Professor Suna Kassier discusses the link between COVID-19 and obesity, and makes suggestions for keeping weight levels down.Click here for isiZulu version
Professor Suna Kassier of the Discipline of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at UKZN has offered insight into the role obesity plays in the current COVID-19 pandemic, offering advice to everyone in lockdown about how to keep spirits up and weight down.
Dr Thea van der Westhuizen and Mr Wise Sambo.Click here for isiZulu version
COVID-19 poses a challenge to the Higher Education landscape at a magnitude similar to the emergence of technology-supported online instruction.
From left: Professor Relebohile Moletsane, Professor Nirmala Gopal, Dr Angeline Stephens, Ms Kerry Frizelle, and Ms Janine Hicks.
.COVID-19 crept upon us surreptitiously. There were simply no warnings, no signs. Our brilliant political, medical and educational minds had no time to think about what lay ahead and to prepare the ideal response to the virus. Nor did we realise the extent of the death and destruction it would cause.
Lesotho Eagles Football Club members. Click here for isiZulu version
Education students who are part of the Edgewood campus Football Club, the Lesotho Eagles, have taken a stand against the spread of the coronavirus by reaching out to the UKZN community with a message of support and encouragement.
Tsholofelo who performed at the Jazz Centre’s online concert.
World renowned UKZN Epidemiologist, Professor Salim Abdool Karim.It is improbable South Africa will be able to prevent the exponential spread of COVID-19 with the full impact of the disease likely to hit the country only later this year, says renowned UKZN Epidemiologist, Professor Salim Abdool Karim.
Professor Stephen Mutula, UKZN’s Dean and Head of the School of Management, IT and Governance.
Mr Nicholas Rono and Ms Latifa Bashar Hamed Abdalla at the University of Tlemcen in Algeria.Click here for isiZulu version
PhD student, Mr Nicholas Rono, and MSc candidate, Ms Latifa Bashar Hamed Abdalla - who had been studying in Algeria when the COVID-19 pandemic became apparent - have opted to sit tight in that country.
UKZN’s Dr Brett van Niekerk presenting at an online event.Senior UKZN lecturer in Computer Science, Dr Brett van Niekerk presented at an international online event, hosted by Cyber in Africa, on subjects of evolving cyber security incidents and threats faced by South Africa, and security cases related to the COVID-19 pandemic and associate lockdowns.
UKZN postgraduate student, Ms Romaana Muhammad.Summa cum laude graduate and Bachelor of Social Sciences Honours in Psychology student at UKZN, Ms Romaana Muhammad shares her tips on surviving lockdown as a student.
