University of South Africa

Regarding governance matters, the University of South Africa (Unisa) has added another positive building block in shaping intellectual futures by receiving an unqualified audit opinion for its 2021 financial statements. An unqualified…

Unisa's Principal and Vice-Chancellor (VC), Professor Puleng LenkaBula and the university management had a meet-and-greet brunch to warmly welcome Her Excellency Chief Dr Jewel Howard-Taylor, Vice-President of the Republic Liberia, who…

Themed “The journey has become a race against time”, Unisa held a Sustainability Indaba on 30 November 2022, with the purpose of sharing with its community and stakeholders its sustainability journey since the establishment of its…

The event took place at the Houghton Hotel, Johannesburg, where persons and/or organisations were acknowledged for contributing significantly to shaping futures in the service of humanity. The awards are an opportunity to recognise…

The Northern Cape PSET conference focuses on how there can be productivity, prosperity and job creation in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) and the now-changing world of digitisation.Speakers at the conference mentioned the…

Nnaeme pointed out that procurement is an integral part of governance since it is the primary responsibility of the government to ensure that value for money is achieved through attempts to secure goods and services at the most…

Masedi Masekane, a joint doctoral student from Unisa’s Department of Physics and the University of Zagreb, attended the ICTP-IAEA Advanced Workshop on Future Trends in Multidisciplinary Ion Beam Analysis from 10 to 14 October 2022 in…

The idea of the Founders Lecture was introduced at Unisa in 2003 to encourage the university and its stakeholders to focus on critical issues in higher education at global and national levels. Over the years, various topics, presented by…

Prof Alain Gibaud, a distinguished Emeritus Professor at Le Mans Université, gave an enlightening presentation on X-ray nanoscopy of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). This is a key material in daily life. The presentation was part of a webinar…

As the Unisa team went around, they got a “feel” for UCLA’s dedication and commitment to a user-friendly (especially for student users) campus. It is a clean, smart campus that quickly revealed the UCLA’s investment in issues of…