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STEPHANIE COOKSON While the issue of food insecurity among students in South Africa is well known, the University of Pretoria is home to food sustainability projects that hope to tackle it. PDBY spoke to the organisers of UP’s Community Engagement food gardens, as well as the Mamelodi Business School’s garden project. UP Community Engagement, which is a part of the Department of Education Innovation, has made use of unused land in Hatfield to build vegetable gardens. “The two sites [are] now called Reliable House and Moja Gabedi”, explained Ms Gernia van Niekerk, the Manager of Community Engagement. Moja Gabedi also “serves as a therapy gardenRead More →

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KENDALL BEHR Three University of Pretoria (UP) women are among 15 semi-finalists in the Miss South Africa pageant. They are: Sithole, a fourth-year Law student, Musida, a UP Social Sciences graduate, and Dr Ramdev, a MBChB graduate. Matsepo Sithole (21) – voting number 8. Sithole is in her fourth year of studying law, and her dream is to elevate South Africa’s creative industries using her law degree. She is from Pietermaritzburg and is passionate about the arts and is inspired by current Miss SA, Sasha-Lee Olivier to be comfortable in her own skin. She plans to use her platform as Miss South Africa to shareRead More →