Experimental nuclear physics at the University of the Western Cape and iThemba LABS, South Africa

In this talk, I shall briefly summarize specific experimental nuclear physics research performed at the University of the Western Cape and iThemba LABS, South Africa. I will also describe some of our recent work related to $^{136}$Xe neutrinoless double beta decay matrix element calculations, that was done in collaboration with Michigan State University, University of Guelph (Canada), Techniche Universit\"at and Ludwig Maximilians Universit\"at (Munich), and several other institutions.