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.

Prof. Mokomane received the Researcher of the Year Award at the Annual Humanities Day, 2019.

Posted on November 28, 2019

Zitha Mokomane is an Associate professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Pretoria.

Sociology Seminar Series: ‘’The Household and the Social Reproduction of the Mining Migrant Labour System”

Posted on March 08, 2018

Mr Songezo Nomvete, Ph.D Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Pretoria presented the seminar. Not much research has been done on families of mineworkers on how they negotiate their daily lives in the absence of a father figure who is often head of the household. Furthermore, there is...

Launch of new book by UP academic

Posted on December 08, 2017

Sitting pretty – White Afrikaans women in postapartheid South Africa, the new book by Prof Christi van der Westhuizen, was launched during November in Cape Town, Johannesburg and at the University of Pretoria (UP).

Sociology seminar series: "Patriarchy and Power in the South African News: The Death of Anene Booysen”

Posted on October 09, 2017

Prof Nicky Falkof from the University of the Witwatersrand presented the seminar. In February 2013 a 17-year-old woman, Anene Booysen, was gang-raped, mutilated, disembowelled and left for dead on a construction site in the town of Bredasdorp, in the Western Cape, South Africa. Before dying of...

Prof Charles van Onselen receives prestigious HSRC award

Posted on September 29, 2017

The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has awarded the Annual Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities to Prof Charles van Onselen from the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria.

Sociology seminar series: Post-war labour market reconstructions: The case of the Democratic Republic of CONGO

Posted on September 11, 2017

Mr Saint Jose Inaka, Ph.D Fellow, Department of Sociology presented the paper. The post-war reconstructions of the Congolese labour market were chosen for this study for a number of reasons. First, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was plunged into bloodshed from 1996 to 2002. That war,...