NewsClips (10/06/2022)

Posted on June 10, 2022

Dear Humanities Colleagues

Faculty Achievements!

Please join me in congratulating:

Mpume Zondi (African Languages) on her Fulbright Scholarship award to Ohio State University

Chris Nshimbi (Political Sciences) on being awarded a Tier 2 SARChi Chair

Appearances on Media Platforms

Abdi Samatar (Political Sciences) published the articles:
- History repeats itself in Somalia as famine grips the land amid a failure of political leadership on Daily Maverick
- Somalia’s election raises more questions than answers on The Conversation

Charne Lavery (English) published the article Four novelists, one ocean: how Indian Ocean literature can remap the world on The Conversation

Lufuno Sadiki (Social Work and Criminology) was interviewed:
- on BBC World News: Focus on Africa about Xenophobic attacks in South Africa
- for the article South Africans take law into their own hands to drive out foreigners published on BBC World News

Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Social Work and Criminology) was interviewed about the prison-sentence of the teen who murdered his mother for the podcast The Story

Hein Willemse (Afrikaans) published the article Afrikaans dán in tamatiestraat on Netwerk24

Phuti Sepuru (School of the Arts) published the article Spirit of Ntu: South African piano maestro Nduduzo Makhathini on his 10^th album on The Conversation

Roland Henwood (Political Sciences) was interviewed on
- PretoriaFM about the implementation of ANC and government policies
- RSG about the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to South Africa, the latest developments in the United States and China’s relations, the issuing of several policy documents ahead of the ANC’s policy conference, and the latest political news and developments in the country
- NewsroomAfrika about the effects of four months of conflict between Russia and Ukraine
- SAfm about European leaders’ agreement to ban 90% of Russian oil by the end of the year

Giné Gebhardt (Faculty Communications Office) published the article World Ocean’s Day – For oceans, for heritage and for people

Robyn Schnell (Historical & Heritage Studies) published an article on the Pamoja launch, hosted in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden

Presentations and publications on academic platforms

Ahmed Mohammed (Psychology) published the article Using Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up with young children with developmental delays: A multiple-baseline trial of attachment, sensitivity and cortisol in the Journal Intellectual Disabilities

Jarred Martin (Psychology), Charles van Wijk and W Meintjies published the article A Concise Occupational Mental Health Screening Tool for South African Workplaces in Frontiers in Psychology

Thaddeus Metz (Philosophy) published:
- The book A Relational Moral Theory: African Ethics in and beyond the Continent
- The following chapters:
  - ‘African Ethics and Public Governance: Nepotism, Preferential Hiring, and Other Partiality’ in Ethics and Accountable Governance in Africa’s Public Sector
  - ‘Virtue in African Ethics as Living Harmoniously’ in The Virtue of Harmony
  - ‘Why Reconciliation Requires Punishment but Not Forgiveness’ in Conflict and Resolution: The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge, and Punishment
  - ‘The Concepts of Life’s Meaning’ in The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life
- These articles:
  - Problems of Living Meaningfully in Psychiatry and Philosophy in the Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
  - A Reconciliation Theory of State Punishment: An Alternative to Protection and Retribution in Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements
  - How Much Punishment Is Deserved? Two Alternatives to Proportionality in Philosophies
  - Does the Lack of Cosmic Meaning Make Our Lives Bad? in the Journal of Value Inquiry

My congratulations to all our colleagues! 

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