Coinciding with the culmination of the institution’s 150^th anniversary celebrations and the momentous occasion of the 30^th anniversary of our country’s democracy, Unisa charted a progressive course for the year and decades ahead at the Official Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Academic Year. Read more

Distinguished Unisa scholar Professor James Chibueze, an internationally renowned astronomy expert, recently secured funding that enabled students in the College of Science, Engineering and Technology to gain exposure to cutting-edge radioastronomy and astrophysics developments at Kagoshima University in Japan. Read more

The 15th Unisa International Piano Competition came to a close, witnessing raw talent blossom into refined mastery at the ZK Matthews Great Hall. Read more

In its latest report, the largest academic ranking of higher education institutions in the world, Webometrics, places Unisa in the 7^th position in both South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and among the 1 000 top institutions worldwide. Read more

Six brilliant young classical and jazz pianists have been selected as finalists for the 15th Unisa International Piano Competition, and will compete for top honours at Unisa on 02 and 03 February. Read more

Ayesha Osman, a PhD candidate in chemical engineering and lecturer in the Department of Civil and Chemical Engineering at Unisa, emerged as first runner-up at the hotly contested and highly prestigious 2023 FameLab SA competition. Read more

Dr MaseTshaba Mantepu is Unisa's acting Executive Dean of the College of Economic and Management Sciences. Her history with the university goes back to 1996 when she worked at the Good Hope cafeteria making sandwiches. Read more

The closing ceremony of Unisa's academic year marked the celebration of 150 years of shaping futures in the service of humanity, and reclaiming Africa’s intellectual futures. Read more

Recently unveiled, the Unisa Art Walk Project provides an innovative space for artists to use, reduce, reuse and recycle material to create various types of public artworks, and proves that the arts and sciences can coexist in both space and conceptual imagery. Read more