UP EXPERT OPINION: The Year of Elections: How will democracy fare?

Posted on April 23, 2024

Dr Heather Thuynsma, a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences at UP, shares this interesting piece ahead of South Africa's elections in May.

Attention Academic Staff Members: Submission of Prescribed Textbooks Data for Second Semester 2024

Posted on April 23, 2024

The Department of Library Services calls on all academic staff members to participate in the submission of prescribed textbooks data for the second semester of 2024.

UP-hosted THE Pan-African Universities Summit: ‘The weight of expectation is growing on academics to become changemakers’

Posted on April 18, 2024

Do today’s academics and leaders have the skills to be changemakers? This and other questions were up for discussion when university leaders from 32 countries met at the Times Higher Education Pan-African Universities Summit, hosted by UP.

UP lecturer becomes first South African to join UNESCO think tank on arts education around cultural diversity and sustainable development

Posted on April 12, 2024

Dr Avi Sooful, Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts at UP’s School of the Arts, has become the first South African to join UNESCO think tank on arts education around cultural diversity & sustainable development.

UP EXPERT OPINION: UN Security Council and the elusive ceasefire: Can states break stalemate?

Posted on April 10, 2024

Until emerging powers from the global South, and courageous leadership from BRICS+, establish a rehabilitated international framework supported by enforceable laws, the impasse in the global order is likely to persist when it comes to the Israel-Hamas conflict, argues Dr Quraysha Ismail Sooliman.

‘Philosophy as a discipline has real-world importance’

Posted on April 05, 2024

Professor Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem, the Head of UP’s Department of Philosophy, discusses her recent appointment as Chair of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology.

UPCT embraces outreach!

Posted on March 27, 2024

UP Tourism Honours Students show high school learners future educational opportunities and the UP Hatfield Campus

South African “Human Rights Day” and University of Pretoria Campus Tours (UPCT)

Posted on March 21, 2024

In 1958, South Africa saw 1.5 million convictions yearly under apartheid's pass laws, controlling black movement. 1960 brought anti-pass campaigns by ANC and PAC. On March 21, PAC planned protests, Sharpeville saw 69 dead. Since 1994, Sharpeville Massacre remembered as Human Rights Day. March 20,...