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Sol Plaatje University (SPU) Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences to host Kaonafatso ya Dikgomo (KyD) Famer’s Day event on Friday, 5 September 2025 at South Campus Multipurpose Hall. The KyD scheme was established to facilitate the participation of smallholder Read More …
After a brief pause in fixtures across the province, the Sasol Women’s League resumed this past weekend and the SPU Ladies made their return in spectacular form with two dominant wins in back-to-back matches. Saturday, 2 August 2025 SPU Ladies Read More …
SPU is proud to celebrate the national call-up of first-year student Lidené Kruger to the Springbok Women’s Sevens Training Squad. The trial camp will be held from 3 to 15 August 2025 at the Stellenbosch Academy of Sport in Cape Read More …
SPU’s Enactus Go-Green Enterprise, under the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development and Research (CEDAR), won the 2025 Harmony Entrepreneurship for Employment & Food Security Enactus Challenge at the Enactus South Africa National Exposition, held on Thursday, 17 July at the Sandton Read More …
SPU’s 2025 Youth Dialogue was a powerful platform for young voices to rise, challenge and lead. Marking the end of a moving Youth Month campaign that featured real-life stories of SPU graduates and campus reflections linking the past to the Read More …
Three SPU students, Amnkelekile Malambile (3rd year, Retail Business Management), Andiswa Dlamini and Asive Ntsendwana (both 1st year, B.A. General), have proudly earned Player of the Match, flying the SPU flag high at the 2025 Telkom Netball Championship. The students Read More …
As part of the UNMUTED series – a digital space created to spotlight bold, unfiltered student voices in the lead-up to SPU’s Youth Dialogue tomorrow – we share this compelling opinion piece by Mpumelelo Ndlovu, a Student Media Assistant working Read More …
Youth Month may have passed, but the work of amplifying youth voices cannot be confined to a single month. At SPU, we believe that commemorating youth is not a one-off event – it’s a continuous commitment to recognising the power, Read More …
On 24 and 25 June 2025, the Sol Plaatje University (SPU) Student Representative Council (SRC), Division of Student Affairs and the Northern Cape Provincial Government collaborated in the 1st Annual Nurturing Young Minds Grade 12 Initiative. 200 Grade 12 pupils from Read More …
Ms Rejoice Chitengu was recently recognised among the Top 15 Young Geeks of 2025, a competition that aims to challenge and persuade local techies to reach greater heights, master their craft and play role in creating mass impact that uplifts Read More …