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2017-10-24 00:00:00.0 | Category: News, Corporate

Break the stigma, break the silence

Dr Gwen Ramokgopa, Gauteng Health MEC, told Unisans that 16.5% of South Africans suffer from common mental disorders like depression and anxiety. “We are ill and we don’t even recognise that we are.”

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2017-10-20 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, News, Corporate

Unisa hosts National Spelling BEE finale

The National Spelling BEE finale hosted by the College of Human Sciences together with the Department of Basic Education was won by Tshegofatso Morapedi Letlotlo from Limpopo.

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2017-10-20 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Events, News, Corporate

Tell your own stories

On the 40th anniversary of Black Wednesday, the seventh Percy Qoboza Memorial Lecture, hosted by the National Press Club and Unisa’s Department of Communication Science, was delivered by his son, Vusi Qoboza.

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2017-10-19 00:00:00.0 | Category: Dept sociology, News

Interrogating issues that students face on sexual diversity

The Department of Sociology in the College of Human Sciences hosted a Student Dialogue on sexual diversity and curriculum integration looking at issues that students face on campus.

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2017-10-18 00:00:00.0 | Category: News, Dept philosophy, Corporate

First African philosophy society in SA launched at Unisa Humanities Conference

“The African philosophy of liberation is coming to life especially in the youth,” said Ndumiso Dladla Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology when he spoke on the launch of the first African philosophy society in South Africa.

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2017-10-13 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Research news, News, Corporate

Unisans inaugurated as ASSAf and SAYAS members

Sonja Bosch and Chris de Wet join these esteemed academies in 2017, which will no doubt have a positive impact on the university as a whole.

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2017-10-10 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured, News, Corporate

The fabric of LGBTI stigma needs to be reworked

Unisa's fourth Quiltbag Project seminar invited Justice Edwin Cameron as its keynote speaker last week.

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2017-10-10 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, News, Dept christian

Exploring prayer and divine involvement

Prof Dirk van der Merwe from the Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology in the College of Human Sciences presented on the “Pauline exhortation towards a ‘Spirituality of prayer’”.

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2017-10-09 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured, News, Corporate

Africa Speaks interrogates the study and uses of African languages in higher education

Prof Nomalanga Mkhize, a senior lecture at the Nelson Mandela University, presented at the recent Africa Speaks lecture series hosted by the College of Human Sciences.

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