NewsClips (27/08/2021)

Posted on August 27, 2021

Here are the NewsClips for the week:

World Humanitarian Day- #theHumanRace

Posted on August 19, 2021

World Humanitarian Day is observed on the 19th of August annually and focuses on humanitarian aid workers who put their lives in danger to assist individuals impacted by crises such as: famine, lack of education, displacement, natural disasters, war and access to basic goods and services.

NewsClips (13/08/2021)

Posted on August 13, 2021

Here are the NewsClips for the week:

Celebrating International Youth Day: Re-imagining tomorrow: our turn, our time, our future – A teacher’s perspective

Posted on August 12, 2021

Towards the end of 2019 and at the beginning of 2020, people all over the world were forced to adapt to and embrace the ‘new normal’—the term coined to describe the regulations introduced due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (Yanow & Good 2020). The pandemic enforced a...

Leaving no one behind: Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social contract

Posted on August 12, 2021

International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, on 9 August, seeks to promote and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population. The day also honours the accomplishments of indigenous peoples and their contributions in the fields of social and human rights and sustainable...

Celebrating National Women’s Day with Women who Inspire

Posted on August 05, 2021

The month of August has been dear to South Africa since 1956. On 9 August 1956, nearly 20 000 women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against legislation aimed at tightening the apartheid government’s control over the movement of black women in urban areas.

Open doors - The Department of Visual Arts goes beyond education

Posted on August 05, 2021

The Department of Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria is in the business of producing not mere artists, but entrepreneurs in the arts. In 2020, the first BA Fine Arts group worked as volunteers at the UP initiative Moja Gabedi, which is a community garden in Hatfield, Pretoria.

The South African Crisis: The View from Mogadishu

Posted on August 02, 2021

Recent riots and the huge loss of life and property in South Africa have alarmed many people globally, including those in Somalia’s war-ravaged capital, Mogadishu. A few of Mogadishu’s denizens who know that I spend several months annually at the University of Pretoria have urged me...