The video which shows South African President Jacob Zuma sleeping in parliament during the 2016 mid term budget is symptomatic of a much larger problem of lack of respect for the public. South ...

Figshare, a leading provider of institutional repository infrastructure that supports open research, is pleased to announce that the University of the Witwatersrand Library has chosen Figshare to ...

Management at the University of the Witwatersrand has agreed to a mediation process with the student representative council (SRC) amid ongoing protests over fees and accommodation. The university said ...

Students at the University of the Witwatersrand have called on the institution’s management to divest its relations with Israel in the wake of students protesting at universities around the world in ...

Wits University Press is the oldest university press in South Africa. It was established in 1922, the same year in which the South African School of Mines and Technology in Johannesburg became the ...

Wits students have protested over student accommodation and high fees. The protesters blocked off one of the campus entrances on Wednesday morning. The university said the protest came as a surprise, ...

Wits University on Friday confirmed that it had been the victim of a cyberattack. It is part of a larger attack on the Oracle ...

Wits University says the academic programme at the institution will continue as scheduled, after students took to the streets on Wednesday, to protest over accommodation and registration fees, among ...

Wits University has confirmed that some IT systems have been compromised in a widespread cyberattack affecting multiple countries.

The University of the Witwatersrand has announced that Professor Barry Dwolatzky has passed away. “His passing is a great loss to the Wits community where he touched the lives of students, staff, ...

More than 80 students at UCT are living in campus offices without proper facilities, while Wits students continue their hunger strike in protest of being excluded from registration due to historical ...

The Wits Global Change Institute (GCI) co-leads a new international R110 million project aimed at limiting the devastating impact of tropical cyclones in southern Africa and Madagascar. The project, ...