UNISA Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair

🌍✨ RECLAIMING AFRICAN LANGUAGES ✨🌍
📚 Identity | 🧠 Knowledge | 🎓 Educational Transformation

African languages are more than just a means of communication — they carry our history, culture, wisdom, and identity. 🌱🗣️

For too long, many indigenous languages have been sidelined in education and public life. It’s time to reclaim, preserve, and celebrate them as powerful tools for learning, innovation, and social transformation. ✊🏾📖

When learners are taught in their mother tongue, they connect deeper, understand better, and thrive academically. 🌟 Education rooted in African languages strengthens cultural pride and builds inclusive, equitable societies. 🤝🏾🌍

Let us champion multilingual education, protect linguistic heritage, and empower future generations through the languages of Africa. 🪘🗺️

👉🏾 Click on the link below to join the conversation and be part of the movement! 🔗✨

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Join Dr. Emmanuel Rowlands for this powerful Roundtable Debate with Letladi. Listen Learn and enagage.

🎙️ Unisa Radio Interview | Ms Lesego Linda Plank

Join Ms Lesego Linda Plank as she shares insights on her research project, Reimagining Motherhood 🌸

🗓 Monday, 13 April 2026
⏰ 11:30am – 12:00pm
📻 Unisa Radio

Lesego’s work explores motherhood from a matrifocal perspective, focusing on the experiences of township daughters who have faced maternal absence and were raised by their fathers or paternal families. Her research highlights the role of “social” mothers and challenges the idea that motherhood is purely biological, using autoethnography as a key approach.

💬 Don’t miss this powerful and thought-provoking conversation on family, identity, and redefining motherhood in South Africa.

Welcome back to a Brand New Week

This past weekend, we proudly hosted the Chief Albert Luthuli Sport Tournament 2026 in collaboration with our valued partners: KwaDukuza Municipality, iLembe District Municipality, Enterprise iLembe, KZN Department sport, Arts & Culture.

Rooted in the legacy of Chief Albert Luthuli, the tournament continues to empower young people through sport while promoting unity, discipline, and community development.

We extend our heartfelt appreciation to all teams, LOC, partners, sponsors and supporters who contributed to the success of this impactful programme.

See you in 2027!

The youth showed up. The community showed up. The legacy lives on.

📢 Important Update:
All proceedings will be streamed online — there will be no physical attendance. Join us live on the Museum’s page and YouTube channel to be part of the experience!

The Department of History presents the 'Historians in Conversation' under the theme 'Power, Resistance and Political Struggle' Click the link below to join:
https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/33533313831931?p=ulILNzkFEIUQtcP1Gm

Dr Albertina Luthuli, the daughter of chief Albert and Mrs. Nokukhanya Luthuli, in the 2006 Ronald Harrison book about her father, wrote in the Forward,

“The book is a historical text, relating the history of a people who emerged from the depths of darkness into the light and hope. From 1994, following the first democratic election in the life of our country is moving forward…and hope that South Africa will be happy country for all who live in it, and that poverty, together with poverty-related diseases, will be eradicated”.

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🌟📢 Exhibition Alert!
You are warmly invited to the Exhibition by curator, conservator & historian Mabafokeng Hoeane 🎨✨

📍 Venue: Ditsong Museum 🏛️
📅 Date: 26 September 2025
🕚 Time: 11:00 AM

Come and experience a powerful journey into heritage, memory, and the rich cultural stories embedded in African artefacts. 🌍💫

🎭 You’re Invited!

Join us for The Nokukhanya Luthuli Theatre Production, proudly presented by the UNISA Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair in partnership with Positive Vibrations.

📍 Venue: Groutville High School, KwaDukuza
📅 Dates & Times:
▪️ 07 October 2025 – 12h00
▪️ 08 October 2025 – 10h00

This powerful production celebrates the life and legacy of Nokukhanya Luthuli through storytelling and performance.

✨ “The task is not easy. It is to remake the world. That is nothing less than what we are called to do.” – Chief Albert Luthuli

📩 RSVP: [email protected]
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