The SLP in Political Economy: African Debt & Economic Justice is designed to equip participants with a rigorous, interdisciplinary understanding of the political economy of debt and its implications for development, inequality, and sustainability in Africa. The programme aims to strengthen participants’ analytical, interpretive, and applied capacities to engage critically with debt governance, financialisation, and economic justice from historical, institutional, and comparative perspectives. By equipping participants with conceptual frameworks and practical tools for policy analysis, advocacy, and public engagement.

The SLP is targeted at graduates with an NQF 7 qualification in fields such as Sociology, Politics, or International Relations, or an equivalent. The SLP seeks to bridge theory and practice. The programme emphasises the integration of political economy, political ecology, and feminist economic perspectives to support informed and ethical interventions in complex socio-economic contexts.

This short learning programme (SLP) introduces students to symmetric and public key encryption, as well as digital certificates/identities, certification authorities and digital signatures.

The aim of the SLP is to provide those who are conducting forensic investigations but do not have a background in Chemistry with the tools needed to enable them to perform their tasks more proficiently. It also serves to equip final-year Chemistry students who have an interest in working as Forensic Chemists with the skills needed. 

The purpose of this module is how one communicates effectively in an organization. Managing an organization’s corporate identity and image is a good way of communicating both internally and externally, however, there are different factors influencing both concepts. It is important to keep in mind that an organization does not only communicates with its employees, but it also communicates externally with its customers and target audience. This entails a good understanding of customer relations, telephone etiquette as well as mass communication. If an employee does not communicate with the customer in the correct manner, the organization runs the risk of losing that customer.

The module aims to provide knowledge to the students about the fundamentals of the financial markets. The qualification is structured to expose learners to different financial markets and their structure and the different investment instruments tradable in these markets. The knowledge they acquire through this module places them in a position to make informed decisions involving financial assets investment choices and understand the risks in the financial markets. The students will be further introduced to financial instruments, such as futures, options, and other derivatives for trading, funding, and investments. It will enable the learner to understand and apply risk measures in a simulated environment and explain the terms used in relation to financial markets and the financial market system.

The purpose of the SLP Introduction to business Law is to acquire basic knowledge and reflective understanding of the prescribed substantive law. Students will be introduced to basic requirements for a valid contract and the consequences of contracts.