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NWU student secures first place for top scholarship
Sep 30, 2020 - Obriel Takunda Maposa, North-West University (NWU) student and member of the Golden Key International Honour Society has secured the first prize for the Golden Key Ubuntu scholarship programme. The scholarship celebrates dynamic young scholars who are exceptional at embracing the three core pillars of Golden Key Society - academic excellence,…http://news.localhost:107/nwu-nursing-brings-fight-against-gender-based-violence-communities
NWU Nursing brings fight against gender-based violence to communities
Oct 01, 2020 - The North-West University’s (NWU’s) School of Nursing will be conducting a gender-based violence (GBV) public health awareness campaign in five identified villages around Mahikeng. Nursing students and lecturers, together with the local South African Police Service (SAPS), GBV activists and Mahikeng community leaders, will carry out the door-to…http://news.localhost:107/af/marlene-se-onwrikbare-veggees
Marlene se onwrikbare veggees
Oct 02, 2020 - Dit is baie opwindend om ’n universiteitstudent te wees, maar dit is ook op soveel vlakke baie uitdagend: om ’n loopbaan te beplan, jou tyd te bestuur, en, vir Marlene Taylor, om uit te vind dat sy nierstene het. Die 23-jarige Marlene Taylor kom van Vanderbijlpark en is die jongste van drie kinders. Sy het in 2017 by die Noordwes-Universiteit se…http://news.localhost:107/global-assessment-impact-covid-19-manufacturing-sector
A global assessment of the impact of Covid-19 on the manufacturing sector
Aug 06, 2020 - “The outlook for the manufacturing sector seems uncertain due to the coronavirus pandemic.” Prof Danie Meyer, a development economist and director of the TRADE research focus area at the North-West University (NWU), says besides external factors such as international demand, internal factors such as limited electricity supply and local demand…http://news.localhost:107/investigating-role-african-medicine-during-pandemic
Investigating the role of African medicine during a pandemic
Aug 07, 2020 - The North-West University (NWU), in collaboration with the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) hosted its inaugural research webinar on 6 August 2020. This inaugural webinar is the first of a seven-part series aimed at unpacking Covid-19 and its impact on higher education, with insights from humanities, social sciences and…http://news.localhost:107/jomo-cosmos-signs-nwu-goalkeeper
Jomo Cosmos signs NWU goalkeeper
Aug 07, 2020 - Glad Africa Championship team Jomo Cosmos have signed North-West University (NWU) Soccer Institute goalkeeper Kagiso Ramadivhane for the remainder of the 2019/20 football season (two months), with an option to extend at the end of the season. The lanky goalkeeper and Nedbank Ke Yona team search product is the second player from the NWU Soccer…http://news.localhost:107/nwu-alumna-elected-president-women-nuclear-south-africa
NWU alumna elected as president of Women in Nuclear South Africa
Aug 11, 2020 - On 7 August 2020 North-West University (NWU) alumna Tebogo Motlhabane was announced as the newly elected president of Women in Nuclear South Africa (WiNSA). Tebogo, a scientist from the National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute, is taking over the reins from Eskom’s senior quality assurance advisor Nomathemba Radebe, who served as the…http://news.localhost:107/nwu-alumna-now-member-national-radioactive-waste-disposal-institute-board
NWU alumna now member of National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute board
Aug 11, 2020 - True to the spirit of Women’s month, female alumni of the North-West University (NWU) are leading the way. Another feather in the NWU’s cap is the appointment of Lerato Makgae to the board of directors of the National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute (NRWDI). The NRWDI is responsible for the management of radioactive waste in South Africa.…http://news.localhost:107/nwu-career-centre-hosts-first-virtual-fair-resounding-success
NWU Career Centre hosts first virtual fair with resounding success
Aug 11, 2020 - The North-West University (NWU) Career Centre hosted its first Virtual Career Fair on 5August 2020 with great success. A total of 39 companies joined the fair to showcase and share 172 career opportunities with NWU students. This event attracted a whopping 1 198 students from across the university’s three campuses: 338 from Mahikeng, 573 from…http://news.localhost:107/nwu-first-host-disciplinary-hearings-online
NWU first to host disciplinary hearings online
