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The African college of excellence in the social and human sciences

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May 21, 2026 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa prepares to present the 2026 Marine and Ocean Photography Competition

The Marine and Ocean Photography Competition team from the College of Human Sciences recently embarked on a site visit to various districts in KwaZulu-Natal in preparation for the upcoming competition which will be held in Durban from 27 to 29 August 2026.

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May 20, 2026 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa Art Gallery commemorates Africa Month with African ReUnion exhibition

Recently launched, an exciting new exhibition celebrates African creativity, memory, scholarship and futurity.

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May 15, 2026 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa lecture calls for a return to feminism as a lived, embodied practice

The university's Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies recently successfully hosted acclaimed scholar-activist Jessica Horn as part of its third annual lecture series, titled "Embodied African feminism: Transformative knowledge, justice and liberatory futures".

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May 06, 2026 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Corporate

Unisa and Zallywood launch theology short learning programmes

Unisa and Zallywood Media Group recently joined forces to launch theology short learning programmes, aimed at empowering the church to fulfil its missional mandates.

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April 23, 2026 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa ceremony marks milestone in arts education

The university's Department of Art and Music and the Gauteng Department of Education recently celebrated 107 educators who completed a massive open online course (MOOC) in Visual Arts and Music, designed to strengthen professional practice and support curriculum delivery in schools.

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April 22, 2026 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Examining the hidden geographies of resistance

In his inaugural lecture, the College of Human Sciences’ Prof Chitja Twala shed new light on the hidden geographies of anti-apartheid resistance and the transformative power of historical scholarship.

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April 20, 2026 | Category: College of Science, Engineering and Technology, College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Featured, Featured, Research news, Corporate

NRF awards two new research chairs to Unisa

The university will be home to the DST/NRF SARChI Chairs in Water and the Environment, and Welfare and Social Development in Informal Settlements, as announced by Prof Blade Nzimande, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation. The incumbents are, respectively, Prof Ilunga Kamika of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology, and Prof Solomon Kgatle of the College of Human Sciences.

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April 16, 2026 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa explores strategic collaboration to intensify its music education

Aimed at advancing Unisa’s music education, the university’s Department of Art and Music explored a tripartite collaboration to build sustainable, practice informed and globally connected music education.

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April 13, 2026 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa lecture offers radical hope in catastrophic times

Prof Puleng LenkaBula, Unisa Principal and Vice-Chancellor, and the university’s Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, recently hosted a public lecture on eudaimopolitics vs necropolitics, followed by the signing of an MoU with the Council for World Mission.

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