Posted on May 28, 2025
PRETORIA – Africa needs to fund its own research and development or risk being left behind by a rapidly shifting global order. That was the hard-hitting message on the second day of Africa Week 2025, currently underway at Future Africa, the University of Pretoria’s (UP) pan-African...
Posted on May 28, 2025
Mongiwa Hazel Ntuli will be obtaining a degree in Actuarial Science that she’d completed at the age of 17
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.
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...
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....
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”.
Posted on May 26, 2025
UP conferred an honorary doctorate on Dr Sebastiaan Christo van As
Posted on May 26, 2025
UP's Faculty of Humanities recently awarded Zanele Mbeki an honorary doctorate
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
Posted on May 23, 2025
Dr Marchantia Pollock, chartered accountant turned academic, shares her journey from corporate finance to inspiring future accountants at UP.
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.
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...
Posted on May 22, 2025
Despite all the progress that has been made toward gender equality globally, many are still tempted to view armed conflict as primarily the domain of men. In fact, women often prove decisive in such settings, including in combat, non-combat, and leadership roles. Nonetheless, they are routinely...
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.
Posted on May 21, 2025
A UP veterinary team gave four-year-old white rhino Houdini a breath of life after performing fully invasive surgery
Posted on May 19, 2025
The University of Pretoria (UP) has conferred an honorary doctorate upon South Africa’s most celebrated and multi-award-winning editorial cartoonist, Jonathan Shapiro – better known as Zapiro.
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