NWU academic: intervention in the North West province still needs work

On 18 February 2022 during the State of the Province address the North West Province Premier Bushy Maape announced that the five departments placed under sections 100(1)(b) and 100(1)(a) of the Constitution are stabilising.

However, North-West University (NWU) academic Prof Barry R…

HART walks for World Obesity Day

On Friday, 4 March 2022 the Faculty of Health Sciences at the North-West University (NWU) commemorated World Obesity Day. The Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART) decided to partner with NWU Wellness and arranged a casual walk through the campus to drive awareness of obesity. The walk-through started at the amphitheatre on the…

NWU master’s student’s passion leads to book about wetlands

Kirsty Kyle, a master’s student at the North-West University (NWU), has recently published an educational children’s book and, after receiving sponsorship for the printing, donated the books to under-privileged schools.

The book, Discovering Wetlands with Piffy, Zenzi and Lucky, is…

Taking expertise to our people

The North-West University Business School held their first face-to-face Think Tank in front of a live audience in Somerset West where the Minister of Finance’s national budget speech was analysed and unpacked by a panel of experts.

This initiative forms part of a series of roadshows that the school has in the pipeline for 2022. More 150…

North West’s three top matriculants join the NWU

The top three academic performers who matriculated in 2021 in North West will be studying at the North-West University in 2022.

Francois Pieterse from Ferdinand Postma High School in Potchefstroom, Michelle le Roux from Potchefstroom Gymnasium and Marlé Siebert from Potchefstroom…

The great pride of Great Brak Rivier

“I cannot do it, that’s how I was raised, Oom,” she replied to this author’s plea to address him by his first name. It’s a definite refusal from the legendary 17-year-old sitting across from me on the North-West University’s campus in Potchefstroom, worlds away from the community of Great Brak River in the Western…

NWU reaches out to less privileged learners

Academics in the subject group Business Statistics and Operations Research of the North-West University (NWU) recently donated school shoes to less privileged learners at PHERA Primary School in Tsetse, a village on the outskirts of Mahikeng.

Prof Elias Munapo, Prof Johannes Tsoku,…

Janco: Broken foot, but ready for action

You can tell him nothing about challenges. After all, he is swimmer who has represented his province, North West, at national level. Hours of sweating in the gym? No problem. In fact, it is all that sweating in the water and with weights that built those shoulders on which his next challenge, and his next…

NWU introduces new sport for visually impaired students

The North-West University (NWU) has included goalball – a sport specifically played by visually impaired people – in its 2022 sporting codes.

On 25 February the South African National goalball champions team played a demonstration game on the NWU’s Mahikeng Campus to introduce the sport to students.

According to Jim Molautsi,…

Top Ikateleng learners receive laptops

With the world still facing the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the NWU and its loyal donors came together to make life a little easier for a group of talented, hard-working students.

To assist our students with their studies, PPS handed over laptops to the value of R200 000 to last year’s top Ikateleng-learners who are now…