Calling all Sasolburg fempreneurs: enter the NWU’s Enterprising Women Programme now!

Entrepreneurship is more than just a buzzword: it is perceived to be one of the most significant economic and social developments in the world at present.

Excitingly enough, more and more women are stepping up to own and run businesses in numbers that would have been hard to imagine a few decades ago.

With this in mind the bhive…

Against all odds: not only surviving, but thriving!

Six years after sustaining life-altering injuries in a serious cycling accident, Chanell Meijer is ready to yet again define the odds. At the start of the 2020 academic year of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark, Chanell enrolled for a master’s degree in education. 

In 2015 Chanell, an alumna of the NWU, made…

NWU and Makwassie Spruit Enterprises sign MOU

With the youth unemployment rate in South Africa reaching a record time high, the North-West University (NWU) is pulling out all the stops to ensure that its students are employable after attaining their qualifications.

During 2019, 20 BSc Agriculture students spent numerous hours at Makwassie Spruit Enterprises, a large farming…

Passion and knowledge = innovation

You will find innovation for new ideas, projects and devices in abundance at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Faculty of Engineering – and the same applies when it comes to three students in Computer and Electronic Engineering.

Izak Adendorff, Gerno Visser and Duhan Janse van Rensburg were merely looking for something to do…

NWU’s Optentia off to a blazing start

With the academic year in full swing, the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Optentia research focus area is off to a blazing start.

Researchers, professionals, members of academia and postgraduate students can look forward to and benefit from a bumper packed training schedule with a number of workshops, inaugural lectures and Stats Camp:…

NWU downs old foe Shimlas

The old foe has fallen. On Monday 17 February the North-West University (NWU) claimed its first scalp in the 2020 Varsity Cup season when the boys in purple beat Shimlas 27-19 in Potchefstroom.

A packed Fanie du Toit sports field saw the host score three tries through Eugene Harem, Danny du Plooy and Akhona Nela.

Flyhalf…

Government taps into NWU’s expertise

The North West provincial government has reaffirmed its confidence in the North-West University (NWU), as one of its experts in the Faculty of Health Sciences now serves on the province’s Emergency Medical Service Advisory Committee (EMSAC).

Prof Andrew Robinson, deputy dean for strategy and business development in the faculty, was…

Spreading the love, the NWU way

The North-West University (NWU) is not only dedicated to academic excellence, but also ensuring that its students and staff experience the institution’s ethic of care.

On 14 February the NWU mascot Eagie, together with the campus mascots Pukki, Vuvu and Mafika, decided to spread some love across the three campuses.

The…

Cream of the Ikateleng crop chooses the NWU

Results count, and the Ikateleng project is certainly delivering them. This is clear from the calibre of former participants who are now registered at the North-West University (NWU).

The project, a joint initiative with agricultural group NWK, celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2019 and continues to deliver on its mandate to ensure…

Thokozane makes headway in reality show

Thokozane Zulu is a man with a plan. This final-year student in Public Governance at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark has his sights set on parliament, and if his recent performance in the SABC reality show, One Day Leader, is anything to go by, then his dream is sure to be realised.

During the elimination stages,…