While the North-West University (NWU) Soccer Institute celebrated their promotion to the Motsepe Foundation Championship in Mthatha this past week, one of its student-athletes returned home with an additional accolade that underscored the successful campaign of the team.
The North-West University (NWU) Soccer Institute is just 90 minutes away from securing its place in South African professional football.
After topping Group A of the ABC Motsepe League National Playoffs in Mthatha, the North West champions have booked a semi-final showdown against KwaZulu-Natal champions Mkhambathi FC, with promotion to the Motsepe Foundation Championship at stake.
A new upcoming book by Prof. Caven Mguvane Mnisi as lead editor and fellow researchers is repositioning ostrich, quail, waterfowls and other non-chicken poultry at the centre of discussions about food security and sustainable farming systems.
Published by Elsevier, Non-chicken Poultry Production examines how alternative poultry systems can help meet growing global demand for animal protein while reducing pressure on conventional chicken production systems.
Renowned nuclear physicist Prof. Siyabonga Majola has joined the North-West University (NWU) as the new head of the Centre for Applied Radiation Science and Technology (CARST). His appointment means one of South Africa’s emerging leaders in nuclear science is at the helm of a centre positioned at the intersection of research, industry and national development.
A Setswana proverb shared on TikTok, a traditional wedding blanket draped over a bride’s shoulders in a music video and folktales narrated through podcasts may seem like ordinary digital content. However, new research from the North-West University (NWU) reveals that these online spaces are becoming powerful tools for preserving indigenous language, identity and cultural memory in the digital age.
Mosa Seshoene still remembers school holidays spent on her grandfather’s farm in Turfloop, Limpopo. Long before she built a business and started supplying vegetables to local markets, her days were filled with picking tomatoes, spraying crops, and feeding chickens and pigs. Those routines, she says, laid the foundation for a career in agriculture that now spans from farm fields to digital platforms.
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”.
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 engagement was aimed at strengthening institutional relations and exploring collaborative opportunities between the two institutions.
South Africa’s fresh produce markets moved more goods in April 2026, but earned less money in the process, exposing pressure points in the country’s food distribution system and raising concerns about oversupply, pricing and operational bottlenecks.
Koketso Modisakeng, a fourth-year Bachelor of Education student at the North-West University (NWU), is using storytelling to confront social issues such as gender-based violence (GBV), mental health, corruption and generational trauma while building her profile as a published author.