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Published 12/12/2022 Conservation Ecology lecturer and founder of the student-centred Small Things Fund, Dr Rhoda Malgas, received her PhD in Conservation Ecology from Stellenbosch University (SU). Her study focused on rural communities who make a living from wild harvesting indigenous rooibos and honeybush in the fynbos region. It has its roots in her experiences working …

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Published 24/10/2022 Ubuntu in conversation with social justice, feminism, and Ubuntu and the politics of knowledge production are three themes to be explored at the Ubuntu Dialogues Revisit. Rethink. Reimagine conference hosted by the Stellenbosch University Museum from Monday, 24 October to Friday 28 October. Professor Kopano Ratele of Stellenbosch University will kick off the conference on Tuesday, …

Stellenbosch University Museum hosts conference, Ubuntu Dialogues: Revisit. Rethink. Reimagine. Read More »

Graduating with her PhD in Social Work from Stellenbosch University (SU) yesterday (6 April), Priscalia Khosa was not only celebrating her academic achievement but also her victory over numerous personal challenges and obstacles to reach this point. This mother of three children aged 7, 8 and 11 completed her doctoral studies whilst juggling being a full-time …

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Stellenbosch University and Michigan State University are pleased to announce the selection of Dr Precious Simba and Dr Priscalia Khoza of Stellenbosch University and Professor Mosi Ifatunji of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Dr Marcella McCoy-Deh of Jefferson College as Ubuntu Dialogues Seminar Exchange Fellows for 2022.   Dr Priscalia Khoza, Department of Social Work, Stellenbosch …

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08/10/2021 It was her father, Bruce, owner of a successful sign-writing business in Salt River during apartheid, who taught Nadia Sanger to ask questions. He taught her to treat marginalised people gently, and to feed stray cats and dogs. All this while cultivating thinking that kicks against the norm. Bruce’s teaching-by-example would come to shape …

Dr Nadia Sanger – Creating new words, images, and signs that trouble old feminist languages Read More »

 3/10/2021 At a missionary boarding school around rural Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 13-year-old Otrude Moyo was punished for speaking her mother tongue of isiNdebele. An example of such shaming was having to remove ubhima (a creeping thorn) from grounds on which missionary horses grazed — with her bare hands in the heat of the day, without water. …

Professor Moyo Nontobeko – Ubuntu: Sharing a planet, living well together Read More »

14/09/2021 ​​Did a “rainbow nation” interpretation of Ubuntu gloss over South Africa’s historic injustices too fast? Pre-empting a premature push toward unity and reconciliation, before issues like poverty, joblessness and inequality were sufficiently reckoned with? These were questions raised at a talk hosted by Stellenbosch University Museum, as part of the Ubuntu Dialogues Project. The …

Dr Allison Geduld – Ubuntu: A more radical interpretation needed to bring change Read More »

15/06/2021 This is the conversation that feminism needs to have with Ubuntu by Biénne Huisman In 2011, Dr Precious Simba left her job in senior retail management to pursue her passion for inspiring young women from underprivileged backgrounds. She went on to establish the Girls Development Initiative in Bulawayo, an organisation aimed at empowering girls …

Dr Precious Simba (Student Graduate Fellow 2019) explores feminism, ubuntu, and citizenship education in Zimbabwe in PhD thesis Read More »

14/06/2021 Dr Motsamai Molefe’s groundbreaking research on African ethics, applied ethics, social and political philosophy has earned him a National Research Foundation (NRF) Y2 Rating. Dr Molefe is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa (CLEA). According to the NRF, the rating of individuals is based primarily on the quality and …

Dr Motsamai Molefe recognized as a Y2 NRF Rated Researcher Read More »

24/04/2021 A lively and thought-provoking conversation that interrogated the concept Ubuntu and role it plays in creating a decent society with empowered people living a good life took place during a webinar of the Ubuntu Dialogues Series hosted by Stellenbosch University (SU) Museum and at Michigan State University (MSU) in the United States of America …

A decent society helps people to reach Ubuntu Read More »