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...
Posted on December 02, 2024
Prof Wesley Rosslyn-Smith, Director of the Centre for the Future of Work at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been honoured by the Turnaround Association of South Africa (TM-SA) with the Decade of Academic Excellence in Turnaround Management Award. He was recognised for his pioneering work on...
Posted on November 29, 2024
UP has excelled in the Times Higher Education Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings 2024. “This underscores UP’s role in Africa and demonstrates its commitment to addressing the continent’s challenges through impactful research, innovation and inclusivity,” said VC and...
Posted on November 27, 2024
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences' alumnus and certified customer experience professional at First National Bank (FNB), Nomsa Maseko says she found great fulfilment when she switched from engineering to communication, a field in which she excelled. Her academic achievements paved the...
Posted on November 22, 2024
Connecting with people and effecting change and hope in their lives are two of the key drivers behind EMS alumnus, DShorne Human. A qualified Chartered Accountant, DShorne demonstrated par excellence in his current position as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the state-owned company (SOC) ,...
Posted on November 22, 2024
The articles in this edition showcase work from all nine of our faculties, and underscore our University’s slogan ‘Make today matter’. RE.SEARCH has been named South Africa's top corporate publication as the winner of the 2024 SA Publication's Forum Awards. It is a runner up and...
Posted on November 20, 2024
A desire to make a meaningful impact on society through knowledge and skills transfer prompted Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) alumnus, Tshegofatso Makgoba to pursue career in the accounting field. Following his keen interest in financial management and the role of accounting in...
Posted on November 19, 2024
South Africa lags in green talent training to capacitate people with the skills needed to drive the transition towards a green economy. The gap in green talent training delays the transition away from coal. Dr Sean Kruger, lead researcher at the UP Centre for the Future of Work unpacked in The...
Posted on November 13, 2024
Research by economists Professor Roula Inglesi-Lotz of UP's Energy Economics Research Unit and Kwame Adjei-Mantey of the Future Africa Institute found that environmental consciousness can spur Ghanaians not to use firewood as a cooking fuel of choice because of its environmental and health...
Posted on November 11, 2024
From defying naysayers who discouraged her from studying at a university to obtaining a BCom degree in Tourism in 2015, EMS alumna Nina Badenhorst has proved that resilience leads to success. Today, the travel enthusiast is a shareholder of Voetspore Safaris, which offers 4x4 self-drive tours and...
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