2020-08-26 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Raising female academic prowess is her passion
Unisa's Lefatshe Moagi-Venter, a lecturer from the Department of Political Sciences, will lead a global project to research and deliver high impact, culturally appropriate interventions for youth mental health in South Africa.
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2020-08-26 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Law, Featured, Corporate
Transito: The truth behind the big money robberies
Old Unisan Hennie Lochner has turned his doctoral thesis into a book on cash-in-transit heists that is sure to appeal to professional crook catchers and armchair detectives alike.
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.
2020-08-20 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Featured, Corporate
Improving technologies to better human lives
Unisa's Prof Ernest Mnkandla dreams of a situation where South Africa and the Southern African region can be counted among the greatest engineers of quality software products and leaders in 4IR.
2020-08-18 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Featured, Corporate
It's a quantum leap up the charts
Research by Unisa's Prof Lukas Snyman, published in the latest issue of the prestigious IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, was one of the 50 most frequently accessed documents for this publication in June.
2020-08-17 00:00:00.0 | Category:
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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:
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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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2020-08-14 00:00:00.0 | Category:
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Covid-19: Nuclear developments in Africa
Sixty years after the first nuclear weapons tests in Africa were conducted in 1960, the continent is rapidly exploring the various advantages that the peaceful application of the technology can bring in the health and food sectors in its response to the pandemic, says Unisa's Prof Jo-Ansie van Wyk.
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2020-08-13 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Graduate Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Nurtured to lead
Nozibele Nomdebevana, the Corpus Project Leader and CGS champion for transformation, says that for women, whose actions are grounded in healthy fundamental communal values, leading with ubuntu comes naturally.
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