Thabo Mbeki School

The Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs (TM-School) is envisioned as a premier graduate school to advance public sector education in public and international affairs. T

In September 2020, His Excellency Thabo Mbeki, Chancellor of Unisa, said "our students should be encouraged to be thinkers and doers rather than accumulators of facts and receivers of knowledge. This must be so if they are to be instruments of change, working towards the realisation of a just and, consequently, a stable society".

The TM-School embraces transdisciplinary methodologies in the training of students.

The following are the focus areas of the TM-School:
• Citizenship studies
• International and Diplomacy Studies
• Peace and Conict Studies
• Public Leadership Studies
• Security and Intelligence Studies
• Simulations and Futuristic Studies
• Study of Government Affairs
• Sustainable Livelihoods & Resources Management
• Urban and Rural Affairs