GCI project: getting hands dirty and hearts beating for nature

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” These words by Roman politician and lawyer, Marcus Tullius Cicero, came to mind during the recent launch of the Green Campus Initiative’s (GCI) Mobile Vegetable Garden Project on the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark.

Students from several residences…

Teamwork makes the NWU dream work – Prof Linda du Plessis

If teamwork is the ability to marry individual accomplishments to existing institutional goals, then the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark boasts with a dynamic ethos of collegiality and teamwork.

This is the sentiment of Prof Linda du Plessis, acting campus rector, when reflecting upon the campus’s most recent…

NWU expert: UN Security Council crippled by internal power struggles

Is it possible that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has become a pointless forum for the discussion of grave human rights breaches occurring in various parts of the world?

This is the question Dr Illyayambwa Mwanawina, an expert in regional integration, international law, good governance and human rights at the North-West…

PMR Awards: six in a row for NWU Vanderbijlpark

The North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark recently bagged yet another Professional Management Review (PMR) Diamond Arrow Award. This year marks the 6th consecutive award for the campus.

The award was handed over at a PMR business breakfast and the event saw top decision makers, businessmen, members of government,…

Danish expert sheds light on boredom in the classroom

“The optimism that most children are born with – the joy of learning, playing and simply living when they are small – gradually diminishes for many learners. This happens if they sense that, no matter how much they try to do well in school, they can’t succeed.” These are the words of Prof Hans Henrik Knoop, extraordinary professor at the…

Alumni partnering up with Career Centre to empower students

Vincent Kheswa, Charles Matubule, Keketso Mofokeng and Kagiso Mphachoe are not just four random young men making their mark in the world of work. As alumni of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark, they share a deep-rooted passion for their alma mater and the up-and-coming generation of leaders and achievers.

These…

NWU experts say inflexible nature of youth unemployment points to multifaceted problem for SA

In South Africa more than 5,7 million citizens are actively looking for employment – and it is the youth (between the ages of 15 and 24) who are facing the brunt of this socio-economic challenge.

Experts in the field of economics, Ms Precious Mncayi and Mr Jacques de Jongh – both from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in…

Chronic state of SA’s unemployed youth a major socio-economic challenge

Youth unemployment remains a highly contentious and multifaceted issue in South Africa. In fact, after the release of the latest figures – that show that about 48 percent of South Africans between 15 and 34 were unemployed in the third quarter of 2016 – experts have been quoted in the media as stating that the situation has now reached a “…

NWU rector shares lessons learned from #Feesmustfall

Prof Linda du Plessis, acting rector of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark, recently acted as key note speaker at the 2017 PMR Awards ceremony held at the Riverside Hotel in Vanderbijlpark. 

Prof Du Plessis gave the audience, comprising members of the private and public sectors of the Sedibeng business…

NWU public lecture explores the link between race and identity

The subject group Theology and Philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities on the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark recently hosted a public lecture about the link between identity and race.

The lecture shared the narratives of two people from different continents: a woman who was born to white parents who views herself…