NWU researchers benefit from Qualitative Analysis Research Forum

Researchers within the new research focus area of the North-West University (NWU), TELIT-SA, is hard at work to not only vest the entity but also to expand its reach and impact. Its latest endeavor entails an intercampus and inter-research support forum.

Recently, TELIT-SA hosted the 2nd Qualitative Analysis Research Support Forum at the…

Tekkie Tax Day 2017: Let your feet speak for your heart!

Friday, 26 May 2017 is a red-letter day on the South African calendar – and you have two weeks to prepare yourself (and motivate your colleagues) for the annual national Tekkie Tax Day!

Tekkie Tax Day has been part of the South African events calendar for the past four years and, this time around SA’s biggest and funkiest national…

Leadership Summit: leadership habits for complex times

When faced with complex challenges or unclear outcomes, there is sometimes a tendency amongst business leaders to convince themselves that they are smart enough, work hard enough, or only need to make use of the best management tools available to overcome anxiety.  Truth of the matter is that there no longer exist a one-size-fits-all approach to…

Career Centre creating a buzz around employment possibilities

“A career fair offers university students a unique insight into the world of work, and the path that professionals took to reach their current level of employment. We, at the Career Centre, believe that these face-to-face interactions with future employers will inspire our students to not only make smart choices when it comes to internships and…

Autumn Graduation Ceremony – the coming of age of future leaders

A total of 1 400 students will graduate during the upcoming Autumn Graduation Ceremony of the North-West University’s (NWU) campus in Vanderbijlpark.

The four-day graduation ceremony, consisting of nine sessions, will be held at the Quest Conference Estate in Vanderbijlpark, where the success and achievement of graduates in the Faculty of…

NWU highlights importance of blood pressure awareness

The North-West University (NWU) has joined the worldwide campaign to raise blood pressure awareness with a series of screenings at its campuses and in surrounding communities in May as part of the largest screening campaign ever.

May marks International Blood Pressure Month and 17 May is International Blood Pressure Day. The May…

GCI project: getting hands dirty and hearts beating for nature

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” These words by Roman politician and lawyer, Marcus Tullius Cicero, came to mind during the recent launch of the Green Campus Initiative’s (GCI) Mobile Vegetable Garden Project on the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark.

Students from several residences…

NWU academic: listening to the sounds of the stars

Prof Thebe Rodney Medupe, an academic from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Mahikeng presented his inaugural lecture titled “Listening to the sounds of the stars: Molodi wa di naledi” on 4 May 2017 to the Mahikeng community and astronomers alike.

Prof Medupe, a South African astrophysicist and astrophysics professor,…

Teamwork makes the NWU dream work – Prof Linda du Plessis

If teamwork is the ability to marry individual accomplishments to existing institutional goals, then the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark boasts with a dynamic ethos of collegiality and teamwork.

This is the sentiment of Prof Linda du Plessis, acting campus rector, when reflecting upon the campus’s most recent…

NWU expert: UN Security Council crippled by internal power struggles

Is it possible that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has become a pointless forum for the discussion of grave human rights breaches occurring in various parts of the world?

This is the question Dr Illyayambwa Mwanawina, an expert in regional integration, international law, good governance and human rights at the North-West…