Lego on the menu for children in a Mandela Day collaboration between the University of Pretoria, UNICEF and PwC at the Mamelodi Business Hub

Posted on July 28, 2022

Children from local ECD centres in Pretoria were treated to a LEGO games treat and practical food and nutrition tips as part of a "fun skills development" outreach event to celebrate the birthday of icon Nelson Mandela.

50 Mamelodi youth sponsored by UNICEF attend first course on entrepreneurial skills at Mamelodi Business Hub based at UP

Posted on June 02, 2022

Fifty aspirant youth entrepreneurs from the community are taking part in the first entrepreneurial course fully funded by UNICEF at the Mamelodi Business Hub in association with UNICEF South Africa and Price Waterhouse Coopers.

UP students’ Bunnies of Hope project brings joy to 100 kids

Posted on May 23, 2022

Staying true to the spirit of giving, Occupational Therapy students at UP recently participated in an outreach initiative called the Bunnies of Hope Easter project that brought joy to more than 100 children at Happy Sabby Day-Care in Daspoort.

‘The COVID-19 pandemic helped create a stronger hybrid approach to community engagement’, USRN webinar hears

Posted on April 04, 2022

A recent University Social Responsibility Network (USRN) webinar, hosted by Prof Norman Duncan, UP Vice-Principal: Academic, focused on how community engagement changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the hybrid approach that’s been created.

UP Pre-University Academy and Hong Kong institution equip learners with robotics and coding skills

Posted on January 21, 2022

The University of Pretoria Pre-University Academy recently collaborated with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to provide school learners from Mamelodi with a rich learning experience in robotics and coding.

UP Drama: Exploring gender-based violence through performance

Posted on December 22, 2021

Academics from the UP School of the Arts used performance art as part of research involving two participant groups in Saulsville and Tembisa to find out what their perceptions on the drivers of GBV in their communities were.

UP’s Faculty of Health Sciences leads vaccination of undocumented communities against COVID- 19

Posted on December 21, 2021

“It is critical that people who are excluded or hard to reach are enabled to benefit from the vaccination programme to prevent islands within which the virus can hide and spread,” says UP’s Prof Jannie Hugo about the Gauteng-centred project.

University of Pretoria students prove science and rap music rock

Posted on August 30, 2021

"Vaccinate, let us try and heal the nation. Wait, but there’s a debate. People are wondering why we should vaccinate." These are the lyrics of a catchy rap song by UP medical student Rostum Ogbuehi that aims to promote vaccination.