Questions around student success must be seriously addressed if open learning is to live up to its promise, says South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Mr Buti Manamela. Speaking at the opening of the Open Learning Conference 2018, held at Unisa from 5 to 7 September,... Read more

On Thursday, 16 August 2018, the diaries of the people of the Zimbane Village in Mthatha, in the Eastern Cape, were penciled in for a date with destiny. On this day, ordinary members of the community were set to bear witness to a ground-breaking sod-turning ceremony, presided over by... Read more

Inspired towards Science, Engineering and Technology (I-SET) community engagement flagship project, submitted a proposal for a mobile robotics laboratory to the Sasol Foundation. The I-SET Mobile Unit worth a million rand is a modified vehicle equipped with apparatus to conduct I-SET robotics workshops, as well as a laboratory to... Read more

  Two major milestones—Unisa’s 145thanniversary as a beacon of hope and the 70thanniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—shared the stage on 15 August 2018 when the institution hosted an event themed ‘Supporting social movements and civil society activism to leave no one behind for peace, prosperity and... Read more

Unisa’s College of Human Sciences (CHS) hosted a groundbreaking conference that sought to find answers on what de-colonisation and re-Afrikanisation truly mean for South Africa and Africa?  Themed De-colonisation and Re-Afrikanisation: A Conversation, leading thinkers such as Argentine semiotician and professor at Duke University, Walter D Mignolo; sangoma, Gogo Dineo... Read more