University of Pretoria commemorates 100 years of trans-African flight and re-installation of flight monument

Posted on March 16, 2020

Two crashed planes, 109 flying hours and 45 days. This is what it took Lieutenant Colonel Pierre van Ryneveld and Captain Quentin Brand to write history by completing the first flight from London to Cape Town on 19 March 1920.

UPDATE: Today's tests and assessments postponed

Posted on March 16, 2020

The University Executive has decided to postpone all tests and assessments for today and is finalising plans on contact activities, taking into account the measures announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa as consultation with the Minister of Higher Education begins.

UPDATE: Postponement of contact classes and rescheduling of academic calendar

Posted on March 16, 2020

As South Africa faces the locally expanding coronavirus epidemic, the University of Pretoria’s (UP) executive management team is committed to making decisions that safeguard health and reduce the risk of infection among staff and students.

Message from the VC: Coronavirus update

Posted on March 13, 2020

Whilst we are busy finalising our preparation to take learning online should this be required, as things stand as of 13 March 2020, all our programmes and events are continuing as scheduled.

COVID-19: Why it matters that scientists continue their search for source of ‘patient zero’s’ infection

Posted on March 13, 2020

The current COVID-19 outbreak is driven by a novel coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) that is spreading between people. The first human infections were reported at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei province in China when a cluster of 41 pneumonia cases was identified. Deeper analysis showed that it...

Student who clinched 2019 undergraduate Budget Speech Competition prize is ‘a symbol of the high-quality graduates’ at UP

Posted on March 12, 2020

UP BCom Honours Investment Management student Matifadza Bingudza, the undergraduate winner of the 2019 Nedbank and Old Mutual Budget Speech Competition, is “a symbol of the high-quality graduates” that the University produces, says Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe.

UP increases number of NRF A-rated scientists to 16 as two academics score coveted A grade

Posted on March 11, 2020

Two highly respected University of Pretoria academics, Professor Jean M-S Lubuma and Professor James Ogude have been awarded A-2 ratings by the National Research Foundation (NRF), bringing UP’s total number of scientists in this category to 16.

UP partners with Business Day for inaugural conference on impact of 4IR in the workplace

Posted on March 11, 2020

Job creation, collaboration and reskilling employees for the workplace were key themes that emerged from the Business Day Focus 4.0 Conference held recently at the Kyalami International Convention Centre.