Mahikeng Campus News
How second-hand clothing paved the way for senior lecturer’s career
By Gofaone Motsamai
The road from Kagiso, where she sold second-hand clothing under the scorching Gauteng sun, to the lecture halls of North-West University (NWU) was long, bumpy and deeply personal for Dr Salphinah Vuloyimuni Ubisi.
Now a senior lecturer in the subject group Public Administration and Local Government at the NWU, Dr Ubisi’s story began in hardship and determination. “The money generated from selling old clothes became my main source of income and this provided the core finance for my studies.”.
Her entry into the jumble sale… Read more
NWU alumna appointed UCT vice-chancellor
Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng, an alumna of the North-West University (NWU), has been appointed as the new vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town (UCT).
Prof Phakeng obtained a BSc degree from the former University of Bophuthatswana (now the NWU) in 1987, where she was the only female student in her final-year mathematics class.…
NWU vice-chancellor engages with academics during walkabout
Prof Dan Kgwadi, vice-chancellor of the North-West University (NWU), visited academic staff members from the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the NWU’s campus in Mahikeng on 16 March 2018.
He was accompanied by Prof Fika Van Rensburg, NWU vice-principal and deputy vice-chancellor responsible for operations at the…
Political analyst talks about SA’s new dawn at NWU public lecture
The student chapter of the Faculty of Humanities on the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Mahikeng recently invited political analyst and governance specialist, Mr Dumisani Hlophe, to give a public lecture.
Dumisani’s lecture was titled “Unpacking South Africa’s current political dynamics: What are the implications for the…
NWU academic elected as fellow of African Academy of Sciences
Prof Simeon Materechera, an academic and director of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Centre (IKSC) on the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Mahikeng, has been elected to serve as a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (ASS).
The purpose of the AAS, an Africa-wide scientist organisation, is twofold. It firstly serves to…
NWU postdoctoral fellow sets her sight on BRICS youth summit
Dr Musawenkosi Saurombe, a postdoctoral fellow at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Mahikeng is participating in the 2018 BRICS Youth Parliamentarian Forum as part of a delegation sent by the South African Youth for International Diplomacy (SAYID).
The programme, which is taking place in New Delhi, India from 5 to 9…
NWU student takes pageant world by storm
Onalenna Leepile, a final-year BCom student from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Mahikeng, is a young woman determined to make a difference.
Not only was she announced first princess at the Miss Face of Mahikeng beauty pageant on 3 March 2018 at Mmabatho Palms, but she is also a contestant and brand ambassador for the…
NWU academic attends elite training course on nuclear safeguards
Mr Tebogo Kupi, an academic and researcher from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Mahikeng, recently attended a regional training course on nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation for the South African region in Centurion, Gauteng.
This elite training course was organised by the European Commission’s Joint Research…
NWU psychology students board trains to help community
Six master’s students from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Mahikeng will be on board the Phelophepa trains from 19 to 28 March 2018 to render clinical psychology services to community members in and around Ulundi in Kwazulu Natal.
The Phelophepa trains are two unique trains that operate as mobile healthcare hospitals,…
NWU academic to explore possible research collaboration
The Covenant University in Nigeria invited Prof Masood Khalique, an academic in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences on the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Mahikeng, to present a series of lectures and to explore the possibility of research collaboration.
Prof Khalique will visit the university’s Department of…
Meet the NWU’s new Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Mafikeng Campus Operations
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” This is according to Prof Boitumelo Marilyn Patience Setlalentoa, the newly appointed deputy vice-chancellor at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Mahikeng.
With the implementation of the university’s…