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NWU Business School Think Tank – NSFAS and the consequences of government cost cutting
2021-04-28 This past week the Business School at the North-West University (NWU) held a think tank focusing on the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), and specifically on the consequences of government cost cutting in the 2021 budget with respect to tertiary…http://news.nwu.ac.za/student-wins-vc-medal-research-deep-learning-space-weather
Student wins VC Medal with research on deep learning in space weather
2022-05-03 Jacques Beukes of the MUST Deep Learning research group at the Faculty of Engineering is the 2021 winner of a North-West University (NWU) Vice-Chancellor’s Medal for his dissertation “Interpretability of deep neural networks for SYM-H prediction”. Eight vice-…http://news.nwu.ac.za/young-entrepreneurs-shine-youth-innovation-challenge
Young entrepreneurs shine in youth innovation challenge
2024-08-15 The North-West University (NWU) hosted the Young African Entrepreneurs Institute (YAEI) and Absa Youth Entrepreneurship Northwest Tour (YET), from 6 to 7 August, welcoming young impactful entrepreneurs to the Potchefstroom Campus. The YET aims to extend…http://news.nwu.ac.za/faculty-humanities-celebrates-community-engagement-showcase
Faculty of Humanities celebrates community engagement at showcase
2025-09-12 “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” Desmond Tutu. Community engagement is about people meeting people and sharing knowledge. It is done to touch lives, strengthen human…http://news.nwu.ac.za/achieving-africas-vision-why-universities-must-return-serving-society
Achieving Africa’s vision: why universities must return to serving society
2025-07-31 By Prof Ushotanefe Useh Universities in Africa stand at a crossroads today. While they continue to produce research, award degrees and rank in global academic listings, an uncomfortable question lingers: are they truly serving the societies that fund and…http://news.nwu.ac.za/beyond-bee-das-post-racial-vision-and-politics-forgetting
Beyond BEE: The DA’s post-racial vision and the politics of forgetting
2025-10-28 By Prof Joseph Sekhampu The Democratic Alliance’s Public Procurement Amendment Bill proposes replacing the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) framework with a nonracial, outcomes based procurement model that measures inclusion through poverty, performance…http://news.nwu.ac.za/dr-monray-williams-helping-lead-africas-virology-charge
Dr Monray Williams is helping to lead Africa’s virology charge
2025-11-11 The battle against HIV in sub-Saharan Africa has always been as much about systems and science as about the virus itself. Antiretroviral therapy has turned what was once a death sentence into a manageable condition. Yet, as Dr Monray Williams of the North-…http://news.nwu.ac.za/putting-people-centre-digital-innovation
Putting people at the centre of digital innovation
2025-11-13 The Centre for Digital Humanities was born out of the realisation that the humanities are central to creating equitable digital futures for South Africans. “As digital humanists, we understand that technology exists within a network of human and…http://natural-sciences.nwu.ac.za/af/dierkunde
Dierkunde
2024-08-15 Wat is Dierkunde? Dierkunde is die wetenskaplike studie van diere, insluitend hul klassifikasie, fisiologie, gedrag en verspreiding in hul natuurlike habitatte. Dit sluit verskeie aspekte van dierebiologie in, wat wissel van molekulêre biologie en…http://natural-sciences.nwu.ac.za/UBMI/SAMS2020/Program
SAMS congress 2020: Program
2022-08-26 .bg { padding: 1em; color: white; background-color: black; clear: left; text-align: center; } .btn-group-vertical { width: 100%; } 63th Annual Congress of the South African Mathematical Society 2 December 2020, online…http://law.nwu.ac.za/faculty-law-vulnerable-societies/jeanette-visagie
Jeanette Visagie
2025-06-13 After completing her LLB (cum laude) and LLM at the NWU, Jeanette joined Adams & Adams in their trade mark litigation department in 2011, where she practiced full time until 2019. Jeanette was admitted as an attorney in 2013, and qualified as a trade mark law specialist with the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL) in…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/economic-and-management-sciences/gowokani-chirwa
Gowokani Chirwa
2025-01-23 Prof Gowokani Chirwa is an Economist with expertise in Health Economics. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of York, UK, where he was based at the Centre for Health Economics. His primary research interests include health economics, global health economics, inequality, and poverty, with a particular focus on multidimensional…http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/phasrec/equipment
Research equipment
2024-08-13 [accordion collapsed] Actiheart The ActiHeart is a compact, chest-worn monitoring device that records heart rate, Inter-Beat-Interval (IBI), and physical activity in one combined, light-weight waterproof unit. It is designed for capturing…http://news.nwu.ac.za/young-female-innovators-shine-during-modiragatsi-youth-innovation-competition
Young female innovators shine during Modiragatsi Youth Innovation Competition
2021-09-07 The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us and the Faculty of Engineering at the North-West University (NWU) and its partners understand that it is necessary to equip the youth with skills that will benefit them in the long run. In 2019 the Faculty of…http://natural-sciences.nwu.ac.za/paa/3MC-Course-EM/Participants
3MC Course on Epidemiological Modeling: Participants
2022-05-22 .bg { padding: 1em; color: white; background-color: black; clear: left; text-align: center; } .btn-group-vertical { width: 100%; } Postgraduate Course: Introduction to Mathematical Epidemiology 4-7 April 2022,…http://www.nwu.ac.za/nwu-alumni/alumni-awards-recipient-advocate-lekgoa-jan-andy-mothibi
Alumni Awards Recipient: Advocate Lekgoa Jan (Andy) Mothibi
2021-11-26 Advocate Lekgoa Jan (Andy) Mothibi: striving for a corruption-free society A corruption-free South Africa is the goal towards which Adv Andy Mothibi, Head of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), strives relentlessly. He has headed…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/trade/anmar-pretorius-trade
Anmar Pretorius (TRADE)
2019-04-05 Anmar Pretorius is an associate professor in the School of Economic Sciences at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), where she currently teaches econometrics. In keeping with her research interest in financial economics, her doctoral thesis investigated South Africa’s financial market integration with the rest of the world. Prof…http://news.nwu.ac.za/create-news-1
A conversation with Prof Dan Kgwadi about gender-based violence
2020-11-26 With the gender-based violence (GBV) rate in South Africa being five times higher than the global average according to Stats SA, the North-West University (NWU) is doing its part by creating awareness and offering support to those in need. On 12 November…http://news.nwu.ac.za/roaring-nwu-leopards-lair-competition
A roaring NWU Leopards Lair competition
2017-09-12 Entrepreneurship continues to be a critical performance area within the South African society and economy. The North-West University (NWU) launched a NWU Leopards Lair competition forming part of the NWU SETHI Explosions event. The competition is…http://news.nwu.ac.za/nwu-discusses-virtue-rice