Posted on December 11, 2023
University of Pretoria (UP) student Curtleigh Alaart’s drafted policy suggestions, which sought to address the challenges that many young people face globally, saw him shining bright during the Group of Twenty (G20) Summit hosted in India earlier this year.
Posted on November 09, 2023
“Since completing my studies, my career path has been eclectic, to say the least,” says advocate and University of Pretoria (UP) alumnus Nyiko Baloyi.
Posted on November 02, 2023
In 2015, Dr Maurine Musie became the first black African student to obtain a Bachelor of Nursing Science cum laude from the University of Pretoria (UP), as well as a Golden Key International honorary membership.
Posted on November 02, 2023
For scholars looking to develop a manuscript from their data in a fraction of the time it currently takes, University of Pretoria (UP) alumnus Dr Israel Agaku has a straightforward and elegant solution: one application to replace the many software applications that academics usually have to make...
Posted on November 01, 2023
The University of Pretoria (UP) recently honoured UP affiliates who had made the grade for this year’s Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans initiative over lunch on Hatfield Campus.
Posted on October 23, 2023
Future Africa www.futureafrica.science is the University of Pretoria’s unique pan-African collaborative research platform that works across scientific fields and disciplines, and with society, to address Africa’s biggest and most urgent contemporary challenges.
Posted on October 23, 2023
UP alumna Karishma Maharaj excitedly recalls the moment Payload Aerospace SL, the Spanish aerospace company that she is a business developer at, made history when it launched MIURA 1, marking Europe’s first fully private rocket launch.
Posted on October 19, 2023
The statistics will forever show that Tuks is the 2023 Varsity Netball Champions.
Posted on October 19, 2023
Preshnee and Reagan Moodley met at the Merensky Library on the University of Pretoria (UP) Hatfield Campus on 6 November 2003 – and 20 years down the line this pair of UP alumni lovebirds is still happily married, with three children who they hope to send to UP for their academic studies.
Posted on October 19, 2023
University of Pretoria (UP) alumna Patricia Stock has been appointed as the first female Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA). Stock will be taking over the office from 1 December 2023.
Posted on October 19, 2023
Underpinning the daily curatorial and collections responsibilities of the University of Pretoria (UP) Museums is the work of conservators. It is the duty of the museum conservators to safeguard, protect, conserve and preserve more than 120 000 artefacts, objects and artworks in the...
Posted on October 19, 2023
A study conducted during 2019 to 2020, by a team of experts at the University of Pretoria (UP) into the prevalence of foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes in beef and beef products at some abattoirs and retailers in Gauteng, Mpumalanga and North-West provinces, has produced some interesting...
Posted on October 18, 2023
“Globally, South Africa is viewed as a country that successfully moved from the apartheid era to democracy – therefore, South Africa is capable of playing a role in leading peaceful negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.”
Posted on September 07, 2023
UP Alumni Online Mall allows UP’s alumni community to shop at discounted rates from leading brands.
Posted on August 17, 2023
University of Pretoria (UP) alumnus and entrepreneur Stephanus Marais has been flying high since founding Maravion, an enterprise support company that aims to industrialise innovations to stimulate economic growth in Africa and eradicate poverty, unemployment and inequality.
Posted on August 15, 2023
Meet University of Pretoria (UP) graduate Ndamulelo Madima, who is already making a mark in the education sector soon after qualifying as a teacher.
Posted on August 03, 2023
Meet Cayla Janse van Rensburg, a recent graduate from the University of Pretoria (UP) with a degree in Industrial Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology.
Posted on July 21, 2023
The future of the University of Pretoria (UP) lies in the strength of its stakeholder interactions, and a vision to succeed in all our endeavours to have a caring university.
Posted on July 20, 2023
“Out of more than 1 500 applications received, I was one of 20 candidates to be selected by Accenture, because of my qualification from the University of Pretoria (UP),” says UP alumnus Vincent Magagula, He now works as a Senior Strategy Consultant at multinational Deloitte in New...
Posted on July 19, 2023
Meet the Lourens, a US-based pair of University of Pretoria (UP) alumni: Andre Lourens obtained a BCom (Hons) Informatics in 2010 and his wife, Estelle, graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Drama in 2011. They met at UP and later relocated to the US.
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