July 28, 2026 | Category:
ISHS institute
Black Planetary Studies – an agenda of planetary care
Black Planetary Studies (BPS) is a dreaming that emerges from specific places but aspires for planetary freedom. In a world of deepening social fragmentation, BPS responds with an agile scholarly and activist agenda that resists the atomisation of life and struggle.
June 05, 2026 | Category:
ISHS institute
4th Community Violence Prevention Summit
The 4th Community Violence Prevention Summit brought together experts, community leaders and organisations to explore practical strategies for preventing violence and fostering safer, more peaceful communities across South Africa.
November 12, 2025 | Category:
ISHS institute
Radical Healing in Communities team hosts a photo-exhibition which explores Nana’s Farm residents’ relationship with the land through the Psycho-politics of Land project
On Saturday, 8 November, the Institute for Social and Health Sciences hosted a photo-exhibition in which residents from Nana’s Farm, in the Region G area of Gauteng presented the photographs that they captured through their participation in the Psycho-politics of Land project.
September 22, 2025 | Category:
ISHS institute
Rebel. Revolt. Revive: Reflections on Decoloniality on the Ground and in Action
The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) College of Humanities hosted a Decoloniality Winter School, held from 21 to 24 July 2025, which was guided by the theme “Decolonial Rebellions and Movements: Reviving Communities of Knowledge and Praxis in Times of Genocide.” The event brought together academics from institutions across Africa, civil society organisations including Abahlali BaseMjondolo, trade union leaders, grassroots communities from Potchefstroom, and cultural workers such as poets and artists.
September 12, 2025 | Category:
ISHS institute
No Paraffin! Campaign Seminar
The No Paraffin! Campaign Seminar hosted by the Unisa Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS) and the South African Medical Research Council-Unisa, Violence, Injury and Social Asymmetries Research Unit (VISARU) on 21 August, called for the domestic phaseout of paraffin by 2030.
September 05, 2025 | Category:
Lead, ISHS institute
Kollective struggles: Commemorating decolonial giants centenaries as we drum in revolt.
The Institute of Social and Health Sciences (ISHS) participated in the Black House Kollective (BHK) Annual Decolonial Winter School, which took place in Diepkloof and Sophia Town from the 29th of July to the 2nd of August 2025.
September 05, 2025 | Category:
Lead, ISHS institute
Black Planetary Studies Water Traditions Symposium
The Centre of Excellence for Black Planetary Studies (CoE for BPS) hosted the Water Traditions Symposium in Mzamba, Eastern Cape, from 15 to 16 April 2025. This stimulating symposium invited local and international academics, practitioners, activists, and doctoral students along the Amadiba Wild Coast to engage in practices of deep learning and meditations on the indigenous and scientific knowledge that we hold about the ocean.
September 05, 2025 | Category:
Lead, ISHS institute
Prof Nelson Maldonado-Torres's Combative Decolonial Philosophy of Frantz Fanon Seminar
The College of Human Sciences hosted ISHS’s Academic Associate Professor Nelson Maldonado-Torres for a seminar titled “The Combative Decolonial Philosophy of Frantz Fanon” on the 30th of July 2025. Executive Dean Professor Zethu Nkosi opened the proceedings and introduced Professor Maldonado-Torres.
August 20, 2025 | Category:
ISHS institute
Healing in Community: The Institute successfully hosts its fourth annual Shaping Our Future Women’s Day community dialogue
On August 7th, 2025, Unisa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS), in partnership with community outreach unit Imbumbe YaBafazi, hosted the fourth annual Shaping Our Future Women’s Day community dialogue.