Posted on February 23, 2023
The IIAS-SEAPP Conference entitled “Developmental States and Professionalization of Public Administration and Public Policy”, took place from the 6th to the 9th of February 2023 at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar.
Posted on February 21, 2023
Marumo Omotoye, a second year PhD Public Policy candidate in the School of Public Management and Administration, participated in a roundtable discussion hosted by the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Public Affairs, USA
Posted on February 16, 2023
Dr Jan Lorenz Wilhelm joins the SPMA as a visiting researcher from Potsdam, Germany for research in the field of violence and crime prevention.
Posted on December 12, 2022
Among the many reasons the informal sector should be helped to grow is that it provides employment for large numbers of women who would otherwise find themselves without any means of survival, says the writer.
Posted on December 07, 2022
The Association of Southern African Schools and Departments of Public Administration and Management (ASSADPAM) awarded Dr’s Mary Mangai and Tyanai Masiya, both of the School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA) the 2022 ASSADPAM Emerging Researchers’ Best Paper Award for...
Posted on November 18, 2022
Academics in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences were recently honoured at the annual EMS awards ceremony, which recognises excellence in teaching and learning, research and media engagements.
Posted on October 19, 2022
Dr's Adrino Mazenda and Tyanai Masiya, both of the School of Public Management and Administration at UP write that “the contribution of the small scale agricultural sector to the South African food value addition agenda is restricted on many frontiers which require government...
Posted on October 13, 2022
Professor Gerda van Dijk was invited to address the City of Tshwane’s Multiparty Womxn’s Caucus with a topic entitled: Gender equality, sustainable development and good governance.
Posted on September 29, 2022
Prof Natasja Holtzhausen was recently appointed as a member of the Gauteng Ethics Advisory Council (GEAC), whose main objective is to provide independent oversight, advice, advocacy, and civil society mobilisation to fight corruption and promote integrity in the Gauteng City Region
Posted on September 06, 2022
During the 2022 IASIA annual conference, which took place in July in Rabat, Morocco, Professor Natasja Holtzhausen, a Professor in the School of Public Administration (SPMA), was elected as one of five board members representing Africa in the International Association of Schools and Institutes...
Posted on September 06, 2022
Prof Gerda van Dijk writes that gender equality should not be a numbers game, but about representation and the voice given to understanding the intersections that contribute to and continue to perpetuate inequality.
Posted on August 15, 2022
IASIA - conference Morocco
Posted on July 29, 2022
Dr Mary Mangai from the School of Public Management and Administration was at the Institute for Peace and Development (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She collaborated with INEF on a research project that was co-funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and The World Academy...
Posted on July 27, 2022
About 6.5 million people in South Africa are reported to be food insecure, with poverty and unemployment being the driving factors of food insecurity
Posted on July 20, 2022
SPMA Director, co-chairs panel at 3rd Annual Workshops on Public Policy held at the Corvinus University in Budapest
Posted on July 14, 2022
Dr’s Adrino Mazenda and Tyanai Masiya, both senior lecturers in the School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA) have contributed a book chapter in a new book on the socio-economic dynamics of COVID-19.
Posted on June 28, 2022
The lack of access to sanitary pads for underprivileged school girls at Tswaing Secondary School in Winterveld, Pretoria, touched the hearts of students in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) and prompted them to step in and assist by donating over 400 packs of sanitary pads to...
Posted on June 23, 2022
On World Hunger Day, 28 May, Dr Adrino Mazenda was interviewed on Newzroom Afrika to unpack the driving factors of hunger in South Africa.
Posted on June 02, 2022
The dysfunctional and collapsing state of municipalities prompted Dr Fezile Ngqobe to investigate whether the development of an integrated performance and accountability framework could contribute to improved service delivery.
Posted on May 23, 2022
Dr Stellah Lubinga from the School of Public Administration and Management has been awarded the University of Pretoria's Research Development Programme funding to conduct research on the effectiveness of the social protection interventions on the livelihoods of the poor and vulnerable people in...
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