Dutch company, INTRODANS, joins JOMBA! showcasing dance works from their award winning repertoire.The 17th annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience, presented by The Centre for Creative Arts (CCA) within the College of Humanities, opens at UKZN on 26 August and continues until 6 September.
From left: Dr Bheki Mngomezulu, Dr Ela Gandhi, Professor Betty Govinden and Mayor Yusuf Bhamjee pictured at the Special Collections’ Open Day.The 60th anniversary of the Freedom Charter and the valuable documents archived at the University were the focus of UKZN’s Special Collections Open Day on the Westville campus.
Miss Camille Vallen.
Golf Day Bursary recipients with Ms Avril Williamson (centre).
The Agri-Groomers group with Cedara and UKZN staff. Students at the Cedara College of Agriculture and UKZN have formed a group called Agri-Groomers, which aims to equip young people for careers in agriculture.
Masters student Ms Kholosa Magudu at work in the field. UKZN Masters student Ms Kholosa Magudu was recently awarded the prestigious World Wildlife Fund’s Prince Bernhard Scholarship for Nature Conservation, one of only two South Africans to have received the international honour.
Professor Cheryl Potgieter (centre), Ms Debbie Mari (left), and UKZN Music students. Staff and students from the School of Arts (Music) participated and performed at the National Youth Jazz Festival (NJYF) in Grahamstown.
SAICE President Malcom Pautz addressing students at UKZN.The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) President Mr Malcom Pautz addressed Civil Engineering students and staff on the Howard College campus as part of his presidential tour of the 20 branches of the institution in South Africa.
Professor Linda Fried at the public lecture.
Professor Nfah-Abbenyi presenting a public lecture at the Howard College Theatre.Curriculum transformation in the age of globalisation was the focus of a public lecture hosted by the UKZN Teaching & Learning Office (UTLO) and presented by academic and author Professor Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, Professor in English and Comparative Literature at North Carolina University in the United States.
Dr Luiza Campos, Dr Alfred Odindo and Professor Chris Buckley with the Pollution Research Group’s urine-diverting toilet.Researchers from UKZN’s Schools of Chemical Engineering and Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences (SAEES) travelled to the University College London (UCL) for a visit made possible by the Royal Society Newton Grant which has been awarded for a two-year period to researchers from both institutions.
Ms Feyisayo Odunitan-Wayas, Mr Thabiso Koatla of the Agricultural Research Council (left) and Mr Aremu Ayobami of Greenlands Integrated Agribusiness in Nigeria at the Conference. A student at UKZN’s African Centre for Food Security (ACFS) in the School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences (SAEES), Ms Feyisayo Odunitan-Wayas, presented her work done on the literature review of her PhD at the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association’s (IFAMA) annual World Conference in the United States.
UKZN’s HIV and AIDS Programme commemorated Mandela Day this year by visiting the Outspan Retirement Centre in Umbilo in Durban where peer educators from the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine provided edutainment and a talk on Wellness and Aging to residents.
From left: Mr Kudzai Kehle, Ms Prinola Moodley and Mrs Anne Hemmings who collected her son Jonathan’s first prize.
Dr Mariam Seedat-Khan.Clinical Sociologist and UKZN academic Dr Mariam Seedat-Khan delivered a keynote address at the Boys2Men Leadership Initiative Conference hosted in Durban by the Businesswomen’s Association (BWA).
Powerful Women: From Left: Ms Philippa Feher, Ms Palesa Dube, Dr Mogie Subban, Ms Hazel Langa and Ms Manju Munsamy.The College of Law and Management Studies recently held a Women’s Day celebration for its female staff. The event which was held in partnership with Old Mutual saw over a 130 support and academic women staff members being empowered to make sound financial, personal, lifestyle and wellness decisions for the future.
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‘The territorial imperative.’ These words penned by pop sociobiologist Robert Ardrey came to mind when I recently read a headline of the good King Goodwill lodging a land claim for the whole of KZN, while also demanding reparations from the British for the destruction of Ondine in 1879.
Professor Cheryl Potgieter, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Humanities.Over the years and especially during Women’s Month in South Africa I have often been asked this question by interviewers: ‘If you had the opportunity to host two or three women “icons” at a Woman’s Day lunch at your home who would they be and what would the conversation revolve around?’
Amalungu e-SA Youth Climate Coalition ekhempasini yase-Mgungundlovu.Click here for English version
I-South African Youth Climate Change Coalition (SAYCCC) ibinomhlangano mayelana nezeMvelo e-UKZN ekhempasini...
Mr Warrant (Warren) Langa.
Mr Nikhiel Deeplal with Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf. 
Pietermaritzburg campus Trade School.
Dr Graham Ducasse, Principal Neo-Natologist at Grey’s Hospital in Pietermaritzburg, facilitating a small group session on the neo-natal resuscitation module of ESMOE held at UKZN’s Family Medicine Skills Laboratory.KwaZulu-Natal has the country’s highest number of health professionals being trained as ‘Master Trainers’ in the management of pregnancy related emergencies - a programme funded by UKZN’s Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI).
Participants at the second workshop on modelling for tick-borne diseases.UKZN’s School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (SMSCS) hosted the second Siyacabanga (isiZulu for ‘we think’) two-day workshop on the topic of ticks and tick-borne diseases, attracting a diverse group of participants who learned about and participated in mathematical modelling in relation to ticks and tick-borne diseases.
Mr Siyabonga Kunene and Dr Tufayl Muslim.
UKZN exchange student Claire Puntous (right) with colleagues (from left) Anne-Maria, Kim, Katrin, and Veronika, during one of their many adventures in South Africa.
Masters student Mr Thabang Mofokeng with Dr Jennifer Houghton.Graduate School of Business and Leadership Studies (GSB&L) academic, Dr Jennifer Houghton and her Masters student Mr Thabang Mofokeng represented UKZN at the East3Route Investment Seminar, a multi-country economic development initiative including South Africa (KZN), Mozambique, Swaziland, and Seychelles.
From left: Mr Allin Dangers of Corobrik with Ms Brigitte Stevens and Mr Mthembeni Mkhize (UKZN).
Mr Norman Dlamini of Forestry South Africa (left) with UKZN student Mr Bhekisisa Nxumalo.UKZN student in Agricultural Extension and Rural Resource Management (AERRM), Mr Bhekisisa Nxumalo, attended the 49th annual conference of the South African Society for Agricultural Extension (SASAE) held in Mpumalanga.
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Participants at a SA Research Chair Initiative inception workshop.A two-day inception workshop was hosted by UKZN’s South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) on Applied Poverty Reduction Assessment within the School of Built Environment and Development Studies (BEDS).
UKZN’s HIV and AIDS Programme hosted a fashion show on the Medical School campus to raise awareness about the growing number of unplanned pregnancies among students and to encourage them to use various contraceptive methods provided by clinics across all campuses.
