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Students take up US challenge


US Community College Initiative Programme gives them the chance to study and travel. Jason Govender’s first time out of the country will mean a year…

Management Sciences Dean appointed TESA president


Dr Rishi Balkaran, Durban University of Technology (DUT) Acting Executive Dean in the Faculty of Management Sciences was recently appointed as…

DUT hosts International Seminar on Diaspora Pravasi Barathiya Divas Africa 2010


On the 1st of October the Durban University of Technology hosted the Pravasi Barathiya Divas Academic Seminar Africa which was intended to give…

Presentation on sleeping disorders


Dr Ingrid Couchman presented findings of a groundbreaking research on ‘Chronic primary insomnia: the efficacy of the homoeopathic simillimum’, at…

Focus on film talent


An all-Africa movie showcase aspiring film-maker Gavillan Letsoalo has been selected to take part in Talent Campus Durban, a five-day pro-gramme…

Students win Imagine Durban Sustainability Project Competition


Two groups of students at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) have won a planning and design competition on the Imagine Durban Project. The…

Twin brothers are Hang Ten Hoodie competition


Tongaat twin brothers, Saren and Sashen Govender have reached local fame after becoming finalists in the Hang Ten Hoodie competition. The brothers who…

Cynthia Jele Novelist


Cynthia Jele, winner of the this year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book in the Africa region for her novel Happiness Is a Four-Letter…

Artist bags top ceramics prize with first exhibit


Durban University of Technology fine arts student Sbonelo Luthuli holds one of the pots included in a collection that won him the National Ceramic…

His ‘brave’ action offers hope


Durban activist and head of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo’s “brave and direct action” is the only hope that the world has that sanity may…

DUT signs MoU with UESTC


The Durban University of Technology (DUT) signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China…

We loved being at home


Head to Artspace to see the new exhibition by Caryn Nolan. The creation of this body of work, for her Masters of Technology (MTech) from Durban…

DUT students cycle for charity


Twenty one chiropractic students of the Durban University of Technology set off last week on a cycling odyssey across KZN as part of a charity event…

Research Facilities new Research Chairs for varsities


Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor has announced that a total of 60 new Research Chairs will be awarded to various institutions of higher…

Top DUT student wins trip to the UK


Durban University of Technology student Neetasha Singh jets off to the UK next week after winning the Abe Bailey Travel Bursary. Singh, 23, a…

Sew Artful


An exciting exhibition has dispelled the myth that embroidery is a craft rather than fine art form, writes Vivian Attwood.

Town planning students on the right “track”


A group of ninety third year Town and Regional Planning students boarded a train to KwaMashu on Thursday, 9 February as part of a joint orientation…

Free at last


Australian choreographer Liz Lea is bringing the joy of movement to KZN communities that are usually overlooked by the world of dance. As a dancer,…

Persistence pays off, say star DUT graduands


TOGETHER it took them more than a decade and having to rewrite their matric exams, but two students who were eventually accepted at the Durban…

Inchanga facility to serve as training hospital for DUT


The Durban University of Technology (DUT) signed an agreement at the weekend with the new Healing Hills hospital in Inchanga to use the hospital as a…

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