In a statement from STUKU, it is explained that the name change was suggested by the Executive Management of the University. This year’s event, set to take place from 7 to 12 August, will be known as UP A Capella, after which an official name change will be carried...
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Queer Africa 2: New Stories launched at UP
The QSC is an informal group that aims to make UP more inclusive of queer identity through creative writing and expression. GALA is an organisation started by Graeme Reid in 1996 that aims to collect personal records and literature that discusses queer identity. They...
All the things are chemical
An easy way to illustrate the predicament of the portrayal of science in media at the moment is using the shape of the Earth. The Earth is round. If you want to be even more factual than that you would say that the Earth is an ‘oblate spheroid.’ While scientists are...
Campus News Bites 31 July 2017
UP researchers assist in fight against bird flu outbreak Researchers at UP, together with the poultry industry and the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, are working to contain the current H5N8 variant of bird flu. The strain of bird flu has already...
Anti-discrimination policy in the works
In a statement issued on 24 July, ADPWG acknowledged that there is a need to build a more “inclusive, transformed and reflexive institution,” given UP’s history which they described as “complex and laden”. Historically, the institution has excluded different groups of...
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