Postgraduate Research Training Workshops Schedule for 19 – 23 October 2026: 19 Oct: tinyurl.com/3dwyc29p 20 Oct: tinyurl.com/e4a6pvz3 20 Oct: tinyurl.com/p5m92uz3 21 Oct: tinyurl.com/9yhjx5ud 21 Oct: tinyurl.com/2yxvjynb 22 Oct: tinyurl.com/4f75bnb8 22 Oct: tinyurl.com/39hdtwdf 23 Oct: tinyurl.com/mrjd6wp9 More info 👇

📢 | Prof Monnye Mabelebele has been appointed to be in the driving seat as the Acting Executive Director for @Unisa's Department of Research, Innovation and Commercialisation. She is dedicated to continue fostering a vibrant research culture that drives knowledge creation and societal impact. Many congratulations to Prof Mabelebele 👏😃! #UnisaRandi

Postgraduate Research Training Workshops Schedule for 13 – 16 October 2026: 13 Oct: tinyurl.com/bdh8vhhp 13 Oct: tinyurl.com/y37ew33t 14 Oct: tinyurl.com/yf86b85f 14 Oct: tinyurl.com/4pja8nru 15 Oct: tinyurl.com/yc77jamv 16 Oct: tinyurl.com/4dz8n46v More info👇

Congratulations 👏 to Prof Lessing Labuschagne for his appointment as Acting Vice-Principal: Research, Postgraduate Studies, Innovation and Commercialisation at @Unisa. His appointment is intended to advance research excellence, strengthen postgraduate success, expand innovation and commercialisation opportunities, and deepen institutional partnerships and collaborations. 📰: unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/… #UnisaRandi

We would like to invite you to the 2027 Masters and Doctoral Bursary Q&A session. In this Q&A session you will learn more about the Unisa Masters and Doctoral Bursary application, awarding and refunds process. Join on YouTube youtube.com/live/pyiAAd4B4cA Join on Teams tinyurl.com/349y88uy

We would like to invite you to the 2027 Honours and Postgraduate Diploma Bursary Q&A session. In this Q&A session you will learn more about the Unisa PG Diploma and Honours Bursary application, awarding and refunds process. Join on YouTube youtube.com/live/m4WFkHG4jBo Join on Teams tinyurl.com/5fcebx8y

Recap-"Who holds the pen when Indigenous knowledge is written?" Prof Anthony Brown Closing out #IESS2026, Prof Brown challenges us to move beyond mere recognition. True reclamation means returning authority to communities, co-writing with knowledge holders rather than enclosing knowledge in academic towers. See you in 2027 for the 8th edition! 📍

Postgraduate Research Training Workshops Schedule for 1 –9 October 2026: 1 Oct: tinyurl.com/zchrnnsc 5 Oct: tinyurl.com/3zsb4vza 6 Oct: tinyurl.com/ymfv3tyf 7 Oct: tinyurl.com/yn5abtbp 7 Oct: tinyurl.com/45ary5yj 8 Oct: tinyurl.com/nhkfxzar 8 Oct: tinyurl.com/7a84hpbt 9 Oct: tinyurl.com/3mz899ap 9 Oct: tinyurl.com/46s2a3k4 More info👇

🎶 On Its Knees, but Still Songing. Dr Eoin Ó Cuinneagáin reflects on the rapid erasure of Irish Gaelic, from 4 million speakers down to 72,000. Yet, colonised peoples hold onto their songs and music to preserve ecological and spiritual knowledge against institutional erasure. #IESS2026 #IndigenousKnowledge #Unisarandi

"Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam - A nation without a language is a nation without a soul." Dr Eoin Ó Cuinneagáin highlights linguistic poverty at #IESS2026: true impoverishment is not just monetary, but the inability to speak your language, describe your world, and connect with your ancestors. #IndigenousKnowledge #Unisarandi

"Ubuntu is not merely an ethic of reconciliation, it is a transformative philosophy of justice." -Dr Lerato Kobe. She further states that true restorative justice requires addressing historical dispossession, restoring indigenous land and sovereignty, and rebuilding Black dignity and humanity... #IESS2026 #IndigenousKnowledge #Unisarandi

Dr Lerato Kobe examines Ubuntu and Pan-Africanism through Julius Nyerere’s concept of Ujamaa. Re-asserting African values means rejecting systems that exploit human beings and building a post-colonial society rooted in human dignity, family, and collective well-being. #IESS2026 #IndigenousKnowledge #Unisarandi

Dr Tonny Matjila opens the morning with Day 2 reflections as we prepare for today’s keynote address. Day 2 shifted the seminar from what indigenous knowledge is to who controls it, who benefits from it and on whose terms it is recognised. The sessions, from floral epistemology and the panel on epistemic justice to ecological governance, health care and Prof Ndlovu-Gatsheni's keynote, showed that epistemic justice means moving from consultation to community ownership, widening benefit-sharing beyond money, and resisting the urge to force indigenous knowledge into Western standards of validation. #IESS2026 #IndigenousKnowledge

We are live at @unisa for Day 3 and final day of the 7th Indigenous Epistemologies Seminar Series! Join us live now tinyurl.com/iess-2026 #IESS2026 #IndigenousKnowledge #Unisarandi

Knowledge must be valued for its capacity to sustain, nourish, and heal life. Prof Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni says Research must be accountable to communities. Communities should participate in defining research questions, and produced knowledge must return to benefit the source. #IESS2026 #Unisarandi

The existing knowledge architecture was built for a single tenant... Renovating individual rooms will not transform this house, Prof Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. He further states that we must move from mere inclusion to building a new architecture of knowledge in which many worlds fit! #IESS2026 #Unisarandi

In Indigenous epistemologies, what we know is never separated from how we should live with what we know. Prof Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni highlights how African knowledge lives through diverse archives proverbs, song, dance, craft, oral traditions, and the body itself! Join the ongoing discussions as they happen: tinyurl.com/iess-2026 #IESS2026

Our keynote address for day 2 is Prof Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni who takes the virtual stage to examine the global epistemic crisis and the limits of Eurocentric knowledge systems. Rebuilding a new knowledge architecture grounded in epistemic pluralism, ethics, and knowledge as life! #IESS2026 #Unisarandi

Dr Ntombizonke Zwane present "Reclaiming Indigenous Ecological Governance for Climate Equity and Sustainable Development in Africa." She proposed a new framework linking Indigenous knowledge recognition, community decision making authority, and climate equity across Africa. Join live now: tinyurl.com/iess-2026 #IESS2026 #Unisarandi