Posted on April 30, 2020
Despite several calls by smokers and the legal tobacco industry, on 29 April, government confirmed its uncompromising stance on the ban. Strangely, this announcement follows only six days after President Cyril Ramaphosa declared that government planned to lift the tobacco ban as South Africa...
Posted on April 30, 2020
The libraries’ physical doors might be closed, but we are still providing virtual support for teaching, learning and research.
Posted on April 23, 2020
Among the many extraordinary moments in the ANC’s long history was the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 and the liberation of South Africa in 1994. The first occasion signalled the final dash towards freedom, while the second created the possibility of transforming the state from a slave...
Posted on April 20, 2020
The Faculty of Humanities would like to congratulate Emeritus Professor, Anneliese Goslin on the release of a new Routledge publication titled 'Managing Sport Across Borders'.
Posted on April 16, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic poses an urgent threat to both the physical welfare of individuals and the collective economic health of our communities. But there is also a looming mental-health crisis just waiting to erupt.
Posted on April 14, 2020
Dr John Boje (83) is one of 11 000 University of Pretoria (UP) graduates who were awarded their qualifications in absentia earlier this week during a virtual ceremony necessitated by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted on April 11, 2020
This video clip, titled “Isiduduzo” (2nd movement), is the University of Pretoria (UP) School of the Arts’ creative response to a call made by the University’s Faculty of Humanities for sources of inspiration as the UP community, and the world, face the uncertainties...
Posted on April 10, 2020
The right to health as described by the World Health Organization (WHO) is an inclusive right that extends beyond basic healthcare – it includes the right to equal opportunities to achieve health, the right to preventative healthcare, and to healthcare that is acceptable and of good...
Posted on April 09, 2020
The rapid spread of the highly contagious COVID-19 virus has prompted several countries to announce a national lockdown in an attempt to “flatten the curve” and curb the impact of the virus.
Posted on April 02, 2020
Soft power is generally deployed when countries are inspired by certain values and the civilisation of another nation to the point that they are moved to emulate such standards, offers retired lawyer and political thinker Lam Pin Foo.
Posted on March 30, 2020
In 2019, Professor David Medalie received an award from the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences for his anthology of short stories, Recognition. This is, however, not the first award Prof Medalie has won for his literary works – he has also received numerous accolades for...
Posted on March 27, 2020
On 31 December last year, as China first alerted the WHO about several cases of unusual pneumonia in the port city of Wuhan, India was in the throes of the largest protests the country had witnessed since Narendra Modi and the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) first took...
Posted on March 23, 2020
Prof Karen Harris, Head of the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies (DHHS), was invited to speak at the 2020 International Tourist Guide Day Celebrations held at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg.
Posted on February 14, 2020
On Thursday, 6 February 2020, Vice-Chancellor Prof Tawana Kupe and the University of Pretoria welcomed Federal Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel to our new interdisciplinary campus, Future Africa. This was the first time the Federal Chancellor was able to meet with South African students to discuss...
Posted on January 20, 2020
In spite of dramatic constitutional changes, South Africans remain stuck in the apartheid ways of thinking and relating to each other, living in a society fragmented by racial discourse, and continuing to talk about four distinct “races”.
Posted on January 20, 2020
In November 2019, post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies Dr Sean Maliehe and his research partners Dr (habil) Juergen Schraten and Dr Carmen Ludwig, were awarded a prestigious Gerda Henkel Foundation research grant to support their new collaborative research...
Posted on January 03, 2020
Welcome to the University of Pretoria and congratulations on choosing UP. You’ve made one of the best decisions of your life!
Posted on December 02, 2019
The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria will be hosting a "Film in history / History in film" Conference from 2 - 4 April 2020.
Posted on November 26, 2019
David Kabwa, a former Chairperson of House Humanities, is a student leader committed to helping others overcome their circumstances. His compassion and political training saw him re-elected this year as president of the SRC – one of only a few candidates to achieve such a feat. David is...
Posted on November 21, 2019
Impossible Returns by Siona O’Connell was officially launched in Harfield, Western Cape on the 20th of October 2019. The book focuses on the forced removals of people from their homes during the 1970’s as part of the then government policies on land. The untold truths and unjust...
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