Projects

On 17 October the South African government introduced a Community Schemes Ombud Service for the swift and inexpensive resolution of disputes in community schemes of which sectional title schemes are the...

The rise of neoliberalism caused a ‘lost decade’ of development in large parts of the global South. Yet it simultaneously compelled rights activists to protect welfare entitlements in many countries....

Critics on both sides of the so-called ‘Afrikaans question’ tend to characterise the language as a hyper-local, and hence insulated, socio-cultural phenomenon. For supporters, this serves to foster...

Hans V. Westerhoff will put together the theoretical foundations of today’s biology in a comprehensive new theory, by researching and establishing connections between the various theoretical approaches...

Against the background of ongoing debates about decolonisation and religion in Africa, this project examines the representation of, and engagement with Christianity in contemporary African literature....

For millennia humans have gazed into the sky and wondered where it all came from. Today, using cutting-edge supercomputer and telescope technology, numerical cosmologists are assembling a scientifically-based...

Skin stem cells give birth to daughter cells that eventually become specialized cells to form our protective, watertight skin and to produce hair. An imbalance of cell type composition, molecular signaling,...

The ability to characterize cell types and their genetic programs across tissues, have profoundly accelerated through the development of single-cell sequencing methods. These innovations in molecular methods...

This project looks back at history via the short story genre. It focusses on historical events of the 19th and early 20th century in the Natal province. Most of these mammoth historical events were monumentalised...

In this project, for the first time, the history of early Israelite Religion is based on the results of historical research on the emergence and development of the two states Judah and Israel. Accordingly,...

The aim research project is to find new ways to prevent and treat implant associated infections. This is a science-driven innovation focused project that has the potential to highly impact the biomaterials...

Bioinspiration is the use of physical and technological principles to design devices working almost as biological entities (from the animal and vegetal species). This project aims to contribute in the...