Posted on January 18, 2021
The Joint-PhD is housed within the African Leadership Centre, King’s College London (KCL) and the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria (UP).
Posted on December 11, 2020
Angela Muvumba-Sellström (Uppsala University/Nordic Africa Institute), Sithembile Mbete (University of Pretoria), and Louise Olsson (PRIO) have received funding from the Swedish Research Council to deepen the understanding of African countries' opportunities to make the UN Security Council more...
Posted on October 22, 2020
Over the past five years the conversation of, and on, fallism has largely centred on fees, yet the original movement went well beyond financial issues.
Posted on August 01, 2020
“August is our month in South Africa – as women we need to understand that we are here to build empires and legacies, sit at the table and fix the world’s crises, create new literature that resonates with our voices, and dismantle systems that have continued to suppress and...
Posted on July 30, 2020
“Service above self” is the motto of the humanitarian organisation Rotary International. Committed to providing community service to others, the Rotarians promote integrity while advancing world understanding, goodwill, and peace.
Posted on July 30, 2020
The pandemic has already raised necessary questions around the integrity of the election and the IEC’s readiness to hold it. What is also important, however, is how political parties and, since this is a local government election, independent candidates will use this experience to shape...
Posted on April 23, 2020
Among the many extraordinary moments in the ANC’s long history was the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 and the liberation of South Africa in 1994. The first occasion signalled the final dash towards freedom, while the second created the possibility of transforming the state from a slave...
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.
Posted on October 05, 2018
Third-year student and tutor, Gabe Vermeulen wrote an article on the recent BRIC Conference for E-IR.
Posted on October 05, 2018
African Peace-Building Network invites research grant applications from analysts, practitioners working on peacebuilding and conflict issues
Posted on August 09, 2018
Professor Isike elected as one of three VP's of the International Political Science Association for 2018-20
Posted on August 09, 2018
Dr. Alusala appointed as UN expert to monitor to monitor UN Sanctions Regime in the DRC.
Posted on June 14, 2018
University of Pretoria students have won 10 out of 20 seats in the Tshwane region to participate in this year’s Gauteng Youth Parliament sitting, which meets on 15 June from 10:00 to 14:00 to discuss issues affecting South Africa’s youth. The event will be televised on DSTV...
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