Recognitions, positions, memberships:
- October 2013 - awarded Presidential Medal of Honour by the President of Uganda, (marking Uganda’s Golden Jubilee), for her ground-breaking academic research and leadership.
- July 2015 - Nelson Mandela Distinguished Africanist Award - for her pursuit of the total liberation for the African continent through the promotion of Indigenous Knowledge Systems of Education.
- August 2015, Prof Hoppers was awarded “Woman of the Year” by the University of South Africa, and was named as a “Leading Educationist” and was honoured in the Gallery of Leadership as the 63 most influential people who have shaped Unisa since its inception in 1873, in a permanent exhibition in Kgorong Building in UNISA.
- Goodwill Ambassador for Makerere University in Kampala Uganda.
- Ambassador for Non-Violence at the Durban Universities’ International Centre for Non-Violence.
She has addressed the International Bar Association, the Swedish Research Council, and Academy of Science of South Africa, the British House of Lords, and the Royal Dutch Shell.