NRF rated Professor Okosun – a maths genius and true leader of our times
AchieversVaal University of Technology November 9, 2017
Appreciation is a wonderful thing because it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well, which is why we give credit to an extraordinary researcher here at Vaal University of Technology, Professor Kazeem Okosun. With his iron persistence and resolute determination, Prof Okosun, is now officially... Read more
The Vaal University of Technology’s book store, Van Schaik launched a charity project ‘Good luck with the exams’ aimed at sponsoring needy students. The project was initiated by the store’s national head office in Cape Town and their Marketing Manager Ms Margaret Vyver-Rambau. Ms Vyver-Rambau contacted VUT to identify... 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
A team of dedicated heart surgeons, clinicians and medical engineers at Strait Access Technologies (SAT) – a UCT start-up company – has perfected a heart valve that will save millions of lives. This breakthrough comes on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the world’s first heart transplant, by Professor... Read more
Rhodes student launches book on walking in someone else’s shoes
AchieversRhodes University November 9, 2017
Rhodes University student and author Lunga Izata launched her book, The Story is about me on the 3rd of November 2017. “There is always a reason for everything that happens in our lives. Sometimes we need to experience the life of those who are less privileged to appreciate the... Read more
Educating one community at a time through E-Skills
Student outreachVaal University of Technology November 8, 2017
Excellence was the order of the day at the E-Literacy certificate ceremony held in Upington on 31 October. Graduates who consistently put in their effort throughout the course, received their certificates with pride. A group of young people from Upington took the opportunity to learn basic e-literacy skills (computer,... Read more
Nelson Mandela University’s Enactus Society excels at Business Challenge
AchieversNelson Mandela University November 8, 2017
Earlier in October, Enactus Society members from Nelson Mandela University competed against nine other universities in the recent University Business Challenge held in Johannesburg in which they ended as first runners-up in the competition. Hemstone Mito, Refilwe Ntsayagae and Nadia Mjwara represented Enactus and Nelson Mandela University. Along with... Read more
A love of plastic moulds professional career
AchieversTshwane University of Technology November 7, 2017
A childhood project working in his father’s injection moulding workshop to earn pocket money, has moulded the Tshwane University of Technology’s fifth honorary doctorate’s professional career, putting him among the top three global experts in Polymer Technology. Prof Joseph Karger-Kocsis received TUT’s highest accolade, a Doctor Technologiae (honoris causa),... Read more
Scholarships for women in media to do postgrad at Rhodes
CareersOpportunitiesRhodes University November 7, 2017
The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) will award ten postgraduate scholarships for Southern African women media leaders who wish to study media management at Rhodes University’s Sol Plaatje Institute (SPI) for Media Leadership in 2018. OSISA is an African institution committed to the creation of open societies... Read more
Bejancke Della Selected Vice-Captain of SA Indoor Volleyball Team
AchieversUniversity of the Western Cape November 4, 2017
Hard work, endurance – and the support of a good team. That is what third year University of the Western Cape (UWC) law student (Class of 2019, specializing in family law) and volleyball captain – and recently-selected vice-captain of the South African Indoor Volleyball team – Bejancke Della lives... Read more
