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2021-05-31 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Law, Featured, Corporate

Poachers are decimating SA’s reptiles - but does anyone care?

"South African snakes, from the harmless mole snake to the venomous Cape cobra, are suffering a similar fate. And, there is a massive market for reptiles overseas and collectors tend to love South African species," says Unisa's Prof Friedo Herbig.

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2021-05-28 00:00:00.0 | Category: Dpt Mercantile Law, Lead, College of Law, Featured, Corporate

South African law is failing to make sure that ‘shadow directors’ are held accountable

Writing in The Conversation, Associate Professor Rehana Cassim of Unisa’s College of Law unpacks the role of so-called shadow directors in the state capture saga

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2021-04-08 00:00:00.0 | Category: Research news, College of Law, Featured, Dpt of Public, Constitutional and International Law, Corporate

Cutting-edge research on African issues acknowledged

In his academic journey from a proud Unisa alumnus to an esteemed academic at the institution, Prof Babatunde Fagbayibo, who has been re-rated as a C2 researcher by the NRF, says that one of the things he has learnt is the importance of critical, Afrocentric engagement.

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2021-03-17 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Department of Criminology and Security Science, College of Law, Featured, Corporate

Nominated for contributing positively to research

Unisa's Dr Mahlogonolo Thobane of the Department of Criminology and Security Science says being nominated for the HSRC-USAf 2020 Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities is something she does not underestimate.

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2021-03-11 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Department of Criminology and Security Science, College of Law, Featured, Corporate

Unisan elected as first black president of CRIMSA

Dr Mahlogonolo Thobane, a senior lecturer in the College of Law, will serve a three-year term at the head of the Criminological Society of South Africa, a locally and internationally recognised, inter-disciplinary professional society, promoting theoretical and applied criminology and related disciplines in Africa and further afield.

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2021-03-09 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Dpt of Jurisprudence, College of Law, Featured, Corporate

Dr Zweli Mkhize appoints Unisan to National Health Research Council

Melodie Labuschaigne, Professor in the Department of Jurisprudence in the College of Law, will serve as the legal member of the NHREC, a statutory body whose functions are primarily to provide direction on ethical issues relating to health and to develop guidelines for conducting research involving humans and animals.

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2020-12-11 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Law, Corporate

Unisa conservation crime researcher named in world’s top 10

Professor Friedo Herbig from the Department of Criminology and Security Science knew he had a respectable research track record in his field but he had no idea just how world-class it actually was until he discovered he was listed as the eighth most-published wildlife crime scholar globally

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2020-12-11 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Law, Corporate

Unisa College of Law not resting on its laurels

Schools and NGOs will be sitting pretty thanks to a college community engagement intervention that saw more than 6 000 tables and chairs—previously used for the university’s venue-based examinations—distributed across the country

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2020-12-08 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Department of Corrections Management, College of Law, Featured, Corporate

Modern trends in prison systems

A Unisa Department of Corrections Management webinar - a digital first because of Covid-19 - addressed a variety of relevant themes on aspects of international best practice.

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