A World of Answers

This University of Pretoria podcast series focuses on issues of gender, transformation, arts and literature, research, health care, tech and building a future Africa campus.

Episodes in this series

Future of Africa Campuses: A convergance of ideas to share resources

18 November 2019 | 47 Minute Listen

702 presenter Aubrey Masango talks to University of Pretoria panellists Professor James Ogude, Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, Professor Stephanie Burton, Vice-Principal: Research and Postgraduate Education at the institution and, Former Future Africa Project Leader & Director of FABI, Professor Bernard Slippers about the university as a Future of Africa Campus in the series A World of Answers.

Nature conservation, wildlife and biodiversity

03 November 2019 | 30 Minute Listen

Aubrey Masango chats to entomology and zoology professor, Robin Crewe, and the director of mammal research, Prof André Ganswindt, both at the University of Pretoria, about the importance of animal conservation and the role of biodiversity.

Use of new technology in teaching and learning

20 October 2019 | 29 Minute Listen

Episode 4 in A World of Answers focuses on the use of tech in teaching and learning and cloud computing in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals with Professor Willem Fourie, Associate Professor at @UPTuks Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership and coordinator of the South African SDG Hub.

Role of 4IR in healthcare and the eradication of cancer

04 October 2019 | 32 Minute Listen

Pretoria University physiology professor, Annie Joubert talks to Aubrey Masango about medicine and the 4th Industrial Revolution in A World of Answers.

Arts and Literature, the key to learning

23 September 2019 | 31 Minute Listen

In the second episode of the University of Pretoria podcast series A World of Answers, Aubrey Masango chats to head of English language and Literature Professor Molly Brown and international award-winning playwright Mike van Graan and artist in residence at the University of Pretoria. They delve into what it means to be an artist and how art help us understand ourselves as a nation better, especially in a society that is in transition.

Gender and transformation

09 September 2019 | 31 Minute Listen

A World of Answers, a podcast series from the University of Pretoria focuses on the challenges we face in South Africa and solutions to bring about positive changes. In this first episode, Dr Sithembile Mbete is a lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria and chats to Aubrey Masango about the importance of transformation.