Posted on August 08, 2017
Prof Charles Ngwena from the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, writes about what Women's Day means to him by drawing on the past in remembrance of Saartjie Baartman and the place of memory.
Posted on August 01, 2017
The Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship is bringing together scholars to generate discussion and research into using the broad field of the humanities and its related disciplines to understand and engage with global environmental problems.
Posted on August 01, 2017
A new Pre-Award Grants Management System (PAGMS) that was custom-developed for the University of Pretoria using the PeopleSoft system, will assist researchers at the Institution with the management and administration of funding opportunities.
Posted on July 26, 2017
The University of Pretoria's Camerata Choir has won the Grand Prix of Nations Youth Choir category at the prestigious international Grand Prix of Nations and 3rd European Choir Games 2017, held recently in Riga, Latvia.
Posted on July 26, 2017
Prof Siphamandla Zondi from the Institute for Strategic and Political Affairs in the Department of Political Sciences at UP, writes about the protests that once again marred the recent the G20 Summit and how this affects the fashioning of the futures that institutions like the G20 are designed to...
Posted on July 25, 2017
Researchers at UP, along with colleagues from other universities, have been developing a more representative indigenous personality measure that can be used by prospective employers for a multi-cultural workforce.
Posted on July 21, 2017
The University of Pretoria's Edoardo Villa Museum is presenting an exhibition honouring the Rivonia trialists in commemoration of Mandela Day this year. The exhibition opened on 18 July – the birthday of South Africa's first democratically elected president, the late Nelson Mandela –...
Posted on July 21, 2017
Prof Zondi and other colleagues who were part of the dialogue on Mandela, Kathrada and Ethical Leadership on Mandela Day 2017.
Posted on July 18, 2017
For the umpteenth time, the G20 Summit was marred by protests on the streets that have also turned violent as armed riot police clamped down on the protests. Protests have become a common scene outside air conditioned halls where the leaders of 19 major national economies and the European Union...
Posted on July 13, 2017
Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti from the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) at the University of Pretoria, discusses the future of alternative currencies and why it matters for development.
Posted on July 11, 2017
Willie Burger interviews Ettienne van Heerden on his new book "Die wereld van Charlie Oeng".
Posted on July 06, 2017
The Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA) Conference was officially opened by Prof Vasu Reddy, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria, on Tuesday, 4 July.
Posted on July 05, 2017
The Javett-UP, which is slowly taking shape on the Hatfield and South campuses, is set to become Africa's foremost art gallery and will exhibit art of the highest quality, with a specific focus on the art of Africa.
Posted on June 30, 2017
Prof Christi van der Westhuizen, an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria and a fellow of the Democracy Works Foundation, writes about the state of South Africa's ruling party ahead of their policy conference, which starts today, in an article that was...
Posted on June 29, 2017
Sacha Saddul, a third-year Information Design student, was selected as the University of Pretoria (UP)'s 'poster boy' for his poster titled Killer Fashion, which forms part of the Green Bauhaus Global Communication Project 2017.
Posted on June 26, 2017
Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti, a full professor of Political Economy and founding director of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) at the University of Pretoria, discusses how jobs can be created in the age of robots and low growth in an article that recently appeared on The...
Posted on June 23, 2017
The Department of UP Arts recently formally handed over Phase 1 of the Tshwane Heritage Report to the Executive Director of Culture, Libraries and Heritage Services, Mrs Ntuthu Sipambo, as part of a collaborative heritage project between the University of Pretoria and the City of Tshwane.
Posted on June 23, 2017
Over the last few years, the Department of African Languages has been distributing African language dictionaries to schools. Thus far, with sponsorship assistance from the African Association for Lexicography (Afrilex), the Department has distributed dictionaries in Sepedi, Setswana and...
Posted on June 22, 2017
Prof Henning Melber, an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria and the author of The Rise of Africa's Middle Class, writes about the state of democracy in southern Africa in an article that recently appeared on The Conversation.
Posted on June 20, 2017
Lesotho might be a tiny landlocked country, nestled between the Drakensberg and Maloti mountain ranges but it is a country with a big heart. It is entirely surrounded by South Africa, and from 25 to 27 May 2017 four South Africans from the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication...
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