Hytec Engineers ‘fluid power fitter’ qualification
Research November 17, 2017
The Hytec Group has become South Africa’s first company to receive full accreditation as a training provider to qualify ‘Fluid Power Fitters’. The Hytec Group, a hydraulics, pneumatics and automation specialist company, received full accreditation with program approval from the industry sector education and training authority – merSETA –... Read more
Tracking collars reveal city baboons’ raiding tactics
ResearchUniversity of Cape Town November 17, 2017
UCT scientists are part of an international team that has revealed how canny baboons in Cape Town use a sit-and-wait tactic before raiding people’s homes for food. This has been shown by data gathered from bespoke baboon-tracking collars. “Raiding baboons are a real challenge in the Cape Peninsula,” said... Read more
Five-star research conducted by the Department of Mercantile Law
AchieversResearchUniversity of Pretoria November 15, 2017
From left to right: Profs Stefan Renke, Hermie Coetzee, Monray Botha, Jacolien Barnard and Dr Reghard Brits The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that five staff members in the Department of Mercantile Law have received new NRF ratings as established researchers. They are... Read more
In South Africa we adapt to technological changes, but there is so much that we can learn from Germany and other developed countries,” said PhD student Khangelani Vuke on his return from a month-long exchange programme. PhD student Khangelani Vuke has returned from an enriching and successful visit to... Read more
Striking a match – in the name of research
ResearchStellenbosch University November 14, 2017
A form of “useful destruction” is how Dr. Richard Walls describes the research he is involved with as head of the Stellenbosch University’s fire engineering research unit. This includes burning down shacks to the value of about R4.3 million as part of the unit’s research on fires in informal... Read more
Rail parastatal Transnet says its research centre will contribute to job creation and the expansion of the country’s knowledge economy. The State-owned rail, port and pipeline company on Monday launched the Matlafatšo Centre, a hub dedicated to increasing the competitiveness, capacity and capability of Small, Medium and Micro-sized Enterprises... Read more
Wits professor to chair SA medicine regulatory board
ResearchUniversity of the Witwatersrand November 13, 2017
The Minister of Health has appointed Wits Professor Helen Rees to chair the Board of the South African Health Products Authority. Dr Aaron Motsoaledi appointed Professor Helen Rees, Executive Director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) as Chair of the SAHPRA earlier this month. SAHPRA, which replaces... Read more
UWC Dentists sinking their teeth into research
AchieversResearchUniversity of the Western Cape November 10, 2017
Dentistry is a very hands-on subject – and in many ways, it lends itself more to training clinicians, not academic researchers. But the University of Western Cape’s current crop of fifth year BChD (Bachelor of Dental Surgery) students is bucking that trend. This year a trio of students won... Read more
UKZN SARChI chair awarded WHO grant worth R980 000
ResearchUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal November 10, 2017
The Food Safety and Zoonosis Programme of the World Health Organization (WHO) awarded UKZN’s Professor Sabiha Essack a grant worth about R980 000 for a research project she is working on. The project is titled: The Triangulation of Antibiotic Resistance (ABR) from Humans, the Food Chain and Associated Environments... Read more
UP Chair in rock engineering and numerical modelling
ResearchUniversity of Pretoria November 9, 2017
In June 2013, the University of Pretoria (UP) established a research chair in Rock Engineering in the Department of Mining Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. The initial aim was to conduct research on specific rock engineering issues, in an attempt to provide a... Read more
