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 Convenors and speakers of 2018 Faculty of Arts and Design (FoAD) Dean’s Seminar. The Faculty of Arts and Design hosted its annual Dean’s Seminar at DUT Courtyard last Friday, 27 July, to reflect on Africa’s higher education progress after post-colonisation. Held under the topic, Decoloniality as the Future of Higher Education, the seminar which was attended by DUT academics and students, provided insight on the colonisation’s impact on higher education systems on the African continent- with South Africa as a key focus country. Addressing the seminar, the Head of Archie Mafeje Research Institute for Applied Social Policy (AMRI) and Acting Executive Director of the Change Management Unit (CMU) in the Vice-Chancellor’s Office at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Professor Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni said the first step of decoloniality should be the reconsideration of the languages used for teaching, learning and research. “We really need to consider using indigenous

Thando Mbulelo Mbanjwa The sky is definitely not the limit for third year Drama & Productions Studies student, Thando Mbulelo Mbanjwa who was announced as one of the winners of the 2018 Standard Bank Ovation Awards at this year’s National Arts Festival Fringe.    The awards are a celebration of artistic innovation, excellence, the exploration of new performance styles and the courage to open new conversation through the arts. The budding actress and choreographer won the award for her edutainment dance theatre performance titled I’m HIV and Living. Mbanjwa’s piece was aimed at tackling the stigma around the Human Immune Virus (HIV) and change people’s perspective on how they look at this virus.   The outstanding performance illustrated the endless possibilities of living with this disease and aimed at encouraging young people to test for HIV and to stop living in the fear of what the outcome of testing will be. “What inspired my piece is that there are so many p