The Sex Actually festival brings youngsters closer to the real issues they engage with daily, and nightly.
Professor Adam Habib has officially taken over as vice-chancellor at the University of the Witwatersrand, it announced on Sunday.
The University of the Witwatersrand has responded to a report on outsourcing published on Mail & Guardian website on May 28 2013.
Wits university has launched a software outreach programme that will redefine the heart of the city.
The University of the Witwatersrand’s outsourced workers have protested at the East Campus over fears that they stand to lose their jobs.
Wits’s incoming vice-chancellor has rejected attempts to link expensive renovations to difficulty some students face with accommodation.
Students are abusing schedule six pills ahead of exams – with the help of their doctors.
Following claims of a drama lecturer’s sexual harassment, a senior Wits media studies lecturer has been implicated in allegations of improper conduct.
Industrial action at Wits University looks set to become protracted after negotiations stalled and unions accused management of acting in bad faith.
According to a recent study by Wits University, ANC members have played a leading role in most protests across the country.
Mduduzi Manana writes to Professor Peter Vale to say he is committed to delivering quality education in South Africa.
South African institutions are keen to capitalise on the widespread interest the telescope has created, writes Andile Nayika.
Over 200-million people contract malaria each year. The M&G got up close to the Anopheles mosquito, the pest that spreads the disease.
A protest by a group of students over the dismissal of 17 chefs at Wits University has culminated in an indefinite hunger strike.
Wits University continues to practise apartheid-style segregation and treatment of workers, claims a hard-hitting report.
Abebe Zegeye denies he was dismissed after an <i>M&G</i> article on plagiarism.
Mbeki’s elitist views inspired a generation to better themselves — and sealed his downfall.
Scholars may not be among the truly exploited, but they are undervalued, writes <b>Chris Thurman</b>
If a university won’t host a festival of arts and literature, who will? <strong>Percy Zvomuya</strong> reports.
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/ 17 September 2009
As student anger erupted at Wits over fee increases, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande refused to be drawn on whether he will pump up subsidies
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/ 30 October 2008
Stephen Townley Basset’s life pursuit is to reproduce the technical complexity of San rock art, writes
Percy Zvomuya.
Wits University will be paying tribute to the life and career of composer Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph.
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/ 3 September 2008
South African universities get pushed down by developing countries’ universities.
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/ 3 September 2008
The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research hosted a symposium titled Life of the Corpse. We spoke to Pamila Gupta, one of the organisers.
A plan to boost SA’s scientific research has taken a knock, after the Science and Technology Department failed to secure R180-million in funding.
A recent survey reveals the students employers place on a university’s reputation, writes Primarashni Gower.
The University of Johannesburg is spending R25-million on scholarships for master’s and PhD students, some of whom will be guaranteed employment
Engineers, oceanographers and chemists in eight African countries will benefit from three grants of $800 000 each from a new initiative.
Christiané Heiligers says that physics may not seem like an obvious career for a woman. What attracted her to it was its clear-cut laws.
Wits University’s vice-chancellor and deputy vice-chancellor respond to a recent M&G article on the transformation process at the institution.
Leon de Kock looks back on a recent colloquium held at Wits University which focused on the role of publishers in non-fiction.
He was what could justifiably be termed a soccer ”natural”, instinctively going about his business on the field, doing the right thing at the right time. But the tragic death of likeable Wits University and former Bafana Bafana striker Abram Raselemane in Bloemfontein on Tuesday at a time when he was barely into his 30s was anything but natural.