From lockdown to community action

Petunia Ntombifuthi Mabuza and the Asivikelane campaign in Phomolong, Tshwane, South Africa

Authors

  • Priscila Izar University of Witwatersrand
  • Petunia Ntombifuthi Mabuza PlanAct

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36942/dialogossocioambientais.v8i24.1457

Abstract

In this interview, Petunia Ntombifuthi Mabuza, a resident and community activist in Phomolong, Tshwane, and community facilitator for the Asivikelane Campaign, spoke to Priscila Izar, from the Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies (CUBES) and the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, about her experience during the COVID-19 pandemic and afterwards. 

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Author Biographies

Priscila Izar, University of Witwatersrand

Priscila Izar is an architect and urban planner, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies (CUBES) at the University of Witwatersrand. Her interdisciplinary research work and interests include gender, housing and urbanisation in peripheral contexts, through dialogue between Africa and Latin America.

Petunia Ntombifuthi Mabuza, PlanAct

Petunia Ntombifuthi Mabuza is a community facilitator and a community activist. She works for PlanAct, facilitating the Asivikelane campaign in the community of Phomolong. She is also a founding member of Umlilo, a film, arts, culture and sports development organisation.

References

IZAR, Priscila. Peripheral Feminisms: Women’s Activism and Struggle in Dar es Salaam’s Fast Changing Self-Built Territories. Gender, Place and Culture, [S. l.], 2025. Forthcoming.

IZAR, Priscila; SANTORO, Paula Freire; MBUYA, Elinorata. Feminising urban struggles: bodies, territories and policies in the production of peripheral spaces. Final Report. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, 2025. Available from: https://www.wits.ac.za/media/wits-university/faculties-and-schools/-engineering-and-the-built-environment/research-entities/cubes/documents/feminising-urban-struggles_report2025.pdf. Accessed on: 15 Oct. 2025.

RUBIN, Margot; CHARLTON, Sarah; HALLIGEY, Alex; IZAR, Priscila; NYITI, Albert. Inequality in Walking the 24 Hour City: Temporality, Intersectionality and the Embodied Experience in Dar es Salaam, Tshwane and Cardiff. [S. l.]: Cardiff University, 2025. E-book. Available from: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/explore/find-a-project/view/2917666-walking-the-24-hour-city-temporality,-intersectionality-and-the-embodied-experience-in-dar-es-salaam,-tshwane-and-cardiff. Accessed on: 15 Oct. 2025.

Published

2025-12-23

How to Cite

IZAR, Priscila; NTOMBIFUTHI MABUZA, Petunia. From lockdown to community action: Petunia Ntombifuthi Mabuza and the Asivikelane campaign in Phomolong, Tshwane, South Africa . Diálogos Socioambientais, [S. l.], v. 8, n. 24, p. 56–63, 2025. DOI: 10.36942/dialogossocioambientais.v8i24.1457. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufabc.edu.br/index.php/dialogossocioambientais/article/view/1457. Acesso em: 20 mar. 2026.