Dr Lolie Makhubu is the Head of the Department, a Senior Lecturer, and the Programme Co-ordinator: for the Translation and Interpreting Practice programme in the department. She is also the Director and a Board member of the Confucius Institute at DUT. She holds a BPaed, BA (Hons) degrees from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, an MA from Stellenbosch University and a DTech: Language Practice from DUT. She is an accredited member of SATI. Her current research focuses on providing interpreting services in KwaZulu-Natal. She presented papers locally and internationally in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia and various parts of Europe. She also has interest in translation, SA Sign Language (SASL) and terminology development, and has presented papers in these fields. She is the Vice chairperson of the Board of Directors for Isikhungo Sesichazamazwi SesiZulu (ISS) and a member of the DUT Convex. She is involved in IMIA, SATI, Interpreters Chapter, IATIS. For two terms in succession, she held the position of the Chairperson of the KZN Provincial Language Committee (KZN PLC), which is the substructure of the PanSALB. She worked on the language policy for DUT. She lectured linguistics at UKZN and has been involved in the lecturing of Communication, Applied First Language, isiZulu, Translation, Interpreting, and Research Methodology in the department. She supervises and examines students’ research at BTech, Master’s and Doctorate level.