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International exchange for Mandela University student entrepreneurs

Student Women Economic Empowerment Programme (SWEEP) chairpersons, Nelisiwe Sishange and Phuthego Nthoke, have been nominated to represent Nelson Mandela University on a UK residential knowledge exchange study from 25 May to 1 June.
 
Supported by Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) and the British Council, the programme raises awareness of entrepreneurship among female students and graduates.
 
It also connects women with mentors from the UK and South Africa, to guide them on their entrepreneurial journey.
 
As a response to the realities of women’s under-representation in entrepreneurship and gender-based violence, the SWEEP programme aims to equip female students and graduates across public universities in SA for entrepreneurial activities.

 

Nelisiwe (left), who serves as SWEEP chairperson on George Campus, alongside Gqeberha chairperson, Phuthego (right) will be accompanied by student entrepreneurship specialist, Karen Snyman, who has championed the establishment of the first SWEEP chapter at Mandela University.
 
 

 

Second place for Mandela University Architecture student in Corobrik Competition

Top master’s in architecture student at Mandela University Gideon Williams has won a “Commendation” (effectively a second-place prize) in the Mandela 2023 Corobrik National Student of the Year Competition’.
 

Students from each of the eight Architectural Learning Sites in the country, compete to be acknowledged as the “National Architectural Student of the Year” in the annual Corobrik Competition, now in its 37th year.

Usually, only a first prize is awarded, but with the competition running so close this year a commendation was awarded to Gideon, keeping the Mandela University Architecture flag flying high, says Andrew Palframan, Director of the School of Architecture.

Mandela University has won the competition four times in the last six years and eight times in the competition’s history (Nelson Mandela University and Pretoria University are the only two schools to have won it as many as eight times).

Gideon’s project “The Design of A Citizen’s Archive for King’s Beach” is rooted in the discourse of “Architecture, Identity and Expression” – it is a novel project, which aims to “authentically” express and archive the individual identities and memories of all people of the city…

Read more: Nelson Mandela University News 

 


 

Master’s degree research focuses on Muslim consumers’ financial planning needs

Nelson Mandela University Financial Planning lecturer Raaiq Pandie's master’s degree study combined principles of Islamic finance and financial planning by assessing the Zakat literacy levels among South African Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) professionals. Raaiq recently graduated from the University with his master’s degree in business management (cum laude).
 
Raaiq Pandie (centre) together with his supervisors Dr Jasmine Kinsman (left) and Mukhtar Raban. 
 
The South African Muslim community, historically marginalised from the formal economy, has sought financial solutions aligned with their religious beliefs.
 
Exclusion during apartheid hindered their access to mainstream financial services, resulting in a lack of products and services catering to Islamic principles.
 
This led to the introduction of Islamic finance in South Africa.
 
The foundation of Islamic finance is based on an eco-system that strives to balance social equality and finance by incorporating ethics and moral standards into all economic activities.

 

This eco-system is governed by Shariah, which refers to a set of rules that governs the conduct of Muslims and this differentiates the Islamic finance sector from other sectors within the conventional financial services industry, Raaiq says.

Read more: Nelson Mandela University News 

 


 

Professor Rossouw von Solms honoured as #1 scholar in Information Security 

ScholarGPS, the world’s most comprehensive and dynamic scholarly site, has ranked Emeritus Professor Rossouw von Solms from Nelson Mandela University as #1 scholar in the field of Information Security over his career (lifetime).
 
ScholarGPS applies various data science techniques to its massive database of over 200 million publications and 3 billion citations to rank over 30 million scholars and 55 000 institutions worldwide, Prof Rossouw says.
 
Highly Ranked Scholars, the top 0.05% in particular fields, disciplines and specialties, are the most productive (number of publications) authors, whose works are of profound impact (citations) and of utmost quality (h-index). 
 
Prof Von Solms authored or co-authored 149 publications in the specialist area of Information Security over his career, that has attracted 5 988 citations to date with a current h-index of 38.  
 
Based on this analysis, Prof Von Solms has been placed in the #1 position in the field of Information Security over his career to date. 

 

His accomplishment has also assisted Nelson Mandela University to be ranked as the third most prolific institution internationally in the field of Information Security.