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The eagle has a positive meaning across many cultures. It represents much-admired traits that perfectly match the NWU’s strategy and objectives. These include success, aspiration, courage, expansion, renewed life, leadership and freedom.
Eagi symbolises our commitment to approaching life creatively and soaring above the rest. He reflects our talent for finding new opportunities to excel and continuously improve.
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Eagi, our NWU mascot, is on top of everything that happens at the NWU and is eager to share it all with you. So, without further ado, let’s go to our newsroom, where Eagi will give you a bird's eye view of the NWU.
We trust that you will find the stories interesting and informative. (Click on the heading of each article to read more.)
For the past two years, Prof Cameron Modisane, an NWU alumnus, has been breaking boundaries. After obtaining his PhD in 2019 from the NWU’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Modisane became the first black person under the age of 35 to have a PhD in accounting in South Africa.
He has since been climbing the corporate ladder and cementing his career.
NWU research group contributes to international bird study
The NWU’s research on the genetic data of the nine lovebird species (genus Agapronis) that are native to Africa and Madagascar has been included in a comprehensive international bird study.
This research has also led to a patent and the possible commercialisation of a genomic test developed by the NWU that will be of great value to parrot breeders and conservationists.
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Long and lean road to reviving South African Airways
The NWU’s Ofentse Mokwena, a transport economist, takes a look at South African Airways’ dire financial and management situation.
He elucidates on some possible solutions, for instance considering strategic equity partnerships, either by bringing in highly competent executive teams or pursuing performance-based management contracts with a consortium or strategic equity partners, while still protecting the asset base.
US President-elect Joe Biden – possible economic implications for SA and the world
“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.”
This is according to Prof Raymond Parsons, economist at the NWU Business School.
NWU helps with library services for the blind in the NW Province
The NWU has partnered with the North West Department of Arts, Culture, Sport and Recreation, and the South African Library for the Blind, to improve reading access for the blind and the visually impaired in the province.
The project, sponsored by Sasol Social and Community Trust, was launched at a media event at the Mmabatho Library on 5 November 2020.
This venture aims to support and enhance the existing services for the visually impaired, such as the 24 mini-community libraries for the blind that are operational in North West municipalities.