UP and International Labour Organization report explores role of business in times of transition and crisis

Posted on March 17, 2021

The UP and ILO report explores what lessons can be drawn from the role business played in SA’s transition from apartheid to democracy.

LeadUP: Minister Naledi Pandor and UP VC discuss SA on the global stage in virtual chat

Posted on March 16, 2021

The virtual series features a panel of alumni who deliberate on topical issues of public interest. This event included UP Senior Lecturer Dr Sithembile Mbete and Vice-Chancellor Professor Tawana Kupe.

UP’s Prof Charles van Onselen awarded prestigious Academy of Science of South Africa Humanities Book Prize

Posted on March 15, 2021

Professor Charles van Onselen received the prize for his much-applauded book, "The Night Trains: Moving Mozambican Miners to and from South Africa, circa 1902-1955".

EXPERT OPINION: Business deserves thanks for role in averting SA civil war, say experts ahead of discussion co-hosted by UP

Posted on March 11, 2021

In this opinion piece, UP’s Dr Cori Wielenga and the ILO’s (@ilo) Gary Rynhart discuss business’ role in ushering SA into democracy

Political Science professor awarded a NIHSS prestigious grant

Posted on March 05, 2021

Professor Christopher Afoke Isike of the Department of Political Sciences in the Faculty of Humanities was recently awarded the prestigious African Pathways Programme (APP)/BRICS Teaching and Research Mobility Grant.

WORLD HEARING DAY: ‘Launch of first-ever World Report on Hearing is a clarion call to hearing health for all,’ says World Hearing Forum SA steering team

Posted on March 02, 2021

"Screen, rehabilitate, communicate" is the call from the World Hearing Forum SA steering team.

Top DHHS graduate lands scholarship and publishes monograph

Posted on February 22, 2021

Elize Soer, a graduate from the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies (DHHS), recently landed a scholarship to complete a multidisciplinary PhD at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany.

EXPERT OPINION: ‘Superimposing agency on artificial intelligence technologies will shift moral responsibility from its creators’ – UP academic

Posted on February 22, 2021

“Humans need to collaborate to ensure ethically responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) instead of giving it honorary human status,” says UP Philosophy lecturer Dr Mpho Tshivhase.