Professor Ncoza Dlova, Dean and Head of UKZN’s School of Clinical Medicine.Click here for isiZulu version
Dean and Head of UKZN’s School of Clinical Medicine ,Professor Ncoza Dlova has launched a fund to support Medical students with historic debt.
Ms Maryam Mahomed is the SAMSA President for 2022.Click here for isiZulu version
Third-year Medical student, Ms Maryam Mahomed has been elected President of the South African Medical Students Association (SAMSA) for 2022.
Cyclone Idai in 2019 was among the most recent intense tropical cyclones to make landfall along southern Africa.An international study led out of UKZN and published in the journal Nature Geoscience has used state-of-the-art techniques to investigate seabed sediments, revealing that severe tropical cyclones made landfall along the eastern coast of South Africa in the past and that under projected climate change conditions, these damaging phenomena could arise in the future.
Co-authors of this novel study were Professor Sabiha Essack and Mr Daniel Berman.Click here for isiZulu version
A study co-conducted by a UKZN academic has revealed a “worrying” five-year trend in South Africa of rapidly increasing reliance on last resort antibiotics as bacteria continue at an increasing rate to develop resistance to the most common “access” and “watch” antibiotics - the first and second line of defence against bacterial infections.
Hlosiwe Mthalane aka DJ Hlo.
Ms Nozibusiso Vezi, UKZN Music graduate.
Professor Donal McCracken with his new book and on the right one of the threatening letters.Author and veteran UKZN academic Professor Donal McCracken has written a most unusual book! It’s about the history of ‘threatening letters’ in 19th century rural Ireland, titled: You will dye at midnight: Threatening letters in Victorian Ireland. (Eastwood Books, Dublin).
The dust cover for a new book co-edited by UKZN academics.Discipline of Information Systems and Technology academics Dr Upasana Singh and Dr Craig Blewett have co-edited a new book, with Professor Sid Nair, from Australia, and an Honorary Professor in the School of MIG, and Dr Timothy Shea from the USA, titled: Academic Voices: A Conversation on New Approaches to Teaching and Learning in the post-COVID World.
The lecture series co-presented by UKZN gave insight into various aspects of civil engineering.UKZN’s Discipline of Civil Engineering teamed up with the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) and SANLAM Life to present a series of lectures on engineering infrastructure that featured a line-up of top speakers who covered a range of topics over 10 weeks.
The Edgewood Campus Residence Life Team 2022. 
.Matric results excitement veils bigger problems in our schooling system that we should be worried about. I believe this situation has been left unattended for the last 27 years and it is thus high time we confront the elephant in the room!
Co-author of the study, UKZN’s Professor Refiloe Masekela.Click here for isiZulu version
An international multi-centre study has found that children in sub-Saharan Africa who are hospitalised with COVID-19 are dying at a rate far higher than children in the United States and Europe.
Winners of the best oral presentations across the five Schools in the College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science.
Professor Deevia Bhana who has been awarded a B1 rating from the NRF.Click here for isiZulu version
Professor Deevia Bhana of the School of Education has been awarded a B1 rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF).
Professor Purshottama Reddy (left) and Professor Henry Wissink.
Msizi Chatbot is now available on WhatsApp.
Ms Aisha Gambo and Professor Nceba Gqaleni.PhD student in the Discipline of Public Health, Ms Aisha Gambo, and her supervisor Professor Nceba Gqaleni, have published a research article evaluating the effects of the Moringa oleifera leaf supplementation on the CD4 count, viral load and anthropometric of HIV positive adults on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Nigeria.
UKZN lecturer Dr Ntokozo Mkhize-Mthembu with book character Tippie the elephant and her children’s books.
