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...
Posted on June 17, 2021
The University of Pretoria’s Department of Historical and Heritage Studies lecturer, Dr. Glen Ncube, recently co-hosted a youth research and learning workshop with the University of the Free State’s Dr Faith Mkwananzi, in Pretoria, from 13 – 17 June.
Posted on June 15, 2021
16 June 1976 should serve as a stark reminder of the power and agency of young people when they face a colossal threat to their future, such as South Africa is once again teetering on, writes UP postgraduate student Edwin Smith.
Posted on June 14, 2021
The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies and the Faculty of Humanities hosted a talk given by Professor Charles van Onselen on 7 June 2021
Posted on May 31, 2021
The University of Pretoria Campus Tours (UPCT) proudly presented International Museum Day (IMD) on 18 May 2021. Although Museum Day is a regular annual event on the University of Pretoria (UP) calendar, this was the first time the event was held on a virtual platform.
Posted on May 31, 2021
The Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at UP and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study co-hosted a virtual centenary commemoration of the Bulhoek Massacre of 1921.
Posted on May 27, 2021
On 3 May 2020, the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies hosted a seminar by Dr. Eddie Michel entitled “‘You haven’t been too horrible to us recently.’ Lyndon B. Johnson and apartheid South Africa”.
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