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Inaugural Lectures
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Prof NBW Mlitwa – 30 November 2022
Connectivity Essentials and Universal Access as a basis for a competitive continental AfCFTA in the Post-4IR Global Economic Era
Prof TE Mudzanani – 29 November 2022
Creating long-term societal value: a sustainability marketing perspective
Prof W Bentley – 23 November 2022
God-talk and the question of being human
Prof MJ Moloto – 21 November 2022
Realities of fabricating nanomaterials: Past, Present and Future Prospects
Prof SA Ngubane – 15 November 2022
Breaking the access barriers through transdisciplinary research, one brick at a time
Prof V Mahlangu – 22 November 2022
Dimension Diamond Fraud Theory: Why is Ethical Leadership Becoming Toxic in Organisations/Institutions
Prof T Makua – 18 November 2022
Interventive Polygyny: indigenous promotion of moral health
Prof I Ferns – 15 September 2022
Respect: The ultimate basis of morality
Prof G Prinsloo – 12 September 2022
Shaken, not stirred
Prof NS Marutha – 7 September 2022
Moving patients' queue to the cloud for quality healthcare in South Africa, using fourth industrial revolution technology
Prof S Mampane – 2 September 2022
Mentoring Higher Education Leaders/Managers for contextual intelligence
Prof B Karam – 31 August 2022
Ghouls, witches and hauntings and traumata in "His House" (Weekes, 2020)
Prof P Segalo – 24 August 2022
A permit to exist: on place-identity, gender, trauma and (non)belonging
Prof RM Moutloali – 23 August 2022
Chemistry: A critical foundation in quality water provision
Prof P Mbajiorgu – 17 August 2022
"Hunger virus-unpacking the role of animal nutrition as element of stomach"
Prof CL de Wet – 18 August 2022
Plague as discourse in John of Ephesus's account of the Justinianic Plague (CA. 542-544 CE)
Prof J Oguttu – 17 August 2022
"Antimicrobial drug resistance: is the post antibiotic era upon us?"
Prof R Mmusi-Phetoe – 12 August 2022
My womb, my private space: A domain of public contestation.
Prof BA Dube – 16 August 2022
The African Union's Afrikanised criminal justice system: A missed opportunity to decolonize international criminal law
Prof C Chaka – 10 August 2022
The geopolitics of knowledge production in applied English language studies: Transknow-ledging and two-eyed critical southern decoloniality
Prof E Nxumalo – 3 August 2022
Breakthroughs in Carbon-Based Nanostructured Membranes: Desalination and Beyond
Prof R PR Risenga – 2 August 2022
Can nurses afford to meet the health needs of community members without the understanding of indigenous
Prof Mathibe Neke - 29 July 2022
The injustices of antenatal care: changing midwifery practice for humanity
Prof S Dube - 28 July 2022
A journey towards green analytical chemistry
Prof L Debusho – 26 July
Devoloping statistical leadership through consulting
Prof P Msweli – 25 July 2022
A Reflexivity dance of warriors: Towards a Historiometric model of Leadership Performance in extreme contexts in African
Prof DW Hedding – 25 July 2022
From Antarctica to Siberia: A journey of Geomorphological research
Prof K Tsaurai – 22 July 2022
Determinants of agriculture sector growth in upper middle-income countries: How relevant is financial development?
Prof F Machate – 20 July
"Rutang bana ditaola le seye le tšona badimong"
Prof Z Robinson - Inauguration - 18 July 2022
Global corporate tax change and the impact on Southern Africa: Advancing pluralist thinking in economics
Prof T Sithole - 15 July 2022
Epistopolitics
Prof PM Njuho - 14 July 2022
The use of appropriate statistical techniques in addressing food production challenges of smallholder
Prof FT Tabit - 24 May 2022
Addressing food quality safety challenges through food science research
Prof Y Botha - 17 May 2022
The strategic communication professional's role in enhancing social organisational credibility: An omnidirectional and diachronic process from a network perspective
Prof M Khumalo - 16 May 2022
Computational Methods with Applications to Mathematical Models
Prof NC Phatudi - 21 April 2022
Constructs of childhood: implications for transitions and learning in the early years
Prof B De Clercq - 11 May 2022
Determining the South African Personal Finance Ecosystem through a Living Lab approach
Prof F Bankole - 10 March 2022
Making the transition to smart digital "milieu": An evolving system era of AI and machine learning for development
Prof N Ferreira - 9 March 2022
Career wellbeing in the new world of work. The ability to be agile, adaptable and embedded
Prof LDN Tlale - 7 March 2022
Caring for children in conflict with the Law: Understanding Beautiful Noise
Prof Prof OA Buffel - 3 March 2022
Death in abundance versus life in abundance in the context of COVID-19 and poverty: A practical theological reflection on the much-needed pastoral accompaniment of the grieving families through the various
Prof M Mkansi - 2 March 2022
Today's research is tomorrow's innovation: A practical approach on the place of a researcher and academics in commercializing reaserch and the transformation of Africa
Prof J Chisasa - 1 March 2022
A risk assessment of the Africa Union Agenda 2063 first ten-year implementation plan
Prof TE Motaung - 28 February 2022
Polymer nanocomposites, material science and entrepeneurship
Prof P Khumalo - 24 February 2022
Exploring human settlements development in Africa: Situating local economic development at the centre of sustainable human settlements
Prof TT Nkambule - 21 February 2022
Abundancy, Scarcity, and Innovation: a water quality tripartite alliance centred on NOM
Prof S Kgatle - 23 February 2022
Paculiarities in the African Pentecostal tradition: disciplinal and decolonial perspectives
Prof EF Doungmo Goufo - 14 February 2022
Impacts of fractional and fractal differential operators in applied sciences
Prof IL Potgieter - 16 February 2022
The new world of work: Digitally connected yet psychologically disconnected
Prof KM Makhitha - 3 February 2022
Consumer behaviour of emerging market consumers in online shopping environment
Prof RM Oosthuizen - 9 February 2022
THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION smart technology, artificial intelligence, robotics and algorithms (STARA) Industrial Psychologists in future workplaces
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