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How SA can beat the overtourism trap
2025-10-10 Man the gates, the tourists are coming! Popular European destinations such as Barcelona, Paris and Venice are being laid to siege by an unrelenting influx of tourists, prompting residents to take to the streets in protest, sometimes disruptively so. It is a…http://news.nwu.ac.za/swip-project-champion-sas-indigenous-languages-online
SWiP project to champion SA's indigenous languages online
2023-10-26 “The dislocation of our languages is perpetuated by not having pride to speak one’s own mother tongue. We can only say a language is developed when it has doctors, professors, writers and artists who write down their work, poems and songs in isiNdebele. I am…http://news.nwu.ac.za/how-healthy-lifestyles-can-address-type-2-diabetes
How healthy lifestyles can address type 2 diabetes
2024-10-14 Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is on the rise in South Africa and the North-West University (NWU) is responding by raising awareness of the importance of healthy lifestyles. The prevalence of this condition has increased in recent years due to diets rich in…http://news.nwu.ac.za/how-does-mental-health-month-affect-babies-and-toddlers
How does mental health affect babies and toddlers?
2017-10-11 October is Mental Health Awareness Month, and Hanlie Degenaar, a speech and language therapist at the North-West University’s (NWU's) Institute of Psychology and Wellbeing, shares the following article in support of this important campaign. Nobody…http://news.nwu.ac.za/digital-lifeline-how-community-newspaper-keeps-language-alive
Digital lifeline: how a community newspaper keeps language alive
2025-05-26 Can a digital platform save a language from fading away? A recent study by Phenyo Mokgothu, a master's graduate and communication practitioner with the North-West University (NWU), has shown that digital community newspapers can indeed preserve language…http://news.nwu.ac.za/how-primary-school-hallway-led-phd-engineering
How a primary school hallway led to a PhD in engineering
2025-06-06 Refilwe Ngwaku hails from the humble dusty streets of Soweto, where she believes that there are few role models. From a young age, her dream was to be different, to become the change she wanted to see. Her goal was to show that success can come from any…http://news.nwu.ac.za/af/attached-soil-nwu-beleef-n-fulbright-vakkundige-se-aangrypende-uitstalling
“Attached to the Soil” ― NWU beleef ’n Fulbright-vakkundige se aangrypende uitstalling
2022-08-15 ’n Uitstalling wat die hoop en drome saamvat van Suid-Afrikaners wat sedert 1994 in ’n demokratiese land woon, is tans op toer na ses van Suid-Afrika se universiteitskampusse. Lede van die bestuur, personeel en studente van die Noordwes-Universiteit (NWU) het…http://www.nwu.ac.za/event/ctl-staff-training-facilitating-online-learning
CTL staff training - Facilitating online learning
2020-05-20 This training is only available to all staff of the NWU. To find out more about this exciting online event and register, click here! Please note that this is an all day eventhttp://news.nwu.ac.za/how-sa-could-minimise-heart-disease-deaths
How SA could minimise heart disease deaths
2020-03-18 Globally, heart disease remains the leading cause of death among middle-aged adults, accounting for 40% of all deaths. An alarming 80% of these deaths occur in low and middle-income countries such as South Africa. This is one of the findings from the…http://news.nwu.ac.za/transport-month-how-accessible-south-africa-tourists
Transport Month: How accessible is South Africa to tourists?
2024-10-09 • Increasing the air access capacity to South Africa remains a critical aspect of the tourism agenda. • The tourism industry faces transport challenges such as public transport coverage in rural and remote areas, public transport security…http://news.nwu.ac.za/how-africa-can-develop-society-all-ages
How Africa can develop a “society for all ages”
2022-07-20 Africa is and will be the continent with the youngest population globally for the foreseeable future. In the meantime, many more people in Africa are living increasingly longer. This finding is based on demographic trends on the continent and raises…http://www.nwu.ac.za/date/seniorreturning-students-online-registration
Senior/returning students online registration
2025-01-16 To ensure that you and your fellow NWU Eagles register as fast and efficiently as possible, please register within your allotted timeframe for a smooth process: Registration dates: first-year students First-…http://news.nwu.ac.za/teaching-and-learning-go-online-nwu-takes-education-people
Teaching and learning go online as NWU takes education to people
2020-03-30 The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally disrupted teaching-learning activities in South Africa and across the globe. It also challenges how we think about education and assessment, in general. “Disruptions are opportunities to reflect on assumptions made…http://news.nwu.ac.za/two-new-online-art-exhibitions-nwu
Two new online art exhibitions at the NWU
2021-10-05 On 29 September the North-West University (NWU) Gallery launched two new online art exhibitions, which will be open until 29 October. Malose Pete’s “Art Language of My Forefathers” exhibition is being showcased at the NWU Main Gallery, and the…http://commerce.nwu.ac.za/telit-sa-news/teaching-abroad-reflection-my-online-teaching-journey
Teaching from Abroad: Reflection of my Online Teaching Journey
2024-06-07 By:Kelebogile Paadi At the height of the pandemic in 2020 amidst the tight travel restrictions, I found myself in a foreign country and could not return back home to South Africa, which meant continuing with my work where I was, and thanks to technology I was…http://www.nwu.ac.za/event/spoken-word-poetry-workshop-online-puno-selesho