News News

  • Prof. Alf Nielsen on SAfm Sunrise

    Posted on February 21, 2022

    'In India the government of the ruling Bharatiya Janata party led by the prime minister Narendra Modi is facing a tough test in the state of Uttar Pradesh'. By Prof. Alf Nielsen on SAfm Sunrise.

  • Faculty of Humanities researcher awarded an honorary doctorate in community psychology by the University of Zululand

    Posted on January 14, 2021

    Mmatshilo Motsei was awarded an honorary doctorate in community psychology by the University of Zululand for her integrative work with women and men. This is not the first award she has received for community psychology, and among her accolades is an award from the Department of Psychology at the...

  • Dr. Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso is ICRW's 2020 Paula Kantor Award winner

    Posted on December 21, 2020

    Dr. Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso, a sociology postdoctoral researcher, is ICRW's 2020 Paula Kantor Award winner. Watch the talk on abortion seekers’ and providers’ narrated experiences of pre-abortion counselling in the public health sector in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

  • Mmatshilo Motsei was awarded an honorary doctorate in Community Psychology by the University of Zululand

    Posted on December 21, 2020

    Mmatshilo Tumelo Motsei, a Sociology doctoral student, was awarded an honorary doctorate in Community Psychology by the University of Zululand for her work towards the integrative healing work with women and men in communities. Ms Motsei is the founder of Agisanang Domestic Abuse Prevention...

  • A Future for Farai

    Posted on October 23, 2020

    Prof. Debby Bonnin and Prof. Catherine Burns are leading efforts to raise money for Dr. Farai Maunganidze's cancer treatment. Please read the attached newsletter and join the efforts.

  • 2020 September Graduations

    Posted on October 02, 2020

    Congratulations to everyone who graduated today! Dr. Justice Medzani was awarded his PhD (Sociology). The title of Dr. Medzani's study is Intimate Partner Abuse and Male Identity: Experiences and Perspective of Abused Men in Zimbabwe. He was supervised by Professor Zitha Dewah-Mokomane. Dr....

  • ANALYSIS: Surviving COVID-19 – and Modi

    Posted on March 27, 2020

    On 31 December last year, as China first alerted the WHO about several cases of unusual pneumonia in the port city of Wuhan, India was in the throes of the largest protests the country had witnessed since Narendra Modi and the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) first took...

  • Department of Sociology is Closed

    Posted on December 14, 2019

    The Department of Sociology will be closed from 17 December 2019 to 03 January 2020.

Copyright © University of Pretoria 2024. All rights reserved.

FAQ's Email Us Virtual Campus Share Cookie Preferences