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Unisan selected for prestigious Future Professors Programme
Selected from 114 applications nationwide, CSET’s Dr Nomvano Mketo will represent Unisa in the Future Professors Programme, a DHET initiative aimed at developing the qualities of academic excellence and leadership in university scholarship Read more
Regaining consciousness of Africa's intellectual futures
As Unisa hosted a colloquium themed "Reclaiming Africa's Intellectual Futures" on the inauguration and investiture of Prof Puleng LenkaBula, the first black woman to be appointed as the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Unisa, local and global speakers joined the celebration and congratulated her. Read more
New initiative aims to end GBV at SA universities
"It has now become common to refer to gender-based violence in South Africa as our own and long-standing pandemic. This reference to GBV is given validity by the crime data," said Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Buti Manamela, at Unisa's webinar launching steps to deal with GBV in the higher education sector. Read more
Humble LenkaBula hailed as a “talented and outstanding woman” and “courageous mom”
The inauguration and investiture of Professor Puleng LenkaBula as Unisa Principal and Vice-Chancellor was a herstorical moment she became the first womxn, the first black womxn and only the third black person to be appointed as the head of the institution in its 148 years of existence. Read more
Examining the progress made by South African women
August is Women's Month in South Africa and several issues concerning this gender continue to be in the spotlight. Unisa's Cristal Peterson reflects on the progress made by South African women. Read more
Challenging the internet's colonial structure starts with looking to media history
"To begin to decolonise the internet, to me, means to recognise the history of colonialism and its omnipresence even within systems and platforms that are meant to be most progressive," says Unisa's Communication Science Chair of Department, Prof Siyasanga Tyali. Read more
Academically Resilient
Unisa’s 2021 Teaching and Learning e-Festival reaffirmed that the institution is a committed student-centric university that partners with the state, society and the continent – by ensuring that through knowledge, societies can become transformed for the better. Read more
More than equal to the task of leading Africa's mega university
In a move unprecedented since the establishment of the university 148 years ago, the Council of the University of South Africa appointed its first female Principal and Vice-Chancellor at the end of 2020. On 2 September 2021, LenkaBula will be officially inaugurated. Read more
Honouring African scientists
Prof Malik Maaza delivered the keynote address at the recent webinar held by Unisa's School of Interdisciplinary Research Graduate Studies. He emphasised the strategic importance of Africa, and the voice it has - and ought to have - on the world stage, through its 54 member states. Read more
Unisa adds academic muscle to safe energy campaign
Delivering his inaugural address, Prof Ashley van Niekerk from the ISHS said that "No Paraffin!" had been launched by the university in partnership with ASSAf to contribute to SA's accelerated transition to affordable and modern energy to prioritise the needs of socio-economically impoverished communities. Read more
