Empowering tomorrow’s tax leaders: Tax@Tuks and Unicus host inspiring industry dialogue

Posted on May 29, 2025

The University of Pretoria's Tax@Tuks student organisation, supported by the Department of Taxation, partnered with Unicus Tax Specialists SA to host an inspiring event themed “Shaping Future Leaders”.

Academic achievers honoured at EMS Dean’s List ceremony

Posted on June 27, 2024

Forty alumni from the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences were honoured during the EMS Dean’s List ceremony. This annual event is hosted to celebrate the achievements of students who have maintained a high level of academic performance throughout their studies.

EMS students restore dignity of school girls with pad donation

Posted on June 28, 2022

The lack of access to sanitary pads for underprivileged school girls at Tswaing Secondary School in Winterveld, Pretoria, touched the hearts of students in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) and prompted them to step in and assist by donating over 400 packs of sanitary pads to...

UP dominates 2020 Ernst & Young Young Tax Professional of the Year competition

Posted on November 11, 2020

With three students on the list, the University of Pretoria’s entrants represented 60% of this year’s top five of the Ernst & Young Young Tax Professional of the Year competition.

Alumna profile: Olga Granova-Mooi

Posted on August 03, 2020

Alumna Olga Granova-Mooi places much emphasis on working hard to improve accountability and corporate governance in the higher education sector. A sense of natural justice and fairness is equally important in her life, the current Head of the Unit for Internal Audit at UP, points out. A set of...

Alumnus: Nico Theron

Posted on July 27, 2020

Studying at UP contributed to his successful career as a tax law specialist “to the fullest extent imaginable”, stresses alumnus Nico Theron. “If it were not for my studies at the University of Pretoria, I would not have had access to the fantastic lecturers who imparted not...

UP student wins Budget Speech Competition

Posted on March 06, 2020

Matifadza Bingudza, an honours student in Investment Management at the University of Pretoria, has been crowned the winner of the undergraduate category of the annual Nedbank and Old Mutual Budget Speech Competition.

UP researcher acknowledged at Australasian Tax conference

Posted on February 18, 2020

Saré Pienaar, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences’ Department of Taxation, won the award for the best PhD presentation at the Australasian Tax Teachers Association (ATTA) annual conference 2020, which was hosted by the University of Tasmania in Hobart from 22...