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2018-10-10 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured, News, Corporate

On the receiving end of coming out

On the receiving end of coming out was the topic explored at the 2018 seminar and film screening event of the Quiltbag Community Engagement Project.

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2018-10-01 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured, Events, News, Corporate

World not humanistic enough to listen to Afrikan voices

Professor Artwell Nhemachena from the University of Namibia delivered the recent Afrika Speaks lecture hosted by Unisa’s College of Human Sciences.

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2018-09-21 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences, Featured, News

African Languages hosts prolific researcher

The Department of African Languages in the College of Human Sciences, hosted prolific researcher and language policy research specialist Professor Kathleen Heugh of the University of South Australia.

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2018-09-18 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured, News

Taking a stand in the post-truth era

In a world of misinformation, propaganda and unreliable reporting, digital media is not a trusted source said Professor Heidi Julien from the University of Buffalo in New York when she spoke on the urgency for Digital Literacy Skills training for information professionals.

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2018-09-13 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured, News

Unisa linguist wins big at international conference

“I aspire to be the best in my field,” says Unisa linguist, Eugene Napjadi Letsoalo, who recently won Best Student Paper award at the 7th Annual International Conference for Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3).

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2018-09-13 00:00:00.0 | Category: Dept socialwork

CHS Social Work scholar to serve on international editorial board

Dr Mbazima Mathebane from Unisa’s Department of Social Development in the College of Human Sciences has accepted an invite to form part of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Indigenous Social Development (JISD).

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2018-09-10 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured, News

Unisa isiNdebele academic wins national library award

The National Library of South Africa awarded Johanna Nurse Malobola-Ndlovu, a member of the Department of African Languages at Unisa’s College of Human Sciences, for writing and publishing relentlessly in isiNdebele.

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2018-09-10 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured, News

South Africans let us rise, together we can make our country better

Professor Lebitsi Maud Modiba from the Department of Health Studies in the College of Human Sciences recently delivered her inaugural lecture entitled Ethical Leadership in Health Governance: Key to Improving Health System Performance.

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2018-09-04 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured, News

Educating and empowering spiritual leaders for change

The Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology hosted an Open Day with CRL Chairperson Dr Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva to promote the Bachelor of Theology and other offerings in its department as well to discuss a report on the commercialisation of religion and abuse of people’s belief systems undertaken by the Commission.

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