Iwisa No.1 fills bold designer search winners announced
Awards October 5, 2025
Best Ncube, a 29-year-old designer from Pretoria, has won the inaugural Iwisa No 1 Fills Bold Designer Search competition. Entrants were challenged to create a six-piece streetwear collection that embodied the brand’s 68-year legacy while pushing creative boundaries with unapologetic boldness. The outcome? One that exceeded all expectations with... Read more
Paediatric nephrologist receives prestigious international fellowship awards
AwardsKwaZulu-NatalUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal February 17, 2025
Professor Rajendra Bhimma, a distinguished professor of paediatrics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and Head of the Paediatric Kidney Clinical Unit at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital (IALCH), has been awarded the prestigious Fellow of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) award. This honour recognises his exceptional professional... Read more
Two master’s in engineering students from Stellenbosch University, Yasmin de Raay and Chris Erasmus, have advanced to the international round of the 2025 Blue Sky Young Researchers and Innovation competition. Their projects impressed the Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa (PAMSA) for their originality and relevance to the forestry... Read more
Student approach wins global entrepreneur awards
Awards December 9, 2024
Student entrepreneurs’ innovative approach to uplifting their local communities wins them a spot at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards Semi-Finals. The winners of last night’s pitch competition that saw six of South Africa’s top student entrepreneurs vying for first and second place in the SA finals of the Global... Read more
NRF awards SA’s top researchers, scientists for 2023
Awards September 9, 2023
The 2023 National Research Foundation (NRF) Awards honoured some of the country’s high-achieving researchers and scientists at a prestigious ceremony held in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal last night (31 August 2023). This year, the awards were held under the theme Celebrating 20 years of the SKA Project in South Africa. The... Read more
The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN) College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science has won three of the acclaimed National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)-South32 Awards for the 2022-2023 cycle. The (NSTF)-South32 Awards – dubbed the ‘Science Oscars of South Africa’ were presented at a glitzy ceremony held concurrently in Johannesburg... Read more
Bidvest Bank wins overall title at first-ever e-Learning Indaba Awards
AwardsLatest news December 2, 2021
Bidvest Bank emerged as the overall winner in the inaugural eLearning Indaba Awards, held via a Zoom webinar on November 18. End-to-end online learning solution provider New Leaf Technologies launched the awards earlier this year to celebrate the excellent work being done by Learning and Development (L&D) professionals, HR... Read more
Zutari declared graduate employer of choice at GradStar Students’ Choice Awards 2020
AwardsCareersLatest news January 22, 2021
Working actively towards making an engineered impact in the communities it serves, and co-creating complete solutions in collaboration with its clients, resulted in Zutari taking first place in the Professional Services: Consulting Engineering category as a preferred graduate employer at the GradStar Students’ Choice Awards 2020. “This is testament... Read more
Two prestigious awards for UWC Extraordinary Chemistry Professor
AwardsLatest newsUniversity of the Western CapeWestern Cape December 16, 2020
Professor Dudley Shallcross does UWC proud. It is with great pleasure that we recognise two recent achievements of Prof Dudley Shallcross, Professor of Physical Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol in the UK, and Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University... Read more
UJ Arts & Culture wins Best Theatre Set Design at Naledi Theatre Awards
arts and cultureAwardsGautengLatest newsUniversity of Johannesburg September 22, 2020
The UJ Arts & Culture division within the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) won two awards at the 2020 Naledi Theatre Awards. The online event awarded creatives whose productions were staged in 2019. UJ Arts & Culture scooped awards for Best Theatre Set Design for their production, Metamorphosis staged in 2019 at... Read more
