This year marks the seventh year since the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark stepped to the fore to host the region’s annual CANSA Relay for Life.

Contestants in the prestigious Mr and Miss Vaal beauty pageant recently shone on the red carpet during this glittering event.

If you have not yet booked your seat for the much anticipated “Success is a choice” workshop by Robin Banks – one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of mind power and personal mastery – you should hurry-up and do so.

Vanderbijlpark, a pollution hotspot, has been chosen as the location for a state-of-the-art observation station that will monitor both the weather and air quality.

It promises to be a busy month ahead for the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Optentia research focus area with a number of workshops aimed at professionals, members of academia and postgraduate students.

The October graduation ceremony of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark was a memorable event. As the more than 100 graduates crossed the stage, proud loved ones ululated, cheered and applauded in unison.

With women still in the minority when it comes to South Africa’s entrepreneurial landscape, the North-West University (NWU) is working hard to empower women within its demographical footprint to become self-sufficient business owners.

The division for Student Recruiting at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark recently held a “thank you” event for school principals of the Vanderbijlpark region. 

If you thought that a reunion is nothing but a nostalgic trip down memory lane, you are seriously mistaken. For the Young Alumni fraternity of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark, their annual reunion – or Homecoming - represents an opportunity to positively impact the lives of graduates to come.

When it comes to young cricket talent, the Vanderbijlpark region is well on its way to produce the next AB de Villiers, JP Duminy and Kagiso Rabada.  This was evident during the recent KFC Mini Cricket Festival that was hosted at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark.