After offering much-needed assistance to thousands of learners to get them ready for higher education, the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Ikateleng project is going from strength to strength.
Ikateleng – which means to empower yourself – provides supplementary teaching in mathematics, economics, business studies, accounting, life science, physical science and English to high school students from Grades 10 to 12.
Phenyo Mokgothu
Globally, one of the main causes of street homelessness is chronic mental illness, and South Africa is no different. Researchers from the North-West University (NWU) have some recommendations on how the plight of these vulnerable people can be alleviated.
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
Bertie Jacobs
A new acronym has entered our lexicon: NFT. NFT stands for non-fungible token, which, in itself, does not say very much. What NFTs are, is money. Big money. And it is changing the world of digital commerce.
The director of the Centre for Health and Human Performance (CHHP) at the North-West University (NWU), Prof Pieter Kruger, applied his knowledge of sport science and performance psychology brilliantly in winning the 20 km points race during the South African Track Cycling Championships at the Bellville Velodrome. He had a very successful week riding in the masters’ category too and claimed three silver medals (in the individual pursuit, team sprint and te