Posted on September 22, 2020
University of Pretoria final-year law student Nicholas Herd has been unanimously chosen as the national winner of the 2020 Yunus Mahomed Public Interest Award – Law/ Business/ Ethics National Prize.
Posted on September 22, 2020
Leadership is paramount to develop and foster an inclusive culture for any organisation and for the broader society.
Posted on September 22, 2020
A University of Pretoria professor of zoology was part of a team that recently published a study that reveals that tiny hummingbirds living in the Andes Mountains in Peru drop their body temperature from 40°C to 3.3°C, near freezing point, to survive bitterly cold nights. “It is the...
Posted on September 21, 2020
The thought of having our memories erased and being unable to recognise the people we cherish would elicit fear in most individuals. For adults with a dementia diagnosis, this fear is magnified ¬– even more so for those closest to them.
Posted on September 21, 2020
The time has come for the 2020 SRC elections season to commence. The 2020 SRC elections will take place in the midst of extraordinary circumstances created by the COVID- 19 pandemic.
Posted on September 18, 2020
Education is the key to lifting people out of poverty and enabling social mobility, said Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria (UP) Professor Tawana Kupe during a recent online panel discussion titled The Challenges of Education in Africa.
Posted on September 18, 2020
Consider that South Africa is 18th in the world in terms of the longest paved roads. By “paved” we mean bitumen/surfaced and concrete roads. We have 158 000km of paved roads and a total road network (paved and gravel) of 750 000km.
Posted on September 16, 2020
The University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce the appointment of Professor Lindiwe Majele Sibanda as Director of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence in Food Security, hosted at UP in collaboration with the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and the University...
Posted on September 16, 2020
Most countries use labour legislation and government policies to encourage diversity and inclusion, and to improve race relations in businesses and organisations. However, in some organisations, overt racism has been replaced by more subtle forms of discrimination, such as hostile words and...
Posted on September 16, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up call for us all. As the flood of disease swept through the world, we braced ourselves for it to hit home. While most South Africans locked down, medical services scurried to get everything in place to deal with the expected tsunami of cases.
Posted on September 15, 2020
The Department of Library Services and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria (UP) recently hosted the annual Mind-Altering Books webinar. The event is typically held in recognition of National Book Week, which runs from 2 to 8 September annually, and is hosted to inculcate a...
Posted on September 11, 2020
With South Africa’s move to level two lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and many returning to the office after months away, University of Pretoria (UP) scientists have been considering the fungi that people might encounter in the most unexpected places.
Posted on September 09, 2020
More than 250 cetacean experts from around the world have signed an open statement to global leaders calling for action to urgently address the precarious situation of many populations of whales, dolphins and porpoises (collectively known as ‘cetaceans’).
Posted on August 30, 2020
Eradication of gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa should stem from grassroots level, where men need to call out seemingly harmless behaviour among themselves. This is what Mudinda Tshimbidi, a University of Pretoria (UP) graduate who is now a strategy and consulting manager for a Fortune...
Posted on August 28, 2020
“Sexual and gender-based violence [SGBV] does not always happen in a dark alley; it is carried out mainly by people we know and trust,” says Sarah Matseke, whose work as acting transformation manager at the University of Pretoria (UP) is informed by her own devastating experience with...
Posted on August 27, 2020
The University of Pretoria (UP) has signed a game-changing agreement with South African Women in Dialogue (SAWID) to collaborate on projects to improve the lives of women. The memorandum of understanding (MOU), which was signed during a virtual ceremony, is the continuation of a long-standing...
Posted on August 27, 2020
When JK Rowling suggested that transgender (hereafter trans1) women in bathrooms could pose a threat to cisgender (hereafter cis) women and that “many health professionals are concerned that young people struggling with their mental health are being shunted towards hormones and surgery when...
Posted on August 26, 2020
To a greater or lesser extent – I’m inclined to believe greater – relationships between women and men have held economic value throughout history (as Tina Turner sang, “What’s love got to do with it?”). As such it is difficult to separate out all tinges of...
Posted on August 26, 2020
With August being Women’s Month, campaigns are being launched across the media to raise awareness of violence against women. But women with disabilities often fall outside these initiatives – even though they are four to 10 times more susceptible to being victims of sexual and...
Posted on August 26, 2020
The daylight murder of Mr George Floyd in a street in my hometown of Minneapolis shocked many who had previously denied that institutional racism existed in America.
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