2018-10-25
Staff and students at the North-West University's (NWU’s) Engineering Faculty are in the process of giving the traditional way of manufacturing products a huge blow. They are now using their wide variety of world class three-dimensional printers.
According…
2018-10-26
Ontmoet vir Faith Sibiya en Carl Thomson. Hulle is twee tipiese universiteitstudente. Faith is ’n eksentrieke voetesleper en vind altyd ’n verskoning om daardie baie belangrike taak te doen… maar môre. Carl, aan die ander kant, is ’n aandagafleibare lolpot…
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…
2018-10-26
The social origin of ballroom dance lies in the European court dances of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Today, dance is classified as the third most popular leisure and life-style activity after soccer and rugby.
No wonder then that North-West University…
2018-10-26
The will to win, the desire to succeed and the urge to reach your full potential. These are three keys to unlock the door to personal excellence – and three Loerie awards.
Three of our graphic design students proved this true when they walked away with…
2018-10-26
The economic and fiscal strategies outlined in Tito Mboweni’s 2018 medium term budget policy statement (MTBPS) on 24 October 2018 are likely to have a mixed impact on business and the markets, given the constraints governing the fiscal framework.
Although…
2018-10-26
In ’n stowwerige straat van ’n dorpie in Noordwes moedig ’n groep 12-jariges mekaar luidkeels aan terwyl hulle kgati, ’n inheemse speletjie, met ’n springtou speel. Namate die speletjie ernstiger raak, hoor een van hulle haar ouma vanuit die kombuis roep en…
2018-10-26
On a dusty street of a village in the North West Province a group of 12-year-olds are cheering each other on as they play kgati, an indigenous game using a skipping rope. As the game intensifies one of them hears her grandmother shouting from the kitchen,…
2018-10-29
The voluntary turnover rate of academics ranges between 41 and 63% and at least 6 000 new academics are required to replace retiring academics within the next five years.
These research statistics and estimates do not look good, do they? Fortunately a…
2021-01-22Leandri Kruger’s career started in 2012 at the African Centre for Disaster Studies (North-West University) where she mainly contributed as a researcher for various international and national research projects, and as a lecturer for post graduate students. She…
2018-10-29
The normal career span for a soccer player is 10 years, not taking into consideration the nature and extent of injuries sustained.
Often, this is why players invest in their futures beyond football in preparation for the day when they hang up their…
2024-09-05Most winners of competitions opt to use their prize money to travel overseas, but not Siviwe Bangani. His winning will go towards establishing school libraries.
The Library and Information Association of South Africa recently announced Siviwe as…
2018-10-31
Global research has shown that only half of enrolled master’s and PhD students actually finish their studies. Around 40% of the same group battle with mental illness such as depression and anxiety. Coincidence? Laura Weiss thinks not.
Dr Laura Weiss, a…
2018-10-31
Imagine the interesting discussions around the breakfast table when the husband studies role of European Union politics in Sweden and his wife gender equality in higher education.
Esteemed political scientists, Prof Daniel and Dr Charlotte Silander from…
2021-10-19Philip van der Merwe is a senior lecturer in the School of Languages in the Subject Group: German at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) in South Africa. He has published on the fiction of Hans-Ulrich Treichel and E.L. Doctorow. He teaches German…
2018-10-31
It was a night of high-fashion and festivity, aptly befitting of the celebrated group of female entrepreneurs ready to impact the world of work. The 2018 Gala Awards of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Enterprising Women Programme saw 28 women graduating…
2021-01-22My post-doctoral endeavours (since 2008) took me on a journey to become an established (NRF C2-rated) researcher within the metacognition research community in mathematics education. Based on my intellectual property stemming from my Master's and doctoral…
2018-10-31
Fanie Roos, ’n dosent in sportbestuur, het onlangs die eerste verteenwoordiger van die Noordwes-Universiteit (NWU) geword wat die gesogte Professionele Gholfspelersvereniging van Suid-Afrika (“PGA-SA”) toegespreek het.
Hy het ook pas gehoor dat hy…
2018-10-31
Fanie Roos, a lecturer in sport management, recently became the first North-West University (NWU) representative to address the prestigious Professional Golfers Association of South Africa (PGA-SA).
And come January 2019, he will be jetting off to…
2018-11-01
The North-West University’s (NWU’s) Faculty of Theology’s researchers are leading the pack when it comes to awards for excellence and productivity.
The faculty took top honours at the vice-chancellor’s Research and Innovation Excellence Awards, winning…
