Dr Godfrey Tawodzera

Institute for Social Development

Contact: gtawodzera@uwc.ac.za

Dr Tawodzera is a Senior Lecturer at Institute for Social Development at UWC. He holds a PhD in Environmental & Geographical Sciences from the University of Cape Town. Before joining UWC, he worked at various institutions: University of Namibia, University of Limpopo, University of Cape Town, University of Zimbabwe and the Catholic University of Mozambique. Dr Tawodzera also spent time at the Bastille School of International Affairs (BSIA) in Waterloo, Canada as a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholar. For close to two decades, Godfrey has undertaken numerous research projects focusing on food security, migration, livelihoods and informality in Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. He has published extensively in these fields and is a member of several international research networks, including the African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN), the Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP), the Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) and the MiFOOD network.

Relevant Publications 

• Tawodzera, G., & Crush, J. (2023). ‘A foreigner is not a person in this country’: xenophobia and the informal sector in South Africa’s secondary cities. Urban Transformations, 5(1), 2. 
• Chikanda, A., Crush, J. & Tawodzera, G. (2020).  Urban food security and South–South migration to cities of the Global South. In J. Crush, B. Frayne & G. Haysom (Eds.) Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South, 261-281. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Tawodzera, G. (2019). The Nature and Operations of Informal Food Vendors in Cape Town. Urban Forum, 30 (4), 443-459.
• Crush, J. & Tawodzera, G. (2017). South-South migration and urban food security: Zimbabwean migrants in South African cities. International Migration, 55 (4), 88-102.
• Crush, J., Tawodzera, G., McCordic, C. & Ramachandran, S. (2017). Comparing Refugees and South Africans in the Urban Informal, 1-50. Waterloo, ON: Southern African Migration Programme. SAMP Migration Policy Series No. 78.
•  Crush, J., Tawodzera, G., Chikanda, A. & Tevera, D. (2017). Living with xenophobia: Zimbabwean informal enterprise in South Africa. Waterloo, ON: Southern African Migration Programme. SAMP Migration Policy Series No. 77.
• Crush, J., Tawodzera, G., McCordic, C. & Ramachandran, D. (2017). Refugee Entrepreneurial Economies in Urban South Africa. Waterloo, ON: Southern African Migration Programme. SAMP Migration Policy Series No. 76.
• Chikanda, A. & Tawodzera, G. (2017). Informal entrepreneurship and cross-border trade between Zimbabwe and South Africa.1-41. Waterloo, ON: Southern African Migration Programme. SAMP Migration Policy Series No.74
• Peberdy, S., Crush, J., Tevera, D., Campbell, E., Raimundo, I., Tsoka, M., Zindela, N., Tawodzera, G., Nickanor, N., Mulenga, C., Green, T. & Msibi, N. (2015). Calibrating Informal Cross-Border Trade in Southern Africa, 1-36. Waterloo, ON: Southern African Migration Programme. SAMP Migration Policy Series No.69.
• Peberdy, S., Crush, J., Tevera, D., Campbell, E., Zindela, N., Raimundo, I., Green, T., Chikanda, A. & Tawodzera, G. (2015). Transnational entrepreneurship and informal cross-border trade with South Africa. In J. Crush, A Chikanda & C. Skinner (Eds.) Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa, 207-228. Ontario.
• Crush, J., Chikanda, A. &Tawodzera, G. (2015). The third wave: Mixed migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 49 (2), 363-382.
• Crush, J. & Tawodzera, G. (2014). Exclusion and discrimination: Zimbabwean migrant children and South African schools. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 15 (4), 677-693.
• Tawodzera, G. (2014). Household food insecurity and survival in Harare: 2008 and Beyond. Urban Forum, 25 (2), 207-216.
• Crush, J., Tawodzera, G. (2014). Medical xenophobia and Zimbabwean migrant access to public health services in South Africa. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40 (4), 655-670.
• Crush, J. & Tawodzera, G. (2013). The perilous trek: Zimbabwean migrant children and teachers in South Africa. Refugees Immigrants and Education in the Global South: Lives in Motion, pp. 54-69.
• Crush, J. &  Tawodzera, G. (2011). Right to The Classroom: Educational Barriers For Zimbabweans in South Africa. Waterloo, ON: Southern African Migration Programme. SAMP Migration Policy Series No.56.
• Crush, J., & Tawodzera, G. (2011). Medical Xenophobia: Zimbabwean Access to Health Services in South Africa. Waterloo, ON: Southern African Migration Programme. SAMP Migration Policy Series No.54.