News & Media
Is this how the coalition cookie crumbles?
Last night's Unisa-Sowetan Dialogue asked whether SA is experiencing ordinary growing pains or whether this is the beginning of the end for coalition and collaboration politics in the country. Read more
Break the stigma, break the silence
Dr Gwen Ramokgopa, Gauteng Health MEC, told Unisans that 16.5% of South Africans suffer from common mental disorders like depression and anxiety. “We are ill and we don’t even recognise that we are.” Read more
Thato went from an orphanage to Unisa’s graduation stage
Do not be defined by your circumstances but instead define your tomorrow, says Thato Amarath Senne, who was awarded his BA in Environmental Management last week. Read more
Unisa hosts National Spelling BEE finale
The National Spelling BEE finale hosted by the College of Human Sciences together with the Department of Basic Education was won by Tshegofatso Morapedi Letlotlo from Limpopo. Read more
Tell your own stories
On the 40th anniversary of Black Wednesday, the seventh Percy Qoboza Memorial Lecture, hosted by the National Press Club and Unisa’s Department of Communication Science, was delivered by his son, Vusi Qoboza. Read more
First African philosophy society in SA launched at Unisa Humanities Conference
“The African philosophy of liberation is coming to life especially in the youth,” said Ndumiso Dladla Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology when he spoke on the launch of the first African philosophy society in South Africa. Read more
Unisans inaugurated as ASSAf and SAYAS members
Sonja Bosch and Chris de Wet join these esteemed academies in 2017, which will no doubt have a positive impact on the university as a whole. Read more
The fabric of LGBTI stigma needs to be reworked
Unisa's fourth Quiltbag Project seminar invited Justice Edwin Cameron as its keynote speaker last week. Read more
Africa Speaks interrogates the study and uses of African languages in higher education
Prof Nomalanga Mkhize, a senior lecture at the Nelson Mandela University, presented at the recent Africa Speaks lecture series hosted by the College of Human Sciences. Read more
Eradicating the discrimination against LGBTIQ students
“For the country to eradicate HIV/AIDS and reach the envisioned zero HIV infection, a new level of zero stigma and discrimination should be reached, says award winning researcher in the College of Human Sciences, Prof Azwihangwisi Mavhandu-Mudzusi. Read about her journey as an advocate for the LGBTIQ community and HIV/AIDS. Read more
