When an idea, sacrifice and support come together, lives can change. A law student at the North-West University (NWU) used her savings from her NSFAS living allowance to buy a maize-grinding machine and created a business employing nine people.
Even the cheapest nutritious foods can cost two to ten times more per calorie than maize meal.
Watery porridge may fill a child’s stomach without providing the nutrition needed for growth.
The horror, the horror. On 26 August, catastrophic flash floods devastated settlements and communities around Rasuwa, close to Nepal’s border with Tibet, high in the Himalayas. The nightmarish scenes, captured by CCTV cameras and witnessed across the globe, showed thousands of tonnes of ice, water, mud and debris surging with fearsome intensity through the Bhotekoshi, Trishuli and Narayani river systems.
Communication took centre stage as North-West University (NWU) alumni, celebrated journalists, communications professionals, university leaders and distinguished guests gathered in Sandton, Johannesburg, for an inspiring evening exploring the evolving role of communicators as change-agents.
Held recently at The Seven Villa Hotel & Spa, the event was hosted by the Alumni Relations office under the theme “Communicators as change-agents: Entrepreneurship, innovation and industry leadership.”
By Zama Chaacha, personal assistant to the deputy dean for research and innovation in the Faculty of Humanities
The North-West University (NWU) once again demonstrated its commitment to developing young talent, strengthening communities and using sport as a powerful tool for community engagement when it recently hosted its annual NWU Mini Cricket Festival.
The future of African languages will not be secured by preserving them only in books, archives and cultural memory. They must also be used in news media, science and public life, and built into the data and artificial intelligence systems shaping the future.
Young mothers in Temba are helping to shape research about their own lives, rather than being treated only as research subjects.
This approach is at the centre of “Her Voice, Her Strength”, a five-year community engagement and research programme led by Dr Lungisile Shange from the subject group Population Studies and Demography at the North-West University (NWU).
Small-scale farmers around Mahikeng often have farming experience but lack access to formal training. A skills project at the North-West University (NWU) is helping to close this gap through accredited training that gives farmers skills they can use to improve their farms and build sustainable businesses.
While the communication profession is being remade in real time, the qualifications meant to prepare students for it are not keeping up.
Opinion piece by Prof. Lida Holtzhausen, director of the School of Communication