University of the Witwatersrand

There is an urgent need for new political, economic, behavioural and technological systems that protect people and the planet, in order to implement the fundamental transformative changes that address poverty and inequality, while…

Wits University welcomed some of the country's top-performing matriculants to its illustrious campus recently for the Vice-Chancellor's Top Applicant Event.This annual event is aimed at matriculants who have applied to study at Wits, with…

Having started her career within the human genetics department at Wits in 1987, geneticist and Secretary General of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), Professor Himla Soodyall says she cut her teeth in the new age of genetics…

The heartbreakingly sudden passing of my late teenage and undergraduate university period friend Nazeem Pather made me think of the critical importance of holding on to healthy friendships, when busy divergent career paths, family…

Over the last three decades, there has been a proliferation of social protection programmes across the global south in what some have dubbed a development revolution. International development agencies across the ideological spectrum have…

Furthermore, health professionals, pressured to perform under adverse circumstances were victim to these inequities, with significant effects on mental health in healthcare settings.Professor Stephani Hatch, who leads the Health…

South Africa has gone about the wrong way in rebuilding the state, fostering democracy, implementing development projects, and combating societal violence, and the results are clear, a failing state, poor development outcomes and…

Wits University has led a national consortium that secured R54 million funding from the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) to co-ordinate a national quantum technologies initiative. Following on a proposal written by the…

African digital creatives gathered on the last day of this year’s Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival to witness the inaugural Fak’ugesi Awards for Digital Creativity - the first awards of their kind that recognises digital…

The Consulate-General of Portugal in Johannesburg took a trip down memory lane when it visited the historic Dias Cross at the William Cullen Library on Wits University's Braamfontein Campus East.Ambassador Manuel Carvalho and his team…