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Expand your knowledge with free photographic workshop
Alida Green
Posted on 30 Apr 2013

The next photographic workshop of 2013, presented by the University Archives along with Q-Photo and Vega, will start on Saturday 11 May 2013 at 09:00 in HB 4-1.

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Dressing for the Graduation ceremony
Alida Green
Posted on 05 Apr 2013

The 2013 autumn graduation ceremony will begin on the 3rd April, 83 years after the first graduation ceremony took place in October 1930.

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Tourism research knows no boundaries
Richard Wyllie
Posted on 15 Mar 2013

Representatives from the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies and the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology were invited to present their research findings of a study at a Research Colloquium of the National Department of Tourism (NDT) on 12 March 2013 in Johannesburg.

This signified the completion of the first phase of a research project entitled, ‘Understanding the Concept of Cross-Border Guiding in Southern Africa’ which was commissioned by the NDT.

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Save the dates
UP Archives
Posted on 22 Feb 2013

Save the following dates for the popular and free UP Archives/ QPhoto photographic workshops. Workshops will be presented on the Hatfield campus of the University of Pretoria.

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Soccer at UP
UP Archives
Posted on 15 Feb 2013

Soccer was one of the first sports to be practised at the TUC (Transvaal University College), the forerunner of UP. When the rugby club was established in 1909, the soccer club already existed.

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Ienks and Rag
UP Archives
Posted on 21 Dec 2012

The former Transvaal University College (TUC) had so few students that first years were not initiated in the early years.

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Winners of the UP Archives/ Q-Photo photo competition
UP Archives
Posted on 19 Oct 2012

This year the UP Archives, together with Q-Photo and Vega, celebrated a decade of presenting a very successful collaborative photographic project.

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Free photographic workshop presented by the UP Archives, Q-Photo and Vega
UP Archives
Posted on 10 Sep 2012

The fourth photographic workshop presented by the University of Pretoria Archives, in association with Q-Photo and Vega starts on Saturday 15 September 2012 at 09:00 in HSB 4-1.

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Commemorating the Aula
UP Archives/UP Argiewe
Posted on 27 Aug 2012

In the early days of the Transvaal University College there was not a hall for larger student meetings on the Hatfield campus. For that reason graduation ceremonies, for example, took place in the Pretoria City Hall, with the Graduation Ball being held at a hotel in the city centre.

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‘Photo book know how’: presented by the UP Archives and Q-Photo
UP Archives
Posted on 25 Jul 2012

Do you have digital photographs cluttering your computer? Do you have stacks of CDs and do not know where to find any of your photos?

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Extracts from collections in the UP Archives: Architecture on the Tukkie Campus
UP Archives
Posted on 11 Jul 2012

Almost everything relating to Tukkies’ past finds its way to the UP Archives. This includes official reports of minutes and meetings to photos and newspaper clippings covering more than a century of campus activities.

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UP Archives/Q-Photo photo competition: Workshop 2, 12 May 2012
UP Archives
Posted on 03 May 2012

This year the UP Archives, together with Q-Photo and Vega, will be celebrating a decade of presenting a very successful collaborative photography project.

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Closing date of the UP Archives/Q-Photo first assignment extended
UP Archives
Posted on 16 Mar 2012

The handing in of CDs and films for the UP Archives/Q-Photo photographic workshops’ first assignment has been extended to Monday, 19 March.

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UP Archives/Q-Photo competition: a decade of photography, a decade of prizes
UP Archives
Posted on 17 Feb 2012

This year the UP Archives, together with Q-Photo and Vega, will be celebrating a decade of presenting a very successful collaborative photography project.

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The beginning of Rag
UP Archives
Posted on 15 Feb 2012

According to the Afrikaans Dictionary the word “ienk” means a “first year student at the University of Pretoria”. It is a term that originated on the Tukkies campus and is used nowhere else.

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Photographic skills reach new heights
UP Archives
Posted on 04 Nov 2011

This is the ninth year that the University of Pretoria Archives has presented the photographic workshops and competition with the generous support and sponsorship of Q-Photo, Vega and Fujifilm.

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Open your shutters with the fourth free photographic workshop
Alida Green
Posted on 12 Sep 2011

The fourth photographic workshop presented by the University of Pretoria Archives, in association with Q-Photo, Fujifilm and Vega, starts on Saturday 17 September 2011 at 09:00 in HSB 4-1.

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'A Walk through Time'
Posted on 22 Aug 2011

On the evening of Friday 12 August 2011 the honours students in Heritage and Cultural Studies teamed up with the final year Consumer Science students to create a gastronomic walk back in time.

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Open your shutters with free photographic workshop
Alida Green
Posted on 27 Jul 2011

The third photographic workshop presented by the University of Pretoria Archives, in association with Q-Photo, Fujifilm and Vega, starts on Saturday 30 July 2011 at 09:00

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Remembering Tukkies
Posted on 26 May 2011

The following poem appeared in "Die Perdeby" on 31 August 1984.

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Q-Photo and UP Archives Photographic Workshops
Alida Green
Posted on 02 Mar 2011

More than 150 students, staff and members of the public attended the first of four Q-Photo and UP Archives photographic workshop on Saturday 26 February.

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Q-Photo and UP Archives Photographic Workshops
Alida Green
Posted on 11 Feb 2011

The popular Q-Photo and UP Archives photographic Saturday workshops, presented by Vega, will start again on 26 February 2011.

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From fact to fiction: Kekena's 'Krazy Rose'
Yvonne Smith
Posted on 06 Dec 2010

"...one could say the house was smiling, the corners of its lips bursting with a richness of history so ready to be told it oozed out in the little crescent cuts of the roof and the artistic sash windows..." So follows Dikgang Kekana's description of Kya Rosa in his winning short story for the Kya Rosa Fact to Fiction Writing Competition.

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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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Eastern exposure-three UP students achieve success in international photography competition
Yvonne Smith
Posted on 08 Oct 2010

Bertus Ras, Franco Megannon and Marinet Vorster, all participants in the UP Archives Q-photo photographic workshops and competition, received international acclaim in the recent International Inter-University Photography Exhibition (IIUPE) held in Bangladesh.

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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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International Museum Day 18 May 2009
Posted on 13 May 2009

Come and join the UP Museums and Archives on 18 May to commemorate International Museum Day.

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