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SU Chamber Choir completes hugely successful Hong Kong tour
The Stellenbosch University Chamber Choir (SUCC) has just returned from a hugely successful tour to Hong Kong. The choir was invited as Artist Choir in Residence to the 2017 World Youth & Children’s Choir Festival which took place from 17-22 July 2017. An invitation of this nature can be considered both a great and... Read more
Malesela Choko is in Taiwan representing the SA national football team
Malesela Chokoe, better known as ‘Jomo’ to his teammates, is at this moment representing the South African national football team at the World Student Games in Taipei in Taiwan. The centre back and four-time VUT captain is in his fourth year at the university and is busy doing his in-service... Read more
Charging ahead with sustainability at Unisa
You can find this solar electric vehicle charging station at the e-garden on Unisa’s Muckleneuk Campus. Sustainability is no longer just a bright idea at Unisa as University Estates systematically rolls out advanced technologies and management practices for improved energy efficiencies. Following the installation and commissioning of a 10... Read more
CPUT engineering labs turn pro
South Africa’s future technicians will soon be training in state of the art laboratories thanks to a partnership between CPUT and engineering industry specialist RS Components. RS sponsored equipment to the value of R250 000 to be used in the project labs run by the Department of Electrical and... Read more
UWC Ladies FC celebrate Women’s Month in Style
UWC Ladies Football Club have been celebrating Women’s Month in style, winning most of their games to date – and they’re on course to defend and even add to the four titles they brought home last year. The team has advanced to the quarter finals of the Coke Cup... Read more
NWU’s nuclear programme gets international green light
The North-West University (NWU) is one of only three universities in the world whose master’s degree in nuclear engineering has been recommended for accreditation. This follows after the International Nuclear Management Academy (INMA) recommended that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) accredit the NWU’s master’s degree in nuclear engineering... Read more
Thabisa Radebe ambassador aims for success
Thabisa Radebe, 20, from Bizana Eastern Cape, believes the University of the Western Cape’s Access to Success 2017 campaign has changed the lives of many students – and her own is definitely one of them. The Access to Success campaign, running from 7 August to 31 August 2017,  focuses... Read more
Cape Town shows off scientific treasures
An eye-watering odour wafts through UCT’s Sports Hall 2. The pungent gas doesn’t seem to bother the dozens of schoolchildren who are gathered in the sports centre. In fact, more and more are crowding around the source. It was perhaps not so much teenage tomfoolery as it was scientific... Read more
Udubs athletic star ready to rock and roll
Tamzin Thomas left for Taipei this week, more ready than ever to represent South Africa at the World Student Games, known as the Summer Universiade. The 20-year-old University of the Western Cape (UWC) sprinter had spent July in her first European season at a training camp in Italy, an... Read more
Maties kick off international sporting careers in Canada
Two Stellenbosch University (SU) students and multi-sport athletes have travelled almost halfway across the world to kick off their international sporting careers at the 2017 ITU Multisport World Championship Festival, held from 18-27 August in Penticton, Canada. Catherine Pellow-Jarman (19), a first-year BA Sport Science student from Franschhoek, and... Read more