Prestigious scholarship awarded to UP engineering student

Posted on August 11, 2017

Molatelo Thebe, a master's student in metallurgical engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria, has been awarded the Ivan Ogilvie Scholarship by the...

Preparing for the workplace

Posted on August 11, 2017

At the University of Pretoria we aim to produce graduates who are agile, who understand how the workplace functions and who can see how their skills fit into it.

Bright Medicinal Plant Science student inspired to do more

Posted on August 10, 2017

Murunwa Madzinga, a master's student in Medicinal Plant Science at the University of Pretoria, recently won first prize for a poster presentation at the 2017 Indigenous Plant Use Forum (IPUF) conference.

Centre for Human Rights signs technical cooperation agreement with AMSHeR

Posted on August 10, 2017

The Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria recently signed a technical cooperation agreement with African Men for Sexual Health and Rights (AMSHeR), establishing a framework for concrete collaboration on a number of activities.

Celebrating a century of academic excellence

Posted on August 08, 2017

As part of its centenary celebrations, the Faculty of Theology, in collaboration with UP Arts, recently held a concert and a banquet hosted by the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Prof Cheryl de la Rey. Prof David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity (Emeritus) at the...

Women's Day Message to staff and students from the Vice-Chancellor and Principal

Posted on August 08, 2017

On 9 August South Africans commemorate the historic march of 20 000 women to the Union Buildings in protest against the discriminatory pass laws of the time.

Op-Ed: What Women's Day means to me: Remembering Saartjie Baartman and the place of memory

Posted on August 08, 2017

Prof Charles Ngwena from the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, writes about what Women's Day means to him by drawing on the past in remembrance of Saartjie Baartman and the place of memory.

Op-Ed: It takes a village to breastfeed a child

Posted on August 07, 2017

Yolanda Booyzen, Communications and Marketing Manager of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, writes about the controversies surrounding breastfeeding.