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.
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.
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.
TuksSport Awards : 'Awesome Foursome' strike gold (again!)
Morris Gilbert
Posted on 19 Oct 2012
The reigning Olympic Men's Lightweight Four champions struck gold again on Friday, 19 October when rowers James Thompson, Matthew Brittain, John Smith and Sizwe Ndlovu were jointly named TuksSport's 2012 Sportsman of the Year.
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights adopts first General Comment, clarifying article 14(1)(d) and (e) of the African Women’s Protocol
Karen Stefiszyn
Posted on 19 Oct 2012
During its 52nd Session in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) adopted a general comment on article 14(1)(d) and (e) of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (African Women’s Protocol, also known as the Maputo Protocol) which provides for women’s human rights in the context of the HIV pandemic.
A first amongst South African accounting academics
Department of Accounting
Posted on 19 Oct 2012
Stephen Coetzee and Astrid Schmulian, both staff members of the Department of Accounting, received notice that their manuscript, entitled “The effect of IFRS adoption on financial reporting pedagogy in South Africa”, has been accepted for publication in Issues in Accounting Education.
UP's marketing campaigns praised
Nicolize Mulder
Posted on 18 Oct 2012
“The Tuks Campus Board Game is a truly unique and inventive information and marketing strategy. The team from the University of Pretoria is to be highly commended.” This was the opinion of a team of judges at this year’s Marketing, Advancement and Communication in Education (MACE) Awards ceremony that was held in Cape Town last week
Prof Brenda Wingfield elected to ASSAf Council
Martie Meyer
Posted on 18 Oct 2012
Prof Brenda Wingfield, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and a researcher of international calibre, has been elected to the Council of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) for the 2012 to 2016 cycle. The election took place in September 2012.
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