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UNIZULU Celebrates Africa Day with Riveting Performance and Lecture

UNIZULU Celebrates Africa Day with Riveting Performance and Lecture

Africa Day aims to celebrate and recognise the triumphs of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU now the AU) from its conception on May 25, 1963, in the fight against colonialism and apartheid, as well as the development that Africa has made while reflecting upon the mutual encounters that the continent faces in an international […]

EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENT: DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLOR – RESEARCH & INNOVATION

EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENT: DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLOR – RESEARCH & INNOVATION

It is with great pleasure to inform the University community that Professor Nokuthula Kunene has been appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor: Research & Innovation with effect from 01 June 2021. Professor Kunene is an accomplished scholar and researcher. She boasts many scholastic achievements which includes Research Fellowship in the Department of Animal Science & Biotechnology at […]

SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands

SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands

World Hand Hygiene Day 2021: “Wash your hands”, “sanitize your hands”, and “maintain social distance” are the greatest universally overheard portions of advice at present. The past year has put hygiene in the public eye like never before and brought the focus back on the significance of handwashing and hand hygiene. Every year, 5 May […]

Dawn of a new era at the University of Zululand

Dawn of a new era at the University of Zululand

It was a significant moment at the university of Zululand when they welcomed a new cohort of engineering students into its Richards Bay campus on Thursday 3 May 2021. The Richards Bay Campus was earmarked as the university’s flagship campus due to its proximity to major industrial hubs and the mining sector in Richards Bay. […]

Honours Week

Honours Week

Honours Week in the Department of Information Studies: A brand new multimodal postgraduate learning initiative in the Faculty of Arts The Department of Information Studies recognises the need for improved ways to support and empower its students for the new multimodal teaching and learning platform necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, the Department virtually hosted […]

UNIZULU Academic Elected Deputy Chairperson for the EDHE CoP for Entrepreneurship Research

UNIZULU Academic Elected Deputy Chairperson for the EDHE CoP for Entrepreneurship Research

The University of Zululand Business Management head, Doctor Makhosazana Faith Vezi-Magigaba has been unanimously elected by all 26 universities as the Deputy Chairperson of the national Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) Communities of Practice (CoP) for Entrepreneurship Research. EDHE is a unit under Universities South Africa (USAf). The event was centred on encouraging entrepreneurship […]