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Unisa’s Research, Postgraduate Studies, Innovation & Commercialisation Portfolio generates socially relevant knowledge to influence industries and society.

Pretoria, South Africa
Joined February 2016
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Postgraduate Research Training Workshops Schedule for 27 – 30 October 2026: 27 Oct: tinyurl.com/35u2maa4 27 Oct: tinyurl.com/4twt7fz9 28 Oct: tinyurl.com/msws4588 30 Oct: tinyurl.com/44848cf8 More info 👇
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Postgraduate Research Training Workshops Schedule for 3-6 November 2026: 03 Nov: tinyurl.com/mtppmt9u 03 Nov: tinyurl.com/kj688byx 03 Nov: tinyurl.com/2x4xscxd 05 Nov: tinyurl.com/ypetdnp5 06 Nov: tinyurl.com/yzaxcthw More info👇
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INVITATION 📢| Unlock Your Innovation Potential with @Unisa's Directorate of Innovation, Technology Transfer & Commercialisation Masterclass Series! Researchers, innovators, students and aspiring entrepreneurs are invited to join a Masterclass Series. Designed to equip participants with practical knowledge and insights, the series explores the innovation journey, from transforming ideas into impactful solutions to protecting intellectual property and commercialising innovations for global markets. Upcoming Masterclasses: 🗓️27 October 2026 | Transforming Ideas into Innovation for Impact 🗓️28 October 2026 | Secure Breakthrough – Protecting What Matters 🗓️29 October 2026 | Amplify the Impact – Commercialising for Global Reach Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/cf9C… For more info, see invites ⬇️.
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📢 | 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
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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 👇
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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👇
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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
Prof Lessing Labuschagne takes the helm of Unisa's research, postgraduate studies, innovation and commercialisation portfolio, bringing more than 30 years of experience in higher education leadership and research management. ow.ly/682w50ZVQ0G #Unisa150andBeyond
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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
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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
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[FAMELAB SOUTH AFRICA 2026] Londeka Dube from the @Unisa ‘s Institute for Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability (iNanoWS) has made it into the Top 10 FameLab South Africa 2026 finalists! She will be going head-to-head with fellow finalists this afternoon for the title of FameLab South Africa 2026 winner. We are cheering her on and wishing her all the very best as she takes to the stage to communicate her science with clarity, passion and maximum impact! 👏🏾 Watch her live: m.youtube.com/live/C4DdUO1-V… #UnisaCSET #Unisa150AndBeyond #FameLab2026
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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! 📍
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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👇
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🎶 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
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"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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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