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The Engagement and Transformation Portfolio
Co-creating the transformative, responsive university.
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Engagement
Engaging and forming partnerships, interacting with stakeholders and reaching out and contributing towards the sustainable development of the communities we serve.
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Transformation
Promoting institutional transformation through programmatic interventions focusing on the Constitutional principles of human dignity, equality, fairness, non-racism, non-sexism, and redress.
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Hubs of Convergence
The HoC offers physical and intellectual spaces to explore, experiment and reimagine the process of engagement between the University and its communities.
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Research and Engagement Entities
Centre for the Advancement of Non-racialism and Democracy
CANRAD provides an intellectual and social space for debate and research on the complexities of post-apartheid South Africa as we seek to establish a new non-racial and democratic social and economic order.
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Centre for Women and Gender Studies
Framed around the histories of African intellectual traditions in the region, the CWGS seeks to contribute to an inclusive gender programme through research, gender mainstreaming in teaching, advocacy and engagement.
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Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training
CIPSET is a centre of learning, engagement and research excellence through socially engaged public scholarship in the areas of community, vocational and worker education.
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HIV & AIDS Research Unit
Striving to promote and sustain a collaborative response to the HIV & AIDS pandemic through governance, teaching and learning, research, community engagement and service provision.
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Research Chairs and Institutes
Chair – Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation
CriSHET's praxis and programmatic work is rooted in the study of higher education through the lenses of critique and critical action, within the orbit of Critical University Studies (CUS) and other radical approaches to the study of the sector.
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Chair – Youth Unemployment, Employability and Empowerment
Advances cutting edge scholarship on the ways in which skills and Vocational Education and Training (VET) intervene in poverty and unemployment.
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Transdisciplinary Institute for Mandela Studies
TIMS is a joint project between the University, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Human Sciences Research Council to implement the scholarly formulation of the Mandela legacy.
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Engagement and Transformation News
‘Undo fear,’ says chair in African Feminist Imaginations
The South African Research Chairs Initiative, or SARChI, launched a chair in African Feminist Imaginations at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, on 5 June, headed by Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola from the university’s Centre for Women and Gender Studies.
South Africa’s 1994 ‘miracle’: what’s left?
In the 1990s, a commonly held view was that South Africa had achieved a “miracle” because of its relatively peaceful political transition from apartheid to inclusive democracy in 1994.
Current funding challenges in Higher Education
We, as the Nelson Mandela University Council, like other university councils and higher education stakeholders, are deeply concerned at the persistent funding and fee challenges that South African universities and the post-school education and training sector in general are experiencing.
International Mother Tongue Day Celebrations
Nelson Mandela University will be hosting a series of language-related events throughout the course of the week, headlined by the virtual launch of a children’s “Virus Fighters” series in five languages and featuring storyteller Dr Gcina Mhlophe, today (Thursday, 25 February).