Therise Davie explores the pivotal role of traditional medicine in African communities, and the need to to build communicative, clinical, digital, and political systems that recognise its importance. 

Sebusi Khanyela visits the Khubetsoana Clinic in Maseru to see how a multistakeholder approach ensures that solutions are contextually appropriate while also serving and enhancing local participation.

Zamasandu Mbatha asks what well-being truly means within African institutional life, arguing for the communication of well-being as a shared, communal, and a lived community-rooted value grounded in Ubuntu.

Mase Leshilo explores how African women's experiences of trauma are frequently silenced, highlighting the complexities of communicating traumatic injury and psycholocal harm.

Jabulani Nkuna analyzes the social media pages of two health organisations (NGOs) to understand the types of messages published, how they are communicated, and how the intended audience receives them. 

Aniekie Motloutsi employs a decolonial critique of knowledge production and the conceptual framework of cultural iatrogenesis to analyse the increasing prominence of African herbal medicine advocacy on South African social media. 

Dineo Rasekhula & Mollale Innocensia Ramaifo

Dineo Rasekhula & Mollale Innocensia Ramaifo provide highlights from the UNISA-UPSA Research Symposium, held under the theme "Technology and Development Paradoxes: Rethinking Communication, Innovation, Participation, Power and Inclusion for Sustainable Development from the Global South".

Highlights and reflections from part-one of-two of the 2026 edition of our student writing workshops.