# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/njabulo-ndebele
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:06:56.261Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/njabulo-ndebele"
name: "Njabulo Ndebele"
slug: "njabulo-ndebele"
description: "Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele is a South African academic and writer of fiction who is the former vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Cape Town (UCT). On 16 November 2012, he was inaugurated as the chancellor of the University of Johannesburg."
tagline: "South African writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Malala_Yousafzai_-_Nelson_Mandela_Annual_Lecture_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-07-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.79
  momentum:             4.715052389470996
  historical:           8.344277333333332
  currentAttention:     25.64102564102565
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njabulo_Ndebele"
    title: "Njabulo Ndebele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njabulo_Ndebele"
    title: "Njabulo Ndebele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njabulo_Ndebele"
    title: "Njabulo Ndebele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njabulo_Ndebele"
    title: "Njabulo Ndebele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njabulo_S._Ndebele"
    title: "Njabulo S. Ndebele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njabulo_Ndebele"
    title: "Njabulo Ndebele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njabulo_Ndebele"
    title: "Njabulo Ndebele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njabulo_Ndebele"
    title: "Njabulo Ndebele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BE"
    title: "Ндебеле, Нджабуло"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njabulo_Ndebele"
    title: "Njabulo Ndebele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3136965"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump