SRC holds first mass meeting
January 28, 2019
Resego Molele On 23 April, the SRC announced on their official Facebook page that they would b...
UP in possession of possible Rembrandt
May 18, 2018
Ricardo Teixeira The 107-year-old Old Arts building at the University of Pretoria wa...
Additional funds allocated to NSFAS
May 18, 2018
Henri Uys Minister of Higher Education and Training, Naledi Pandor, announced on 24 April that...
Action taken against Kyle Goosen for racial slur
April 23, 2018
Koketso Ngwenya On 18 October 2017, SRC member for Marketing Media and Communications Kyle Goo...
UP to distribute condoms on campus
April 23, 2018
Henri Uys By the end of May this year, male and female condoms will be available for staff and...
CSG amendment suggestions poorly communicated
April 23, 2018
M BALI MKHITHI On the 27 March, the First Quarter Student Forum was held by the SRC in the ...
Engineering Study Centre floods
April 23, 2018
Ditebogo Tshaka On 12 April, the Engineering Study Centre on Hatfield campus flooded. A video ...
Water and electricity cuts inconvenience OP res students
April 23, 2018
Katherine Atkinson Students at Onderstepoort residence have experienced frequent water and ele...
SRC first quarterly Student Forum collapses
April 1, 2018
UPDATE: In a previous version of this article we stated that SRC Treasurer Duanne van Wyk "shoute...
TuksFM donates profits to the SRC
March 26, 2018
HENRI UYS On 23 March, TuksFM donated its profits from 2016 to the Student Representative Counci...
SRC calls for first quarter student forum meeting
March 12, 2018
Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that all questions for the SRC ...
UP’s Wi-Fi network frustrates students
March 5, 2018
Henri Uys UP provides free Wi-Fi services to its students and staff across most of its campuse...
Students unhappy with UP’s take on gender-based violence
March 5, 2018
Masesi Tsotetsi As reported by The Citizen on 19 February, UP students are unhappy with the univ...
Mamelodi Campus Alumni Club launched
March 5, 2018
Shaun Sproule and Ricardo Teixeira On Saturday 17 February 2018, the University of Pretoria Mame...
Back to School Student Drive
February 21, 2018
Masesi Tsotetsi Menlyn Park Shopping Centre together with UP, ran a Back to School Student Driv...
Law House Launch Book Drive
February 21, 2018
Refilwe Mofokeng and Mbali Mkhithi Law House has organised a book drive to assists students wh...
UP students create transport initiative
January 26, 2018
DITEBOGO TSHAKA Three UP students have created a first year transport initiative in which they...
Tuks technology and app support
January 25, 2018
MBALI MKHITHI Many of the services available on campus are found online or arrangements to uti...
The UP Student Portal
January 25, 2018
MBALI MKHITHI The student portal is an online gateway where UP students can log into the unive...
SRC calls for mandate from students at mass meeting
October 30, 2017
CHAD JOHNSTON On 27 October, the SRC called a mass meeting at the amphitheatre of the Hatfield c...
UP’s 2018 proposed fees increase
October 25, 2017
DITEBOGO TSHAKA On 23 October, UP’s SRC released a statement highlighting UP’s proposed fee incr...
CSA&G senior staff member faces sexual harassment charges
October 23, 2017
DITEBOGO TSHAKA AND KOKETSO NGWENYA On 16 October a group of students and volunteers at the Cent...
SRC member apologises for using a racial slur
October 23, 2017
DITEBOGO TSHAKA Kyle Goosen, SRC representative for Marketing Media and Communications is facing...
Dennis Ngango: UP’s rising social star
October 17, 2017
REFILWE MOFOKENG On 7 October UP student, Dennis Ngango, made it to the top three of the Samsu...
#DESACares gives back to the female community
October 17, 2017
MASESI TSOTETSI The staff members for the Department of Enrolment and Student Administration (...
UP preserves unframed art
October 17, 2017
KOKETSO NGWENYA AND DITEBOGO TSHAKA On 27 September, the Department of UP Arts announced that ...
SRC joins forces to combat campus hunger
October 17, 2017
MBALI MKHITHI From 10-11 October, the UP SRC, in collaboration with academic representatives fro...
Tuks pride week at a glance
October 10, 2017
CHAD JOHNSTON LGBTIAQ+ society, UP&Out hosted pride week from 26 to 29 September, which ai...
Perdebate 18 September 2017
September 22, 2017
On 8 September the ex-officio SRC members, who could not be inaugurated along with the elective S...
