TuksSwimming : Roland bags silver in freestyle final
Posted on 10 Oct 2010
He might be coming to the end of his illustrious international career, but TuksSwimming ace Roland Schoeman still made his presence felt at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi by winning three medals.
TuksAhtletics : LJ relinquishes Commonwealth title
Posted on 10 Oct 2010
Tuks' LJ van Zyl on Sunday relinquished his Commonwealth Games 400m hurdles title to Dai Greene but the Welshman had to work for Wales' first gold medal of the Games.
UP works with Government on water for rural schools
Hannes Rautenbach
Posted on 02 Feb 2011
The UP Water Institute, through the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology (GGM), has started to work with the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs and the South African Weather Service (SAWS) on fog water collection in high topography rural areas.
TuksRugby : New look team to face Madibaz
Posted on 02 Feb 2011
The Tuks 1 team to take on the Madibaz (NMMU) on Monday (7 February) in Port Elizabeth in the opening round of the 2011 FNB Varsity Cup Competition was announced on Wednesday.
LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)
Yolanda Booyzen
Posted on 02 Feb 2011
In 2011, the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, once again hosts 30 of Africa's brightest legal minds. These 30 students, from 17 countries across the continent, study towards the LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa) degree. They spend the first semester of six months at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, before embarking on a second semester at one of the twelve partner universities of the programme across the continent.
New Tukkie plants a new Jacket-Plum tree
Posted on 31 Jan 2011
The TuksAlumni Office at the University of Pretoria presented their annual tree planting ceremony on the Hatfield campus during the University's Welcoming Day for first-year students on 29 January 2011.
ENHANS International Workshop aims to reduce disaster risk due to extreme natural hazards in Africa
Martie Maree
Posted on 27 Jan 2011
"Africa is a continent with enormous natural disaster risks. In comparison with developed countries (like Australia, Japan or USA), which are able to recover from such disasters rather quickly, most of the inhabitants in Africa are very poor and may loose everything when extreme natural hazards like floods, droughts, or earthquakes occur," explains Prof Andrzej Kijko.
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