In acknowledging Unisa’s 140th birthday, the university community will this year engage in a rich tapestry of celebratory activities to mark this auspicious commemoration.
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It would take a big cake to hold 140 candles as Unisa celebrates this time span of educational excellence. Unisa is now a ‘cente-quadra-generian’ university as Prof Mandla Makhanya has tongue-twistedly coined it. 
How inferior is an education system that produces a President, a Nobel Laureate, or a Chief Justice? asked acclaimed jurist and Chancellor of Unisa, Justice Bernard Ngoepe, last year. 
Unisa continues to grow, push boundaries and reaffirm its place as a leading African university, and the filing of its first patent is evidence of that. 
Unisa Council’s recent decision to rename both the Vista and Vudec Buildings has provoked this question yet again. The Vista Building is now the Robert M Sobukwe Building and the Vudec Building is the Solomon Mahlangu Building. 
Unisa’s Gardens and Grounds team have revamped the Unisa Music Foundation’s music school in Soshanguve, creating a serene and peaceful environment for the learners to study music. 
Elasto Kapowezha, veteran Zimbabwean midfielder, shares his thoughts on education and African soccer. 
Unisa BA Education (Mathematics and Computer Science) student and full-time teacher, Titus Sithole, hit the international headlines earlier this year when two of his pupils won the first Scientific American-funded Science in Action Award, a $50 000 prize, as part of the Google Science Fair. 
This year, we are all about making things easier for you. To free up some of your hard-earned minutes, we have made it easier for you to activate both your myLife e-mail account and login for myUnisa. 
MathsEdge is aiming to improve the learning process and research skills of students through a pilot project, LOGIC which enables them to see that mathematics is a real life subject. |
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