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Inaugural Lectures

Inaugural Lectures

Prof E Ranganai
Inaugural Lecture
5 December 2023

Topic: Enhancing Research Capacity via Quantile Regression in an Inter-disciplinary Setting

Prof AR Adem
Inaugural Lecture
28 November 2023

Topic: My Journey of Symmetries, Solutions, and Conservation Laws of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Prof SJ Moloi - Inaugural Lecture – 29 November 2023

Topic: Semiconductor Radiation Detectors for Current and Future Applications

Prof JBJ Reid
Inaugural Lecture
30 November 2023

Topic: Digitising "The Big Lie": Shrinkage funnels stemming from algorithmic content curation and the related consequences for media exposure diversity toward new governance imperatives.

Prof E Benyera
Inaugural Lecture
21 November 2023

Topic: Africa's troubled transitions: Going nowhere very fast

Prof KA Maboe
Inaugural Lecture
17 November 2023

Topic: Open Distance Learning, an Academic Journey: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Prof S Mahomed – Inaugural Lecture - 16 November 2023

Topic: The evolution of privacy governance in healthcare in post-apartheid South Africa

Prof S Gildenhuys – Inaugural Lecture - 26 October 2023

Topic: "Decoding protein function"

Prof S Henning
Inaugural Lecture
24 October 2023

Topic: #anotherbrickinthewall A system psychodynamic wellness perspective of leadership: Boundaries at the 'edge of chaos'

Prof MM Wethmar-Lemmer
Inaugural Lecture
19 October 2023

Topic: The three pillars regulating international sales contracts on the African continent

Prof MG Ngoepe
Inaugural Lecture
12 October 2023

Topic: Teaching pedagogies of South African mathematics teachers to maximize learner success

Prof H Ramantswana
Inaugural Lecture
22 September 2023

Topic: Decolonising Tshivenda Bible Translations (1936 and 1998): A Tragic Tale of Vhavenda, A People Whose Concept of God Was and Continues to be Ploughed Under by the Translated Bibles

Prof K Pillay
Inaugural Lecture
21 September 2023

Topic: "The Private Security Industry in South Africa a Force to be Reckoned with: Reality or Rhetoric?"

Prof G Aziz
Inaugural Lecture
20 September 2023

Topic: Re-framing (South) African Youth Ministry: Cutting Colonial Umbilical Cord of western hegemony

Prof JO Olaomi
Inaugural Lecture
19 September 2023

Topic: Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: The Statistical Perspectives

Prof AT Mutezo
Inaugural Lecture
14 September 2023

Topic: Improving access to SME finance: Alternative Financing Approaches

Prof AB Sibindi
Inaugural Lecture
8 September 2023

Artificial intelligence and insurance market development

Prof R Mageza Barthel
Inaugural Lecture
29 August 2023

Political Histories and the Struggles for Peace: African and International Developments

Prof EE Ebenso
Inaugural Lecture
28 Aug 2023

So that metals/alloys may exist and serve humanity for long: My odyssey in corrosion chemistry research

Prof R Cassim– Inaugural Lecture - 17 August 2023

Topic: How should South Africa enhance its whistleblower legislation to safeguard and incentivise whistleblowers while combating corruption

Prof DM Mello
Inaugural Lecture
28 July 2023

Divergence and convergence of performance management, monitoring and evaluation in South Africa

Prof P Botha
Inaugural Lecture
25 July 2023

To infinity and beyond : An auto-ethnographic journey through the development and implementation of a self-coaching support programme for social work students

Prof M Sumbwanyambe – Inaugural Lecture - 21 July 2023

Topic: Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Decolonisation of Low Resourced African Languages

Prof FK Mulenga
Inaugural Lecture
19 July 2023

Modelling the mine production chain for improved performance

Prof WD Thwala
Inaugural Lecture
17July 2023

Construction Industry 4.0 for inclusive Smart City Development

Prof SM Tyali
Inaugural Lecture
30 May 2023

Re-imagining the ordinary: On perception, Power and the Media

Prof PLR Makoni
Inaugural Lecture
25 May 2023

The Nexus between International Capital Flows and Nation Branding

Prof KR Ramdaas – Inaugural Lecture - 19 May 2023

Topic: Decoding quality from a single cell to organisational optimisation

Prof G Marozva
Inaugural Lecture
15 May 2023

Monetary policy and inequality nexus. Does liquidity matter?

Prof MF Machaba
Inaugural Lecture
10 May 2023

Boundaries between Mathematics and Mathematical Literacy: Does specialisation matter?

Prof MK Mathe– Inaugural Lecture - 3 May 2023

Topic: Electrochemical Atomic Layer Deposition (E_ALD) in Advanced Energy Materials

Prof MA Mafukata
Inaugural Lecture
26 April 2023

Ubuntu and asset building: Decolonising and practicalising cattle ownership in rural (South) Africa

Prof AT Kuvarega – Inaugural Lecture - 31 March 2023

Topic: Building hope for a greener future: Celebrating progress in Advanced Oxidation Processes

Prof RA Northover
Inaugural Lecture
14 April 2023

Trance and transfiguration in rock art and literature

Prof CA Wilsenach
Inaugural Lecture
16 March 2023

Letter-sound by letter-sound: making sense of written texts in the early grades. Evidence from alphabetic languages in South Africa

Prof RK Mbatha
Inaugural Lecture
15 March 2023

Agriculture in Sustainable Development

Prof CD Scott
Inaugural Lecture
1 March 2023

Becoming and being a person through others: African Philosophy's ubuntu and Aquina's mutual indwelling in comparative discourse

Prof Z Cakata
Inaugural Lecture
28 February 2023

Ubuhle, Ukubambisana, imvisiswano: yethu indlela yokuphilisana Beauty, Service and Harmony: What is Psychology to us, indigenous people?

Prof H Wood
Inaugural Lecture
23 February 2023

How is gender related to the human person who is made in the image of God?

Prof LC Mangayi
Inaugural Lecture
20 February 2023

Reimagining mission and issiology amid global ecological crisis: An oikomissiological theoretical and conceptual framework for building a sustainable world

Prof Van Nieuwkerk
Inaugural Lecture
17 February 2023

African International Relations: reflections on theory and practice

Prof Yao Master
Inaugural Lecture
16 February 2023

Chemicals and Fuels from wastes and CO2: A route of Sustainability