Posted on April 08, 2022
The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies is exceptionally proud to announce that Professor Thula Simpson’s book entitled History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present published in August 2021 won the prestigious National Institute for the Humanities and Social Science (NIHSS)...
Posted on April 04, 2022
Seven members of the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies departed for Helsinki, Finland.
Posted on February 07, 2022
In early February UP Academics and Career Services participated in a four-day Erasmus SUCSESS Project workshop focusing on university education and students’ employability. They also competed in a Hackathon.
Posted on October 08, 2021
Newsbank, a collection of digitised and searchable primary sources available in the UP Library, had a record number of hits in September 2021 totalling 21 177, an all time UP high!
Posted on July 30, 2021
Congratulations to Dr Keneiloe Molopyane for being selected as a National Geographic Emerging Explorer! The 15 individuals are chosen for conducting innovative work in everything from ocean exploration to understanding the past through archaeology. Dr Molopyane chats about her research and...
Posted on July 09, 2021
The History Honours students in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies (DHHS) were once again the proud presenters of the annual archives project that forms part of one of their core research and methodology modules.
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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