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Inaugural Lectures

Inaugural Lectures

Prof NBW Mlitwa – 30 November 2022

Connectivity Essentials and Universal Access as a basis for a competitive continental AfCFTA in the Post-4IR Global Economic Era

Prof TE Mudzanani – 29 November 2022

Creating long-term societal value: a sustainability marketing perspective

Prof W Bentley – 23 November 2022

God-talk and the question of being human

Prof SA Ngubane – 15 November 2022

Breaking the access barriers through transdisciplinary research, one brick at a time

Prof V Mahlangu – 22 November 2022

Dimension Diamond Fraud Theory: Why is Ethical Leadership Becoming Toxic in Organisations/Institutions

Prof T Makua – 18 November 2022

Interventive Polygyny: indigenous promotion of moral health

Prof I Ferns – 15 September 2022

Respect: The ultimate basis of morality

Prof G Prinsloo – 12 September 2022

Shaken, not stirred

Prof NS Marutha – 7 September 2022

Moving patients' queue to the cloud for quality healthcare in South Africa, using fourth industrial revolution technology

Prof S Mampane – 2 September 2022

Mentoring Higher Education Leaders/Managers for contextual intelligence

Prof B Karam – 31 August 2022

Ghouls, witches and hauntings and traumata in "His House" (Weekes, 2020)

Prof P Segalo – 24 August 2022

A permit to exist: on place-identity, gender, trauma and (non)belonging

Prof RM Moutloali – 23 August 2022

Chemistry: A critical foundation in quality water provision

Prof P Mbajiorgu – 17 August 2022

"Hunger virus-unpacking the role of animal nutrition as element of stomach"

Prof CL de Wet – 18 August 2022

Plague as discourse in John of Ephesus's account of the Justinianic Plague (CA. 542-544 CE)

Prof J Oguttu – 17 August 2022

"Antimicrobial drug resistance: is the post antibiotic era upon us?"

Prof R Mmusi-Phetoe – 12 August 2022

My womb, my private space: A domain of public contestation.

Prof BA Dube – 16 August 2022

The African Union's Afrikanised criminal justice system: A missed opportunity to decolonize international criminal law

Prof C Chaka – 10 August 2022

The geopolitics of knowledge production in applied English language studies: Transknow-ledging and two-eyed critical southern decoloniality

Prof E Nxumalo – 3 August 2022

Breakthroughs in Carbon-Based Nanostructured Membranes: Desalination and Beyond

Prof R PR Risenga – 2 August 2022

Can nurses afford to meet the health needs of community members without the understanding of indigenous

Prof Mathibe Neke - 29 July 2022

The injustices of antenatal care: changing midwifery practice for humanity

Prof S Dube - 28 July 2022

A journey towards green analytical chemistry

Prof L Debusho – 26 July

Devoloping statistical leadership through consulting

Prof P Msweli – 25 July 2022

A Reflexivity dance of warriors: Towards a Historiometric model of Leadership Performance in extreme contexts in African

Prof DW Hedding – 25 July 2022

From Antarctica to Siberia: A journey of Geomorphological research

Prof K Tsaurai – 22 July 2022

Determinants of agriculture sector growth in upper middle-income countries: How relevant is financial development?

Prof F Machate – 20 July

"Rutang bana ditaola le seye le tšona badimong"

Prof Z Robinson
Inauguration
18 July 2022

Global corporate tax change and the impact on Southern Africa: Advancing pluralist thinking in economics

Prof T Sithole - 15 July 2022

Epistopolitics

Prof PM Njuho - 14 July 2022

The use of appropriate statistical techniques in addressing food production challenges of smallholder

Prof FT Tabit - 24 May 2022

Addressing food quality safety challenges through food science research

Prof Y Botha - 17 May 2022

The strategic communication professional's role in enhancing social organisational credibility: An omnidirectional and diachronic process from a network perspective

Prof M Khumalo - 16 May 2022

Computational Methods with Applications to Mathematical Models

Prof NC Phatudi - 21 April 2022

Constructs of childhood: implications for transitions and learning in the early years

Prof B De Clercq - 11 May 2022

Determining the South African Personal Finance Ecosystem through a Living Lab approach

Prof F Bankole - 10 March 2022

Making the transition to smart digital "milieu": An evolving system era of AI and machine learning for development

Prof N Ferreira - 9 March 2022

Career wellbeing in the new world of work. The ability to be agile, adaptable and embedded

Prof LDN Tlale - 7 March 2022

Caring for children in conflict with the Law: Understanding Beautiful Noise

Prof Prof OA Buffel - 3 March 2022

Death in abundance versus life in abundance in the context of COVID-19 and poverty: A practical theological reflection on the much-needed pastoral accompaniment of the grieving families through the various

Prof M Mkansi - 2 March 2022

Today's research is tomorrow's innovation: A practical approach on the place of a researcher and academics in commercializing reaserch and the transformation of Africa

Prof J Chisasa - 1 March 2022

A risk assessment of the Africa Union Agenda 2063 first ten-year implementation plan

Prof TE Motaung - 28 February 2022

Polymer nanocomposites, material science and entrepeneurship

Prof P Khumalo - 24 February 2022

Exploring human settlements development in Africa: Situating local economic development at the centre of sustainable human settlements

Prof TT Nkambule - 21 February 2022

Abundancy, Scarcity, and Innovation: a water quality tripartite alliance centred on NOM

Prof S Kgatle - 23 February 2022

Paculiarities in the African Pentecostal tradition: disciplinal and decolonial perspectives

Prof EF Doungmo Goufo - 14 February 2022

Impacts of fractional and fractal differential operators in applied sciences

Prof IL Potgieter - 16 February 2022

The new world of work: Digitally connected yet psychologically disconnected

Prof KM Makhitha - 3 February 2022

Consumer behaviour of emerging market consumers in online shopping environment

Prof RM Oosthuizen - 9 February 2022

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