New UP research facility, Future Africa, under construction
September 18, 2017
MARKO SVICEVIC A new research facility for UP, Future Africa, is currently under construction on...
Solar Power at UP underway
September 18, 2017
MARKO SVICEVIC UP’s Hatfield Campus will soon boast an impressive array of solar panels on some ...
Constitutional clause causes chaos: Black ex-officio SRC members step down for white candidates to take their places
September 11, 2017
MARKO SVICEVIC, SHAUN SPROULE, HENRI UYS, CHAD JOHNSTON On 31 August, the 2017/2018 Student Repr...
CAAC creates awareness for disabilities
September 11, 2017
HENRI UYS On 1 September, the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) hoste...
Anti-Discrimination Week overview
September 11, 2017
NTOMBI MKANDHLA In light of drafting a new anti-discrimination policy, UP ran an Anti-Discrimina...
Campus News Bites 11 September 2017
September 11, 2017
UP’s Aula Lawn to be temporarily closed The Aula Lawn on UP’s Hatfield campus will be closed tem...
Meet your writer: Lesego Rampolokeng
February 18, 2017
NTOMBI MKANDHLA On 12 September the Department of English, in collaboration with the Department ...
Fees Commission report still to reach Zuma
August 28, 2017
TOMBI MKANDHLA Business Live reported that President Jacob Zuma has not yet received the Fees ...
Higher Education Convention dispruted
May 27, 2017
DANICA CHARLES On 18 March, the Higher Education Convention, organised by former Constitutional...
SAPS releases latest crime statistics
April 11, 2017
MARKO SVICEVIC The South African Police Service (SAPS), in collaboration with Statistics South A...
South Africa’s junk status
April 5, 2017
LORINDA MARRIAN AND SAVANNAH PLASKITT On 3 April, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) – an American ...
South Africa’s junk status
April 5, 2017
LORINDA MARRIAN AND SAVANNAH PLASKITT On 3 April, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) – an American ...
Western Cape High Court rules in favour of marijuana use at home
April 3, 2017
HUVASAN REDDY On 31 March, the Western Cape High Court ruled that it was an infringement to ba...
National Treasury to unpack 2017 budget at UP
March 21, 2017
MARKO SVICEVIC On 23 March, the National Treasury will be unpacking the 2017 budget for students...
Safe and legal abortions via SMS
March 14, 2017
HENRI UYS Fem is a new service that assists South Africans with legal and safe abortions. The ...
Brooklyn SAPS and Namola partner to fight crime
March 6, 2017
MARKO SVICEVIC Brooklyn SAPS in collaboration with developers of the Namola app have launched ...
Solly Msimanga speaks on student issues
March 6, 2017
MARKO SVICEVIC AND POOJA PUNDIT Solly Msimanga, Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane and UP gr...
New bill aims to raise legal drinking age
February 20, 2017
Intervarsity News 16 October 2017
October 17, 2017
University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) On 12 September Wits announced it is set to enhance and c...
Intervarsity News 18 September 2017
September 18, 2017
Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) On 11 September an arson attack was reported on C...
Intervarsity News 4 September 2017
September 4, 2017
University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) According to The Citizen, the Wits SRC President, Deputy ...
Intervarsity News 28 August 2017
August 28, 2017
niversity of Cape Town (UCT) The University of Cape Town recently announced a new degree that no...
Intervarsity News 14 August 2017
August 14, 2017
University of KwaZulu- Natal (UKZN) The investigation has resulted in a search and seizure ope...
Intervarsity News 15 May 2017
May 15, 2017
Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Two weeks after receiving her honours degree in Edu...
Intervarsity News 8 May 2017
May 9, 2017
University of Cape Town (UCT) Researchers at UCT’s Drug Discovery and Development Centre H3D, ...
Intervarsity News 3 April
April 3, 2017
University of Witwatersrand (Wits) On 24 March, the Wits Department of Journalism hosted the T...
Intervarsity News 27 March 2017
March 27, 2017
University of Cape Town (UCT) On 11 and 18 March 2017, UCT’s Information and Communication Techn...
80 years of Perdeby: A look back at South Africa’s oldest student newspaper
May 18, 2018
The first editions of Perdeby look very different to what we know today. The first papers were te...
80 years of Perdeby: A look back at South Africa’s oldest student newspaper
April 23, 2018
Perdeby online since 1995 In 1995, Perdeby became the first ever student newspaper in South Af...
