The African college of excellence in the social and human sciences
July 02, 2020 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Love and excess in a time of bubonic plague
Dr Julie Pridmore from Unisa's Department of English Studies in the College of Human Sciences presents a third talk on fiction and quarantine, this time focusing on Rose Tremain's 1989 novel, Restoration.
June 25, 2020 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Research on acid mine drainage set to influence change
AMD is a threat to the environment, posing a direct risk to the Vaal River System, says Suvania Naidoo, lecturer in Development Studies at Unisa. By collaborating with affected communities and the country's water policy makers, she is contributing to the development of workable solutions.
June 25, 2020 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Inspired to mentor budding researchers
Prof Kealeboga Maphunye, the Chair of the Department of Political Sciences in Unisa's College of Human Sciences, says that his recent NRF C2 rating will assist him to hand over the baton to future scholars by showing them the ropes.
June 25, 2020 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
GBV in South Africa, where are we going wrong?
Unisa Political Sciences lecturer Lefatshe Moagi-Venter says we should be addressing gender-based violence at various levels in our society, from our curriculum, to men's seminars in workspaces, to speaking to people and community leaders at grassroots level to help resolve this issue.
June 23, 2020 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
CHS CE project on climate change and its links to Covid-19
Prof Monika dos Santos from Unisa's Department of Psychology says that, in many ways, the pandemic can be seen as a test of what may well be on the horizon in terms of climate change and the extreme burdens it will place on (fragile) healthcare infrastructures.
June 23, 2020 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
#YouthMonth: Mobilise to end patriarchy
Prof Nokuthula Mazibuko believes that by being available emotionally and physically, fathers are able to effect positive change in the lives of their children, especially the boy child, and especially in the context of what we face as a country with gender-based violence.
June 22, 2020 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
What Ramaphosa's Covid-19 decisions say about SA's democracy
The President has emphasised inclusive decision-making informed by scientific evidence. Such an approach would serve to depoliticise and rationalise decision-making, says Unisa's Prof Dirk Kotzé.
June 22, 2020 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
#YouthMonth: Demand to exist
Prof Zethu Cakata, from Unisa's Department of Psychology in the College of Human Sciences, urges the youth to "continue the fight to exist".
June 19, 2020 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Celebrating successes of Unisa-GBFE partnership
Prof Volker Kessler was recently informed that his paper, Spirituality in mathematics, published in the accredited Journal for the Study of Spirituality, was the most downloaded article in the past 12 months, with 365 downloads.