2021-02-13 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Featured, Research news, Corporate
Rethinking higher education
Professor Puleng LenkaBula delivered her opening address as the new Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Unisa at the academic opening of the university on 12 February 2021. “The abnormal normal ushers in an opportunity, a new dawn, a new era in terms of how various institutions, including HE institutions, should be run.”
2021-01-28 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Featured, Research news, Corporate
How Unisa supply chain experts are tackling Africa’s malaria crisis
Unisa’s Professor Marcia Mkansi and PhD graduate Dr Oluka Nagitta recognise that at least part of the malaria problem is not medical but logistical by using their supply chain management expertise to bring much-needed visibility to the supply chain for anti-malarials and ACTs.
2021-01-19 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Life and Consumer Sciences, Lead, Featured, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate
Unisa and Mintek collaborate on rapid Covid-19 tests
In a major contribution by local researchers to provide home-grown solutions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Unisa's Dr Salerwe Mosebi is working with mineral research giant Mintek to develop rapid antigen-detecting and antibody-detecting tests with a remarkable 20-minute turnaround time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.