Freedom from fear – NWU celebrates Pride Month

During June, which is Pride Month, LGBT communities and their allies come together and celebrate the freedom to be themselves.

Despite recent legal and societal advances, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people across the world…

New partnership will give chemical engineers a huge advantage

The School of Chemical and Minerals Engineering at the North-West University is partnering with a software company that will put them on the cutting edge of development.

The partnership with METSIM, the premier modelling software company, will allow the design of new processes and…

Cultivating hope despite the despair of Covid-19

The continuing effect of Covid-19 on mental health is felt all over the world, but especially in South Africa now that this pandemic has hit our country with a third wave. We have lost loved ones, financial stability, some of our freedom, social interaction, and a “normal” we were used to. We…

NWU academic talks about happiness

Prof Anné Verhoef of the North-West University (NWU) presented an inaugural lecture titled “Transcendence, Chance and Happiness” on 24 June 2021.

The lecture’s focus was on how happiness relates to notions of chance and transcendence. Prof Verhoef specifically looked at the relation…

NWU and University of Venda host an IKS Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Webinar

The North-West University (NWU), in collaboration with the University of Venda (UNIVEN) and Indigenous Terrain, recently co-hosted an Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Webinar series.

This first collaborative student-organised online webinar…

NWU students assist the elderly to register for COVID 19 vaccination

South Africa's self-registration vaccination portal for citizens aged 60 and above commenced in mid-April. So far, the process of registration for the group has been very low due to variety of reasons.

The North-West University (NWU) UNICEF student chapter volunteers on the Mahikeng…

Why children become bullies

Punishment is the first reaction most people think of when they find out that a child is a bully. They rarely investigate the reason why the child is emotionally, verbally or even physically harming their peers. 

Tebello Mabusela, a psychology lecturer at the North-West University (NWU), discusses the various factors that…

Grant will help SA grapple with its difficult history

South Africa is a society in which a sense of belonging is complicated by a long and deep history of division and dispossession. Four staff members of the North-West University have received an international grant from the African Critical Inquiry Programme* (ACIP) to organise a collaborative workshop that will use…

NWU academic embraces winds of change blowing through the legal profession

It is now deemed unethical for a business to demand that prospective candidate attorneys have driver's licenses, or own or have access to the use of vehicles they could use in the course of their employment.

This is the result of a revision of the rules pertaining to practical…

Deep learning students shine at NWU graduation ceremony

The Faculty of Engineering at the North-West University (NWU) is rightly proud of the success of its new cohort of postgraduate students in the MuST (Multilingual Speech Technologies) research niche area.

All seven master’s degree students who joined MuST’s 2019/2020 deep learning…