Xoliswa is a PhD candidate at Rhodes University and a lecturer for BEd Foundation Phase in the Department of Adult, Foundation Phase and Educational Foundations Education, at the Walter Sisulu University (WSU). Before joining the WSU, she taught in the Foundation Phase for 18 years. She has presented papers in various national and international conferences and has also contributed a chapter called: Young children learning to read and write in a home context: A study of two families in a rural community in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, in a published book titled: Masixhase abantwana bakwazi ukufunda nokubhala: Let us enable our children to read and write. She has also co-authored a chapter called: Identity and Belonging; published in a book titled: Curriculum, Pedagogyand Assessment: A Handbook on Early Childhood Education in South Africa, published by Pearson South Africa. She
has taken part in several research conferences nationally and internationally. Xoliswa believes that working hard and striving for success is the best way to live.