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Hoe die regulering van mobiele geld finansiële insluiting ’n hupstoot kan gee
2022-07-20 Elfas Torrerai, LLD-kandidaat aan die Noordwes-Universiteit (NWU), het ’n statutêre analise gedoen van die gebruik en regulering van mobiele geld om finansiële insluiting in ontwikkelende lande te bevorder. Die titel van sy studie is “A comparative…http://news.nwu.ac.za/af/auther-unmasked-research-4-health
AUTHeR – Unmasked Research-4-Health
2022-11-24 Die Fakulteit Gesondheidswetenskappe en die Afrika-eenheid vir Transdissiplinêre Gesondheidsnavorsing (AUTHeR) het op 2 November, in samewerking met die provinsiale Departement van Gesondheid, die Dr Kenneth Kaunda-distrik se navorsingsdag op die…http://education.nwu.ac.za/af/fakulteit-opvoedkunde/tuis
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2026-01-28 Oorsig Onderwysopleiding aan die Noordwes-Universiteit het al sedert 1919 'n trotse geskiedenis en die Fakulteit Opvoedkunde is tans die grootste voorsiener van kontak en oopafstands-onderrig in Suid-Afrika. Die feit dat so baie onderwysers kies om hulle…http://news.nwu.ac.za/behind-scenes-pandemic
Behind the scenes of a pandemic
2021-01-29 “A learning experience like no other.” This is how Prof Petra Bester, director of the Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research (AUTHeR) at the North-West University (NWU), describes the unit’s exposure to the inner workings of the North West province…http://news.nwu.ac.za/nwu-crowned-world-champions
NWU crowned world champions
2017-09-20 ‘Best in the world’. It is a moniker bestowed on a select few; a testament to the absolute dedication to one’s art. Whether as a prefix or a suffix, from 16 September to the start of the next Varsity Cricket tournament early in 2018, this is the moniker…http://news.nwu.ac.za/faculty-theology-helping-imprisoned-fathers-reach-their-potential
The Faculty of Theology helping imprisoned fathers reach their potential
2018-04-24 It took a moment for Dr Fazel Freeks to comprehend what he was hearing. Aghast at first, the images that formed from the convict’s depiction about the deed that lead to his incarceration made him think about his family. Freeks thought of his youngest…http://news.nwu.ac.za/green-coal-fuel-future
"Green coal": fuel of the future
2018-05-25 Coal in its traditional form might soon be a relic of the past, but ground-breaking research by the North-West University (NWU) is showing how a face-lift to this fossil fuel has numerous safe, green possibilities. A revolutionary process to manufacture “…http://news.nwu.ac.za/gr8-success-%25E2%2580%2593-serious-game-teaching-soft-skills
Gr8 Success! – a serious game for teaching soft skills
2018-10-26 Meet Faith Sibiya and Carl Thomson. They are two typical varsity students. Faith is an eccentric foot-dragger and always finds an excuse to do that really important assignment… tomorrow. Carl, on the other hand, is an inattentive fusspot. In less than six…http://news.nwu.ac.za/driehoek-tragedy-%25E2%2580%2593-nwu-expert-emphasizes-need-professional-trauma-counselling
Driehoek tragedy – NWU expert emphasizes the need for professional trauma counselling
2019-02-07 On Friday, 1 February 2019, the country was shocked by the news of a walkway collapse at Hoërskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark. Learners were leaving the morning assembly to go to their respective class rooms when tragedy struck. Three pupils: Roydon…http://news.nwu.ac.za/amberley-angel-disguise-0
Amberley, an angel in disguise
2019-06-14 A guardian angel is defined as an angel believed to protect a particular person, for instance from danger or error, and that is exactly what two-year-old Labrador Amberley is to her owner, Lindi Opperman. Lindi, a final-year LLB student at the North West…http://news.nwu.ac.za/nwu-prof-acting-judge-high-court
NWU Prof acting as judge in High Court
2017-10-09 The North-West University’s (NWU’s) Prof Elmarie van der Schyff of the Faculty of Law was appointed to serve as acting judge in the Gauteng division of the High Court of South Africa from 9 October to 17 November 2017. This is another outstanding…http://news.nwu.ac.za/degrees-should-be-more-mere-licences-hope
Degrees should be more than mere licences to hope
2019-08-28 Michelle Groenewald is an academic on a mission to make an impact. As an economics lecturer at the North-West University (NWU), she believes that curriculum reform should be a leadership priority for all role-players in higher education. During the recent…http://news.nwu.ac.za/former-president-tells-nwu-there-hope
Former president tells NWU there is hope
2019-12-06 “I am not ‘moedeloos’ (in despair). I haven’t lost hope for the future but I am deeply concerned about where we are at the moment.” These are the words of former president, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former chancellor of the North-West University (NWU…http://news.nwu.ac.za/nwu-first-year-students-attend-colourful-language-awareness-workshops
NWU first-year students attend colourful Language Awareness workshops
2020-02-25 Language, just like art, can be colourful, inspiring and dynamic. First-year students of the North-West University (NWU) became “language artists” when they used colour to illustrate how they experience the many facets of all the languages in their lives…http://news.nwu.ac.za/dothraki-and-other-sub-cultural-languages-%25E2%2580%2593-focus-unique-phd-study
Dothraki and other sub-cultural languages – the focus of a unique PhD study
2017-06-23 “Me zisosh disse”. It is just a flesh wound. This would certainly be good news if you were wounded and one of the native speakers of the language used in this sentence. It is Dothraki and it is the fantasy language that was created for the television series…http://news.nwu.ac.za/food-and-feed-thought-6th-extruafrica-event
Food and feed for thought at 6th ExtruAfrica event
2017-06-26 Extrusion, a high-pressure cooking process, has revolutionised the food, feed, plastic and powder paint industries, among many others. Small wonder, then, that the annual ExtruAfrica conference, training seminar and exhibition is such an eagerly…http://news.nwu.ac.za/sew2018-sets-student-entrepreneurship-centre-stage
SEW2018 sets student entrepreneurship on centre stage
2018-09-17 For the second year running the North-West University (NWU) – in collaboration with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) – hosted a very successful Student Entrepreneurship Week. The Student Entrepreneurship Week (SEW) initiative came…http://news.nwu.ac.za/science-balloon-time
Science is a ball(oon) of a time!
2021-09-13 Science is wickedly addictive. It is a window to wonders the imagination never knew existed. Godfrey Mosotho knows this more than most and he is not keeping the secret to himself. Mosotho runs an experiment in which he launches meteorological balloons to…http://news.nwu.ac.za/study-finds-freshwater-species-risk-threats-linked-human-activities
Study finds freshwater species at risk from threats linked to human activities
2022-09-06 From climate change and associated extreme weather events to pollutants, over-utilisation and invasive species, human activities are the main threats to freshwater species in South Africa’s largest floodplain ecosystem. This is according to the Water…http://news.nwu.ac.za/nwu-eagles-cybathlon-team-heads-zurich