Topic: University of Pretoria

AfriForum in court over student election dispute

THE disputed election of a student representative body at the University of Pretoria is now headed for court, amid intervention by AfriForum.. ....
Gifted left winner Pearson Makori, formerly of Gekomoni High School, is currently undergoing trials with Kenya Premier League side Thika United...

Tukkies appoints interim SRC in secret

An interim student representative council has been appointed in secret at the University of Pretoria (UP), AfriForum Youth said on Wednesday....

Muslim mom questions Home Affairs

We do not want special favours but want to be treated with dignity and respect. . So said Pretoria mother Quraysha Ismail Sooliman. . She said her...
Love 'em or loathe 'em, the blaring plastic trumpets have become the hallmark of matches at the 2010 World Cup. We asked Trevor Cox, president of the UK Institute of Acoustics and an acoustic engineer at the University of Salford, UK, to ...

Public health schools six portraits

The article focuses on the history and developments of six different schools in the United Nations. The Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health is Brazil's national school of public health which reaches its educational influence all over the Latin America ...

IBM, Universities Aim for the Cloud

Big Blue's taking cloud computing to the world.. It will team up with three universities in the Middle East to build a cloud platform for the Qatar Cloud Computing Center and will develop applications on the Hadoop open source programming model ...

Lazy mole rats that get fat to have sex

YOU'RE fat, lazy, and only the prospect of mating can propel you into action. But that's just fine - as long as you're an African mole rat. Zoologists studying the Damaraland mole rat (Cryptomys damarensis) in its native southern Africa ...