Latest newsThe South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is proud to support the preservation and long-term accessibility of South Africa’s language teaching scholarship through the digitisation of historic editions of the Journal for Language Teaching (Tydskrif vir Taalonderrig). 11 Aug 2026 Read more Mount Fuji’s famous peak is hidden behind a blanket of clouds today. It is a wondrous sight, and there is a serenity to it. It feels as though Japan, and specifically Tokyo, where I am, has been transported from the future to the present. The country is a technological marvel of automation and innovation, yet I also find myself carried into the past, to terrible moments more than 80 years ago. 27 Jul 2026 Read more The NWU Gallery is proud to present Metanoia a curatorial project organised by the students of the North-West University History of Arts Honours degree in the North West University Main Gallery (Potchefstroom Campus) open for viewing from 12 August to 11 September 2026, Monday to Friday 9.30am to 4pm. 27 Jul 2026 Read more The NWU Gallery is proud to present Umzila (The Legacy) exhibition in the North West University Main Gallery (Potchefstroom Campus) open for viewing from 12 August to 11 September 2026, Monday to Friday 9.30am to 4pm. 24 Jul 2026 Read more As South Africa rolls out projects meant to deliver lasting social and economic benefits, from renewable energy schemes to the new School of Mines and Mining Engineering at North-West University (NWU), one question is becoming hard to ignore: who decides whether these efforts are truly successful? 21 Jul 2026 Read more The North-West University (NWU), in partnership with the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI), will host a joint webinar examining how the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is reshaping the economic reality at the macro-level across the region. 2 Jul 2026 Read more Twice I was there when South Africa was the centre of the universe. The last decade of the 20th century heralded the arrival of a nation poised to lead through moral example, as we pledged never again to repeat our tainted history. Today, many citizens threaten violence against foreigners, and once again we face becoming one of the world's pariahs. 30 Jun 2026 Read more South Africa's voter turnout has been falling for more than two decades, even as the country's electoral system was designed to broaden political participation. New research by Dr Naledi Modise, Political Science and International Relations lecturer at the North-West University (NWU), suggests that the decline is not only a matter of voter attitudes, but also a consequence of how the country's electoral institutions function. 25 Jun 2026 Read more Prof. Ushotanefe Useh, deputy dean for community engagement and stakeholder relations at North-West University's Faculty of Health Sciences, has been appointed chairperson of the Academic Subcommittee of Universities South Africa's Higher Education Sustainability Community of Practice (HESCoP) and has joined its executive committee, effective April 2026. 24 Jun 2026 Read more North-West University (NWU) is celebrating the recognition of one of its distinguished academics and healthcare leaders following the recent World Physiotherapy Africa Region Conference held in Kigali, Rwanda. 23 Jun 2026 Read more The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) proudly congratulates Professor Langa Khumalo, chief director, and Juan Steyn, operations director, on their appointment to the National Task Team Towards a Unified National Language Action Plan by the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie. 17 Jun 2026 Read more Sport is an integral part of South African culture and young athletes work hard to reach the pinnacle of their sport disciplines. Unfortunately, their emotional wellbeing can be severely impacted by the pressures of high-level competitive sports, especially at school level. 9 Jun 2026 Read more Science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Together they are called Stem fields, and they drive the systems that power modern civilisation, from healthcare and infrastructure to energy, food security and communication. Even our growing dependence on artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. These fields equip societies to solve complex problems and to innovate. Because of their importance, Stem education must continually evolve; otherwise, it risks producing graduates technically skilled for yesterday’s world rather than intellectually prepared for tomorrow’s. 26 May 2026 Read more In many South African municipalities, officials now spend more time reporting on collapse than preventing it. Water systems fail while compliance reports multiply. Infrastructure projects stall inside approval chains designed to improve accountability, but which increasingly delay implementation itself. Across government, every major failure now appears to generate another coordinating structure, another oversight mechanism, another verification process, or another layer of reporting. The South African government is becoming trapped within layers of accumulated complexity whose administrative demands may now exceed the institutional capacity available to sustain them effectively. 22 May 2026 Read more The NWU Gallery is proud to present Repair of the present a group exhibition in the North-West University Main Gallery (Potchefstroom Campus) on 20 May 2026 at 6pm. 18 May 2026 Read more The NWU Gallery is proud to present Ga ke se bope, Ga se ipope: Fragments of what we carry a solo exhibition by Lerato Motaung in the North-West University Main Gallery (Potchefstroom Campus) on the 20 May 2026 at 6pm. 15 May 2026 Read more South Africa’s labour market is not only producing unemployment. It is increasingly producing withdrawal. The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) shows that employment declined by 345,000 in the first quarter of 2026, while labour force participation fell further to 59%. The official unemployment rate rose to 32.7%, yet beneath these headline figures lies a more unsettling pattern in which growing numbers of working-age South Africans are gradually disengaging from the labour market altogether. 13 May 2026 Read more Violent crime in South Africa is rampant, with the country frequently ranked as one of the most dangerous in the world, as well as among the most unsafe in Africa. Citizens are afraid, and justifiably so, adapting to crime as though it is no longer temporary, but permanent. This fear has for decades quietly been redesigning suburban South Africa. 11 May 2026 Read more South Africa’s National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) was conceived as one of the most powerful instruments of social justice in the democratic era: an engine to open university doors to students historically excluded by poverty. Yet today, it stands as a case study not only in administrative failure, but in something far more troubling: a systemic failure of leadership. This was not inevitable. In fact, the seeds of the crisis were visible from the very beginning. 11 May 2026 Read more
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