“The election of Joe Biden as United States (US) president-elect could eventually create an opportunity for South Africa to buttress its economic narrative with the US from both a trade and an investment point of view.”
For the past 10 years every 17 November is observed as World Prematurity Day. This day aims to highlight and raise awareness of preterm birth and the concerns of preterm babies and their families worldwide.
The North-West University (NWU) has partnered with the North West Department of Arts, Culture, Sport and Recreation (ACSR), and the South African Library for the Blind (SALB) to improve reading access for the blind and the visually impaired in the province.
Tanya van Deventer, a 23-year-old Master of Arts student in Graphic Design from the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus, was over the moon when her design was chosen as one of three to grace the Nescafé Ricoffy tins.
Two researchers from the North-West University (one posthumously) were awarded a prestige ATKV-SA Academy prize for an article that appeared in the South African Journal for Natural Sciences and Technology (Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie) in 2018.
The impact of the international Covid-19 pandemic is severe and it remains the responsibility of all to prevent the spread of this virus.
Despite various challenges in 2020 due to the national lockdown and Covid-19 pandemic, the North-West University (NWU) is celebrating yet another teaching and learning milestone for itself. It is moving student assessment to a new online platform.
The female rugby team on the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Mahikeng Campus was crowned the winners of the Leopards Rugby Virtual League tournament on 25 October 2020.
The NWU team won the league with 3 104 votes and 24 points.
Two third-year students from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) School of Nursing were recently invited to give lessons on health and hygiene to female learners in Grade 4 to 7 at the Molema Memorial Primary School in Mahikeng.
The North-West University (NWU) CoLab and the National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (NEMISA) are reaching out to community radio stations in North West by offering training in the production of radio documentaries and dramas in indigenous languages.