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Prince Mashele delivered Unisa’s twelfth Annual Peace, Safety and Human Rights Memorial Lecture at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. Read more
Fair weather ahead for meteorology partnership
The MoU between Unisa and the South African Weather Service will empower postgraduate research students through training and exposure to modelling, monitoring, and forecasting. Read more
‘Decolonising the university’ has become too common
What is still lacking is a clear understanding of what the expression means and where the process should start, said Prof Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni at a Leading Change presentation recently. Read more
Changing inmates’ lives forever
Unisa and the Department of Correctional Services have cemented an MoU to ensure that offenders return to their respective communities as better citizens once they have served their sentences. Read more
It’s time to decolonise the human sciences
Prof Andrew Phillips was speaking at a roundtable that focused on transforming the humanities to promote development and innovation that influence other academic fields. Read more
The need for sound governance has never been greater
Unisa’s involvement in the Management of Democratic Elections in Africa programme speaks to it’s deep commitment to the democratic process. Read more
Age no obstacle for Eastern Cape jazz legend
One of the more than 1578 qualifications conferred during the autumn graduation ceremonies held in East London was a National Diploma in Public Relations Management for 77-year-old Retsi Pule. Read more
(Re)moving the centre
World-renowned academic, novelist and pan-Africanist activist Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o said at Unisa that reclaiming African languages was the first step towards genuine independence. Read more
Unisa Art Gallery exhibition reflects on SA's struggles
This fascinating look at posters made by activists from 1994 till beyond the first election in South Africa will run until 12 July 2017. Read more
Africa should be a centre of knowledge production
Speaking at the annual Thabo Mbeki Africa Day Lecture, Prof Mahmood Mamdani said universities must construct new theories based on their own worlds. Read more