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The University of Pretoria鈥檚 Giving Garden remains true to its name. In 2024 it provided around 100 community food gardens in Gauteng with free cuttings, seedlings and tubers of lesser-known and easily grown crop plants. Situated in the heart of the Manie van der Schijff Botanical Garden on the Hatfield Campus, it is also a valuable space for practical training and research on edible orphan and indigenous crops for UP students and staff.

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Being able to reframe negative events in a positive manner, actively cope with everyday challenges, and find comfort in spiritual faith and practices is how we create hope 鈥� and how we make today matter.

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A six-year-old Yorkshire Terrier named Mia has made a successful recovery after receiving a tracheal stent at the University of Pretoria鈥檚 (UP) Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital (OVAH).

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The Department of Statistics at the University of Pretoria (UP) is partnering with United Nations Volunteers (UNV) to develop the first-ever Global Volunteer Index, which will become part of the 2026 State of the World Volunteerism Report.

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The University of Pretoria鈥檚 (UP) Centre for Human Rights recently co-hosted a roundtable discussion in conjunction with the Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders to address increasing safety concerns for human rights defenders.

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The University of Pretoria鈥檚 (UP) Mamelodi Campus recently hosted students from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) to teach local high school learners how to use artificial intelligence (AI) to create solutions to real-world problems. 鈥淭he Youth AI Object Recognition Programming Workshop and Learning Showcase, held in January 2025, represents an exciting collaboration between the Department of Computing and the Service-Learning and Leadership Office at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and UP鈥檚 Mamelodi Campus,鈥� said Dr Martina Jordaan, Head of Community Engagement Research at Mamelodi Campus.

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A new South African Whale Centre is planned to be constructed in the heart of Hermanus, whale capital of South Africa, which will house the Whale Unit of the University of Pretoria鈥檚 (UP鈥檚) Mammal Research Institute (MRI).

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Enabled by supercomputing, UP researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has provided deeper insight into the entire life cycle (birth, growth and death) of giant radio galaxies, which resemble 鈥渃osmic fountains鈥� 鈥� jets of superheated gas that are ejected into near-empty space from their spinning supermassive black holes.

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A young Rottweiler has been given a new lease on life following innovative, ground-breaking prosthetic surgery to make him fully mobile again. Three-year-old Covid is on his way to recovery after successful surgery that鈥檚 allowed the attachment of an artificial foot to give him maximum quality of life.