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November 19, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Engaged psychology for calamitous times

The primary focus of a recent Department of Psychology webinar was sharing and reiterating the importance of engaged scholarship, as well as encouraging and instilling an out-of-the-box style of thinking with regard to collaborating with other disciplines.

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November 08, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Her impactful art gives black women a voice

For Lethabo Huma, a Unisa visual multimedia student and one of the artists selected to be part of a Time Magazine project, art is a very personal craft that she uses to speak to the world about women's issues as she struggles to express herself verbally.

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October 06, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa, Luthuli Museum partnership goes from strength to strength

Prof Puleng Segalo was recently honoured with a traditional ceremony at the grave of Chief Albert Luthuli, further solidifying a remarkable partnership.

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October 04, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

The feminist that was Chief Albert Luthuli

In the second of a series of seminars honouring the late teacher, activist and politician, the spotlight fell on Chief Albert Luthuli’s less-examined philosophy on gender justice.

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September 28, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

'Cheers to 32 years in academia' - CHS bids farewell to School of Arts Director

As an art lecturer serving at different universities for the past three decades, Prof Nombeko Mpako is retiring to supervise artists of tomorrow and write more while traveling to enjoy her retirement.

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September 20, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

College of Human Sciences COD scoops a Teaching and Learning Festival Award

Unisa’s Dr Nompumelelo Radebe won an award that represent her academic work as a fervent decolonial scholar who believes in curriculum transformation as part of the decolonisation struggles responding to the demands of the market, corporate sector, regional and national development.

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September 16, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Book review: Mphutlane wa Bofelo's Transitions: from Post-Colonial Illusions to Decoloniality What went wrong and what now?

Mphutlane has assembled five remarkable and lengthy essays offering deep critique on the experiences in and the current state of “post-apartheid” South Africa. Where black people have been let down. Where the earth is crumbling underneath them.

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September 15, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Honouring Nkosi Albert Luthuli, a model African ancestor

Presented by the Unisa Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, the inaugural lecture of a three-part seminar series honouring the late teacher, activist and politician was themed "Invoking the spirit of Chief Albert Luthuli: The importance of cultural diplomacy".

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September 09, 2021 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Never too late for self-empowerment through education

A self-driven and visionary mother, former cleaner Florah Mukumo overcame poverty and other difficult circumstances to obtain her first degree at the age of 64.

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