Posted on February 20, 2025
UP's Giving Garden provided around 100 community food gardens in Gauteng with free cuttings, seedlings and tubers of lesser-known and easily grown crop plants in 2024
Posted on February 19, 2025
Reframing negative events in a positive manner and coping with challenges is how we create hope and how we make today matter
Posted on February 18, 2025
The 2025 Budget speech will be delivered amid worsened economic and fiscal conditions compared to the 2024 Budget
Posted on February 17, 2025
The University of Pretoria’s Department of Physiology has achieved a remarkable milestone, celebrating the promotions of multiple staff members and national recognition for its administrative staff. Under the leadership of Professor Annie Joubert, the department witnessed an unprecedented...
Posted on February 17, 2025
UP's Dr. Nompumelelo Lebogang Malaza has earned top honours at the Merck Foundation Africa Research Summit (MARS) Awards 2024, securing first position in the prestigious competition. Recognised as the Best African Women Researcher, Dr. Malaza’s ground-breaking work in maternal health has...
Posted on February 14, 2025
The Student Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce the launch of A Re Ageng Bokamoso, a student-led fundraising campaign that aims to raise R5 million to support students who are facing financial hardship. UP Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor...
Posted on February 13, 2025
Professor Danny Bradlow reflects on US President Donald Trump’s recent actions to reassert American power and his attempts at bullying weaker nations into following America’s lead in his latest contribution to The Conversation Africa.
Posted on February 13, 2025
Solving the challenge of helping ‘missing middle’ students afford higher education is a collective societal responsibility
Posted on February 12, 2025
UP's Mamelodi Campus hosted students from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to teach local high school learners how to use AI to create solutions to real-world problems.
Posted on February 11, 2025
Professor Tivani Mashamba-Thompson, Deputy Dean of Research and Postgraduate Studies in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria, has made a remarkable leap in her academic career, advancing her National Research Foundation (NRF) rating from Y2 to C1—skipping multiple...
Posted on February 11, 2025
A new South African Whale Centre is planned to be constructed in Hermanus which will house the Whale Unit UP’s Mammal Research Institute
Posted on February 10, 2025
The University of Pretoria (UP) is commemorating 117 years of shaping minds and transforming lives. From its humble beginnings in 1908 to its current status as one of Africa’s leading institutions, UP’s journey embodies the spirit of progress and dedication to knowledge creation.
Posted on February 10, 2025
Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has provided deeper insight into the entire life cycle (birth, growth and death) of giant radio galaxies, which resemble “cosmic fountains” – jets of superheated...
Posted on February 07, 2025
“I hope to co-create an environment that’s characterised by room to develop and flourish,” says the new Head of UP’s Department of Systematic and Historical Theology.
Posted on February 07, 2025
TuksFM listeners will know Emmanuel Radingwana as the one who reflects on the heroics of South African sportspeople in the Sports Show.
Posted on February 07, 2025
Thanks to an investment from the New Zealand government, researchers at UP’s experimental farm have implemented the latest technology in cattle feed machinery.
Posted on February 05, 2025
UP honours students recently participated in the finals of the MEA Future Leaders Challenge
Posted on February 04, 2025
The University of Pretoria (UP) is getting the 2025 academic year going by welcoming its new first-year students to campus during Orientation Week. Held between 3 and 7 February on Hatfield campus, Orientation Week is an annual activity-filled hybrid event to help students prepare for the...
Posted on February 03, 2025
The University of Pretoria (UP) recently hosted its annual Welcome Day event to induct first--year students who will soon be embarking on their university journey. Held on Saturday, 1 February 2025 at Rembrandt Hall on the Hillcrest campus, this special event saw incoming students along with...
Posted on February 03, 2025
Across three days, from 26 to 28 February, the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa (CASA), in collaboration with the Innovation Foundation for Democracy, will be hosting the international seminar Making Democracy as a Community of Life: Transregional Dialogues across Asia and Africa.
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