In recent years, Mnukwana holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town in African Music with a research focus on Umngqokolo Singing of the Ngqoko Cultural Group in the Eastern Cape.
In her research, she explored the overtone singing young maidens known as umngqokolo during intonjane, the rites of passage that abaThembu females go through during puberty. Mnukwana, a performer of the Xhosa bow uhadi and umrhubhe is an indigenous music soundscaper and with Roche van Tiddens while being on different continents during COVID-19 composed Hara²Sono available on Amazon. She is often musical director and performer on the works of Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2022, Buhlebezwe Siwani and collaborates with Brett Bailey from time to time with her own ensemble iiNceba zoMdali. Mnukwana has facilitated and curated workshops on identity, indigenous knowledge systems, multiculturalism and South African citizenship for the Institute of Healing of Memories and the One City Many Cultures project in Cape Town.
Mnukwana is a lecturer of Music Education, African Music and Ethnomusicology at the University of Stellenbosch and serves on the boards of Cornerstone Institute, the Cape Cultural Collective, Molo Songololo and Camissa Museum.