Thirteen years on and the Baxter Dance Festival remains the premier event of its kind in the province, and it’s still growing. The eight-day festival will showcase the work of 73 talented choreographers in 64 original pieces. The Baxter Dance Festival creates opportunities for both emerging and recognised dance... Read more
Rhodes Biotechnology prototype, the best in the country
AchieversArchivesRhodes University October 3, 2017
In a first-ever public launch of technologies developed by the Rhodes University Biotechnology Innovation Centre, a student prototype beat over 300 innovations at the national Innovation Bridge Showcase and bagged R50 000 in prize money for Best Prototype: Fieldlab. Fieldlab is a solar-powered mobile lab-in-a-box, the brainchild of Charles... Read more
Jandré Marais, currently a Master’s student in Mathematical Statistics at SU’s Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, was the winner of the first Data Science Deep Learning Hackathon hosted by the Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa. Participants had to make use of about 5 000 labelled road images and... Read more
South Africa was included in the top 30 countries in terms of researchers who added the most pre-publication peer reviews. Prof Abdon Atangana, a professor of Applied Mathematics at the Institute for Groundwater Studies at the University of the Free State (UFS), is included in the list of top... Read more
National Teaching award for Surveying Lecturer
AchieversArchivesCape Peninsula University of Technology October 2, 2017
A willingness to tackle difficult topics and include creative influences in his lectures have earned a CPUT lecturer a top teaching award. Siddique Motala, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying, was recently announced as a National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award winner for 2017... Read more
SU student to represent SA in international lecture competition
AchieversArchivesStellenbosch University September 27, 2017
Matthew Mayne, a PhD student in earth sciences at Stellenbosch University, will represent South Africa in the Young Persons’ World Lecture Competition to be held in Perth, Australia, later this year. With his lecture entitled “How do rocks melt? A question requiring both chemistry and thermodynamics”, Mayne recently won... Read more
Fascination with a nature-themed performance by deaf pavement poets was the motivation behind the choice of research for a master’s degree by the co-founder of the Green Heart Movement and one of UKZN’s Top 40 Most Inspiring Students, Ms Sana Ebrahim. Ebrahim graduated with a Master’s degree in Social... Read more
UP student wins gold at global innovation lab
AchieversArchivesUniversity of Pretoria September 26, 2017
University of Pretoria (UP) student John Oyewole is developing a sustainable alternative to shrink wrap that has already won gold at an international innovation lab in Denmark. Oyewole, a PhD student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was selected as one of seven UP students and one... Read more
Dr Yonela Scina graduated with a PhD in Anthropology from UKZN despite a struggle with depression and health problems while she was pregnant. ‘I beat depression and completed my research,’ said Scina. ‘Anyone who has suffered from the affliction or has supported a sufferer knows the difficulty of carrying out simple... Read more
Find the right balance and achieve your dreams
AchieversArchivesDurban University of Technology September 23, 2017
Dedication and determination were two words that best described Durban University of Technology’s (DUT’s) Craige Dewar’s success in his studies. The 46-year-old Pietermaritzburg student, graduated cum laude and received the prestigious Dean’s Merit Award for academic excellence in the Degree of Bachelor of Technology in Management at the Faculty... Read more
