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The African college of excellence in the social and human sciences

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November 05, 2018 | Category: Featured, News, Corporate

Unisa’s 2018 Language Festival roadshow kicks off at local school

Learners across Gauteng discover that language is in poetry, in song, in drama, in folklore, in books, and in art.

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November 05, 2018 | Category: Featured, Events, News

Re-Membering Sobukwe 40 years on: A silenced voice of liberation

The voice of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, one of the greatest leaders of the Azanian liberation struggle, was recently summoned at a university gathering of Pan Afrikanists in honour of this authentic Afrikan leader.

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October 24, 2018 | Category: Lead, Featured, News, Corporate

'Journalists must decode' – Percy Qoboza remembered

Speaking at the 8th annual Percy Qoboza Memorial Lecture, Father Smangaliso Makhatswa said that the influential black South African journalist and author used the media platform to decode the events of the day to his readers, and that this remains a key responsibility of today’s media practitioners.

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October 16, 2018 | Category: Featured, News, Corporate

Do black lives matter asks NRF A-Rated Professor Extrodinarius, Anthony Reddie

The Department of Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology in the College of Human Sciences hosted their NRF A-Rated Professor Extrodinarius, Anthony Reddie. He spoke on the theological interrogating of the United States’ pro-black movement notion, Black Lives Matter.

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October 16, 2018 | Category: Lead, Dept anthropology, Featured, News

Bunny bones: how they look and why they matter

The Department of Anthropology and Archaeology housed in the College of Human Sciences provided a platform for their recent masters’ graduate Karin Scott to present her research paper entitled A comparative morphological and morphometric study of the cranial and post cranial oestriology of South African hares, cape and shrubs and its application in Archaeozoology.

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October 10, 2018 | Category: Featured, News, Corporate

On the receiving end of coming out

On the receiving end of coming out was the topic explored at the 2018 seminar and film screening event of the Quiltbag Community Engagement Project.

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October 01, 2018 | Category: Featured, Events, News, Corporate

World not humanistic enough to listen to Afrikan voices

Professor Artwell Nhemachena from the University of Namibia delivered the recent Afrika Speaks lecture hosted by Unisa’s College of Human Sciences.

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September 21, 2018 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, News

African Languages hosts prolific researcher

The Department of African Languages in the College of Human Sciences, hosted prolific researcher and language policy research specialist Professor Kathleen Heugh of the University of South Australia.

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September 18, 2018 | Category: Featured, News

Taking a stand in the post-truth era

In a world of misinformation, propaganda and unreliable reporting, digital media is not a trusted source said Professor Heidi Julien from the University of Buffalo in New York when she spoke on the urgency for Digital Literacy Skills training for information professionals.

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