The 18 new participants of the Small Business Academy (SBA) Development Programme were welcomed at USB last week. Guy Harris, CEO of the South African Institute for Entrepreneurship, was the guest speaker. "The world is your oyster. South...

Matie cyclist Vera Adrian (22), African and Namibian champion in the road race and time trail, continued her good form by coming third in the Cape Town Cycle Tour (CTCT) on Sunday 6 March. Adrian completed the race behind South Africa's An...

​​UCM member, Riaan Combrinck, and 10 undergraduate Civil Engineering students from Stellenbosch University, visited industry partner PPC at their De Hoek cement plant near Piketberg. The visit started with a presentation to give an...

Steinhoff Maties Cricket coach Andrew Wylie has been appointed as the USSA coach for the upcoming CSA Future Cup tournament in Kimberley and the Triangular Series between CSA Academy, USSA and Sri Lanka Academy later this year. Wylie has...

Lower limb amputees competing in the 400m sprint at this year's Rio Paralympics could improve their chances of success by using stiffer prosthetics. Stiffer prosthetics help improve sprinting economy for longer distance sprints and could...

​A group from Essec Business School were at USB recently as part of their General Management Programme. ​ Martin Butler facilitated a session on innovation in Africa and he used the following definition to describe innovation: “People...

​​​​first published at Making of Cities I wander through cities and hear them humming around me. They are creatures, machines, fixtures, breathers, parts and pieces, relationships, conduits, conductors, caretakers and crushers. Each city...

​Studies in Transformation and Historical Trauma in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science will be hosting the first of a series of monthly lectures. The inaugural lecture is by Albie Sachs and is titled: "Playing with Fire: The meaning of...

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