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 February 27, 2020
Democratic South Africa has skeletons in the closet that it needs to address. One of these is the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), in a plane crash shortly after midnight on 17 to 18 September 1961. The plane went down as it approached Ndola, a mining...
Posted on June 20, 2019
Marlie Holtzhausen is a PhD student in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria. Ms Holtzhausen’s research asks how Relational and Human Economy Approaches can inform and guide innovative ways of understanding and addressing poverty and inequality in South Africa....
Posted on March 14, 2019
The Department is pleased to welcome several visiting scholars. Dr. John Mushomi Atwebembeire joins us from Makerere University.
Posted on March 14, 2019
Third-year student, Saphia Essop attended the 2018 United Ambassadors Model UN in Geneva
Posted on February 13, 2019
As part of the project “A Nation Divided? Assessing and Analyzing Social Cohesion in South Africa”, jointly coordinated by the University of Cape Town (prof. Justine Burns) and KU Leuven (prof. Arnim Langer), we welcome paper abstracts concerning the prospects and limitations of...
Posted on December 21, 2018
PhD students, Marlie Holtzhausen participated in an international workshop in Germany, Bonn on “Mobilization for Change: Promoting and Defending Justice for Marginalized People”. It was hosted by the Right to Livelihood College (RLC) global education and forms part of a research...
Posted on October 05, 2018
Applications for the DST-NRF Internship Programme 2019/20 are now open and close on the 2 November 2018. Masters and Honours students are encouraged to apply.
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