Posted on October 22, 2020
Religion remains more closely linked to politics than most people would like to admit, said panellists during a discussion following the Cape Town premiere of In Gods Naam, a short documentary directed by Dr Siona O’Connell, of the University of Pretoria (UP).
Posted on October 22, 2020
Over the past five years the conversation of, and on, fallism has largely centred on fees, yet the original movement went well beyond financial issues.
Posted on October 10, 2020
World Mental Health Day is commemorated annually on 10 October. On this day, mental health practitioners, organisations and advocacy groups attempt to demystify notions around mental health and build trust in seeking mental health intervention.
Posted on October 07, 2020
On 26 August 2020, a young person with Down syndrome tragically lost his life in a shooting incident close to his home in Eldorado Park, near Johannesburg. Nathaniel Julies was fatally shot while police investigated a robbery in his street. He was simply a bystander and did not understand when...
Posted on October 06, 2020
According to Bob Williams, who uses augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), ‘the silence of speechlessness is never golden. We all need to communicate with each other – not just in one way, but in as many ways as possible. It is a basic human need, a basic human right. And...
Posted on October 03, 2020
The short documentary film In Gods Naam premièred on 27 September 2020. The 26-minute documentary, directed by Dr Siona O’Connell, takes a closer look at the role that the Dutch Reformed Church (NGK) played in endorsing the apartheid policy of the National Party. The film also investigates...
Posted on October 02, 2020
Please join me in congratulating our colleague Carlos Tirado Taipe (Ancient and Modern Languages and Cultures) who graduates with his PhD this week!
Posted on September 30, 2020
“The decolonisation of the humanities curriculum in South Africa is a process, not an event,” said Professor Vasu Reddy, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria (UP), speaking at a recent webinar titled Unsettling Paradigms in the Fault Line of Change:...
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