“We have some exciting news for you! Abantu Book Festival launches The Ultimate Book Show with Sihle-isipho Nontshokweni, a project that stands to change the way we consume literature through media. The show features Cape Town-based writers, scholars, and performing artists talking about the stories behind their books. The first season of the [...]
Women's health as well as reproductive health tends to be neglected in the public domain. However, Dr Rizwana Roomaney, a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Stellenbosch University (SU), wants to help change this. An experienced methodologist, who is registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as a [...]
Over the last two years, our international team of researchers (South Africa and UK), have worked together with a local non-governmental organisation (NGO), to develop a school-based programme to support the wellbeing of primary school aged children (10-14 years old) in South Africa. The programme, called 4 Steps To My [...]
Two Stellenbosch University (SU) academics are the driving forces behind a new book containing a collection of 35 creative essays through which various South African women describe how the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted their work and family lives, mental wellbeing and coping skills. Contributions were received from [...]
The ACUSAfrica podcast shares content around Advancing Critical University Studies. “The second episode captures the presentation given by Professor Kopano Ratele on the 17th of May 2018 entitled "The World as It Could Be: African Psychology for the Inferiorised” as part of the Ukutshintshwa kweendlela/[Re] Directions seminar series. This series [...]
In this presentation Prof Ratele shared and expanded on his thoughts on psychological freedom contained in his book, The World Looks Like This From Here: Thoughts on African Psychology. PsySSA 2021 Webinar Series – Troubling Psychology in Troubled Times
Ashraf Kagee's book deals with the underlying issues of apartheid, class divisions and sexual violence; but it also has cadences of ‘lightness’ in that so much of it is told with astute humour. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-08-03-by-the-fading-light-bringing-to-life-the-texture-of-the-time/
http://pointview.fm/ashraf-kagee-by-the-fading-light/
As the COVID-19 infection rate accelerates at an alarming pace in South Africa, an article authored by two academics at Stellenbosch University (SU) warns that adherence to lockdown rules in conditions where citizens live without secure and paid work may be difficult without addressing the country's particular structural barriers to [...]
https://www.netwerk24.com/Stemme/Profiele/land-van-honger-woede-en-geweld-20210721
