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  • Bringing joy to Leamogetswe Safety Home on Mandela Day 2016

    Posted on August 10, 2016

    Staff from Enterprises UP generously opened their wallets and volunteered their 67 minutes to support the Leamogetswe Safety Home on Mandela Day 2016.

  • Research Matters: Focus on food security

    Posted on August 10, 2016

    Visit our brand new Research Matters website to find out more about how researchers at the University of Pretoria are working with poor communities to turn the tide on hunger.

  • Tornadoes - powerful, but uncommon in SA

    Posted on August 08, 2016

    Images and video clips that looked like scenes from the disaster movie Twister were all over social media a few weeks ago when unexpected tornadoes hit the Gauteng province.

  • Opinion: Why barriers to a pan-African passport may be insurmountable

    Posted on August 05, 2016

    Dr Cristiano d'Orsi, a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, discusses why barriers to a pan-African passport may be insurmountable.

  • UP builds links with Ghana

    Posted on August 05, 2016

    From 25 to 29 July 2016, the Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Prof Cheryl de la Rey attended the Association of Commonwealth Universities conference of university leaders in Accra, Ghana, where she was one of the plenary speakers.

  • Decolonisation gains momentum

    Posted on August 04, 2016

    The MA programme in African-European Cultural Relations is unique on the African continent and is, for the first time, programmatically challenging the perspectives of coloniser and colonised, north and south, from the perspective of critical cultural studies.

  • SANRAL concludes research on the behaviour of road users

    Posted on August 04, 2016

    Enterprises UP, through the University of Pretoria's School of Public Management and Administration, was tasked with researching and drafting a curriculum for the Department of Education to use in primary school road safety education.

  • UP's Veterinary Science students star in new TV series

    Posted on August 04, 2016

    A new reality/documentary TV series on SABC 3 titled Frontier Vets, depicts the daily lives of six South African soon-to-be-qualified veterinary students from the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Veterinary Science.

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