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  • Opinion piece by Prof Christi van der Westhuizen

    Posted on July 01, 2016

    This opinion piece by Prof Christi van der Westhuizen titled, Anti-democratic element in student movements holds warnings for South Africa, recently appeared on The Conversation Africa.

  • Sociology Seminar News

    Posted on May 19, 2016

    Mr Tumi Malope from the Department of Sociology, University of Pretoria presented a seminar with the title 'Wage subsidy: A life jacket approach to a structural problem' Youth unemployment in South Africa is a powder keg, and the discontent felt by youths as a result of joblessness could prove...

  • Sociology Seminar News

    Posted on May 05, 2016

    Prof Lungisile Ntsebeza from the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town presented a seminar with the title 'Not Yet Uhuru?: Democracy in South Africa’s communal areas' This paper re-visits Mahmood Mamdani's warning in his celebrated book Citizen and Subject published in...

  • How Afrikaner identity can be re-imagined in a post-apartheid world

    Posted on April 19, 2016

    An article by Prof Christi van der Westhuizen, Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Pretoria, in which she discusses the re-imagining of Afrikaner identity in a post-apartheid world, appeared in The Conversation in March this year.

  • Sociology Seminar Series

    Posted on March 17, 2016

    “Co-constituting the process of schooling: preliminary observations from an ongoing DPhil research project at a secondary school in Mamelodi Township” by Ms Vangile Bingma

  • Sociology News

    Posted on March 07, 2016

    Professor Hlonipha Mokoenais (from WISER, Wits) presented a seminar with the topic “How I Photographed Cetewayo”: Photography and the Spectacle of Exile in Colonial South Africa".

  • Five Mandela Rhodes scholars choose UP

    Posted on March 02, 2016

    Five Mandela Rhodes Scholars have decided to pursue their postgraduate studies at the University of Pretoria this year.

  • Prof Zitha Mokomane appointed to board of SERFAC

    Posted on February 16, 2016

    Prof Zitha Mokomane, from the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria, has been appointed as a member of the International Advisory Board of the India-based Service and Research Institute on Family and Children (SERFAC) for a term of five years.

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