We have launched two WhatsApp groups in order to assist our students with information about our Mandarin courses and other activities, and also to provide essential teaching and other material. To join the WhatsApp groups, click on the buttons below:
South Africa celebrated Freedom Day 2020 under challenging circumstances. For a message of support and solidarity from a member of our Chinese staff at the UJCI, click here.
Prof Peng Yi of Nanjing Tech University has joined the UJCI as Chinese Co-Director, succeeding Prof Yin Fulin. She assumed her duties on 1 February 2018. A native of Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, Prof Peng has a background in law, and has served in various capacities, including lecturing in and researching the legal conflicts between…
On 20 April, the UJCI celebrated Chinese Language Day, which aims at celebrating multilingualism and cultural diversity.
On Friday 14 September 2018, China’s Vice Minister of Science and Technology, Professor Xu Nanping, visited the University of Johannesburg, where he was welcomed by the Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Prof Tshilidzi Marwala, as well as other UJ representatives. The Minister’s visit to UJ took place in the course of a visit to South Africa to…
Upholding Sino-African Solidarity in the Face of COVID-19 Alexander Nuetah, Africa China Review, 13 April 2020 Recent reports from social and some mainstream media outlets have reported discrimination against Africans living in the commercial city of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province of China. The outcries led a Group of African Ambassadors in China to release an…
The UJCI has released its course guidelines for the online teaching of Mandarin for the first semester of 2022. This will comprise credit courses in Basic Mandarin and Intermediate Mandarin (open to UJ students only), and HSK Chinese language proficiency courses 1-6 (open to all, including UJ students and staff). The guidelines contain more detailed…