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August 20, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

A re Aganeng

This CHS CE project celebrated 2020 Women's Month by travelling to Makapanstad in the North West province to spend time with the aged and their caregivers and to educate them about coronaviruses.
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August 19, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured

Africa speaks lecture

The College of Human Sciences hosted its first online Afrika Speaks Lecture on the 05th of August 2020, with Prof. Everisto Benyera as our speaker unpacking the topic "Language, networks of decoloniality and social capital: On the coloniality of language and the African problem."

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August 19, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

#Imbokodo—persist to navigate obstacles

Unisa's Dr Fortunate Silinda, who strongly believes in empowerment and sisterhood, says it is difficult for women to care for themselves as they spend most of their time caring for others. We need to learn to embrace our potential abilities and develop them.
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August 18, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Corporate

Viva, woke woman art!

The Unisa Art Gallery has grown its permanent art collection and added African-inspired acquisitions with a rich symbolic meaning by two prominent female artists, Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi and Claudette Schreuders.
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August 17, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Opening doors to greater opportunities

Prof Magdel le Roux of Unisa's Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies says a National Research Foundation rating provides welcome assistance and funding for an academic.
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August 15, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Smile with your eyes!

Covered up? A Unisa psychology expert from the College of Human Sciences shares some etiquette tips on how to communicate while wearing a mask.

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August 15, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Leave the dungeon behind

Unisa's Reverend Dr Fundiswa Kobo says that Queen Vashti in the story of Esther is a model that women could use for a spirituality of resistance and protest. "She was prepared to dismantle in an instant the king's entire carefully constructed façade… with the conviction that her dignity was more important to her than his display of his power."
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August 14, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Covid-19: Nuclear developments in Africa

Sixty years after the first nuclear weapons tests in Africa were conducted in 1960, the continent is rapidly exploring the various advantages that the peaceful application of the technology can bring in the health and food sectors in its response to the pandemic, says Unisa's Prof Jo-Ansie van Wyk.
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August 14, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Conversations with the leading lady

In commemorating Women's Month, the College of Human Sciences is hosting a video series in which four women in the college are celebrated for breaking boundaries in their respective spaces. This week, find out more about Unisa's Dr Koketjo Tsebe as she is interviewed by Dineo Khayemba.
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