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2021-01-19 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Featured, Corporate

How pedal power could solve Tshwane's traffic jams

A calmer, congestion-free CBD is what Unisa BSc student Nkamogeleng Matloga has in mind for the City of Tshwane, and she intends to achieve this with an innovative new bicycle rental solution.

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2021-01-15 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Corporate

Pertunia sets out to reclaim the land – from waste

Education student Pertunia Ndou's food waste management innovation found favour at the Tshwane Inter-University Innovation Challenge in November 2020.

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2021-01-14 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Corporate

Why Kgalabi's portable washbasin idea is making a splash

A portable, self-assembled washbasin designed by a Unisa computer science student for the City of Tshwane's healthcare workers could be just what the doctor ordered.

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2020-12-21 00:00:00.0 | Category: Corporate

The power of polemics—presenting and publishing as a non-academic

Makabongwe Khanyile, Deputy Director of Marketing at Unisa, writes that his research interests straddle across higher education, stakeholder management, marketing, leadership, and governance.

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2020-12-21 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Graduate Sciences, Corporate

Striving to find solutions in difficult times

Mahmood Akbari, a PhD student and fellow in the UNESCO-Unisa Africa Chair in Nanosciences and Nanotechnology, has advice to share with other postgraduate students who are keen on retaining their equilibrium, despite the current crisis

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2020-12-17 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Graduate Sciences, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate

Considering the innovation chasm

ISPIM Connects Global 2020 was a 24-hour virtual event bringing together researchers, managers, business, and global thought leaders. The NSTF represented South Africa, with Unisans Professor Lindiwe Zungu and Dr Vhahangwele Masindi adding value to the discussion panel.

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2020-12-16 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Dept of Operations Management, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate

Unisa innovator wins another big award

Professor Marcia Mkansi, from the Department of Operations Management in the College of Economic and Management Sciences, claimed first prize in the medical category at this year’s Innovation Hub competition for the Gauteng Accelerator Programme.

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2020-12-14 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Corporate

Oil refinery blast is one more reason SA should take industrial risks seriously

The country needs to move away from a reliance on dirty industries, particularly fossil fuels. This will require introducing renewable energy industries that are clean, efficient, and safer for people and the environment, writes Professor Llewellyn Leonard of Unisa’s College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences in The Conversation.

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2020-12-11 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Law, Corporate

Unisa conservation crime researcher named in world’s top 10

Professor Friedo Herbig from the Department of Criminology and Security Science knew he had a respectable research track record in his field but he had no idea just how world-class it actually was until he discovered he was listed as the eighth most-published wildlife crime scholar globally

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