NWU basketball star selected for USSA national team to participate at the 2026 CUCSA games

Third-Year North-West University (NWU) Public Governance student and talented basketball player Koketso Mafate has been selected to represent the University Sports South Africa (USSA) Basketball team at the 2026 Confederation of Universities and College Sports Association (CUCSA) Games. The 21-year-old student athlete believes hard work and…

Every NWU student shapes the future this Youth Month

By Michelle Hammann

Every student at the North-West University (NWU) is helping to shape the future of our country. During Youth Month, we shift our focus to the youth of 1976, who helped fight for equal and inclusive education. They continue to inspire the youth of today to strive for…

Africa Day celebration puts African stories and languages at the centre

The North-West University (NWU) Mahikeng Campus Library turned into a space of poetry, oral history and reflection when the Library and Information Service (LIS) hosted its Africa Day celebration on 6 May 2026 under the theme “Our Africa, Our Story, Our Legacy”.

Students, academics…

NWU and Taletso TVET College strengthen ties through strategic engagement

A North-West University (NWU) delegation, led by the deputy vice-chancellor for student life, transformation, people and culture with assigned function of the Mahikeng Campus, Dr Joe Molete, recently held a strategic engagement with the leadership of the Taletso TVET College.

This…

Students engage with top policymakers of South Africa

A group of 13 Public Policy Analysis honours degree students from the North-West University (NWU) were given a rare opportunity to engage directly with the architects of public policy and governance inside the historic chambers of the Union Buildings – where some of the most critical national decisions in South…

NWU Soccer Institute eyes promotion as national playoffs begin

The North-West University (NWU) Soccer Institute heads to Mthatha carrying more than a provincial title. The team enters the 2026 ABC Motsepe League National Playoffs with hopes of securing professional football status and reshaping the future of the institute ahead of its 20th anniversary next year.

Real financial know-how reaches students across three campuses

Most students will tell you that nobody teaches you how to actually handle money. You learn about compound interest in a textbook, maybe, but nobody sits you down and explains what to do when you are drowning in debt, tempted by a flashy investment scheme, or just trying to make a grocery budget stretch to the end of…

Media and OCB Awards shine the spotlight on values and impact

Values are not only spoken about at the North-West University (NWU), they are lived and they are recognised. On 21 May, the university hosted its annual award ceremony to recognise staff and students who embody the spirit of excellence of the university at the Media and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB)…

Indigenous foods still shape diets in Mahikeng communities

Pumpkin leaves, sorghum porridge and bone marrow remain on the menu in parts of Mahikeng, even as younger generations drift toward processed foods. A new study by Modjadji Mandy Rasehlomi, a North-West University (NWU) master’s student, found that indigenous foods continue to support dietary…

IT student finds his voice through contemporary portrait art

At the Vanderbijlpark Campus of the North-West University (NWU), Cebolenkosi Mkhize moves between two worlds that rarely sit in the same sentence – information technology and contemporary portraiture. Yet for him, they are not opposites. They are extensions of the same language: creation.