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February 16, 2023 | Category:
Featured
Long live Unisa, long live!
Unisa staff and students share their well wishes ahead of the university's 150th anniversary (#Unisa150) official academic opening ceremony on Friday 10 February 2023.
February 10, 2023 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Dept Afrikaans, Corporate
Unisa author scoops two creative awards
Dr Gerda Taljaard-Gilson from the Department of Afrikaans and Theory of Literature was recently awarded the prestigious ATKV Prose Prize and the kykNET-Rapport Fiction Prize for her novel Vier susters.
February 06, 2023 | Category:
College of Graduate Sciences, College of Human Sciences, Featured, Featured, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured
Unisa participates in the 2022 National Three Minute Thesis Competition
The College of Graduate Studies facilitated the university's participation in the 2022 National Three Minute Thesis Competition. Through three of its students, Unisa joined over 900 universities worldwide that participated in 2022.
February 01, 2023 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Unisan earns two international affiliation appointments
Prof Puleng Segalo has recently earned two appointments, namely, the 2023 African Affiliate Fellow by the Kansas African Studies Center (University of Kansas, US) and the 2023 Research Associate by the Institute of African Studies (University of Ghana).
January 30, 2023 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Corporate
Triumphant Unisans bring their A-game to the Metathon
The Silent Snipers Team comprising two Unisa students, Susan Jonas and Tamara Jonas, recently won first place in South Africa at the 2022 AR/VR Africa Metathon. For the duo, Unisa teaches students to take initiative, be independent and acquire virtual skills, which assisted them to conquer the challenge.
December 05, 2022 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Unisan appointed to serve as SACSSP member of council
Dr Seithati Motebang, Senior Lecturer from the Department of Development Studies, has been appointed to serve as a member of the South African Council for Social Services Professionals by Minister of Social Development, Lindiwe Zulu.
November 28, 2022 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Alumni, Corporate
Modise dedicates VJOY 2022 Regional Award to Unisa Radio
EWN reporter and former Unisa Radio newsreader, Kgomotso Modise, recently won the Vodacom Journalist of the Year 2022 Gauteng Regional Award in the category Live Reporting and Breaking News for her work covering the Senzo Meyiwa case and the Rosettenville shootout between police and cash-in-transit robbers.
November 25, 2022 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Supporting multilingualism in South African higher education
Unisa and the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources will host a Language Resources Audit in support of multilingualism in South African higher education.
November 25, 2022 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Corporate
A passion for bringing change
Guided by the principle of Ubuntu, Professor Patrone Risenga asserts that no one has become poor by giving. As a faithful steward of Unisa’s vision to shape futures in the service of humanity, she affirms that a university in a community – through community engagement – can make a difference.