Dr. Zintle Songqwaru

Dr. Zintle Songqwaru is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education (Secondary and Post School Department) at Rhodes University, South Africa. She is currently a TWAS-DFG Research Fellow at the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development at Leuphana University Lüneburg.

Zintle has extensive experience working with pre-service and in-service teachers. She joined Rhodes University in 2013 as a coordinator of Fundisa for Change, a national teacher education programme, and has also been involved in the SADC Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme. At Rhodes, she has coordinated parts of the PGCE programme and runs a service-learning programme in which PGCE students partner with schools to address issues affecting teaching and learning.

Zintle collaborates with the Chair in the Sub-Saharan Africa Teacher Leadership for ESD (SSATL-ESD) project. During her fellowship in Lüneburg, she explores how Education for Sustainable Development is embedded in teacher education at Leuphana. In October 2026, she chaired the UNESCO Chair Lecture Series panel on teachers as (co-)designers of sustainability transformations.