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Sibonile Mpendukana has a PhD in Linguistics and is currently employed as a lecturer at African Languages and Linguistics the at the University of Cape Town. His research and publications focus on linguistic landscapes, space, visual semiotics, and material ethnography. His specific research interests are in the nexus of place, semiotics/language and race in the post-1994 era, and his central focus is on the ways in which place is a salient semiotic dynamic in different, evolving somatic and semiotic performances of race. He has also worked as an assistant strategic planner and researcher for an advertising agency.