#UPGraduation2025: UP PhD graduate breaks new ground with culturally rooted communication tool

Posted on May 27, 2025

Ngwanamaishe Rahab Blondie Mothapo, who received her doctoral degree during the University of Pretoria’s (UP) ongoing Autumn 2025 graduation sessions, sees language as more than just a tool for communication.

Africa Week 2025 at UP opens with call for justice, innovation and unity

Posted on May 27, 2025

PRETORIA – Africa Week 2025 opened at the University of Pretoria (UP) on Africa Day, 25 May, with a call for bold, cross-sectoral collaboration to reimagine the continent’s future. The biennial summit, hosted at Future Africa, UP’s pan-African platform for collaborative...

The skills needed for a just energy transition can’t be an afterthought

Posted on May 27, 2025

In an opinion piece in the Mail and Guardian, Professor Roula Inglesi-Lotz, Head of the Energy Economics Research Unit at the University of Pretoria, writes that a just energy transition will require careful thinking about the skills and training that will be required for an equitable transition....

Africa Week 2025 ignites dialogue for future sustainability at UP

Posted on May 26, 2025

The University of Pretoria (UP) has officially launched a dialogue on future sustainability through the Africa Week 2025 science leadership summit, hosted at UP’s Future Africa institute under the theme “Global Security – Global Africa”.

Traffic Engineering Expert Dr Christo van As Awarded Honorary Doctorate by UP

Posted on May 26, 2025

UP conferred an honorary doctorate on Dr Sebastiaan Christo van As

UP confers honorary doctorate on social worker and former First Lady Zanele Mbeki

Posted on May 26, 2025

UP's Faculty of Humanities recently awarded Zanele Mbeki an honorary doctorate

SPMA celebrates 50 years of academic excellence in public administration

Posted on May 26, 2025

The School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA) in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria hosted its 16th Annual Conference from 19 to 20 May 2025 in celebration of its 50th anniversary as an independent academic department at the University of...

Africa Day 2025: Let Us Impact the Future Together – Message from the Vice-Chancellor and Principal

Posted on May 25, 2025

As a leader of an African university, I carry the spirit of many great African men and women—ancestors whose wisdom and courage helped shape this continent and the world. Their teachings flow through me as I express and celebrate my Africanness. Through this message, allow me to touch you...