Posted on August 15, 2024
The story centres on the coloured community in Elandskloof, in the picturesque Cederberg region of the Western Cape. The community was forcibly and violently removed from this area in 1962 when, as a result of the Group Areas Act of 1950,
Posted on October 13, 2022
The University of Pretoria (UP) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Dr Sam Motsuenyane Rural Development Foundation to collaborate in areas including rural development, poverty and unemployment alleviation and township economic revitalisation.
Posted on October 12, 2022
UP researchers have been working with the South African government to collect data on mother, newborn and child deaths across the country since 1997.
Posted on June 28, 2022
The coverage of children who are victims or perpetrators in criminal acts is a broad topic, which cannot be covered extensively based on the scope of this research and time limitations. Davies et al. (2007) and Faucher, (2007) explain the hierarchy of victimisation which implies that pecking...
Posted on June 28, 2022
The coverage of children who are victims or perpetrators in criminal acts is a broad topic, which cannot be covered extensively based on the scope of this research and time limitations.
Posted on March 02, 2022
When you believe in yourself, you have faith and are determined to succeed, nothing will get in your way to reach your goals.
Posted on March 02, 2022
Professor Chika Sehoole, Dean of the Faculty of Education received thesis from the Minister of Higher Education and Training Honorable Dr Naledi Pandor
Posted on February 24, 2022
UP-led study suggests declining energy efficiency of heart imposes upper limit on body size
Posted on November 02, 2021
Climate change in South Africa has major health risks associated with it, such as new vector-borne diseases emerging from heavy rainfall, malnutrition from poor food security caused by drought, and respiratory diseases caused by dust storms and air pollution.
Posted on October 29, 2021
Many people get prosthetic titanium limbs as a result of illness or injury. Now, thanks to a University of Pretoria (UP) team led by Professor Gerhard Steenkamp, a veterinary specialist in dentistry and maxillofacial surgery at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, a macaw has been given a new lease...
Posted on October 29, 2021
“New Deal” for Africa's Sahel region needs entrepreneurs to transform land, water resources
Posted on September 30, 2021
Warmer weather makes feeding time much easier, and more effective, for honeybees, according to Professor Sue Nicolson of the University of Pretoria (UP) and colleagues from various Chinese universities, who made this discovery after analysing several high-speed videos.
Posted on September 17, 2021
South Africa has vibrant and rich sources of cultural, living and natural heritage which are celebrated in September, Heritage Month.
Posted on June 14, 2021
When a giant baobab toppled over in the Pafuri area in the northernmost part of the Kruger National Park a number of years ago, researchers from the University of Pretoria (UP).
Posted on June 14, 2021
The Disability Rights Unit (DRU) in the University of Pretoria (UP)’s Centre for Human Rights (CHR) was commissioned by the Foundation for Human Rights (FHR).
Posted on June 10, 2021
The Department of Science of Religion in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria (UP), in association with the Muslim Education Institute Trust (MEIT), recently held a conference on one of the Timbuktu Manuscripts, viz the text dealing with Alexander the Great and Dhul Qarnain. Of...
Posted on May 14, 2021
Professor Janine Wichmann is an environmental epidemiologist and Head of the Environmental and Occupational Sciences Division, School of Health Systems and Public Health, at the University of Pretoria.
Posted on May 14, 2021
A team of astronomers from South Africa and the USA has used the MeerKAT telescope to solve a longstanding puzzle in ‘X’-shaped radio galaxies by observing a galaxy called PKS 2014-55 that’s situated 800 million light years away from Earth.
Posted on October 16, 2020
Uitgesmyt – ‘cast out’ – is a documentary by Dr Siona O’Connell which tells the story of the first land restitution case in South Africa.
Posted on October 16, 2020
How do the trees die? International Year of Plant Health (Part 2)
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