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From classroom to community: Youth-led healthcare delivery
Vertical gardens by OT students help to involve disabled people in meaningful activities while addressing water scarcity and other rural gardening challenges.
3 June 2025
It’s been a good month for Politics
The Political Studies Department celebrated staff and students who made an impact in their field and society.
2 June 2025
We need to do better for our youth
Approximately 51% of the youth from poorer households in Gauteng are not satisfied with their life, and 39% report feeling alienated.
2 June 2025
Plug in. Power up. The future is African-made
There’s a certain kind of energy that builds before something truly powerful happens. This year’s Fak’ugesi Festival is taking shape.
30 May 2025
From classroom to community: Youth-led healthcare delivery
Vertical gardens by OT students help to involve disabled people in meaningful activities while addressing water scarcity and other rural gardening challenges.
3 June 2025
It’s been a good month for Politics
The Political Studies Department celebrated staff and students who made an impact in their field and society.
2 June 2025
We need to do better for our youth
Approximately 51% of the youth from poorer households in Gauteng are not satisfied with their life, and 39% report feeling alienated.
2 June 2025
Plug in. Power up. The future is African-made
There’s a certain kind of energy that builds before something truly powerful happens. This year’s Fak’ugesi Festival is taking shape.
30 May 2025
Puff adders emerge as unlikely heroes in crop protection, offering a natural rodent control solution. Wits scientists make a cancer breakthrough, identifying two new breast cancer genes in Black South African women. The University secures a major AI climate grant from the Bezos Earth Fund to advance forecasting across Africa. Yebo Gogga 2025 dazzles with interactive exhibits on nature’s wild wonders, and a new Lancet report co-authored by Wits warns that climate change, conflict, and digital disruption threaten adolescent health progress.
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EventsAll Events
04Jun
Inaugural lecture of Professor Yusuf IsaSolomon Mahlangu House17:00
10Jun
A Comparative Study of Colonial Legacies and Water Governance in South Africa and Zimbabwe 2nd Floor Station Building, Braamfontein. 13:00
17Jun
Summer Institutes in Computational Social ScienceOnline Event08:00
30Jun
50th annual conference of the South African Association of BotanistsWits Rural Facility Campus08:30
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