Dear Humanities Colleagues

Faculty Achievements!

Congratulations to:

• Mia le Roux and Salomé Geertsema (Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology) participated in the official handover of e-literacy tablets at Mmabana Primary School as part of the World Literacy Foundation and Sun Books’ project to increase literacy skills
•  Rachelle Chadwick (Sociology) has been appointed to the editorial board of Methods in Psychology

Appearances on Media Platforms

• Professor Tawana Kupe and Christopher Isike (Political Sciences) published the article South African universities are training their gaze on the United States. Why it matters in The Conversation
•  Antoinette Lombard (Social Work & Criminology):
  • delivered the keynote address The interrelatedness of Ubuntu: Strengthening social solidarity and global connectivity and co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving no one behind, at the Gauteng Department of Social Development’s World Social Work Day online event
  • was interviewed on kykNET’s Verslag about the Minister of Finances’ announcement of the new Extended Child Support Grant
  • published the article Co-building a new eco-social world: Leaving no one behind – World Social Work Day and Global People’s Summit
• Abdi Samatar (Political Sciences) published the article Ordinary people are the collateral victims amid the callous brinkmanship of NATO and Russia in The Daily Maverick
• Christopher Isike (Political Sciences) was interviewed on Channels Television (Lagos) about the discriminatory treatment of African students at the Ukraine/Poland border
• Hein Willemse (Afrikaans) appeared in:
  • Litnet with the article Netrebko en die nuwe kultuurboikot
  • Netwerk24 with the articles Regering praat nie namens my and Malema gryp sy kans; tog goed
  • SAfm about the Afrikaans language
  • RSG about social justice in South Africa and Adam Small and Jakes Gerwel’s roles as Afrikaans icons
• Henning Melber (Political Sciences) published these articles in:
  • The Conversation Namibia’s abstention on Russia violates its foreign policy principles and Namibia badly needs refurbishment after 32 years under the ruling party
• Roland Henwood (Political Sciences) was interviewed on:
  • RSG about the State of the Province Address delivered by Gauteng Premier David Mabuza, the implications of the UNGA’s resolution, South Africa abstaining from voting on the resolution and what this implies and President Biden’s statement that Russia is the aggressor
  • SAfm about the movement of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine, the South African government’s stance of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the meeting between Russian and Ukrainian officials to broker a deal between the two nations, and Russian forces firing in a nuclear powerplant in Ukraine
  • RadioPretoria about the IEC’s report on the funding of political parties, how donors influence political parties, and when parties must disclose their donations, the budget speech, and the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine that took place on the border of Belarus
  • Newsroom Africa about developments taking place around the world because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the UNGA’s resolution condemning Russia’s actions
  • Netwerk24 about the implications of the most recent Zondo commission report

Presentations and Publications on Academic Platforms

• Mpume Zondi’s (African Languages) book Bahlabelelelani – Why Do They Sing? Gender and Power in Contemporary Women’s Songs was launched at The Phandi Museum in Durban
• Chris Nshimbi (Political Sciences) published the article Informality as a Sticky Sector in the Post-Pandemic Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the African Journal of International Economic Lawand co-hosted a three day international webinar on African Union-European Relations
• Daniéle Knoetze (School of the Arts) presented the paper The art of ‘looking’: A technical analysis of Alexis Preller’s Man in the Sun at the Yale Institute for Preservation of Cultural Heritage seminar

• Stephan Geyer (Social Work & Criminology) presented the paper Demystifying research ethics: A foundation for decolonial social work research in South African health care settings at the Gauteng Department of Health’s first Social Work Research Symposium
• Mageshen Naidoo (School of the Arts) was part of an international jury for the 6^th UNISA International Strings Competition for the Jazz Category and moderated the session The Growth and Impact of Jazz Competitions at the World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) Regional Conference

Scheduled Events

• The School of the Arts is hosting a virtual Lunch Hour Concert, featuring Hanli Stapela (soprano) and Misha Melck (piano) 24 March 2022 at 12:45. Click here to attend

• The Department of Library Services is hosting an online workshop for postgraduate students on Balancing your research and mental health on 30 March 2022 at 17:00. Please share the attached invitation with all your postgraduate students
• The Department of Afrikaans’ seminar Prototipiese Afrikaanse taboewoorde, taking place on 31 March at 09:30. Click here to RSVP

The next NewsClips will be published on 1 April 2022. We are using a new data capture form, so please remember to log the details of your publications, appearances, and events here or via this link https://forms.gle/UU7wbFqDkGhv5FaN9.