Posted on August 09, 2020
The UK’s Barnsley Youth Choir and the University of Pretoria’s Tuks Camerata have proven that distance and even a global pandemic can’t stop them from singing together.
Posted on August 09, 2020
On 9 August 1956, thousands of women marched on the Union Buildings to demand their right to freedom of movement. This historic moment popularised the slogan Wathint'Abafazi Wathint'imbokodo (You strike a woman, you strike a rock).
Posted on August 08, 2020
One of the ways to begin the work of tackling the epidemic of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) that is gripping South Africa is ensuring that communities are educated about it and resources are made available to fight it.
Posted on August 07, 2020
Professor Charles Maimela is both the youngest, at 32 years old, and first black Deputy Dean of the Faculty since its establishment more than a century ago.
Posted on August 06, 2020
A study on the effects of COVID-19 and other respiratory infections on athletes returning to training and competition is being launched by the Sport, Exercise Medicine and Lifestyle Institute (SEMLI) at the University of Pretoria (UP) in association with the International Olympic Committee (IOC)...
Posted on August 06, 2020
Enactus University of Pretoria (UP) is a non-profit, student-run organisation that is part of an international organisation which is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better and more...
Posted on August 06, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing that the leaders who are “winning” the war against the virus and the hearts and minds of followers are not the blustering, direct-now-and-think-later leaders of the pre-pocalypse. The leaders who are winning during the pandemic are the ones who are...
Posted on August 05, 2020
Scientists from South Africa and Pakistan have pooled their expertise in an effort to understand why more than 350 elephants in Botswana have died in just two months.
Posted on August 05, 2020
“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts – that’s what little girls are made of. The heck with sugar and spice,” said US professional surfer and shark attack survivor Bethany Hamilton.
Posted on August 04, 2020
Founded by the University of Pretoria and the Small Enterprise Development Agency, TuksNovation is a business incubator and accelerator that provides specialised product and business development support to technology start-ups.
Posted on August 04, 2020
The University of Pretoria Law Clinic (UPLC), Faculty of Law, has continued functioning amid the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in South Africa.
Posted on August 03, 2020
Student academic success is underpinned by a range of comprehensive, holistic student support interventions that address their individual needs, leverage their strengths, and focus on professional development and personal growth.
Posted on August 03, 2020
The University of Pretoria (UP) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Healthcare Workers Care Network (HWCN) to help tackle mental health challenges that affect healthcare practitioners.
Posted on August 01, 2020
“August is our month in South Africa – as women we need to understand that we are here to build empires and legacies, sit at the table and fix the world’s crises, create new literature that resonates with our voices, and dismantle systems that have continued to suppress and...
Posted on July 31, 2020
The University of Pretoria (UP) has seen another edtech start-up emerge out of its TuksNovation programme, the institution’s high-tech incubator and accelerator.
Posted on July 31, 2020
Professor Mike Wingfield and Professor Josua Meyer of the University of Pretoria (UP) won awards at this year’s National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)-South32 Awards.
Posted on July 30, 2020
“Service above self” is the motto of the humanitarian organisation Rotary International. Committed to providing community service to others, the Rotarians promote integrity while advancing world understanding, goodwill, and peace.
Posted on July 29, 2020
The United Nations Human Rights Committee last week adopted comprehensive standards on the way in which States should deal with peaceful assemblies. These guidelines are authoritative for the 173 States in the world that have ratified the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Posted on July 29, 2020
Prominent sensory-consumer scientist Professor Hely Tuorila, professor emeritus at the University of Helsinki in Finland, has been appointed an extraordinary professor in the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Department of Consumer and Food Sciences.
Posted on July 28, 2020
With the radical change the world is undergoing, there are literacies that people need for 4IR, namely technical, data and human literacies.
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