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Dr Eyob Tesfamariam of the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP) recently accepted the President’s Award from the Soil Science Society of South Africa for delivering the best oral presentation at the society’s Combined Congress recently held in Bloemfontein.

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Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom visited the University of Pretoria recently for a preview of the Javett Art Centre at UP (Javett-UP) as construction of this new home for African art at the university’s Hatfield Campus nears completion.

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Criminal law should not be used to punish the poor for being poor. However, many by-laws across South Africa prohibit sleeping in public spaces, begging, loitering, and trading without a permit. Offenders may be fined, arrested and detained.

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Angola has decriminalised consensual same-sex acts between adults in private.

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Dr Siona O’Connell talks to Tukkie about her documentary Uitgesmyt (“Thrown out”), which focuses on the effects of forced removals and land restitution.

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University of Pretoria Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe visited Pretoria’s Menlyn Park mall on Thursday 14 February to make a personal donation to Tuks FM and Menlyn Mall’s #Back2Varsity campaign.

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The head of the Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography Laboratory in the Department of Chemistry shares his feelings on receiving the Georg Forster award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

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Sport and living an active lifestyle are two things that Professor Tawana Kupe, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, feels quite strongly about.

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