Bertie Jacobs

Bertie Jacobs

The Netherlands won, but hockey triumphed. When the final whistle blew on Tuesday, 12 April, it was the Dutch fans who cheered and the players clad in orange who celebrated as the Netherlands beat Germany conclusively 3–1 in the final of the FIH Women’s Hockey Junior World Cup at the Astroturf of the North-West University (NWU) in Potchefstroom.

Bertie Jacobs

Malaria is a global killer, a disease that destroys human lives and the economies of countries in which it thrives.

According to the latest figures by the World Health Organization (WHO), there were 241 million cases of malaria in 2020, with an estimated 627 000 deaths.

Mafumane Tlhapi

Mafumane Tlhapi

Bertie Jacobs

By Zenoyise John

The North-West University’s (NWU’s) Faculty of Humanities will host Facing Race Week (FRW) 2022, a mixture of virtual and in-person activities in which race and race-related issues will be discussed, from 11-14 April 2022.

Bertie Jacobs

Oh my goodness, it is going to be a very close call. On Monday evening, 4 April the Eagles kept their playoff hopes alive in a sopping wet Bloemfontein by beating the CUT Ixias by 33–14.

The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) and the UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning and Open Educational Resources (OER) at the North-West University (NWU) are having the first intake of their Digital Humanities OER Champions Initiative.

Groundbreaking work, demanding years of teaching and learning and specialised research have over the past decade and a half led to the North-West University (NWU) now being described as the South African pioneer in the sophisticated field of nuclear engineering. This follows after the recent completion of the maximum contracted period of 15 years for a research chair at the NWU’s Faculty of Engineering.