News & Events (Archive)

Wolfaardt, Steyn champs again!
Posted on 10 Dec 2010

Potchefstroom's Erhard Wolfaardt and Andrea Steyn of Pretoria won the final leg of the 2010 BSG Energade Triathlon Series at Big Bay, Boubergstrand in Cape Town on Sunday, December 5, to once again be crowed the competition's senior champions.

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TuksTennis in the USSA semi-final
Lesego Sehume
Posted on 09 Dec 2010

TuksTennis started off strong at the 2010 national universities' sport championships by thrashing UKZN (12-2), UCT (13-1) and Rhodes (14-0).

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Strong performance at USSA badminton champs
Sam Usher
Posted on 09 Dec 2010

UP badminton players were well represented in the finals of the national USSA championships

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Adam punches his way to gold
Sam Usher
Posted on 09 Dec 2010

UP's Adam de Moor is the
2010 USSA Light Welter Weight Champion.

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Long service awards for Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Martie Maree
Posted on 09 Dec 2010

A total of 200 years... This is the amount of years that five staff members have worked altogether at the University.

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Appointment of Prof Eric Buch as Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences
Posted on 08 Dec 2010

It gives me pleasure to inform you that Prof Eric Buch has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences with effect from 1 January 2011.

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Prof Stephanie Burton Appointed as Vice-Principal: Research and Postgraduate Education
Posted on 08 Dec 2010

I am pleased to announce that Professor Stephanie Burton has been appointed as Vice-Principal: Research and Postgraduate Education.

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Prof Carolina Koornhof appointed as Executive Director (Finance and Business Activities)
Posted on 08 Dec 2010

I am pleased to announce that Professor Carolina Koornhof has been appointed as Executive Director (Finance and Business Activities) with effect from 1 April 2011.

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DST supports Southern African Human Genome initiative
Posted on 08 Dec 2010

The Southern African Human Genome Programme (SAHGP) has recently been successful in securing seed-funding from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) to kick-start the work of this ground-breaking national initiative. It will involve collaboration between scientists at education institutions, science councils, government and industry.

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Assupol Tuks beats Pukke in USSA match
Anton Roux
Posted on 07 Dec 2010

Fresh from a win on Monday, 6 December, against Wits, the Assupol Tuks team was up at the crack of dawn, greeted yet again with another fresh south-easterly wind.

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