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Calling all Activity Advocates
Wits launches SA Chapter of Global Alliance for the Promotion of Physical Activity and Health.
10 July 2026
Trailblazers who achieved firsts in cardiology, mathematics and business to be honoured
Wits will confer honorary doctorates on Dr Reuel Khoza, Dr Joseph Mokoena and Prof. Kubedi Mokhobo, and cap 2282 Witsies during the winter graduation season.
10 July 2026
Student gambling: What is the real crisis?
What the rise of student gambling tells us about South Africa, student wellbeing and the future of higher education.
10 July 2026
Calling all Activity Advocates
Wits launches SA Chapter of Global Alliance for the Promotion of Physical Activity and Health.
10 July 2026
Trailblazers who achieved firsts in cardiology, mathematics and business to be honoured
Wits will confer honorary doctorates on Dr Reuel Khoza, Dr Joseph Mokoena and Prof. Kubedi Mokhobo, and cap 2282 Witsies during the winter graduation season.
10 July 2026
Student gambling: What is the real crisis?
What the rise of student gambling tells us about South Africa, student wellbeing and the future of higher education.
10 July 2026
Wits Brian and Dorothy Zylstra Sports Complex
The R300m Wits Brian and Dorothy Zylstra Sports Complex, an integrated training, exercise, clinical practice, and research complex, launches at Wits University. Located on the Wits Education Campus in Parktown, next to the Linder Auditorium, this Wits Centenary project is a flagship institute for training, exercise, teaching, research, and services in sports science and exercise medicine, in the heart of Johannesburg.
Learn MoreWits hosted Africa’s first data science conference to advance AI for Africa. New research links gum disease to early human evolution, and a study questions whether Johannesburg’s electricity loan will improve power services soon. Wits arts students gained global experience to strengthen South Africa’s creative industries, while African genetic research is helping doctors prescribe safer, more effective medicines.
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