News & Events (Archive)

UP Main Campus: Celebrating 100 years
Ria van der Merwe
Posted on 07 Jan 2010

Although the University of Pretoria was established in 1908 as the Transvaal University College, it only moved to the current campus in Hatfield in 1910.

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Tuks to name four Varsity Cup ‘captains’
Morris Gilbert
Posted on 06 Jan 2010

There is nothing sinister in the decision to name four captains for Tuks’ 2010 Varsity Cup campaign.

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Place in Varsity Cup Final a must for Tuks
Morris Gilbert
Posted on 06 Jan 2010

Tuks I will leave no stone unturned to ensure a place in the final of the 2010 Varsity Cup Series.

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Student tour stops off in Melbourne
Posted on 21 Dec 2009

Tuks students Senade Haupt and Chanelle Birch spent Sunday, 20 December training with ex World Champion Sarah Fitz Gerald in Melbourne, Australia.

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England Cricket performance squad at hpc
Rocco Meiring
Posted on 17 Dec 2009

The English performance squad based themselves at the hpc as part of the England cricket series against South Africa.

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USSA glory for TuksGolf
Posted on 17 Dec 2009

The University of Pretoria made a clean sweep at the annual USSA Golf Tournament, held in Pta from 7-11 December.

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First World Human Rights Moot Court Competition held at the University of Pretoria on 9 December 2009
Posted on 14 Dec 2009

World Human Rights Moot Court: The United Nations celebrations of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 this year included the staging of the first World Human Rights Moot Court Competition, organised with the support of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Judge Navi Pillay was the presiding judge at the moot.

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The Department of Business Management signs MOU with CILTSA
Mnr Wesley Niemann
Posted on 10 Dec 2009

The Department of Business Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences of the University of Pretoria and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport South Africa (CILTSA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 7 December 2009.

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UP Chem Eng graduate wins coveted USA award
P de Vaal
Posted on 05 Dec 2009

Professor Hans van Leeuwen, of Iowa State University, and graduate of UP's Department of Chemical Engineering is the 2009 recipient of R&D Magazine's "Innovator of the year" award

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The Climate Challenge 2009
Sonja van der Waldt
Posted on 03 Dec 2009

Well-known sustainability expert and editor of 'Bending the Curve', Robert Zipplies, in partnership with Project 90 by 2030, is undertook an epic journey on an electric bicycle by cycling from Cape Town to Durban via Johannesburg and Pretoria between 6 November and 5 December 2009.

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