College of Human Sciences
Advocating for safe and affordable energy
The Unisa Institute for Social and Health Sciences’ No Paraffin! Campaign aims to educate local communities about the dangers of paraffin and shares safe paraffin use and injury prevention tips. Read more
Ethical and theological issues surrounding gender equity viewed through an African lens
Guided by the principles of justice and Ubuntu, a recent international conference at Unisa examined how discrimination, oppression and marginalisation have an impact on gender equity and are a barrier to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Read more
Addressing teenage pregnancy and sexual health in schools
The Department of Health Studies in the College of Human Sciences recently went on a site visit to Tzaneen in the Limpopo Province to provide training for a local NGO inundated with teenage pregnancy and sexual health cases in schools. Read more
Unisa's music expert garners prestigious awards
Unisa’s multi-award-winning music lecturer, Ndabo Zulu, never ceases to shine. Through the institution’s Department of Art and Music, his collaboration with the South African film and television industry recently earned multiple awards for his soundtrack Shaka Inkosi Yamakosi. Read more
Unisa Social Work staff lend a helping hand to Pinetown Welfare Society
Unisa recently assembled a team consisting of academic staff members of the Department of Social Work and the Counselling and Career Development from KZN to provide trauma debriefing to social workers who served victims of the KZN floods. Read more
First prize for African writing contest awarded to a Unisan
Unisa’s Dr Shadrack Katuu won the first prize in a professional writing competition at Kenya’s Strathmore University based in Nairobi. Writing about his award, Katuu says the highest level of integrity in one’s work is a standard of outstanding practise. Read more
South African women will not be silenced
In commemorating Women’s Month, Unisa’s Sanet Solomon shares her views on the issue of gender-based violence in South Africa and how women should not be silenced or live in fear. Read more
"Universities in SA should offer compulsory module in apartheid studies"
Speaking at a Department of Communication Sciences webinar entitled How does oppression persist? An introduction to apartheid studies, Nyasha Mboti, founder of the new field of study, Apartheid Studies, and an Associate Professor at the University of the Free State, proposed that, ideally, every university in South Africa should offer a compulsory module in apartheid studies to students in all disciplines. Read more
Distance education research matters
Sharing insight about the upcoming 2022 R&I ODeL Conference, Prof Jennifer Roberts of the Unisa Institute for Open and Distance Learning in the College of Education says that research in distance education should be contextualised; however, local researchers have to start looking beyond the South African context. Read more
Breaking barriers through education
“Through education, we can advocate for the rights of people with disabilities and change the status quo of what it means to have a disability in South Africa,” says Unisa student, Thuthula Sodumo. Read more