The Knowledge Hub | South Africa

In this episode of The Knowledge Hub South Africa, host Professor Ignatius Gous speaks with Professor Thomas Lawson, Professor Emeritus at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and the founding figure of the cognitive science of religion. Lawson completed his PhD in philosophy of religion at the University of Chicago in 1963, following graduate study across theology, philosophy, hist...

In this episode of The Knowledge Hub South Africa, Professor Ignatius Gous speaks with Dr. Chris Heunis, CEO and founder of the Team Building Institute, known as TBI. Dr. Heunis holds a DPhil from the University of Pretoria in organisational development and built his career at the intersection of adventure, learning science, and human connection. He began as a physics teacher, completed doctoral r...

In this episode of The Knowledge Hub South Africa, host Professor Ignatius Gous speaks with Dorrithe Labuschagne, a registered educational psychologist in private practice in Pretoria. Labuschagne holds a master’s degree in educational psychology from the University of South Africa (UNISA), where she also completed honours degrees in early childhood development, inclusive education, and guidance a...

In this episode of The Knowledge Hub South Africa, host Professor Ignatius Gous speaks with Teenah Jutton, a Mauritian academic, former parliamentarian, mental health advocate, and social activist. Jutton was recognised by MIPAD as one of the 100 Most Influential People of African Descent under 40. She holds qualifications in management, finance, and financial risk management and began her career...

In this episode of The Knowledge Hub South Africa, Professor Ignatius Gous — researcher, academic, and host of the series — speaks with Professor Deon Rossouw. Rossouw is one of Africa's foremost authorities on business ethics and corporate governance. He was the founding president of the Business Ethics Network of Africa, served as CEO of the Ethics Institute, and has been a contributing member o...

Entrepreneurship as a formal academic discipline began in Europe and the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. South Africa only introduced its first formal qualification in the field in the mid-1990s. That qualification, the National Diploma in Small Business Management, was developed by Prof Cecile Nieuwenhuizen at a Technikon in 1994. At the time, there were no local textbooks, no established c...

Professor Erna Oliver of UNISA joins the Knowledge Hub South Africa to trace a career that moves from church historian and pastor to pioneer in educational technology. She shares her research on the four distinct phases of South African colonisation, the layered nature of Afrikaner spirituality, and her double triangle model for open distance learning. She also argues that six simultaneous revolut...

In this episode of The Knowledge Hub , hosted by Prof Ignatius Gous, the guest is Pieter Geldenhuys , a futurist and technology expert. His approach is restrained. No grand forecasts. No certainty. Instead, structure. Geldenhuys frames the future through three interacting forces: Demographic megatrends Exponential technologies Complex adaptive systems Each operates at a different tempo. Demography...

The two creators of the show Dr Eugene Botha and Prof Ignatius Gous of South Africa discuss the reasons why they felt compelled to create the podcast. Every day, researchers in South Africa and worldwide are solving problems that affect millions. They're developing new medical treatments, uncovering historical truths, innovating sustainable technologies, and understanding the complexities of human...