Winner of the 2024 Vice Chancellor Distinguished Award Book of the Year at the University of Johannesburg (UJ)
Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi Longlisted for the 2023 Sunday Times Literary Award
Nominee for the 2022 HSS Award for Best Biography – Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of an Intellectual Tsotsi
Nominee for 2022 the HSS Award for Best Public Performance – Bloke and His American Bantu
Winner of the NIHSS Award to convert PhD dissertation into a Monograph (2019)
Winner of the 2024 Innovation in Teaching and Learning Award in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg (UJ)
Winner of the 2023 Emerging Researcher Award in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg (UJ)
Winner of the 2023 Student’s Choice Teaching Award in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg (UJ)
Winner of the 2022 PanSALB Multilingualism Award for Literature (English)
Winner of the Ernst van Heerden Creative Writing Award for When a Man Cries 2007
Winner of the 2023 South African Literary Awards for Best Creative Non-Fiction Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi
Nominee for the 2022 Best New South African Script, Naledi Awards – Bloke & His American Bantu
Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi in Brittle Paper’s Top 100 Books of 2022
Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi featured in Open Country Mag 60 Notable Books of 2022