by PsySSA | Mar 20, 2022 | Featured article, General
370 YEARS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE – QUO VADIS SOUTH AFRICA? Over 370 years South Africans experienced 19 wars of land dispossession. San populations were reduced to just a few thousand people with most social formations totally wiped out through genocide. Among others,...
by PsySSA | May 17, 2021 | Current Events, Featured article, Sexuality and Gender
What happens to a dream deferred? It turns into a civil rights movement. Langston Hughes’ poem is an angry meditation on the lives of African Americans in the early 1950s, denied their dream of equality, dignity and prosperity. When deferred: Does it dry up like a...
by PsySSA | May 12, 2021 | Current Events, Featured article
PsySSA pays tribute to nurses on International Nurses Day PsySSA calls upon both the public and private sector to ensure that nurses and other healthcare workers have access to safe work environments and sufficient personal protective equipment. The Psychological...
by PsySSA | Apr 27, 2021 | Community and Social Psychology, Current Events, Featured article
PsySSA Commemorates Freedom Day 2021! On this Freedom Day, 27 years since South Africa’s first democratic election, four psychologists from PsySSA’s Community and Social Psychology Division (CaSP) responded to the question, “What does Freedom mean to you?” Dené Du...
by PsySSA | Mar 20, 2019 | Featured article, Mental HEalth Day 2019, PsyTalk 2019 Issue 1
The Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) urges commemoration, reflection, compassion and a commitment to social justice on Human Rights Day (21 March 2019) In our 25th anniversary year, we as the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) would like to...
