Africa's development will not be driven by institutions alone. Unisa and AUDA-NEPAD are challenging young Africans to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence to take ownership of Agenda 2063 and help shape the continent’s future. Read more

A Thabo Mbeki School seminar brought diplomats, scholars and students together to examine how protocol can either reproduce gender inequality or become an instrument for dignity, inclusion and institutional change. Read more

Against the background of the current negotiations between the Islamic Republic of Iran on one hand and the United States of America and Israel on the other, the university recently hosted a Diplomatic Seminar during which the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran served as guest speaker. Read more

A virtual seminar recently hosted by the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs focused on examining the African Continental Free Trade Area as a mechanism for advancing the Pan-Africanist vision of development and human security across the continent. Read more

Recently, members of the Lekgotla La Batho Research Project and researchers from the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs participated in a workshop on Bosadi Theorisations and African Indigenous Laws, integrating insights from both community and academic sources. Read more

The Lekgotla La Batho Research Project, an initiative of the university’s Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, recently engaged with the Bapedi Urban Royal Council to facilitate research into, among others, traditional courts and indigenous laws. Read more

Representatives of the university recently presented papers at the 3rd Annual Limpopo Research Forum Conference, with Advocate Sipho Mantula delivering the keynote address in which he called for a decolonised knowledge and digital transformation. Read more

Unisa's Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, in partnership with the Miriam Makeba Foundation, recently hosted the 4th Annual Mariam Makeba Lecture to celebrate her life and legacy as a revolutionary and cultural diplomat. Read more

In the current shifting global order, ‘information pollution’ has become a tool of manipulation. Techniques include disinformation, misinformation, fake news, propaganda, and foreign information manipulation and interference. How can societies build resilience against such manipulation? Academics and practitioners from South Africa and Estonia will engage in a South/North dialogue on this theme, with an academic publication and policy recommendations as the outcome. Read more

The Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs at the university recently hosted a seminar themed "The US casus belli in Venezuela or the 'Right-to-Protect' doctrine". Read more