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Doctoral research focuses on neoliberal governance and gender transformation in higher education

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Dr Qhama Noveve’s doctoral research explored how neoliberal governance intersects with goals for gender transformation, showing how institutional rules, discourses, and everyday practices shape possibilities for change in higher education.

Re-imagining Black Consciousness

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Black Consciousness (BC), one of South Africa’s foremost political philosophies pioneered by Steve Biko, came under close examination in Mandela University graduate Dr Mpho Tsedu’s doctoral thesis.

Eastern Cape Executive Mayor graduates with doctoral degree

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Executive Mayor Samkelo Janda of the Mbhashe Local Municipality in the Amathole district – which extends from the Great Kei River to Coffee Bay - has been conferred with a doctorate in public administration and management from Nelson Mandela University.

Nelson Mandela University graduate completes PhD and MBChB degrees simultaneously

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Nelson Mandela University’s recent summer graduation ceremony marked a watershed moment for Ugandan-born graduand, Arumadri Bako, who joined the select few to hold both a doctorate and a medical degree after completing her PhD and MBChB programmes simultaneously.

Screening The Lesotho Land Question – exploring the struggles of Basotho footloose immigrant herders

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Following the thriller documentary titled “Mathonga Elizwe – Spirits of the Land, Dr Mnqobi Ngubane, senior lecturer in Sociology & Anthropology, recently launched the screening of The Lesotho Land Question.

Building Ethical Governance: ASSADPAM 2025 Charts Path to a Future Developmental State

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:00:00 GMT

With the ethical conduct of public servants and the credibility of government institutions under increasing scrutiny, public administration faces pressing questions about its role in shaping governance and society.

The legacy of Orlando Stadium in South Africa’s urban history

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:00:00 GMT

The politics of history, memory, and the archive were recently revisited in a seminar that explored the long-overlooked history of Orlando Stadium in Soweto – a space of profound cultural and political significance in South Africa’s Black urban history.

True meaning of freedom under scrutiny as democratic SA turns 31

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:00:00 GMT

South Africans celebrate Freedom Day amidst fierce debates about what living in a free country has all meant given persistent poverty, inequality, unemployment and violent crime among other things, this year.

Indigenous herbal medicine and practitioners a research goldmine

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 22:00:00 GMT

With up to 80% of South Africans choosing indigenous healers and plants over mainstream medicine, local health knowledge is a rich resource that fills a critical gap in the country’s overstretched healthcare system.