By completing African Insights, you will have an appreciation of Africa, including its riches, inheritances and great ideas and knowledge systems. You will have conceptual tools to think more critically about the issues of contemporary significance to Africa, and you will have interacted with some of the many African thinkers and writers through their texts.

This short learning programme on building blocks of information literacy aims to develop basic skills to find, access, process and apply data, information, media and digital content ethically.

The purpose of this introductory interdisciplinary short-learning programme on the United Nations’ 17 SDGs is to provide a basic understanding of and context to the SDGs (from South African and African perspectives), the reasons for their existence, how they fit together in a comprehensive framework, as well as critiques levelled against the SDG Agenda. The course further considers the alignment of the SDGs with the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and South Africa’s National Development Plan, which both preceded the SDGs. This SLP will not only raise awareness of the SDGs, but also provide the introductory knowledge needed to engage in a more informed way with sustainability, whether in a work context or in society generally.

This short learning programme on Word for the workplace aims to equip novice users with the fundamental competencies required for the creation, modification, and printing of documents with a polished and professional appearance, making use of MS Word. This course covers using text, tables, lists, and images while also addressing the basics of executing straightforward collaboration techniques.

The purpose of this short learning programme on Microsoft Excel for the workplace is to enable you to proficiently use Microsoft Excel in the workplace to organise, sort, filter, analyse, and present data. This includes the basic and some advanced functions in MS Excel that are typically used in the workplace.

The purpose of this short-learning programme (SLP) is to introduce students specialising in the fields of accountancy, taxation, auditing and assurance, risk management and control, financial management, and management decision-making with an understanding of the fundamental concepts, guiding principles and principle content required, which organisations need to adopt Blockchain technology and the implications thereof across several key industries.