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College of Human Sciences

The African college of excellence in the social and human sciences

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2026-04-23 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa ceremony marks milestone in arts education

The university's Department of Art and Music and the Gauteng Department of Education recently celebrated 107 educators who completed a massive open online course (MOOC) in Visual Arts and Music, designed to strengthen professional practice and support curriculum delivery in schools.

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2026-04-22 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Examining the hidden geographies of resistance

In his inaugural lecture, the College of Human Sciences’ Prof Chitja Twala shed new light on the hidden geographies of anti-apartheid resistance and the transformative power of historical scholarship.

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2026-04-20 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Science, Engineering and Technology, College of Human Sciences, Lead, Featured, Featured, Featured, Research news, Corporate

NRF awards two new research chairs to Unisa

The university will be home to the DST/NRF SARChI Chairs in Water and the Environment, and Welfare and Social Development in Informal Settlements, as announced by Prof Blade Nzimande, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation. The incumbents are, respectively, Prof Ilunga Kamika of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology, and Prof Solomon Kgatle of the College of Human Sciences.

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2026-04-16 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa explores strategic collaboration to intensify its music education

Aimed at advancing Unisa’s music education, the university’s Department of Art and Music explored a tripartite collaboration to build sustainable, practice informed and globally connected music education.

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2026-04-13 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa lecture offers radical hope in catastrophic times

Prof Puleng LenkaBula, Unisa Principal and Vice-Chancellor, and the university’s Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, recently hosted a public lecture on eudaimopolitics vs necropolitics, followed by the signing of an MoU with the Council for World Mission.

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2026-04-10 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Featured, Research news, Corporate

Remarkable research psychologist is a catalyst for change in society

Dr Ghouwa Ismail, Unisa’s research psychologist and an NRF-rated scholar, conducts impactful research that informs violence prevention strategies, mental health interventions, and community development approaches that are contextually grounded and socially just.

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2026-03-31 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa pays tribute to iconic civil rights activist

Unisa recently honoured the late American civil rights activist, Rev Jesse Jackson Sr, at a memorial seminar in celebration of his monumental contributions in strengthening the bond between the American civil rights movements and South Africa’s struggle against the apartheid regime.

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2026-03-18 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Towards a ritual-informed humanitarian psychology

In his inaugural lecture, the College of Human Sciences' Prof Yaseen Ally outlined his vision for a discipline that is more humane, more grounded and more responsive to the realities of plural societies.

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2026-03-17 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisan joins the Executive Committee of CSA-SA

This International Women’s Month, the College of Human Sciences celebrates Dr Modiehi Rammutloa, who was recently elected to the Executive Committee: Local and Regional Partnerships of the Citizen Science Association of Southern Africa.

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