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The African college of excellence in the social and human sciences

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2020-03-03 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

CHS unapologetically African

We are a college that is talking decoloniality, Africanisation and gender-related topics, says Prof Kgomotso Masemola, Executive Dean of Unisa's College of Human Sciences.

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2020-02-26 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

The complexity of HIV/AIDS within the African context

Unisa's HIV, Social Diversity and Inclusion Curriculum Integration Project - the main purpose of which is to coordinate and facilitate the integration of social diversity and justice into all curricula - recently held a workshop at the university.

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2020-02-19 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

A new zeitgeist for unprecedented success in CHS, says ED

Prof Kgomotso Masemola, newly appointed Executive Dean of the College of Human Sciences, says that it is now possible to achieve quality-driven curriculum transformation through simultaneous decoloniality and Africanisation.

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2020-02-17 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Corporate

Making academic progress against all odds

A positive and extraordinarily resilient attitude is what helped Zenon Ndayisenga, a Unisa student and asylum seeker from Burundi, to survive against staggering odds.

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2020-02-13 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Corporate

COMSA on its way to greater heights

As 2020 gets underway, the executive members of the UNISA Communications Student Association (COMSA) have promised an exciting year ahead for communications students.

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2020-01-20 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Corporate

Unisan's expert eye garners top photography award

Building on past successes, Unisa student Sydney Seshibedi has been named the Sports Photographer of the Year 2019 by South African Breweries (SAB).

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2020-01-14 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Corporate

Interrogating colonial ideas

Unisa’s College of Human Sciences (CHS), a leader in decolonial education, is currently hosting its seventh Decoloniality Summer School which seeks to interrogate power, knowledge and being, and to find answers on what de-colonisation truly means for South Africa and Africa.

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2019-11-19 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Corporate

Unisa produces its first PhD graduate in Setswana

Unisa has produced its first PhD graduate in Setswana. Dr Justice Kobue Legodi encourages others to pursue their research through their indigenous languages, as it enriches their culture and language, amongst others.

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2019-10-10 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, #YOUNISA, Corporate

From a domestic worker to an assistant director - against all odds!

In 2003, a then domestic worker, Ms Johannah Baloyi, turned a new leaf in life when she graduated with a BA degree in Political Science and Communication at Unisa. Sixteen years later, on 26 September 2019, Baloyi returned to Unisa to graduate with a degree in Bachelor of Arts (Health Science and Social Services), this time around as an Assistant Director at the Department of Labour.

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