UP runners take on Two Oceans Marathon in aid of ‘missing-middle’ students

Posted on May 09, 2025

Mavundla and Frost completed the 56km ultramarathon with times of 05:11:08 and 05:30:08 respectively

‘Educating our future leaders is a collective responsibility,’ UP Vice-Chancellor tells alumni at Cape Town event

Posted on February 13, 2025

Solving the challenge of helping ‘missing middle’ students afford higher education is a collective societal responsibility

#UPYouthMonth: ‘Youth represents possibility – we have so much to offer and impart to the world’ – Kory Shukrani Potgieter, EnactusUP Chairperson

Posted on July 09, 2021

“The youth of 1976 realised their power, potential and purpose; we need to continue to be strong and courageous.” – Kory Shukrani Potgieter, entrepreneur and EnactusUP Chairperson on Youth Month.

‘Everyone who is in a position to help should do so if they can,’ says UP engineering graduate on a mission to make a positive change through community projects

Posted on June 15, 2021

UP engineering graduate Gerdus van der Laarse headed up UP’s Engineers Without Borders in 2020 and was involved with Moja Gabedi project. He shares what he learnt and his insights on Youth Month.

Spreading the joy of reading on World Read Aloud Day

Posted on February 24, 2017

Staff from the Department of Library Services at the University of Pretoria visited Pretoria East Primary School on Thursday, 16 February 2017 in celebration of World Read Aloud Day. While at the school, they read to 107 children and donated books and Easter eggs.

UP graduate taking audiology to the community

Posted on February 15, 2017

We caught up with Sakhile Nkosi, an audiology graduate, to hear about life after UP.

Fostering the future through enterprise development

Posted on February 08, 2017

The Enterprise Development (ED) initiatives run by Enterprises University of Pretoria (Enterprises UP) have seen successful outcomes. They have empowered and capacitated small business beneficiaries to achieve substantial growth within their operations.

UPSpace ranked the top repository in Africa

Posted on January 31, 2017

Webometrics recently released the first edition of its repository rankings for 2017, in which it ranked UPSpace as the best in Africa and within the top 100 worldwide.