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  • UP-led unveiling of Mamelodi Business Hub provides a beacon of hope for youth entrepreneurial skills development

    Posted on October 18, 2023

    Launched by UP and established in collaboration with UNICEF South Africa and PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Hub on the Mamelodi Campus offers young people in Mamelodi and further afield the opportunity to realise their entrepreneurial ambitions.

  • Entrepreneurs transition from learning to earning with pop-up shop

    Posted on July 07, 2023

    Budding entrepreneurs who completed a University of Pretoria course in association with UNICEF South Africa and PwC South Africa were given a resoundingly successful pop-up shop experience.

  • SDGs in action on the Mamelodi Campus

    Posted on April 03, 2020

    The Department of Business Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences has decided to continue with the vegetable garden that the 2019 first-year students had started at the Mamelodi Campus. After completing their Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) lectures, this year’s...

  • The Street Store@UP tackles student food insecurity

    Posted on December 13, 2019

    Food insecurity is a rampant challenge in the South African tertiary education environment and has a huge impact on the health, well-being and academic performance of affected students. BCom (Law) student Paseka Gaola is on a mission to make a difference

  • Changing your story: UP celebrates Women Entrepreneurship Week

    Posted on November 11, 2019

    The University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Business Clinic hosted a very successful high tea to celebrate its first Women Entrepreneurship Week. This annual initiative was created in 2014 by the Feliciano Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

  • UP Business Incubator – Step onto the path of entrepreneurial success

    Posted on October 19, 2017

    The UP Business Incubator was established to provide free support services to potential and new entrepreneurs on campus. The service allows entrepreneurs to plan, start and grow their ideas into high-impact business ventures.

  • Entrepreneurship 101

    Posted on September 19, 2017

    According to Prof Alex Antonites, Entrepreneurship is a skill that can be learnt, and all it takes to be a success is the ability to think strategically, achieving small goals in the beginning and having a long term outlook.

  • Students use soft skills to improve small businesses within their community

    Posted on September 07, 2017

    First-year BCom Extended Programme students, based at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, have decided to lend a helping hand to the local community in collaboration with the Mamelodi Business Clinic.

  • Jazzing up leadership

    Posted on June 07, 2017

    In these complex times that we live in, leadership in its broadest form is faced with dire challenges. Prof Derick de Jongh, Director of the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership at the University of Pretoria explains that when faced with a complex society, new approaches to leadership...

  • EMS Dean's List Awards function honours academic excellence

    Posted on June 06, 2017

    Prof Elsabé Loots, Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria, hosted top academic achievers in the Faculty at the prestigious annual Dean's List Awards function on 16 May 2017.

  • Outreach programmes to pave the way for a greener province

    Posted on October 03, 2013

    The Climate Innovation Centre (CIC) embarked on a series of inclusivity workshops to raise awareness of the green economy and the impact of climate change among marginalised communities. The first outreach programme was launched in partnership with the Bu

  • Student organisation incorporates leadership and business skills with entrepreneurship

    Posted on September 30, 2013

    Enactus UP is an international, non-profit student organisation that incorporates leadership and business skills within entrepreneurial environments in order to create a better world for people in need.

  • Cooperation between students and township entrepreneurs celebrated

    Posted on December 12, 2012

    The Mamelodi Business Clinic in the Department of Business Management hosted a farewell function to celebrate and conclude the very successful Ngezandla Zethu / Tshwane Arts & Crafts Hub mentorship programme at the Ditsong Museum on 30 October 2012.

  • Business Clinic opens its doors

    Posted on November 29, 2011

    The Business Clinic of the University of Pretoria was officially launched on the Mamelodi Campus of the University in July 2011.

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