Posted on August 13, 2021
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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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
Posted on August 02, 2021
As we approach International Friendship Day, a time when we should be celebrating a sense of human unity to overcome some of the world’s most pressing social issues, it may be fitting to reflect on our society and how we ‘do’ friendship.
Posted on August 02, 2021
Former South African President, Nobel laureate and anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on 18 July 1918. In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly declared the date of his birth Nelson Mandela Day. This day is recognised and celebrated annually by all who are willing...
Posted on August 02, 2021
The Mail & Guardian publishes the names of 200 exceptional and noteworthy individuals below the age of 35 in its list of 200 Young South Africans. This list has been published for more than 15 years and has featured UP alumni, staff and students.
Posted on July 23, 2021
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Posted on July 09, 2021
On 29 June, Prof Vasu Reddy, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria, and Prof Relebohile Moletsane, J. L. Dube Chair in Rural Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, presented their research at the Critical Food Studies virtual seminar, funded by the Andrew W....
Posted on July 09, 2021
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Posted on June 25, 2021
In 1974, the Afrikaans Medium Decree was issued by the South African Minister for Bantu Education, Mr MC Botha. The Decree made Afrikaans the compulsory medium of instruction in black schools from Standard 5 upwards (Grade 7 to 12).
Posted on June 25, 2021
The birth of a premature infant can cause severe stress in families as parents are often unsure about their infant’s future. Is their infant going to survive? If the infant does survive, what are the possibilities of their infant having a disability or a developmental delay that requires...
Posted on June 25, 2021
During the past 14 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused most families to experience immense stress. Families and communities have been, and continue to be exposed to changes, such as having to work from home, the closing of child care centres and home schooling. Social distancing has caused...
Posted on June 25, 2021
International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day or May Day, is a celebration of the courage shown by the working class when they united in objecting to poor working conditions. This day is celebrated on different days in different countries, but generally falls on the first day of May....
Posted on June 25, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced significant stress and anxiety for many families around the world with lower income families more significantly affected during this time. The impact and demands placed on families has been considerable especially for families of children with special needs...
Posted on June 25, 2021
The impact of human activities on the physical environment are largely responsible for the observed loss of habitats, high levels of extinction, irreversible threats to biodiversity and loss of livelihoods. Ecosystem monitoring programmes, corrective measures and rehabilitation initiatives to...
Posted on June 25, 2021
World Environment Day, which we celebrate on 5 June this year, is a day that focuses on the environment and ecosystem restoration. This year kicks off the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030). As the environment continues to suffer at the hands of humans, forests, peatlands and...
Posted on June 25, 2021
Remembering Sam Mzima’s iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson, memorialised at the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum in Soweto[1], the Soweto Poet Laureate[2] Ingoapele Madingoane’s poem Africa my beginning, Africa my ending,[3] and Ingrid Jonker’s The child who was shot dead...
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