News & Events (Archive)

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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TuksRugby : Heyneke only advisor, not Tuks 1 coach
Posted on 07 Dec 2010

Heyneke Meyer's involvement with FNB Tuks 1's 2011 FNB Varsity Cup campaign will only be that of advisor and not head coach as widely reported in the main stream media.

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University of Pretoria Camerata wins at international choral competition
UP Arts
Posted on 06 Dec 2010

The University of Pretoria Camerata received an early Christmas present in snow covered Bratislava.

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Photography in focus: the eighth annual Q-Photo Competition
Yvonne Smith
Posted on 06 Dec 2010

The eighth award ceremony of the annual photographic workshop series, sponsored by Q-Photo, FujiFilm and the photographic college, Vega, took place on 2 November 2010. "This project continues to reach new heights, not only in terms of student participation, but also as regards their photographic ability," said University of Pretoria (UP) Registrar, Prof. Niek Grové, at the opening of the prize-giving function.

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TuksCricket : Tuks 1 ends first round as undisputed pace setter
Posted on 02 Dec 2010

Assupol Tuks 1 ended the first round of the NCU Premier League on a very high note last Saturday when they outplayed CBCOB 1.

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TuksAquatics : Tuks take USSA crown
Posted on 02 Dec 2010

Tuks have broken a three year drought by claiming the USSA title of overall champion at the recent USSA Aquatics Championships.

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Successes for MYRE leaders and the team
Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Posted on 01 Dec 2010

Not only has the MPEPU Rural Youth Encouragement Programme (MRYE) in the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) become a flagship community engagement project, but some of the members also perform extremely well on different occasions.

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Three new UP ASSAf members
Posted on 30 Nov 2010

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) have elected three UP academics as members in 2010.

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Save a Sole campaign with Pierre Spies
Bernard
Posted on 30 Nov 2010

Boekenhout and Katjiepiering recently started the Save a Sole campaign with the help of Pierre Spies.
See the YouTube video!

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Book about conversations with leading South African business CEO's launched
Posted on 29 Nov 2010

The book launch of the book titled Courageous Conversations, took place on 25 November in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Johannesburg.
Courageous Conversations is a multi-media collection of conversations between the renowned financial journalist and author, David Gleason and fourteen of South Africa's leading business Chief Executive Officers (CEO's).

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