Posted on August 08, 2023
Nestled on the Groenkloof Campus of the University of Pretoria, UP Bindery provides top-tier binding services catering to UP staff, esteemed students, academic departments and discerning private clients alike.
Posted on July 26, 2023
This issue features research from all of the University of Pretoria's nine faculties and our business school, the Gordan Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and shows how our research is opening a new world and a better future.
Posted on July 25, 2023
The conference drew 320 delegates from 43 countries who attended numerous meetings, seminars, presentations, lectures, discussions and more at various venues on the University of Pretoria’s Hatfield Campus.
Posted on July 24, 2023
Giving Matters is a three-year fundraising campaign aimed at raising R100 million by 2024 to supplement UP’s day-to-day fundraising projects which offer financial assistance to “missing middle” students.
Posted on July 20, 2023
Research by the University of Pretoria (UP) has demonstrated the importance of community policing forums in fighting crime in high-risk environments, such as in Johannesburg.
Posted on July 14, 2023
A CRITICAL call for clean energy and reimagined leadership in South Africa’s vulnerable climates.
Posted on June 28, 2023
UP is ranked number one in South Africa in three of the nine indicators: Employer Reputation (155 in the world), International Research Networks (26), and Sustainability (158).
Posted on June 23, 2023
Dr Giorgio Miescher’s ‘De Aar: Lines of Architecture in the Making of a South African Town (1902–1977)’ unpacks the history of the town once known as the second most important railway junction in South Africa.
Posted on June 19, 2023
UP-DHHS's Prof. Karen Harris reflects on the role of tourism in intercultural competence at an international tourism conference.
Posted on June 15, 2023
“It is impossible to overstate the significance of this collection. Recorded South African history is overwhelmingly white and colonialist, and this collection goes some way to correct this imbalance,” said Nikki Haw, of UP’s Department of Library Services.
Posted on June 15, 2023
War and armed conflict has cost hundreds of millions of lives since the first civilisations. In his latest publication, Afterburn: War Stories (2023), Dr Stephen Symons confronts this subject of conflict through a grassroots approach without romanticising the horrific act of war. By portraying...
Posted on June 01, 2023
UP Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe congratulated the UP community on achieving remarkable milestones. “Once again UP has proved to be one of the leading universities not only in Africa but also in the world for impact towards the SDGs,” he said.
Posted on May 15, 2023
On Tuesday, 9 May ESI Press and the Faculty of Humanities launched Edwin Smith’s second collection of poems, Umalusi (The Shepherd). The collection, which consists of 32 poems written in both Xhosa and English, is an ode to Smith’s mother who passed away on the 9th of May in 2010....
Posted on May 15, 2023
UP recently conferred an honorary doctorate on Nelson Mandela Foundation archivist Dr Verne Sheldon Harris who highlights the work of archive as “work that reaches insistently for the just society of our dreams”.
Posted on May 11, 2023
Top Achievers in History and Heritage and Cultural Tourism receive awards from the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies
Posted on May 08, 2023
“Typically, 80% of funding for UN peacekeeping missions goes directly to support the needs of the operations, not to rebuilding war-torn countries to sustain peace,” says UP’s Prof Adekeye Adebajo, warning that this must be remedied urgently.
Posted on April 30, 2023
The Departement of Afrikaans hosted its annual award function on 16 March 2023.
Posted on April 27, 2023
Ruth Kasanga, a BPolSci International Studies student at UP, has had some outstanding achievements recently.
Posted on April 19, 2023
UP will be awarding 11 908 qualifications during its Autumn Graduation season, which starts today,19 April 2023. Of the qualifications to be awarded at the 28 Autumn Graduation ceremonies, 201 are doctorates, 1 384 master’s degrees and 2 021 are honours degrees.
Posted on April 12, 2023
This year, World Social Work Day (WSWD2023) fell on South Africa’s Human Rights Day, 21 March. To celebrate the occasion, the Social Work and Criminology Department at the University of Pretoria (UP) organised three separate events between 17-28 March 2023 that broadly addressed the theme...
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