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The African college of excellence in the social and human sciences

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2020-08-24 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

On the coloniality of language

Prof Everisto Benyera of the Department of Political Sciences delivered the first Unisa College of Human Sciences 2020 Afrika Speaks lecture as a webinar.

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2020-08-24 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

LGBTI inclusivity in higher education

As places of learning and knowledge dissemination, universities play a critical role in shaping the society we live in. If they marginalise a multitude of identities, they will remain difficult spaces for people who are not heterosexual or cisgender.

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2020-08-20 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

A re Aganeng

This CHS CE project celebrated 2020 Women's Month by travelling to Makapanstad in the North West province to spend time with the aged and their caregivers and to educate them about coronaviruses.
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2020-08-19 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured

Africa speaks lecture

The College of Human Sciences hosted its first online Afrika Speaks Lecture on the 05th of August 2020, with Prof. Everisto Benyera as our speaker unpacking the topic "Language, networks of decoloniality and social capital: On the coloniality of language and the African problem."

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2020-08-19 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

#Imbokodo—persist to navigate obstacles

Unisa's Dr Fortunate Silinda, who strongly believes in empowerment and sisterhood, says it is difficult for women to care for themselves as they spend most of their time caring for others. We need to learn to embrace our potential abilities and develop them.
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2020-08-18 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Corporate

Viva, woke woman art!

The Unisa Art Gallery has grown its permanent art collection and added African-inspired acquisitions with a rich symbolic meaning by two prominent female artists, Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi and Claudette Schreuders.
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2020-08-17 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Opening doors to greater opportunities

Prof Magdel le Roux of Unisa's Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies says a National Research Foundation rating provides welcome assistance and funding for an academic.
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2020-08-15 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Smile with your eyes!

Covered up? A Unisa psychology expert from the College of Human Sciences shares some etiquette tips on how to communicate while wearing a mask.

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2020-08-15 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Leave the dungeon behind

Unisa's Reverend Dr Fundiswa Kobo says that Queen Vashti in the story of Esther is a model that women could use for a spirituality of resistance and protest. "She was prepared to dismantle in an instant the king's entire carefully constructed façade… with the conviction that her dignity was more important to her than his display of his power."
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