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.
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 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 people attended the event in person, and 160 people also attended online.
The panel of experts included the likes of:
The top three academic performers who matriculated in 2021 in North West will be studying at the North-West University in 2022.
“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 Cape, about 10 km northeast of Mossel Bay.
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.
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 responsibility, rests.
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, director of Student Life, one of the department’s goals is to create a culture that celebrates diversity and enhances social cohesion.
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 registered across the NWU’s three campuses.
More than a thousand maths and science learners from high schools in Mahikeng, Potchefstroom and Vanderbijlpark have had a front row seat and experienced – first-hand – the wonders of the universe.