Posted on March 02, 2015
In Africa we are accustomed to highlighting poverty, hardship and disease and to take a rather dim view of the future awaiting our continent’s inhabitants.
Posted on February 27, 2015
The theme for UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day 2015 is ‘Inclusion in and through education: Language counts’.
Posted on February 27, 2015
Prof Kobus Maree's latest research article on career counseling leads in international journal.
Posted on February 27, 2015
The Department of Dogmatics affronts Western overemphasis of cognition in constituting being human.
Posted on February 26, 2015
Prof Vinny Naidoo, director of UP’s Biomedical Research Centre and specialist veterinary pharmacologist with the South African Veterinary Council, has led the way to find suitable NSAID alternatives that would be safe for vultures.
Posted on February 25, 2015
The 53-8 win will be recorded as one of the most important milestones in the University of Pretoria's Varsity Cup history – and that with a home crowd of 7000 as most willing witnesses.
Posted on February 25, 2015
The University of Pretoria (UP), with support from Eskom and Sasol, recently launched the Laboratory for Atmospheric Studies (LAS).
Posted on February 24, 2015
Tuks were unstoppable in all facets of the game as they ran in seven tries to remain unbeaten in the competition and establish themselves as the forerunners to lift the trophy this year.
Posted on February 24, 2015
A research project on indigenous Christian elites in Asia and Africa is in the spotlight .
Posted on February 23, 2015
Research by Prof Mohammad Naushad Emmambux, associate professor at UP’s Department of Food Science, and his colleagues has shown that it is possible to modify high GI starch using fatty acids so that it becomes a low GI starch.
Posted on February 23, 2015
How do individuals with a biracial heritage construct an identity?
Posted on February 20, 2015
The Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership (ALCRL) is proud to announce that Mr Pieter Conradie, the Programme Director for Integrated Reporting became the first graduate of the MPhil in Business Management with the focus on Responsible Leadership. It is a two-year multidisciplinary...
Posted on February 19, 2015
The University of Pretoria (UP) played host to a public lecture by the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA), Mr Thembekile Kimi Makwetu, who spoke on the state of public finance in South Africa.
Posted on February 19, 2015
Within a decade, hopes Professor Gert Saayman, conventional invasive autopsies could just about be a thing of the past. Instead, pathologists would use imaging technologies to conduct virtual post-mortems.
Posted on February 18, 2015
Renowned South African novelist and academic, André Phillipus Brink, recently died on a flight from Amsterdam to South Africa. He was on his way home from Belgium, where he had received an honorary doctorate from the Belgian Francophone Université Catholique de Louvain.
Posted on February 16, 2015
Dr Yolanda Pretorius of the Centre for Wildlife Management is an elephant specialist who believes that elephants has the ability to display exactly what they feel.
Posted on February 16, 2015
“Most problems in today’s society cannot be solved by a single discipline,” said Prof Sheryl Hendriks of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being (IFNuW).
Posted on February 12, 2015
The Faculty of Veterinary Science is preparing to introduce an exciting, first-of-its-kind international collaborative master’s programme in tropical health in January 2016.
Posted on February 12, 2015
A University of Pretoria (UP) second-year BA International Relations student, Thabang Manamela (also a registered first-year law student), is set to achieve his goals despite his disability.
Posted on February 12, 2015
The University of Pretoria would like to express its condolences with the loved ones of André P Brink following his sudden death.
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