#UPGraduations2025: ‘The chains of poverty have been broken’ – UP PhD graduate

Posted on May 23, 2025

University of Pretoria (UP) PhD graduate Abongile Pindo can think of no better way to celebrate graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology Development Studies from the Faculty of Humanities than with those closest to her.

UP PhD graduate’s research holds hope for gender equity in local government

Posted on May 22, 2025

After nearly 20 years of experience in the field of gender advocacy, Dr Samukele Deborah Khumalo-Dludla has reached a major milestone in her journey from practitioner to academic: graduating with a PhD from the University of Pretoria (UP). Her research, which focused on gender mainstreaming and...

UP honours Diane Victor, whose artwork masterfully mirrors reality

Posted on May 21, 2025

Artworks tell the story of our lives. They comment on society. They document the times. The artworks of Diane Victor, one of South Africa’s greatest living artists, are a no-holds-barred mirror of the reality we inhabit, gliding from horror and violence to beauty, frailty and freedom.

Marathon surgery by UP vets breathes new life into white rhino

Posted on May 21, 2025

A veterinary team UP gave four-year-old white rhino Houdini a breath of life after performing fully invasive surgery

Zapiro, SA’s most-awarded cartoonist, receives Honorary Doctorate in Education from University of Pretoria

Posted on May 19, 2025

The University of Pretoria (UP) has conferred an honorary doctorate upon South Africa’s most celebrated and multi-award-winning editorial cartoonist, Jonathan Shapiro – better known as Zapiro.

Excellence shines at Department of Historical and Heritage Studies awards ceremony

Posted on May 19, 2025

History was made at the recent DHHS awards function.

UP Food Science graduate aims to nourish both mind and body

Posted on May 15, 2025

“Education has no end,” says Josiah Muriuki, who will be graduating with a BSc (Hons) degree in Food Science from the University of Pretoria (UP) in May as part of UP’s autumn graduation season. “The more you know, the more you realise you don’t know and the thirst...

UP honours Prof Makhosazana Xaba, award-winning writer, poet and feminist scholar, with honorary doctorate

Posted on May 15, 2025

The University of Pretoria (UP) has conferred an honorary doctorate on Associate Professor Makhosazana Xaba, an award-winning poet, short story writer, essayist and editor, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to literature, feminist thought and cultural activism in South Africa.