Are you struggling to pay your fees? Apply for financial aid today

Posted on June 09, 2020

The University of Pretoria (UP) cares for all our students and would like to ease the financial burden for you and your family.

#UPGraduation2020: Microbiology graduate Thobeka Dlangalala goes viral with post about her road to a master’s degree

Posted on June 09, 2020

“Life seldom goes the way you plan it, and that is okay – I got accepted to study at the University of Pretoria [UP] on my second try,” says Thobeka Dlangalala, who received a master’s degree in microbiology from UP as one of 11 000 graduates who were awarded their degrees...

WORLD OCEANS DAY: COVID-19 presents an opportunity to reverse the marginalisation of small-scale fishers – UP experts

Posted on June 08, 2020

Small-scale fishers in South Africa remain significantly marginalised, and the emergence of COVID-19 has worsened the situation.

Textbook co-edited by UP academic reveals slow pace of transformation in South African workplace

Posted on June 08, 2020

The first ever university and industry textbook on diversity management in the South African workplace reveals that race and gender representation remains largely elusive, in both the public and private sectors.

No evidence that food is a source or transmission route for COVID-19, says UP scientist

Posted on June 07, 2020

There is no evidence to date that the new coronavirus which causes COVID-19 can be transmitted by food. The association of transmission with the wet food market in Wuhan, China, has led to much misinformation about COVID-19 being spread in food. The virus, it needs to be emphasised, is...

UP academic appeals to municipalities to monitor groundwater or surface water close to cemeteries

Posted on June 06, 2020

University of Pretoria (UP) academic Professor Matthys Dippenaar has appealed to municipalities to monitor groundwater and/or surface water that are close to sites where cemeteries are located, in light of the more than 50 000 COVID-19-related deaths that are being forecast in South Africa over...

FABI-hosted online symposium on tree health a major success

Posted on June 05, 2020

More than 250 participants from South Africa and 12 countries across four continents joined an online meeting of the Tree Protection Co-Operative Programme (TPCP) and DSI NRF Centre of Excellence in Plant Health Biotechnology (CPHB) hosted by the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology...

Governments should help universities recover from COVID-19 pandemic – UP Vice-Chancellor at Alliance for African Partnership webinar

Posted on June 04, 2020

Governments should provide financial assistance to those universities that are experiencing loss from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was one of the issues raised by Professor Tawana Kupe, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria (UP), at a webinar titled...