2023

Inaugural Lectures

Prof E Ranganai - Inaugural Lecture - 5 December 2023
Topic: Enhancing Research Capacity via Quantile Regression in an Inter-disciplinary Setting

Prof AR Adem - Inaugural Lecture - 28 November 2023
Topic: My Journey of Symmetries, Solutions, and Conservation Laws of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Prof SJ Moloi - Inaugural Lecture – 29 November 2023
Topic: Semiconductor Radiation Detectors for Current and Future Applications

Prof JBJ Reid - Inaugural Lecture - 30 November 2023
Topic: Digitising "The Big Lie": Shrinkage funnels stemming from algorithmic content curation and the related consequences for media exposure diversity toward new governance imperatives.

Prof E Benyera - Inaugural Lecture - 21 November 2023
Topic: Africa's troubled transitions: Going nowhere very fast

Prof KA Maboe - Inaugural Lecture - 17 November 2023
Topic: Open Distance Learning, an Academic Journey: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Prof S Mahomed – Inaugural Lecture - 16 November 2023
Topic: The evolution of privacy governance in healthcare in post-apartheid South Africa

Prof S Gildenhuys – Inaugural Lecture - 26 October 2023
Topic: "Decoding protein function"

Prof S Henning - Inaugural Lecture - 24 October 2023
Topic: #anotherbrickinthewall A system psychodynamic wellness perspective of leadership: Boundaries at the 'edge of chaos'

Prof MM Wethmar-Lemmer - Inaugural Lecture - 19 October 2023
Topic: The three pillars regulating international sales contracts on the African continent

Prof MG Ngoepe - Inaugural Lecture - 12 October 2023
Topic: Teaching pedagogies of South African mathematics teachers to maximize learner success

Prof H Ramantswana - Inaugural Lecture - 22 September 2023
Topic: Decolonising Tshivenda Bible Translations (1936 and 1998): A Tragic Tale of Vhavenda, A People Whose Concept of God Was and Continues to be Ploughed Under by the Translated Bibles

Prof K Pillay - Inaugural Lecture - 21 September 2023
Topic: "The Private Security Industry in South Africa a Force to be Reckoned with: Reality or Rhetoric?"

Prof G Aziz - Inaugural Lecture - 20 September 2023
Topic: Re-framing (South) African Youth Ministry: Cutting Colonial Umbilical Cord of western hegemony

Prof JO Olaomi - Inaugural Lecture - 19 September 2023
Topic: Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: The Statistical Perspectives

Prof AT Mutezo - Inaugural Lecture - 14 September 2023
Topic: Improving access to SME finance: Alternative Financing Approaches

Prof AB Sibindi - Inaugural Lecture - 8 September 2023
Artificial intelligence and insurance market development

Prof R Mageza Barthel - Inaugural Lecture - 29 August 2023
Political Histories and the Struggles for Peace: African and International Developments

Prof EE Ebenso - Inaugural Lecture - 28 Aug 2023
So that metals/alloys may exist and serve humanity for long: My odyssey in corrosion chemistry research

Prof R Cassim– Inaugural Lecture - 17 August 2023
Topic: How should South Africa enhance its whistleblower legislation to safeguard and incentivise whistleblowers while combating corruption

Prof DM Mello - Inaugural Lecture - 28 July 2023
Divergence and convergence of performance management, monitoring and evaluation in South Africa

Prof P Botha - Inaugural Lecture - 25 July 2023
To infinity and beyond : An auto-ethnographic journey through the development and implementation of a self-coaching support programme for social work students

Prof M Sumbwanyambe – Inaugural Lecture - 21 July 2023
Topic: Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Decolonisation of Low Resourced African Languages

Prof FK Mulenga - Inaugural Lecture - 19 July 2023
Modelling the mine production chain for improved performance

Prof WD Thwala - Inaugural Lecture - 17July 2023
Construction Industry 4.0 for inclusive Smart City Development

Prof SM Tyali - Inaugural Lecture - 30 May 2023
Re-imagining the ordinary: On perception, Power and the Media

Prof PLR Makoni - Inaugural Lecture - 25 May 2023
The Nexus between International Capital Flows and Nation Branding

Prof KR Ramdaas – Inaugural Lecture - 19 May 2023
Topic: Decoding quality from a single cell to organisational optimisation

Prof G Marozva - Inaugural Lecture - 15 May 2023
Monetary policy and inequality nexus. Does liquidity matter?

Prof MF Machaba - Inaugural Lecture - 10 May 2023
Boundaries between Mathematics and Mathematical Literacy: Does specialisation matter?

Prof MK Mathe– Inaugural Lecture - 3 May 2023
Topic: Electrochemical Atomic Layer Deposition (E_ALD) in Advanced Energy Materials

Prof MA Mafukata - Inaugural Lecture - 26 April 2023
Ubuntu and asset building: Decolonising and practicalising cattle ownership in rural (South) Africa

Prof AT Kuvarega – Inaugural Lecture - 31 March 2023
Topic: Building hope for a greener future: Celebrating progress in Advanced Oxidation Processes

Prof RA Northover - Inaugural Lecture - 14 April 2023
Trance and transfiguration in rock art and literature

Prof CA Wilsenach - Inaugural Lecture - 16 March 2023
Letter-sound by letter-sound: making sense of written texts in the early grades. Evidence from alphabetic languages in South Africa

Prof RK Mbatha - Inaugural Lecture - 15 March 2023
Agriculture in Sustainable Development

Prof CD Scott - Inaugural Lecture - 1 March 2023
Becoming and being a person through others: African Philosophy's ubuntu and Aquina's mutual indwelling in comparative discourse

Prof Z Cakata - Inaugural Lecture - 28 February 2023
Ubuhle, Ukubambisana, imvisiswano: yethu indlela yokuphilisana Beauty, Service and Harmony: What is Psychology to us, indigenous people?

Prof H Wood - Inaugural Lecture - 23 February 2023
How is gender related to the human person who is made in the image of God?

Prof LC Mangayi - Inaugural Lecture - 20 February 2023
Reimagining mission and issiology amid global ecological crisis: An oikomissiological theoretical and conceptual framework for building a sustainable world

Prof Van Nieuwkerk - Inaugural Lecture - 17 February 2023
African International Relations: reflections on theory and practice

Prof Yao Master - Inaugural Lecture - 16 February 2023
Chemicals and Fuels from wastes and CO2: A route of Sustainability