Prof Christi van der Westhuizen in the media

Posted on October 11, 2016

Prof Christi van der Westhuizen, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria, recently participated in a number of media discussions and also appeared in a BBC documentary.

UP sociology professor elected Vice-President of international research committee

Posted on August 22, 2016

At the recent International Sociology Association Forum in Vienna, Austria, Professor Debby Bonnin, from the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Humanities, was elected the Vice-President of the Research Committee on Sociology of Professional Groups.

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".