Dr. Nompilo Cindy Ndlovu is an oral historian whose PhD examined memory and justice initiatives related to the Gukurahundi atrocities in post-colonial Zimbabwe (1982–1987). Her work engages questions of political violence, historical accountability, and the afterlives of unresolved pasts.

She held a three-year Mellon-funded History Access Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town, where she remains an adjunct lecturer and Honours research supervisor. Her research focuses on orality, vernacular language, and memory, with particular attention to counter-histories and informal, community-based transitional justice practices in public life.

Beyond academia, she has worked in gender, development, and peacebuilding across Southern and Eastern Africa, including as Centre Director of the Council for International Education Exchange (CIEE) in Cape Town and as a Policy and Best Practices Officer with the UN–AU Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID).

Dr. Ndlovu serves on the committee of the International Oral History Association (IOHA) and is an alumna of the African Leadership Centre, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, the Canon Collins Trust, and the Women’s Funding Network.