Has SA reached the ceiling for tax collection?

The court of public opinion has it that the 2017 Budget Speech represented a contractionary budget with increased taxes and with lower levels of incentives for economic activity.

In light of this, Prof Danie Meyer and Dr Andre Mellet from the North-West University’s Vanderbijlpark Campus (NWU) and experts in local economic development (LED…

Abe Bailey Travel Bursary – chance of a lifetime for students to visit the UK

Saint Augustine once said that the world is a book, and those who do not travel limit themselves to reading only a single page. With this in mind, students of the North-West University (NWU) are invited to apply for the Abe Bailey Travel Bursary.

The closing date for applications from the NWU is 15 June 2017 (as to provide sufficient time to…

NWU law student publishes debut novel

Another student from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Mahikeng Campus has self-published a book. Gaopalelwe Lesley Mathiba, a third-year law student, published his debut novel titled “The Essence Behind Motherhood: 'Behold your mother' ~John 19:27”.

In this book Gaopalelwe attempts to give a thorough justification of the biblical…

Campus legal hopefuls take center stage at symposium

The Law Faculty on the Mahikeng Campus of the North-West University (NWU) recently hosted a symposium at the campus multi-purpose student centre. The well-attended event saw second-year LLB students go against the final fourth-year students on the topic “The legacy of legal positivism and constitutional supremacy in South Africa”.

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NWU lecturer to participate in UCLA/South African Trauma Training Research programme

Dr Lufuno Makhado, a senior lecturer in the Department of Nursing Science on the Mahikeng Campus of the North-West University (NWU), , will be taking part in the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA)/South African Trauma Training Research (Phodiso) Programme.

He left for UCLA on 20 March 2017 and will be based there until…

Minister appoints two NWU experts

A national honour recently bestowed two experts of the North-West University (NWU). Prof Jeanetta du Plessis and Prof Richard Gordon, both from the Centre of Excellence in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmacen), were appointed as members of the National Health Research Committee.

The committee falls under the National Department of…

NWU students give R3,5 million to the needy

R3 523 735.10. It is an amount that changes lives, it is an amount that makes a bleak day a better one. It is a record amount that was distributed to various individuals, schools, projects and welfare institutions during the North-West University’s (NWU’s) annual Student Rag Community Service (SRCS) pay-out function.

Founded in…

American art song canon on local stage

On Tuesday, 28 March, Christian Bester together with pianist Laetitia Orlandi and French horn player Shannon Armer, will present a recital of American art songs.

The recital will feature a variety of composition styles and regional flavours of American art songs composers, composed at the turn of the nineteenth-century till present…

NWU Mafikeng Campus student publishes novel

Gugulethu Sibiya, a second-year law student at the Mahikeng Campus of the North-West University (NWU), recently published a novel titled “The Turning Point”.

The book focuses on a young person’s choices due to the influence of love and adults who take advantage of young people.

The book takes us through themes of how love…

Dr Phil Ndlela celebrates legacy of literary giant

Dr Phil Ndlela, an English literature lecturer on the Mahikeng Campus of the North-West University (NWU), recently published a peer-reviewed essay on one of South Africa’s literary giants, Prof Ezekiel Mphahlele, on AOSIS – an online platform that publishes African scholarly research.

The essay titled “Do not let him die:…