In 2001, he helped found the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee and then the Anti-Privatisation Forum in 2002, which both campaign against the privatisation of public services.
[3] In 2011, Ngwane obtained a Master of Arts (MA) degree in developmental studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban.
[4] In 2016, he obtained a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Johannesburg, for which he wrote a thesis titled 'Amakomiti' as 'Democracy on the Margins': Popular Committees in South Africa's Informal Settlements.
[5] This was later adapted into the book Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements, which was published by Jacana Media in 2021.
Ngwane describes these amakomiti as a form of "democracy on the margins", and discusses how they function as such, as well as how they interact with more formal political structures.