House Humanities 2018/2019 Committee Scoops Awards

Posted on November 14, 2019

House Humanities is proud to present 3 awards received on the 7th of October 2019 from the Department of Student Affairs for Outstanding Achievement as a Faculty House.

New study finds today’s gorillas may be smarter than human ‘ancestors’ of three million years ago

Posted on November 13, 2019

The great apes, including humans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans, are very intelligent. But how does the intelligence of living great apes, such as Koko the gorilla, compare with our 3 million-year-old relatives, such as “Lucy” the Australopithecine?

Writers take centre stage at UP Heritage Month panel discussion

Posted on November 11, 2019

Decolonisation, the preservation of South African languages and culture, and a condemnation of xenophobia were the dominant themes at an event held recently at the University of Pretoria (UP) to commemorate Heritage Month.

‘Curriculum transformation should extend beyond the classroom’: World-renowned African Philosophy expert delivers public lecture at UP

Posted on October 25, 2019

Professor Mogobe Ramose took guests on an epistemological tour of former prime minister of the Union of South Africa Jan Smuts, and related this to post-apartheid South Africa, highlighting the need for continued insistence on the role of justice and ethics in contemporary South Africa.

UP Campus Tours celebrate Humanities 100 with a “Walk Back in Time”

Posted on October 25, 2019

The Heritage and Cultural Tourism honours students in Department of Historical and Heritage Studies who manage University of Pretoria Campus Tours (UPCT) hosted a “Walk Back in Time” on 17 October 2019.

Enter UP's University Social Responsibility Month photographic competition

Posted on October 08, 2019

October 2019 is University Social Responsibility Month. As part of an awareness-raising process, we invite you to take a photograph that illustrates you (or your team) being socially responsible and enter the University Social Responsibility Photo Competition. This can be campus operations,...

UP looks at tourism sector to help create jobs

Posted on September 30, 2019

Research has revealed that young people aged 15-24 are the most vulnerable in the South African labour market, with unemployment figures for this group sitting at 55.2% in the first quarter of 2019.

Reflections on change as UP and HSRC celebrate anniversaries with Academy of Science of South Africa

Posted on September 25, 2019

In celebration of the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Humanities’ centenary, the Academy of Science of South Africa’s Humanities Lecture was used as a platform to determine the importance of the archive in mapping out history.