A welcome from the Executive Dean, Professor Zuki Zingela
I extend a warm welcome to all our new and returning students. We are excited to be part of your journey into this new stage of your life, where you will begin to craft your future career. You will learn to self-regulate and self-manage as you navigate your way around your chosen study area. Remember, you don’t have to do it alone. We have buddies, mentors, caring lecturers, and tutors because we are a caring University. The Mandela Way is to help you nourish your qualities while providing you with the opportunities to shine as you discover and nurture your talents. Welcome to Nelson Mandela University and thank you for choosing our Faculty to travel this road of self-discovery and self-discipline with. Let’s change the world together.
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Our mission goes beyond producing fit-for-purpose professionals and shaping the sectors we serve. Our Faculty is driving transformative change through stakeholder engagement and commitment to serving society.
The Faculty consists of three schools with 11 departments, focussing on promoting health and social wellbeing through education, research, and community engagement.
Our Faculty advances patient-centered care, interprofessional education, and health research through collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches.
Our Faculty provides comprehensive support to staff and students for academic excellence. Learn more about the Faculty’s unique approach to guiding and inspiring a new generation of leaders.
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We are building a network of change agents committed to creating a better and more equitable society through partnerships and collaboration.
We foster and encourage engagement with communities, continuously exchanging knowledge and resources to promote sustainable outcomes, while working together to improve societal well-being and create transformative impacts in both academic and social practices
Transdisciplinary transcends traditional academic boundaries by integrating diverse perspectives, knowledge systems, and methodologies for holistic problem-solving. Internationalisation is promoted through partnerships that focus on a global student body, internationally oriented staff, curricula, and research, fostering a globally engaged university.
Mandela University’s Research Week intensified efforts to make research more accessible, authentic, accurate, while impactful, in the recently held 3MT competition hosted on Ocean Sciences Campus on 11 September 2024.
“The purpose is to create schools that meet the needs of learners and families by integrating community resources and support. It also offers services, such as health care, afterschool programmes and other services that would bring improvement to the schools,” Dr Silindile Malangeni said on the third day of Nelson Mandela University's Research Week.
Unemployed youngsters in Gqeberha’s northern areas were given the rare opportunity to receive first-hand information about becoming entrepreneurs from those in the know.
Reasons to be Proud - #R2bP: It is fair to say that Gqeberha’s Jensen Pletschke has a profound courtship with two very different loves in his life – tennis and chemistry.