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June 27, 2017 | Category: Featured, Corporate

If The Suit fits…

Can Themba’s birthday on 21 June was marked by a discussion around the author’s prize-winning play held by Unisa’s College of Human Sciences and the Market Theatre Foundation.

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June 06, 2017 | Category: Lead, Featured, News, Corporate

Unisa’s Monde Maziyane wins DIRCO competition

Unisa student Monde Maziyane shines at DIRCO Budget Vote essay writing competition.

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May 25, 2017 | Category: Lead, Featured, News, Corporate

Matjila adapts Mbeki’s ‘I am an African’ into Setswana

Celebrate Africa Day with this beautiful reminder of the innate greatness and potential of beloved Africa.

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May 22, 2017 | Category: Lead, News, Corporate

No conflict between African culture and Islam

Nwabisa Sigaba shares why it's important for Muslims in Africa to create a discourse around the revival of critical Islamic Theology.

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May 11, 2017 | Category: Lead, Featured, News, Alumni, Corporate

Obama, Bush, Soyinka, and now Matjila…

Unisa's Prof Daniel Matjila will give the International Perspectives Conference in the US a depth of understanding in how individuals can disprove and overcome stereotypes of all kinds.

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May 09, 2017 | Category: Lead, Study matters, Featured, News, Alumni, Corporate

“Education is an immediate equaliser,” says DHET’s Manana

The Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training graduated last night with a BA Honours in International Politics, and said that he loved every moment of being a Unisa student.

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May 02, 2017 | Category: Lead, Featured, News, Corporate

We were not ready to govern—Ngema

The acclaimed writer, lyricist, composer, director, and theatre producer was speaking at Unisa, when CHS hosted him and a group of panellists to reflect on the story of Sarafina in post-apartheid South Africa.

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May 02, 2017 | Category: News, Corporate

Global researchers reflect on families and patterns of care

The Department of Sociology at Unisa co-hosted the bi-annual research group conference of the International Sociological Association

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April 19, 2017 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Corporate

Afrikaans translation of iconic African novel

Thomas Mofolo’s classic literary work on the legend of the Zulu King, Chaka, has been translated by Prof Chris Swanepoel, a research fellow in the Department of African Languages.

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