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August 30, 2022 | Category:
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Unisa's music expert garners prestigious awards
Unisa’s multi-award-winning music lecturer, Ndabo Zulu, never ceases to shine. Through the institution’s Department of Art and Music, his collaboration with the South African film and television industry recently earned multiple awards for his soundtrack Shaka Inkosi Yamakosi.
August 30, 2022 | Category:
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Unisa Social Work staff lend a helping hand to Pinetown Welfare Society
Unisa recently assembled a team consisting of academic staff members of the Department of Social Work and the Counselling and Career Development from KZN to provide trauma debriefing to social workers who served victims of the KZN floods.
August 11, 2022 | Category:
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First prize for African writing contest awarded to a Unisan
Unisa’s Dr Shadrack Katuu won the first prize in a professional writing competition at Kenya’s Strathmore University based in Nairobi. Writing about his award, Katuu says the highest level of integrity in one’s work is a standard of outstanding practise.
August 08, 2022 | Category:
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South African women will not be silenced
In commemorating Women’s Month, Unisa’s Sanet Solomon shares her views on the issue of gender-based violence in South Africa and how women should not be silenced or live in fear.
July 29, 2022 | Category:
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"Universities in SA should offer compulsory module in apartheid studies"
Speaking at a Department of Communication Sciences webinar entitled How does oppression persist? An introduction to apartheid studies, Nyasha Mboti, founder of the new field of study, Apartheid Studies, and an Associate Professor at the University of the Free State, proposed that, ideally, every university in South Africa should offer a compulsory module in apartheid studies to students in all disciplines.
July 26, 2022 | Category:
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Distance education research matters
Sharing insight about the upcoming 2022 R&I ODeL Conference, Prof Jennifer Roberts of the Unisa Institute for Open and Distance Learning in the College of Education says that research in distance education should be contextualised; however, local researchers have to start looking beyond the South African context.
July 25, 2022 | Category:
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Intersections between theology, race and politics
Prof Rodney Tshaka has done commendable work in theology, race and politics. Recently, the National Research Foundation awarded him a C1 rating, recognising him as an established researcher whose research impact enjoys considerable international recognition.
July 25, 2022 | Category:
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Breaking barriers through education
“Through education, we can advocate for the rights of people with disabilities and change the status quo of what it means to have a disability in South Africa,” says Unisa student, Thuthula Sodumo.
July 22, 2022 | Category:
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Commitment to the archival profession earns Unisan a Lifetime Achiever Award
The South African Society of Archivists awarded Prof Mpho Ngoepe a Lifetime Achiever Award. The award recognised the outstanding management and leadership throughout Ngoepe’s career.