Insightful expert lecture on southern African history presented at UP

Posted on May 10, 2016

The 19th lecture in the UP Expert Lecture Series titled 'Sunny Places for Shady Characters'. The Making of Work Class Cultures in Southern Africa's Mining Revolution, c.1886-1914 presented by Prof Charles van Onselen, took place on the University of Pretoria's Hatfield Campus on Wednesday, 20...

Africa Science Leadership Programme: second round of success

Posted on May 09, 2016

As the challenges we face in the world, and especially in Africa, become more complex, a different style of science leadership is required. The Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) was launched in June 2015 to address this, and recently concluded its second round of interactions with...

Are We Post-Racial Yet? | A lecture with David Goldberg hosted at the CAS

Posted on February 29, 2016

Has legacy of racial discrimination and disadvantage been waning?

UP professor appointed to board for Water Research Commission

Posted on February 01, 2016

Minister of Water and Sanitation, Nomvula Mokonyane, recently appointed the new Board of the Water Research Commission (WRC), which will be led by well-known water sector activists, Dr Nozibele Mjoli, who will serve as Chairperson, and our very own Prof Sibusiso Vil-Nkomo as Deputy Chairperson.

A new perspective on research leadership at Tuks

Posted on November 30, 2015

As the challenges we face in the world, and especially in Africa, become more complex, a different style of science leadership is required. The Tuks Young Research Leader Programme (TYRLP) was launched to address this.

Prof Robin Crewe re-elected to Council of The World Academy of Sciences

Posted on November 26, 2015

At the General Meeting of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), held in Vienna, Austria on 19 November 2015, Professor Robin Crewe, Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria (UP), was elected to serve a second term as TWAS council member for Africa.

The Political Economy of Developmental State-making in South Africa

Posted on November 02, 2015

Essentially, the research traces state-making processes over the past 100 years, and underline the primacy and centrality of both ideas and politics in shaping and conditioning the character of the modern state.

UP and CIRAD dedicated to governance innovation

Posted on November 02, 2015

The University of Pretoria (UP) and the French Agricultural Research and International Cooperation organisation, working for the sustainable development in the South (CIRAD), have recently signed a five-year agreement establishing the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) at UP...