The new, drive-through sculpture exhibition brings to four the number of exhibitions of iconic African and South African art
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/ 7 September 2009
The UN education arm, Unesco, has awarded the Chair in Education Law to the University of Pretoria, the tertiary institution said on Monday.
Stellenbosch has also committed to growing isiXhosa in effort to ‘facilitate social cohesion and promote inclusivity’.
The survivalist group Kommandokorps has warned Afrikaans-speaking students at the university that their language and culture is at stake.
Management of the University of Pretoria are to meet student leaders on Monday afternoon to try resolve the impasse over the future of the university’s Mamelodi campus, vice-chancellor Calie Pistorius said. Students have damaged property in protests against the announcement, at the end of last month, that the university planned to phase out undergraduate programmes at the campus.
The University of Pretoria’s management and the Pan Africanist Movement of Azania refused to budge from their respective positions on Friday. The student body said they would continue with their protest, while management said it would not reopen the campus unless violent protests came to end.
Lectures scheduled to resume at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi campus have been suspended, university management announced on Thursday. ”The cancellation of classes follows the assurance by several student groups that classes would resume on Thursday as normal. However, things have not turned out so,” said Mamelodi campus director Edwin Smith.
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/ 3 September 2008
The University of Pretoria learned with disquiet that it was no longer ranked in the top 500 Universities in the world.
A bake sale where cake prices were determined by a person’s race was broken up by the University of Pretoria’s campus security on Friday. The Freedom Front Plus student organisation, VF+TAS, said it held the sale to illustrate the unfairness of affirmative action. The organisation asked white, Indian and coloured students to pay significantly more for cake than black students.