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Commemorating International Women’s Day
2023-03-10 Women around the globe continue to face challenges in accessing decent work opportunities and gender equality, while contending with gender-based violence and a myriad of other exclusionary practices. This was the recurring theme during International Women…http://news.nwu.ac.za/language-awareness-week-shines-light-multilingualism
Language Awareness Week shines a light on multilingualism
2024-09-05 By Loveness Hulwane The North-West University’s (NWU’s) School of Languages and Language Directorate, in partnership with the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL), recently organised a Language Awareness Week across the university’s three campuses.…http://news.nwu.ac.za/faculty-health-sciences-host-one-day-engaged-scholarship-impact-indaba
Faculty of Health Sciences to host one-day Engaged Scholarship Impact Indaba
2024-07-15 On 18 July the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Faculty of Health Sciences will host the Engaged Scholarship Impact Indaba, a dynamic one-day event dedicated to exploring the intersections of academic research, community engagement and societal impact.…http://news.nwu.ac.za/nwu-experts-address-south-africas-parole-problem
NWU experts address South Africa’s parole problem
2025-09-26 ‘Recidivism’ is not a word commonly heard in everyday conversation, yet it carries enormous weight in the South African context. The term refers to the tendency of offenders to commit further crimes, and it was a central theme at the National Summit on the…http://news.nwu.ac.za/social-work-students-build-global-perspective-through-coil-collaboration
Social work students build global perspective through COIL collaboration
2026-02-04 A group of North-West University (NWU) social work students recently participated in an international Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) programme aimed at strengthening ethical, intercultural and professional competence in social work…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/pssa-2025/welcome-note
Welcome note
2025-06-04 Welcome! It is my great pleasure to invite you, on behalf of the Faculty of Health Sciences at North-West University, to join us for the Physiology Society of Southern Africa Conference 2025, taking place from 24 to 27 August 2025 at the beautiful…http://news.nwu.ac.za/sadilar-finds-its-permanent-home-nwu
SADiLaR finds its permanent home at the NWU
2024-11-21 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) will be celebrating the official opening of its building at the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus on Friday, 22 November 2024. The event will also see the launch of SADiLaR’s Five-…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/german
German
2021-11-08 Available on the Potchefstroom and Vanderbijlpark Campuses German is the language of scientists, inventors, philosophers, composers, artists, poets and authors. More than 100 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to German-speaking individuals who…http://natural-sciences.nwu.ac.za/zoology/frequently-asked-questions-faq
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
2024-08-01 [accordion collapsed] What career opportunities are there? Some possible career options related to Zoology are: Conservationist Ecologist Entomologist Environmental consultant Geneticist Laboratory technician Marine biologist Museum…http://news.nwu.ac.za/dr-bismark-tyobeka-south-africas-nuclear-future
Dr Bismark Tyobeka on South Africa’s nuclear future
2022-10-27 The nuclear debate has raged for more than three quarters of a century. Proponents of nuclear power continue to extol its virtues, while its detractors remain steadfast in their belief that its risks outweigh its benefits. Renowned nuclear energy expert and…http://news.nwu.ac.za/climatology-conference-highlights-severity-climate-change
Climatology conference highlights severity of climate change
2025-04-22 It has happened. The world is 1,5 degrees Celsius warmer than it was in preindustrial times. A threshold has been breached, and the times they are a-changin’. When Prof Francois Engelbrecht, president of the South African Society for Atmospheric Sciences (…http://news.nwu.ac.za/nwu-students-stood-solidarity-against-gbvf-honouring-purple-silence
NWU students stood in solidarity against GBVF honouring Purple Silence
2025-11-26 On Friday, 21 November, South African women silenced the nation in a powerful stand against gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF). Across the country, purple settled over campuses and streets alike—a quiet but unyielding promise that every story of fear,…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/af/psychology/karel-botha
Karel Botha
2025-09-23 My research focuses on self-regulation as psychological strength. Self-regulation refers to the neurocognitive ability to plan, guide and monitor one’s own behaviour flexibly according to changing circumstances. My research expertise / focus is specifically on how people anticipate, reflect on, and respond to perceived and real change. I apply a…http://news.nwu.ac.za/af/nwu-enactus-wen-silwer-sa-se-tweede-sakekompetisie-vir-universiteite
NWU Enactus wen silwer in SA se tweede Sakekompetisie vir Universiteite
2019-02-28 Die Enactus studentevereniging van die Noordwes-Universiteit (NWU) maak op nasionale vlak naam en te oordeel na hulle prestasies in 2018, lê daar ʼn opwindende nuwe jaar vir hulle voor. Die vereniging het 2018 op ʼn hoogtepunt afgesluit toe hulle as tweede-…http://news.nwu.ac.za/sadilar-takes-lead-digitising-establishing-11-national-languages
SADiLaR takes the lead in digitising establishing 11 national languages
2020-03-16 Digitising South Africa’s 11 official languages could go a long way towards creating a truly multilingual society. Various projects are currently in progress at the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), located at the North-West…http://engineering.nwu.ac.za/iea-task-30-workshop-2025/additional-activities
Additional Activities
2025-11-07 A range of leisure and adventure activities are available at and around the 26° South Hotel for those who wish to extend their stay or explore the area in their free time. These include: Game drives and quad biking within the Cradle Moon Conservancy…http://news.nwu.ac.za/teamwork-makes-nwu-dream-work-%25E2%2580%2593-prof-linda-du-plessis
Teamwork makes the NWU dream work – Prof Linda du Plessis
2017-05-05 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…http://news.nwu.ac.za/nwu-rector-shares-lessons-learned-feesmustfall