NWU Alumni: Calling all Johannesburg-based alumni

If you graduated from the North-West University (NWU) and live in and around Johannesburg, Gauteng, make sure to diarise 23 May 2018. The university, through its Stakeholder Relations Directorate, will be hosting a social gathering for alumni at the Capital Hotel in Sandhurst, Sandton.

The aim of the event is to inform Johannesburg-based…

Entrepreneurship 101: Grow as you go!

Ask any seasoned entrepreneur and they will tell you: there is no magic recipe for success. Yes, the potential rewards of business ownership are many, but so are the challenges.

With this in mind the North-West University’s (NWU’s) bhive Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) – a dynamic entrepreneurial hub within the Faculty of Economic and…

Proposed financial decision-making model to guard against accounting shames

With the recent accounting disgraces suffered by KPMG and Steinhoff still fresh in South Africans’ minds, Dr Matthys (Thys) Swanepoel from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) School of Accounting Sciences, proposes a new integrated financial decision-making model using the principle of lean accounting.

Dr Swanepoel developed the new model…

Research contributes to the understanding of key sectors contributing to LED

A doctoral research study which is hailed for contributing profoundly to the field of Local Economic Development (LED), has found that community service, trade, construction, finance and electricity sectors would contribute most to economic development and growth in the Limpopo province’s Capricorn region.

In his study, Analysis of key…

Findings of PhD study to empower Malawian policy-makers

The choice of food security measures has a significant value in identifying the food security status of a household, especially with regard to female-headed households in the South Eastern region of Malawi.

This is according to the research findings of Hannah Mayamiko Dunga, who recently obtained her doctoral degree during the Autumn…

Double PhD pride for Leoni van der Vaart

Leoni van der Vaart is a dynamic 33-year old researcher who is blazing a trail of excellence – nationally and internationally – in the field of industrial psychology.

Leoni received her PhD in industrial psychology during the recent autumn graduation ceremony at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark. Her PhD is part…

Innovation in public administration is Prof Hofisi’s motto

It was Albert Einstein who said: “If at first, an idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” Prof Costa Hofisi from the Faculty of Humanities of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark fully agrees with this statement. During his recent inaugural lecture, he argued the value of such “absurd” ideas, namely innovation…

Investor behaviour the focus of noteworthy doctoral degree

During the recent Autumn Graduation Ceremony of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark, the degree Philosophiae Doctor in economic and management sciences was awarded to Zandri Dickason.

In her thesis “Modelling investor behaviour in the South African context”, Zandri developed a model to analyse investor behaviour…

A+ for top performing educators

What is the value of an effective and compassionate educator? The answer is simple: such educators are priceless, especially within the South African schooling system.

During the recent Autumn Graduation Ceremony of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark, four graduates in the field of Educational Sciences were…

Marilie applauded as top social work student

A bright future awaits Marilie Viljoen. This is evident when one considers her academic achievements as a social work (BSW) student at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark.

During the recent Autumn Graduation Ceremony, Marilie graduated top of her class and received the prestigious Top Achiever Award. She received…