Henriëtte Roos, current professor emerita and research fellow in Unisa’s Department of Afrikaans, is the winner of the Gustav Preller Prize for Literature and Literary Criticism.
Unisa’s College of Human Sciences recently welcomed Prof Afe Adogame of the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, to Unisa, as part of its Africa Speaks lecture.
This was reiterated by Unisa Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Mandla Makhanya when the university hosted the launch of volumes 5 and 6 of The road to democracy in South Africa.
If the electoral system has accountability built into it, then citizens will be able to reward public servants who do a good job in delivering quality public services and punish those who don’t perform. The only instrument citizens have to do that with is their vote.
With several recent cases highlighting police brutality in South Africa, Unisa played host to a seminar that discussed the roots of and solutions to the problem.
Two Unisa academics are recipients of the prestigious Academic and Non-Fiction Authors Association of South Africa 2012/2013 grant scheme, which assists them in completing a non-fiction writing project.