Posted on September 17, 2021
UP alumna Tatjana Schoenmaker put South Africa on the map and on the medal table when she set a world record for the 200m breaststroke at the 2021 Tokyo Games, subsequently winning gold.
Posted on August 18, 2021
University of Pretoria (UP) alumna Gizzelle Uys has been crowned Miss Eco International 2021. With this win, Uys has become the first South African to win the pageant, the aim of which is to promote the importance of saving the planet.
Posted on August 18, 2021
UP academics released the first study in the South African context of successful teaching and learning strategies for a blind student taking mathematics and science subjects.
Posted on July 30, 2021
Congratulations to Dr Keneiloe Molopyane for being selected as a National Geographic Emerging Explorer! The 15 individuals are chosen for conducting innovative work in everything from ocean exploration to understanding the past through archaeology. Dr Molopyane chats about her research and...
Posted on July 30, 2021
A study led by a University of Pretoria master’s student using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has led to the discovery of a group of 20 galaxies.
Posted on July 30, 2021
Meet Andries Levi Pretorius, the UP business graduate and now renowned proptech entrepreneur who’s been making sweet deals since starting a confectionary company while at University and is now disrupting the property industry in South Africa.
Posted on July 30, 2021
Meet Susan Sithole, the EBIT graduate whose eldest son recently graduated from the same faculty and whose youngest has joined it.
Posted on July 30, 2021
Head of UP Museums Dr Sian Tiley-Nel and archivisit, Michelle de la Harpe detail the University’s various institutional archival collections and why they matter.
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