Posted on March 19, 2025
The Budget attempts to walk a tightrope, balancing concerns about low economic growth and infrastructure spend against the need to narrow the budget deficit and reduce future debt servicing costs, which is already consuming 20c in every Rand of tax revenue collected, writes Professor Roula...
Posted on March 17, 2025
PRETORIA – The 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject, released on 12 March 2025, has ranked 16 subjects offered by the University of Pretoria (UP) among the top 450 in the world. UP’s total number of ranked subjects also increased from 19 in 2024 to 22 in 2025.
Posted on March 17, 2025
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) alumnus, Vincent Jones is always striving for excellence. Jones, who holds multiple qualifications from the University of Pretoria including a BCom in Financial Accounting, a BCom (Hons) and an MPhil specialising in Fraud Risk Management says...
Posted on March 16, 2025
Prof Francis Petersen was inaugurated as UP’s Vice-Chancellor and Principal on the 14th of March
Posted on March 13, 2025
South African households will feel the effects of the 2025 Budget, whether in at the grocery store till, through stagnant salaries, or creeping tax burdens.
Posted on March 13, 2025
Since its launch in 2020, the fully online Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in Public Management, offered through UPOnline, has been steadily shaping the future of public-sector professionals. What began as a small cohort of six graduates in 2022 has grown significantly, with 87 graduates crossing...
Posted on March 07, 2025
Congratulations to Professor Anneli Douglas of UP’s Tourism Management Division, who has been appointed as a full professor.
Posted on February 24, 2025
The University of Pretoria (UP) recently welcomed Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, and James Christoff, High Commissioner for Canada in South Africa, to the Mamelodi Business Hub. Their esteemed visit represents a significant milestone in the ongoing collaboration...
Posted on February 20, 2025
University studies are such a privilege, don’t take them for granted. Work hard, but remember to use every opportunity to shape yourself as a human being. Get involved in activities where you can serve fellow students and our country. Also, the friendships and people that you meet at...
Posted on February 18, 2025
The 2025 Budget speech will be delivered amid worsened economic and fiscal conditions compared to the 2024 Budget
Posted on February 18, 2025
The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) at the University of Pretoria has once again demonstrated its commitment to academic excellence in the latest 2025 Times Higher Education (THE) Subject Rankings.
Posted on February 12, 2025
CAPE TOWN – Solving the challenge of helping ‘missing middle’ students afford higher education is a collective societal responsibility, University of Pretoria (UP) Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Francis Petersen told a gathering of Cape Town-based alumni and donors.
Posted on February 05, 2025
UP honours students recently participated in the finals of the MEA Future Leaders Challenge
Posted on February 03, 2025
Every dream is valid. If you really work hard to realise it, you can achieve anything!” This continues to be the driving force behind every goal exemplary alumnus Ithiel Egambaram sets his sights on. “If I thought I would eventually work in New York and now London, I probably would...
Posted on December 19, 2024
The backlog of subsidised public housing in South Africa is estimated at 2.4 million. Professor Adrino Mazenda of the School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA) at the University of Pretoria posed questions to Dr Hlengiwe Maila, a research fellow at the SPMA about possible solutions to...
Posted on December 17, 2024
Dr Sansia Blackmore of the University of Pretoria’sAfrican Tax Institute explained in the Mail and Guardian how South Africa's taxation system struggles with accountability, revealing the challenges of elite enrichment and its impact on ordinary taxpayers. “As taxpayers witness their...
Posted on December 09, 2024
Whistleblowers should be rewarded for their courage; instead, many pay for it with their lives.
Posted on December 05, 2024
A third-year student at UP is over the moon after being credited with a provisional asteroid detection that has been catalogued in the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center database.
Posted on December 04, 2024
Dr Sansia Blackmore, a tax policy expert at the University of Pretoria's African Tax Institute, unpacks the unequal distribution of tax benefits in a piece in the Mail and Guardian, revealing how the elite may reap disproportionate advantages while ordinary citizens bear the burden. "The...
Posted on December 03, 2024
University of Pretoria's Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) alumna Lesego Makgoba seeks to play her part in reducing inequality through her impactful entrepreneurship activities as founder of Nation Rolling Paper and Nation Farming Solutions. “My dream for South Africa is...
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