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PROF NETSWERA AND THE FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
MAGUBANE’S BOOK EXPLORES LOVEIN THE ERA OF
ARE AWARDED A FIVE MILLION RAND GRANT BY THE BRICS
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
An award of R5 million has been made to DUT under the leadership of Prof Fulufhelo Netswera who is the Executive Dean: Faculty of Management Sciences.
The focus of the award is “Growth and sustainability of livelihoods in the BRICS countries” and focuses on knowledge sharing in the areas of social justice, governance and multilateralism.
The award is meant to run for the next 24 months starting in 01 November 2022. The award is made by the BRICS Research Institute through the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) that supports work of the South African BRICS Think Tank (SABTT).
The objectives of the BRICS Research Institutes
are to undertake research endeavours within
the BRICS Long Term Strategy thematic areas in any one of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India or China) and in comparison with South Africa, through holding seminars and workshops, publishing books and journal articles and policy briefs, and fostering research networks at South African public universities and relevant
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institutions across the African continent and BRIC countries.
The current award is a scale up of the BRICS engagement work that started last year (2021) with an award of R500,000 – for 12 months that ran between November 2021 and October 2022 through four themes of Entrepreneurship, BRICS Agriculture, BRICS Financing Instruments, Climate Change and Entrepreneurship. Having worked historically as the Director of South African BRICS Think Tank, Prof Netswera is acutely aware of the dynamics of multilateral institutional arrangements and cognisant of the importance of the shifting political and economic multilateral institutions. He had put the first grant jointly with Dr Ndivhuho Tshikovhi who is a current postdoctoral fellow at DUT and
has chaired BRICS youth forums until recently.
The current award brings together seasoned academics from all the BRICS nations representing their countries and their institutions as follows: Brazil: Prof Elton Fernandes (Federal University of Rio
Pictured: Executive Dean: Faculty of Management Sciences, Prof Fulufhelo Netswera,
”I am so pleased to see Prof accomplishing great things. Congratulations on a job well done. I am so excited for you and wish you the very best! I am wishing you even more grants to come to DUT in the future.Well done Prof!” - Prof Keolebogile Motaung.
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