News & Events (Archive)

Caster Semenya wins silver in London
Danie Cornelius
Posted on 12 Aug 2012

When Caster Semenya was chosen to carry the SA flag during the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, it was a good omen of things to come for the 21-year-old Tukkie athlete.

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TuksSport bags another Olympic medal
Morris Gilbert
Posted on 10 Aug 2012

TuksSport has bagged another medal at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.

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Tuks players selected for the Gauteng North Senior Netball team
Riana Bezuidenhout
Posted on 14 Jun 2012

Congratulations to all Tuks Divas and Tuks 1 players who were selected in the Gauteng North Senior Ladies A and B squads. The tournament is taking place in Johannesburg from 5 - 11 August 2012.

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Expert on self-determination theory visits Faculty of Education
Faculty/Fakulteit
Posted on 23 May 2012

Professor Christopher Niemiec from the University of Rochester, an established scholar and expert on self-determination theory, is visiting the Department of Educational Psychology between 22 and 28 May 2011.

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Drama researchers interrogate masculinity
Chris Broodryk
Posted on 26 Sep 2012

At the conference "Work/Force: South African masculinities in the media" (13-14 September 2012, Stellenbosch), two Drama lecturers and one postgraduate student delivered papers on various aspects of masculinity.

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Discussion with thought leaders
ALCRL
Posted on 26 Sep 2012

A discussion was held at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) with international thought leaders on corporate governance on Monday, 4 September 2012.

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Research on the tax burden of individual taxpayers – a worldwide first
Department of Taxation
Posted on 26 Sep 2012

Theuns Steyn of the Department of Taxation presented a paper at the Tax Research Network 2012 Conference in London during September 2012 with the title “Developing a conceptual framework for evaluating the tax burden of individual taxpayers in South Africa”.

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Staff member elected as President
Department of Human Resource Management
Posted on 20 Sep 2012

Prof Karel Stanz, Head of the Department of Human Resource Management, is the new President of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology in South Africa (SIOPSA) for the term 2012/2013.

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New inter- and trans-disciplinary MA programme in African-European Cultural Relations
Dr Stephan Mühr
Posted on 20 Sep 2012

An exciting new inter- and trans-disciplinary MA programme in African-European Cultural Relations is being launched by the Faculty of Humanities under the leadership of the Department of Modern European Languages at the beginning of 2013.

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Law Clinic represents UP at Carnegie 3
Aniki Grobbelaar/Elzet Hurter
Posted on 20 Sep 2012

Two attorneys from the Law Clinic, Soretha Venter and Patricia Erasmus, attended the "Carnegie 3 - Strategies to Overcome Poverty and Inequality" Conference in Cape Town from 3 to 7 September 2012.

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