Posted on July 10, 2020
PRETORIA – The University of Pretoria (UP), in partnership with the University of Leeds and the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), has been awarded a grant of £2 million (R43 million) to set up a Food Systems Research Network (FSNet-Africa).
Posted on July 10, 2020
The University of Pretoria’s (UP) JuniorTukkie programme has begun hosting online Winter School classes free of charge to Grade 12 learners from around South Africa. Its Summer School, which kicks off in September, will also be freely available.
Posted on July 10, 2020
“What’s in the box?” is a project that forms part of the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies Honours students’ coursework for their theory and methodology module. The project started in 2019 where, for the first time, history students could study primary...
Posted on July 10, 2020
The School of Arts at the University of Pretoria (UP) recently hosted the 16th World Congress of Music Therapy (WCMT) in collaboration with the South African Music Therapy Association (SAMTA) and the World Federation of Music Therapy (WFMT).
Posted on July 09, 2020
A collaboration between researchers from the University of Pretoria (UP) and Uppsala University in Sweden has found some unexpected patterns of genetic admixture in South Africa’s Afrikaner (white and Afrikaans-speaking) population.
Posted on July 09, 2020
A team from the University of Pretoria (UP) Moot Society in the Faculty of Law has won the 2020 African Regional Rounds of the Manfred Lachs International Space Law Moot Court Competition.
Posted on July 09, 2020
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce that in its judgment of Hlumisa Investment Holdings (RF) Ltd v Kirkinis (Case no 1423/2018) [2020] ZASCA 83 (03 July 2020), the Supreme Court of Appeal has referred a number of times to and quoted substantially from...
Posted on July 08, 2020
Food insecurity and malnutrition are not new to the African continent. Millions of lives are lost each year because of hunger. Many of these are children. The COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated the sluggishness of African governments in addressing food insecurity and has also fuelled the demand to...
Posted on July 08, 2020
The United Nations in Geneva has released global standards on the use of force by the police worldwide. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet welcomed the new United Nations Human Rights Guidance on the Use of Less-Lethal Weapons in Law Enforcement and urged all states to follow...
Posted on July 07, 2020
A study by a team led by academics at the University of Pretoria (UP) predicts that South Africans’ waning compliance with government lockdown regulations will limit their impact in curbing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted on July 07, 2020
Data from a University of Pretoria (UP) survey shows that the vast majority of lecturers and students at the institution managed to move relatively seamlessly into remote (online) teaching and learning mode.
Posted on July 06, 2020
A team from the University of Pretoria (UP) has proposed a way forward for establishing and coordinating a single address dataset for Gauteng, which could be adopted by the rest of the country. One address dataset is needed now more than ever, as addresses are imperative to control and slow down...
Posted on July 03, 2020
One University of Pretoria (UP) student and two UP graduates are among the 15 women in the running towards becoming Miss South Africa 2020. Fourth-year Law student Matsepo Sithole (21), UP Social Sciences graduate Shudufhadzo Musida (23), and UP MBChB graduate Dr Karishma Ramdev (25) have all...
Posted on July 03, 2020
COVID-19 spreads from person to person through droplet and contact transmission. That’s why contact tracing and quarantining have been included as one approach to control the spread of the virus.
Posted on July 01, 2020
When the registration of the first Satanic Church in South Africa became public, it sent shockwaves of indignation throughout social media. Outraged commenters could not believe that the government would allow such a church to exist.
Posted on July 01, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to inflict damage on every aspect of daily life, business is facing a past that has gone forever and a future that is uncertain. Fortunately there’s help at hand, including the National SMME Support Portal (NSSP) smmeportal.up.ac.za launched in May by the...
Posted on July 01, 2020
Education exists to help individuals realise their full potential and for them to transform the lives of people in their families, communities and in the greater society, says the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Tawana Kupe.
Posted on June 30, 2020
COVID-19 has had a severe effect on the supply and demand of food production, and could lead to a severe food security crisis unless Africa has the most appropriate policies in place.
Posted on June 30, 2020
The University of Pretoria’s (UP) TuksBaja engineering team has placed 13th in an online international competition in which 100 teams competed.
Posted on June 30, 2020
A number of UP Law staff members have also been directly involved in Covid-19 related activities, contributing to making the world a better place. Their respective involvement from March to June 2020 is depicted in the interactive infographic herewith.
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