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.

Prof Robin Crewe appointed to co-chair IAP committee

Posted on August 02, 2016

Prof Robin Crewe, Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria, has been appointed as co-chair of the committee established by the InterAcademy Council / InterAcademy Partnership for Research to consider 'harnessing science, engineering and medicine to...

Re-appointment of Dean in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences

Posted on August 02, 2016

The University is pleased to announce the re-appointment of Professor Elsabe Loots as Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences for a second term as from 1 August 2016.