Academic News
NWU joins forces with Black Lawyers Association to deliver market-ready litigators
The North-West University’s (NWU’s) Faculty of Law and the Black Lawyers Association Legal Education Centre (BLA-LEC) has committed to producing market-ready lawyers through a memorandum of agreement signed on 11 November 2021.
The agreement, signed at the NWU’s Mahikeng Campus is for a period of three years.
The primary…
NWU engineers shine bright
The North-West University (NWU) is constantly striving towards academic excellence and producing graduates who are fit and ready to create groundbreaking moves within their respective industries.
Two NWU industrial engineering graduates, Josua Olivier Wesch and Eduan Hugo, recently…
Reflections on the 2021 local government elections
The 2021 local government elections are a story of a democracy in crisis, says Naledi Modise, lecturer at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) School of Government Studies.
The elections that took place on 1 November were characterised by low…
Another success for self-directed learning
With participants from as far as the United States, the North-West University’s (NWU’s) fourth International Self-Directed Learning (SDL) Conference was a great success.
Hosted by the NWU’s SDL research unit, the theme for this year’s conference was “Self-Directed Learning: An…
South Africa’s public finances remain in safe hands
“In a measured policy assessment by the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, in his first Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) he confirms that South Africa’s public finances remain in safe hands and that there will be broad continuity in fiscal policy.”
Prof Raymond…
Strategic intent regarding the merits of a proposed export tax on chrome ore in SA
The Business School of the North-West University (NWUBS) completed a research project to determine the merits of a proposed export tax on chrome ore in South Africa as one of the interventions to regain the global competitive advantage of the domestic ferrochrome industry, as well as the influence thereof on the chrome–ferrochrome value chain (…
Resignation of the principal and vice-chancellor, Prof Dan Kgwadi
It is with mixed feelings that the NWU announces the resignation of Prof Dan Kgwadi who has accepted the position of vice-chancellor of the Vaal University of Technology. Although we join him in the celebration of his new endeavor, we are sad to lose him.
Prof Kgwadi has played a crucial role in the transformation journey and the…
Meet the NWU’s 2021/2022 Open Educational Resource fellows
The North-West University (NWU) recently announced its Open Educational Resource (OER) fellows for 2021/2022.
These fellowships offer staff who are interested to include new online resources to their classes or adapt their resources to their…
Textbook addresses ongoing inequalities in aspects of law
North-West University (NWU) research professor and professor in securities and financial markets law, Prof Howard Chitimira, recently published a textbook along with two other editors.
The book, Global Jurisprudential Apartheid in the Twenty-First Century: Universalism and…
NWU alumnus receives NRF research award
North-West University (NWU) alumnus Prof Retselisitsoe Moses Phooko’s research prowess recently earned him a National Research Foundation (NRF) research award in the category Early Career/Emerging Researchers.
The award ceremony took place on 2 November 2021 during a hybrid event…