Posted on June 25, 2021
On 10 June, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in partnership with the University of Pretoria and its transdisciplinary research institution Future Africa, hosted a youth forum under the theme: ‘Reimagine education tomorrow – Our time. Our turn. Our future’. As...
Posted on June 25, 2021
World Refugee Day is hosted annually on 20 June. Under the theme ‘Together we heal, learn and shine’, this year’s event aims to create awareness of the challenges faced by refugees globally.
Posted on June 11, 2021
Former UP SRC president and current master’s student David Kabwa talks about the African Youth for Transitional Justice programme he is part of and why young people deserve a seat at the table.
Posted on June 07, 2021
“A complete paradigm shift around food safety is required for Africa.” – Austin Pinkerton of UP’s Political Sciences Department on why low-income nations bear the brunt of food-borne risks.
Posted on April 27, 2021
27 years ago South Africa held its first democratic elections with 17 million people casting a vote for the first time (Constitutional Rights Foundation, 2018). The African National Congress (ANC) won the election with 63%, gaining control of the national parliament and electing Nelson Mandela as...
Posted on March 17, 2021
The UP and ILO report explores what lessons can be drawn from the role business played in SA’s transition from apartheid to democracy.
Posted on March 16, 2021
The virtual series features a panel of alumni who deliberate on topical issues of public interest. This event included UP Senior Lecturer Dr Sithembile Mbete and Vice-Chancellor Professor Tawana Kupe.
Posted on March 11, 2021
In this opinion piece, UP’s Dr Cori Wielenga and the ILO’s (@ilo) Gary Rynhart discuss business’ role in ushering SA into democracy
Posted on March 05, 2021
Professor Christopher Afoke Isike of the Department of Political Sciences in the Faculty of Humanities was recently awarded the prestigious African Pathways Programme (APP)/BRICS Teaching and Research Mobility Grant.
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.
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