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  • How a UP residence steward is building communities and shaping leaders

    Posted on May 23, 2025

    Learn more about how Lanché van Tonder, Head of Residence Management and Student Life at UP, is transforming student housing into a leadership development community.

  • ‘Bravery made all the difference’

    Posted on May 23, 2025

    Meet UP doctoral candidate Dr Daluxolo Mbebe, a historian and pastor who completed his PhD in just two years. “You cannot second-guess yourself into success,” he says.

  • Balancing ambition

    Posted on May 23, 2025

    “When your qualification is purpose-driven, the motivation to keep going despite the demands is stronger,” says Sindisiwe Kubeka of UP’s Health Sciences Faculty, who balanced a demanding professional role with completing a master’s in Strategic Communication Management.

  • Passion meets purpose

    Posted on May 23, 2025

    Dr Marchantia Pollock, chartered accountant turned academic, shares her journey from corporate finance to inspiring future accountants at UP.

  • #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

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