society in Botswana: London: Palgrave.
Maphosa, F Ntau, C and Seleka, M, 2019 An appraisal of participation and rural development in Botswana: The case of Mankgodi Village. Botswana Notes and Records, 51: 75-89.
Rugoho, T and Maphosa, F 2019. Socio-economic barriers faced by women with disabilities in Zimbabwe. In T Chataika (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Disability in Southern Africa. London: Routledge.
Maphosa, F and RN Morojele 2013. Changing the culture of migration? Attitudes towards education among Basotho labour migrants to South African mines, Africa Development, XXXVIII (1): 151-169.
Maphosa, F (2011) Multiple Involvements or Multiple Exclusions: Transnational Experiences of Communities on the Zimbabwe-South Africa Borderlands. OSSREA: Addis Ababa.