As SAHUDA and citizens worldwide mourn the passing of Pope Franciscus on 21 April 2025, we also reflect on and pay tribute to his significant and impactful contributions to the Humanities. In a world enveloped by greed, rife with unemployment, poverty, crime, and gender-based violence, and reflecting a sense of commodification, Pope Franciscus, in his…
Department Description The department offers an undergraduate major in African languages, linguistics, and literatures, as well as Honours, MA, and PhD degrees. In filling this vacancy, the department seeks to consolidate its profile in sociolinguistics, with a special focus on language policy and language planning. Brief Posting Description he Department of African Languages at the…
Since the Fallist Movements in 2015, the rhetoric of decolonisation entered the public imagination and very much revolved around social justice issues of access and knowledge production subsumed under the catch‑all verb ‘decolonising’. Much of the subsequent discourses at universities in South Africa, and even abroad, grappled with what decolonisation might mean and what it…
The Faculty of Arts and Design, Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), is delighted to announce a pioneering partnership with the Riky Rick Foundation for the Promotion of Artivism, Community Arts Network (CAN) and the Global Commons Alliance (GCA) for the highly anticipated inaugural Global Artivism Conference 2024, scheduled to take place in Tshwane (Pretoria) from…
The following statement is released by the South African Humanities Dean’s Association (SAHUDA) in condemnation of the ongoing and unparalleled violations of international law and human rights in the Gaza Strip and the Occupied Westbank of Palestine.The current siege on Gaza has surpassed its sixth month and the plight of the inhabitants of Gaza and…
