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NWU Vanderbijlpark: Ready. Steady. Register!
It is all hands on deck as the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark is getting ready to implement the 2018 Registration and Orientation (R&O) Programme. The programme will start on Monday, 22 January, when the registration process commences.
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This year will see the new intake of first-year…
Caster up for world’s top sport award
North-West University (NWU) student Caster Semenya again finds herself in exalted company. The 27-year old, who celebrated her birthday on 7 January, received a belated present when she was named as one of the 2018 Laureus World Sports Awards nominees.
Caster will be vying for the top honours in the World Sportswoman of the Year…
Big tips for small learners
Dressed in their new uniforms, countless little learners excitedly reported for their first day of school this week. Dr Stef Esterhuizen from the North-West University (NWU) recently shared advice in the national media for those most traumatised by this big change: mom and dad!
She offers the following tips to remedy the anxiety associated…
NWU’s Bridging the Mathematical Gap – an equation that makes sense
An equation that finally makes sense! This is how prospective students from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark are describing the value of the mathematical learning programme; Bridging The Mathematical Gap (BTMG).
This year marks the fifth rendition of the BTMG and since its inception in 2014, many students have…
Penelope Motshwene – the fairest of them all
With more than 4 000 women across the country having entered the Clicks Beauty Cover Model Search Competition for 2017, North-West University (NWU) employee Penelope Motshwene was recently crowned the winner – “the fairest of them all”.
The Clicks Beauty Cover Model Search competition is an annual contest where women between the ages…
Calling all female entrepreneurs: Enter NWU’s Enterprising Women Programme now
The new year brings with it yet another exciting and potentially life changing opportunity for female entrepreneurs in central South Africa by means of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Enterprising Women Programme (EWP).
This year marks the sixth rendition of the very successful programme as hosted by the NWU’s bhive Enterprise…
Bridging the digital divide one township at a time
As the youngest-ever CEO of Project Isizwe – the innovative Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) behind Africa’s most successful free Wi-Fi network – Dudu Mkhwanazi (26) has her sights set on bridging the digital divide in South Africa. More so, she is advising all South Africans to step-up and do their bit to increase internet access to low-…
NWU and Go Purple Foundation empowers community to prevent child abuse
The festive season is here, and while many of us look forward to going on leave or at least a quieter time at the office, many occupations are facing the busiest time of the year - especially social workers and members of the SAPS.
Annerie du Plessis from the Go Purple Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, and Dr Elmien Truter, a…
NWU academic earns associate professorship at only 30
As a child growing up in Lusaka, Zambia, school was not something that Prof Ilyayambwa Mwanawina from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark was fond of.
He jokes about trying to avoid school from since he was in preschool. “Kindergarten didn’t work out,” he jokes. “I was quite a handful back then.” If that was indeed…