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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Anti-Gender-based Violence

Support, reporting and management of gender-based violence for students and staff.

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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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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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DSI-NRF SARChI Chair in African Feminist Imagination

Linked to the Centre for Women and Gender Studies (CWGS), the Chair in African Feminist Imagination is dedicated to the study of creative sites of feminist expressions.

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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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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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COVID-19 Coordinating Committee

The CCC coordinates the University's external response to the COVID-19 pandemic in collaboration with a variety of stakeholders, including local and provincial government, civil society, the private sector, and other communities.

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Food Systems Working Group

The Food Systems Working Group aims to understand, clarify, and map the various existing food system projects and programmes active in the University space, and to explore the potential of connecting - or the convergence of - these projects and programmes to be responsive to the challenges of food and food systems, both locally and globally.

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Professor Syden Mishi co-opted to the Council of the South African Economic Society

Mandela University Economics Professor Syden Mishi has been co-opted to the Council of the South African Economic Society for a two-year term.

 

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Nelson Mandela University hosts HEITSA NATE 2026, showcasing ICT leadership in Higher Education

Nelson Mandela University recently hosted the Higher Education Information Technology South Africa (HEITSA) National Annual Technology Exhibition (NATE) 2026, welcoming ICT leaders, practitioners, and industry partners from South Africa's 26 public universities for four days of knowledge sharing, collaboration and innovation.

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Nelson Mandela University lecturer on an international trajectory #R2bP

Reasons to be Proud - #R2bP: Muziwandile “Muzi” Gigaba, a PhD candidate and lecturer at Nelson Mandela University, is off to an artist residency in Singapore.

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Community Engagement South Africa (CESA) launches Inaugural Board of Directors at Mandela University

Community Engagement South Africa (CESA) officially commenced its next chapter with the establishment of its inaugural Board of Directors following a recent two-day Strategic Retreat at Nelson Mandela University. 

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