Aug 13, 2020 - The Covid-19 pandemic has forced courts and institutions across South Africa to embrace digital platforms with unprecedented haste – also for legal proceedings. Taking the lead, the North-West University (NWU) is one of the first institutions in the country to host their disciplinary hearings online. Student Judicial Services on the…http://news.localhost:107/women-should-embrace-their-potential-and-not-doubt-themselves
Women should embrace their potential and not doubt themselves
Aug 14, 2020 - After 17 years of well-earned experience at Lonmin Marikana Mining Operations and the South African Police Service, Boitumelo Mosikare (45) is no stranger to the security sector. She has now been seconded to act for a two-month period as senior manager of Protection Services on the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Mahikeng Campus. Boitumelo is…http://news.localhost:107/hysa-nwu
HySA at the NWU
Aug 17, 2020 - During the presentation of the budget vote of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) in the National Assembly on 24 July 2020, the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, highlighted a number of flagship projects, also those dealing with Covid-19 challenges, including projects in which Hydrogen South…http://news.localhost:107/nwu-student-campaigning-assist-young-girls
NWU student campaigning to assist young girls
Aug 17, 2020 - Carol Olerato Manyaapelo, a final-year political science student and member of the Student Campus Council on the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Mahikeng Campus, is running a campaign to empower girls as part of Women’s month. The campaign, “Bleed free”, aims to provide girls with sanitary products, which Carol strongly believes all young women…http://news.localhost:107/sa%25E2%2580%2599s-lockdown-exit-strategy-level-2-good-news-country
SA’s lockdown exit strategy to level 2 is good news for the country
Aug 18, 2020 - The widely expected and welcome decision announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa to move South Africa’s lockdown down to Level 2 is good news for the country, says NWU Business School economist Prof Raymond Parsons. According to him, the prolonged lockdown since March has had a devastating economic impact on incomes and livelihoods. “Level 2…http://news.localhost:107/nwu-host-virtual-career-fair
NWU to host virtual career fair
Sep 17, 2020 - With the unemployment rate at an alarming 30,1% in South Africa, the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Career Centre is pulling out all the stops to ensure that its graduates find employment. On 21 October the Career Centre will host a virtual career fair for all NWU students from 09:00 to 16:00. The career fair is aimed at exposing students to…http://news.localhost:107/what-does-weather-hold
What does the weather hold?
Sep 17, 2020 - We had an uncommonly cold winter that had our teeth chattering. Now, with spring in full swing, Hector Chikoore, an associate professor at the North-West University (NWU) who specialises in meteorology, climatology and climate change, looks back on the past season and gazes ahead at what the weather has in store for us. 1. Did we have an…http://news.localhost:107/af/een-keer-%25E2%2580%2599n-leeftyd
Een keer in ’n leeftyd
Sep 17, 2020 - Dit was amper ’n ondenkbare prestasie. Dit was so na aan perfek as wat ’n bouler kan kom. Wat Graeme Pieter Bouwer, ’n alumnus van die Noordwes-Universiteit se Vanderbijlparkkampus, in 1991 reggekry het, was onwerklik. Toe hy by die Dick Fourie Stadion in Drie Riviere, Vereeniging teen die Meyerton Krieketklub geboul het, het Bouwer vyf…http://news.localhost:107/once-lifetime
Once in a lifetime
Sep 17, 2020 - It was an almost unfathomable feat. It was as close to perfection as a bowler can hope to get. What Graeme Pieter Bouwer, an alumnus of the North-West University’s Vanderbijlpark Campus, accomplished in 1991 was unreal. Bowling at the Dick Fourie Stadion in Three Rivers, Vereeniging against the Meyerton Cricket Club, Bouwer took five wickets…http://news.localhost:107/policy-priorities-lie-urgent-economic-reforms
Policy priorities lie with urgent economic reforms
Sep 18, 2020 - South Africa’s basic policy priorities now lie with urgently implementing overdue economic reforms and ensuring security of electricity supply to boost investor confidence, says NWU Business School economist, Prof Raymond Parsons. “The decision by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to leave the repo rate unchanged in the present economic…http://news.localhost:107/how-six-days-potchefstroom-saved-australia