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Registration progress at the NWU
2025-01-24 The North-West University (NWU) is pleased with progress regarding the registration of first-year students for the 2025 academic year. We received more than 390 000 applications to enrol at the NWU for this academic year. We are encouraged and grateful…http://news.nwu.ac.za/ai-information-roadshows-hit-nwu-campuses
AI information roadshows to hit NWU campuses
2025-02-14 The newly established North-West University (NWU) AI Hub is hitting the road to bring artificial intelligence (AI) sessions to all three campuses of the university. This is done in conjunction with the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL),…http://news.nwu.ac.za/endless-opportunities-nwus-centre-space-research
Endless opportunities at the NWU’s Centre for Space Research
2024-09-09 The observable part of our universe is 93 billion light years in diameter and growing. It holds secrets accumulated over 13.8 billion years of interstellar expansion, cosmic explosions, and the fusion of matter that has shaped all that is known and all that…http://news.nwu.ac.za/what-economists-are-listening-budget-speech
What economists are listening for in the Budget speech
2024-03-01 Professor Waldo Krugell, an economist at the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the North-West University (NWU), looks ahead at what to expect when the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, delivers the 2024 Budget speech on 21 February. A lot…http://news.nwu.ac.za/south-africas-approach-reintegrating-criminals-and-managing-crime-catastrophic-failure
South Africa’s approach to reintegrating criminals and managing crime is a catastrophic failure
2024-03-01 Crime is destined to remain one of our most pressing social problems in South Africa if the stigmatisation of criminals is not addressed. South Africa has one of the highest and most unsustainable rates of recidivism (reoffence) in the world. First-time…http://law.nwu.ac.za/law/prof-stephen-de-la-harpe-executive-dean-law-passed-away-morning
Prof Stephen de la Harpe, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law, passed away this morning
2021-02-18 Prof Stephen de la Harpe, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law, North-West University passed away this morning. He has been in the ICU for the last six weeks. The Faculty wants to convey…http://law.nwu.ac.za/saltc-2024/theme-conference
Theme of the Conference
2024-01-10 Welcome Theme of the Conference Research Methodology WorkshopConference Programme RegistrationAbstractsSponsors Your Host UniversitySLTSA The Venue LAW TEACHERS’ CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA - 2024 Law, Resilience, and Social Justice in…http://www.nwu.ac.za/leadershipsummit_justice_bess_nkabinde
NWU | Leadership Summit 2017 | Speaker | Justice Bess Nkabinde
2017-06-28 Justice Bess Nkabinde Bess Nkabinde-Mmono was born in Silwerkrans/Tlokweng (North West Province) in 1959. She is married and has four children. Nkabinde-Mmono matriculated at…http://www.nwu.ac.za/date/call-postgraduate-supervision-workshop
Call for Postgraduate Supervision Workshops
2024-07-08 You are cordially invited to the Postgraduate Supervision Workshops, presented by Dr Erik Hofstee. The course aims to equip participants with the necessary expertise to conceive, plan, research, organize, compose, and finalize a research-based project, such…http://news.nwu.ac.za/future-bee-changing-south-africa
The Future of BEE in a Changing South Africa
2026-01-23 Prof. Joseph Sekhampu The debate over BEE has entered a familiar but increasingly brittle phase. One side argues that, more than thirty years into democracy, empowerment has overstayed its welcome and should be scrapped. The other insists that…http://news.nwu.ac.za/state-nation-age-private-substitution
State of the Nation in the Age of Private Substitution
2026-02-10 By Prof Joseph Sekhampu, chief director of the NWU Business School Imagine a state-of-the-nation address delivered without triumph or ceremony. The President rises, not to announce renewal, but to offer thanks. He thanks the households for installing solar…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/hypertension-africa-research-team-hart/population-outcome-research
Population outcome research
2023-12-05 The PURE study Current PI of South African-leg: Prof Cristian Ricci Supervisor for HART: Prof Yolandi Breet The Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study is a large-scale epidemiological study designed to…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/auther/one-health-platform
One Health Platform
2024-06-14 The Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research (AUTHeR) conducts community-based research to understand and address the health challenges experienced by community members. Through engaged research, the work from AUTHeR seeks to positively impact…http://news.nwu.ac.za/voter-registration-without-participation-lessons-sas-2024-elections
Voter registration without participation: lessons from SA’s 2024 elections
2026-04-02 Opinion piece by Dr Mabutho Shangase and final-year master’s degree student Masungulo Khoza The May 2024 national and provincial elections in South Africa were more than a routine democratic exercise; they were a revealing test of the electoral resilience…http://news.nwu.ac.za/trio-conference-champions-afrocentric-governance-multilingualism-and-transformation
Trio Conference champions Afrocentric governance, multilingualism and transformation
2026-04-10 The Riverside Hotel in Vanderbijlpark recently buzzed with intellectual energy as academics, students, policymakers and thought leaders from across Africa gathered for the North-West University (NWU) Trio Conference on Afrocentric Governance, Multilingualism…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/english
English
2020-06-18 Available on the Mahikeng, Potchefstroom and Vanderbijlpark Campuses The history of the English language really started with the arrival of three Germanic tribes who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD. So, English has its roots in…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/french
French
2021-11-08 Available on the Mahikeng, Potchefstroom and Vanderbijlpark Campuses In 2020, la langue française, the language of love, is an official language in 32 countries and is spoken in more than 43 countries and by about 300 million people…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/technology
Language Technology
2022-08-19 Only available on the Potchefstroom Campus Language technology is an interdisciplinary field that includes most subdisciplines of linguistics, as well as computational linguistics, natural language processing, computer science, mathematics, and…http://natural-sciences.nwu.ac.za/centre-human-metabolomics/pliem-about-us