
UKZN Football Team Draws One-All Against Wits
The UKZN football team’s game against Wits University on 28 July at the Peter Booysen Sports Stadium on the Pietermaritzburg campus ended in a draw.
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Ms Nombuso Khanyile, the talent behind the Afrikan Passion Designs eco-friendly brand that was selected as Design Indaba’s Emerging Creative 2020 and exhibited at the Dubai World Expo 2020 and at Africa’s Travel Indaba, graduated this year with her Bachelor of Science honours in biochemistry after juggling her studies and business activities.
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Emeritus Professor Donal McCracken’s book on the botanical and garden history of the island of St Helena off the West African coast has been published by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in Britain.
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Two staff members from the School of Arts, Drs Philip Awezaye (French/Academic Learning in English) and Alexandra Stewart (French) participated in a post-doctoral workshop at the University of Réunion (Le Tampon campus).
Senior lecturer in Industrial, Organisational and Labour Studies in the School of Social Sciences Dr Jayanathan Govender has launched a book, Exploring the Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social, Cultural, Economic, and Psychological Insights and Perspectives.
Dr Mabowa Makhomisane recently graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Diabetes from the University of South Wales (USW), United Kingdom. A UKZN Medical graduate (Class of 2005), also received the Dean’s Commendation to pursue an MSc in the sub-speciality of diabetes at USW.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented socio-economic effects that have negatively impacted the livelihoods of most households. Due to the lack of appropriate financial education, low-income earners in South Africa are susceptible to signing up for financial services that they do not understand and end up being over-indebted.
Interesting legal issues that will arise in the future as unmanned and autonomous ships begin to traverse our inland waterways and high seas were explored at a maritime law webinar hosted by the Unit of Maritime Law and Maritime Studies.
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Academics in the School of Education Professors Daisy Pillay (Project Leader), Inbanathan Naicker, and Dr Lungile Masinga have developed a visual display book as a creative contribution to social cohesion in public Higher Education.
UKZN in partnership with The Conversation Africa, an independent source of news and analysis from the academic and research community, hosted a workshop on writing for popular media for academics, and post-doctoral and PhD candidates.
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Much is expected of UKZN’s Residence Assistants (RAs) who are called upon to attend to the diverse needs of students from different backgrounds. This can be mentally and emotionally demanding and it is important that they have an opportunity to de-stress.
Professor Vannie Naidoo of the College of Law and Management Studies presented a paper at a workshop hosted by the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria Apwen Benin Chapter on Mega Project Scheduling During Natural Disasters.