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Busani Ngcaweni has led the National School of Government in South Africa, which has grown into a leading management development institute in Africa and a recognised think tank for public sector reforms and civil service professionalisation. One of the Centre’s flagship offerings is the PGDip in Public Policy and African Studies, which draws students mainly from Parliament.
His most recent of 11 edited volumes include Liberation Diaries Volume 2 (Jacana Media, 2024), African Literature and Intellectual Histories (HSRC Press, 2024) and The Contested Idea of South Africa (Routledge, 2002).
Before his appointment as deputy director-general in the Private Office of the Deputy President, Mr Busani Ngcaweni worked as head of the Youth Desk and senior policy analyst in the Policy Unit of the Presidency.
Amongst key national programmes he has coordinated are the National Minimum Wage policy setting, the 2010 Soccer World Cup, the National Anti-Poverty Strategy, the National AIDS Response and the Framework Towards the Professionalisation of the Public Sector, which is a key public sector reform strategy for the previous and the current administrations.
Busani Ngcaweni
Head of the National School of Government
Since March 2020, Prof. He has since been appointed Distinguished Fellow of the NSG.
Before this role, Ngcaweni was Head of Policy and Research in The Presidency and served as Chief of Staff to multiple South African deputy presidents and the current president.
From March 2020, he was Director-General and Principal of the National School of Government (NSG) in South Africa, which grew into a leading management development institute in Africa and a recognised think tank for public sector reforms and civil service professionalisation.
Busani Ngcaweni is Director of the Center for Public Policy at the University of Johannesburg (since July 2025) and a Research Associate at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences where he is reading for PhD in World Economy.
Before this role, Ngcaweni was Head of Policy and Research in The Presidency and served as Chief of Staff to multiple South African deputy presidents and the current president. Before this role, Ngcaweni was Head of Policy and Research in The Presidency and served as Chief of Staff to multiple South African deputy presidents and the current president.
Jacana Media will publish his monograph, Frontiers of National and Regional Development: Rethinking Governance and Growth in the Global South in November 2025.
He has held academic affiliations as Research Associate at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences where he is reading for a PhD in World Economy, Visiting Professor at China Foreign Studies University (current), Visiting Professor at the Wits School of Governance (2019–2025), Visiting Professor at Fudan University (2024) and Visiting Scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University (2015).
He is also a Fellow of the African Leadership Initiative. He is also a Fellow of the African Leadership Initiative/Aspen Global Leadership Network.
Ngcaweni writes for leading newspapers in South Africa and Asia. An avid reader, commentator and writer, Mr Ngcaweni has written articles for publications such as Business Day, City Press, The Thinker and Public Sector Manager.
He holds BPaed and BEd degrees, a MSc in Urban and Regional Planning (Natal) and an advanced project management diploma the University of South Africa School of Business Leadership.
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Busani Ngcaweni has been the Director of the Centre for Public Policy and African Studies at the University of Johannesburg since August 2025.
He also worked at the former Umsobomvu Youth Fund as a divisional director responsible for skills development and transfer.
His experience includes management of skills development programmes, research, content development and script writing on projects like Khomanani, Constitution Hill and the SABC youth series “Gaz’lam”.
His interests span policy development, programme implementation, strategy, leadership and economic governance. His most recent of 11 edited books include Liberation Diaries Volume II (Jacana Media, 2024), African Literature and Intellectual Histories (HSRC Press, 2024) and The Contested Idea of South Africa (Routledge, 2022).
He has held academic affiliations as a Visiting Adjunct Professor at the Wits School of Governance (2019–2025), Visiting Professor at Fudan University (2024), Visiting Scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University (2015) and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg.
He writes for leading newspapers in South Africa and China.
His research interests span policy development and implementation, institutional design and strategy, public leadership and economic governance. The school serves appointed and elected officials across South Africa and the broader African region. His interests span policy development, programme implementation, strategy, leadership and economic governance.
It collaborates with universities worldwide.