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Artificial intelligence is already responding to our needs

Opinion Tshilidzi Marwala - 17 Jun 2020

Engineering students are best prepared for the shift in gear, but they will need to learn to change lanes

Engineering slips out of gear at varsity

Education Sabelo Skiti - 21 May 2020

Walter Sisulu University wants to reprioritise R178-million that it stands to give back to treasury after failing to spend it

“Independent” and “outspoken” Turok dies

Article Lester Kiewit - 9 Dec 2019

The former ANC MP was known as one of SA’s foremost thinkers and an author of the Freedom Charter

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US-UK-Japan trio win chemistry Nobel for lithium-ion battery

Article Pia Ohlin - 9 Oct 2019

The trio will receive the prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10

The past, the present and the future at UP

Article Tawana Kupe - 20 Sep 2019

The university is launching four transdisciplinary initiatives to harness knowledge in the 4IR era

The road to success is always under construction

Article Advertising Supplement - 26 Oct 2018

Sanral is proud to be voted one of South Africa's Top Employers 2019

Engineering body removes CEO for comments on women

Article Tehillah Nieselow - 7 Sep 2018

SAICE president Errol Kerst says the board has spent many hours 'carefully deliberating the matter'

Old boy club dominates engineering

Article Staff Reporter - 8 Aug 2018

Women who raise their voices against the sexism in this field do so at the risk of their careers

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Engineering body calls urgent meeting over CEO’s comments on women

Article Tehillah Nieselow - 7 Aug 2018

SAICE is under pressure to act after lobby group for women in engineering, WomEng called on the organisation to 'rethink their choice of CEO'

Lifetime focus to improve service delivery

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Jun 2018

Lifetime Award by an individual

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SMME changes the global landscape of superconducting and quantum circuit design

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Jun 2018

Innovation Award: SMME for innovations and their research and/or development by a team or individual

Slice of Life: Green is the new black

Article Sihle Manda - 4 Jul 2017

As a 28-year-old green engineer, I stood up in front of hundreds of professionals at a conference and was asked to contextualise green-building...

Women in tech talk about marginalisation and how to shatter glass ceilings

Article Staff Reporter - 26 Aug 2016

They believe they’re not taken seriously so a Cape Town conference was held to explore solutions.

Women engineers quit over men’s attitudes

Article Staff Reporter - 22 Aug 2015

The International Labour Organisation has long urged to change old attitudes, saying that failure to do so is an obstacle to nations' progress.

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Engineering’s green dream must get real

Article Van Rensburg - 6 Jun 2014

Applied sciences must be environmentally sound, but first we have to improve the way they’re taught.

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