WSU can confirm the disruption of institutional operations and damage to university property due to student protest action at Buffalo City, Butterworth and Mthatha campuses as of Friday, 9 April 2021. Through a memorandum submitted by Buffalo City and Butterworth Campus student bodies; they have expressed dissatisfaction with delays... Read more
“WSU Proud Custodians of EC Traditional Bead History”
arts and cultureEastern CapeLatest newsWalter Sisulu University April 14, 2021
It’s been 29 years since a highly-prized 3000-piece hand-stitched bead collection from the tribal nations of abaThembu, amaMpondo, amaMpondomise, amaXhosa amaBomvana and amaXesibe in the Eastern Cape was handed over to WSU for preservation. Approximately two-thirds of the Broster Bead collection is made up of Xhosa beaded objects of... Read more
WSU commemorates 36 years of medical excellence
AchieversEastern CapeLatest newsWalter Sisulu University April 13, 2021
The enormous strides and invaluable achievements made by WSU’s health sciences faculty in the educational and medical fraternity over the past 36 years are set to be commemorated in a glitzy affair organized by WSU Convocation set to take place in East London on Saturday 10April. Approximately 120 past... Read more
Walter Sisulu University (WSU) takes pride in being among the few universities in South Africa that currently offer the MedicalOrthotics and Prosthetics (MOP) programme at degree level. This programme which is offered under the Faculty of Health Sciences’ Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, trains professionals in the rehabilitation of persons... Read more
WSU prof develops maths education in EC rural schools
Eastern CapeLatest newsWalter Sisulu University February 22, 2021
To improve the quality of 21st-century teaching and learning, readdressing the devastating effects of past education and finding new sustainable learning methodologies with increased flexibility to support learning outside the boundaries of traditional techniques.’ These are motivational aspects stipulated as by mathematics department’s Prof Jogymol Alex whose work on... Read more
Academic brings new perspective to history of abaThembu
Eastern CapeLatest newsWalter Sisulu University October 21, 2020
A WSU academic’s chronicling of the abaThembu tribe’s history and evolution over an almost 300-year period from the 16th to the 19th century afforded the scholar the opportunity to acutely scrutinize the most defining moments in the tribe’s history. Through his book, titled: “A History of the AbaThembu People from Earliest... Read more
WSU students study Portuguese Youtube & build machine for rural agriculture
AchieversEastern CapeLatest newsWalter Sisulu University June 17, 2020
Four WSU National Diploma: Mechanical Engineering students will effectively re-imagine subsistence living and agri-business for rural Eastern Cape communities through their Corn Sheller machine design that can shell corn kernels in minutes. A corn sheller is a piece of machinery used to remove corn from a cob for human consumption... Read more
WSU students produce 2,000 masks in Covid-19 battle
Eastern CapeWalter Sisulu University May 16, 2020
WSU’s courageous second-year Fashion Design students have braved the Covid-19 pandemic to help produce two thousand Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for university staff. The five-day mass production project is manned by thirteen students and their lecturer, Ms Nomonde Peter, who commended the students’ dedication to their craft. “We initially... Read more
Africa’s generational wealth through indigenous knowledge IP
Eastern CapeLatest newsWalter Sisulu University April 23, 2020
African indigenous knowledge systems along with other rural innovations could yield generational wealth for Black communities through Intellectual Property (IP) applications and commercialization, according to WSU’s Technology Transfer Manager, Dr. Ncebakazi Galada. WSU will playits role to educate, equip and encourage its community and general public on the value... Read more
WSU Head of Department: Public Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Professor Francis Hyera, has dispelled myths around the racial profiling of the Covid-19 pandemic rumoured to be a Eurocentric disease. According to Hyera who was recently appointed Eastern Cape’s Covid-19 Public Health Medicine Consultant and Advisor, Africans... Read more
