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September 04, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Developing digital African language resources

Unisa's College of Human Sciences is serious about advancing South African and African indigenous knowledge systems. This #HeritageMonth, start to encourage the culture of reading in your household, especially in local languages.
#HeritageDay #IChoose2ReadInMyLanguage

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September 04, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

CHS scholar honoured by UWF

Dr Vuyolwethu Seti-Sonamzi from the Department of Communication Science is the recipient of the 2020 Transformative Leadership Award from the Unisa Women's Forum. "She has presented a model for what a Unisa women academic can achieve through conviction, dedication and commitment to staying the course."
#WomensMonth2020 #IamGenerationEquality

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August 27, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Dept religious, Corporate

The lingering and what remains to be said

Dr Garth Mason, who teaches in the Unisa Department of Religious Studies and Arabic, recently spoke on Emmanuel Levinas's other-directed ethics, which is founded on a decentred self and the unclosed circle of the other.

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August 27, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

From unfledged to fully-fledged academics

The College of Human Sciences Research Postdoctoral Incubation Project, initiated by Prof Azwihangwisi Mavhandu-Mudzusi, nurtures newly graduated doctors in crucial research and supervision activities, leading to excellence in academia.
#WomensMonth2020 #IamGenerationEquality

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August 27, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

A freewheeling conversation across continents

Lezandra Grundlingh, lecturer in the Department of Afrikaans and Theory of Literature, recently spoke to Avishek Sarkar, an instructional designer from India, about the challenges and triumphs of working in an ODeL university during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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August 26, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

There is life in soil

"Gardening is empowering and women have been gardening in Africa for a very long time. Why can't we do it again?" asks Selly Mathonsi, who is working with the CHS Meal of Peace CE project on a Peace Garden in the Tshwane CBD.
#WomensMonth2020 #IamGenerationEquality

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August 26, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Raising female academic prowess is her passion

Unisa's Lefatshe Moagi-Venter, a lecturer from the Department of Political Sciences, will lead a global project to research and deliver high impact, culturally appropriate interventions for youth mental health in South Africa.
#WomensMonth2020 #IamGenerationEquality

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August 24, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

On the coloniality of language

Prof Everisto Benyera of the Department of Political Sciences delivered the first Unisa College of Human Sciences 2020 Afrika Speaks lecture as a webinar.

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August 24, 2020 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

LGBTI inclusivity in higher education

As places of learning and knowledge dissemination, universities play a critical role in shaping the society we live in. If they marginalise a multitude of identities, they will remain difficult spaces for people who are not heterosexual or cisgender.

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