
TV REPORTER PLOUGHS BACK BY GIVING STUDENTS INDUSTRY INSIGHT
One of the country’s top senior news reporters, Aviwe Mtila, who’s enjoyed a rapid rise as a broadcast journalist recently spent time engaging with students from WSU’s media studies department. An...

WSU REPOSITORY GRADUALLY GAINING MOMENTUM
A single storage location aimed at consolidating and preserving far-ranging content from WSU’s students and academics is proving a much-needed outlet and making the appropriate strides. Critical...

ACADEMIC BRINGS NEW PERSPECTIVE TO HISTORY OF ABATHEMBU
A WSU academic’s chronicling of the abaThembu tribe’s history and evolution over an almost 300-year period from the 16th to the 19th century afforded the scholar the opportunity to acutely...

WSU FACEBOOK PAGE HITS 100 000 LIKES
The ever-colourful and edgy WSU Facebook page has reached a significant milestone after finally securing 100 000 likes from the platform’s community recently. Established in 2012,...

WSU INVESTS R98 MILLION IN REMOTE LEARNING PROGRAMME
Walter Sisulu University is officially the first institution to successfully distribute laptops worth R98 Million to assist 22,500 students with remote learning under the Covid-19 national lockdown...

DHET DEPUTY MINISTER INSPECTS WSU’S COVID-19 READINESS
The WSU Butterworth campus recently hosted the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Deputy Minister, Bhuti Manamela on his oversight visit to discuss the institution’s covid-19...

WSU STUDENTS RETURN TO R52M RESIDENCE DEVELOPMENT
Following the country’s eased lockdown regulations to alert risk level one, WSU students will soon occupy a newly refurbished Iphulo Residence that boasts 220 beds with modern finishes, recreational...

ENGINEERING FACULTIES SECURE A FURTHER R39 MILLION FOR IMPROVEMENTS
The resounding success of a three-year R26 million agreement penned by WSU and MerSETA in 2016 to improve teaching and learning in the engineering departments will see the project receive yet...

WSU COMMEMORATES HERITAGE DAY MASKING IN STYLE
MASKING IN STYLEWSU staff across campuses recently flaunted a stellar incarnation of Africa’s vibrant culture and diversity in commemoration of Heritage Day. The month of September marks the...

NUTRITION THAT CAN ASSIST BUILD OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM PROTECTING OUR BODIES FROM THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC
Immune system, put in simple language is a network of pathways and antibodies in our bodies that are meant to protect us and fight against potentially harmful microorganisms of all kind and diseases...

ACCOUNTING LECTURER IN THE COUNTRY’S TOP 35 UNDER 35
A WSU lecturer who gave up a cushy lifestyle in Johannesburg to fulfil a promise to his professor to plough back to his community has been selected as a finalist in one of the country’s most...

WSU LGBQTI STUDENT ACTIVIST GETS NOD FOR M&G TOP 200
East London-born WSU first-year Public Relations student, Athenkosi Fani, whose significant activism in the promotion and defence of LGBQTI rights has earned him great esteem in society, securing...

WSU LECTURER NOMINATED FOR M&G TOP YOUNG SOUTH AFRICANS
WSU’s Mncedi “Eddie” Magade’s passion for cultural studies has earned him recognition in the form of a nomination among 30,000 professionals in the Mail & Guardian’s Top Young South Africans...

IS EC READY FOR STUDENTS’ RETURN ON CAMPUS
As student representative bodies from some universities and their constituents’ defiant voices call for the return to campus, University leaders across the country shudder at the grim prospects...

ACADEMIC’S INVESTIGATION INTO FOOD HANDLING EARNS HER PHD
The potential threat to patrons’ health at restaurants in an Eastern Cape municipality has prompted a WSU researcher to investigate the levels of hygienic standards in food service systems in the...

OVER 6000 GRADUANDS TO BE “CAPPED” DURING MAY ONLINE GRADUATION
Owing to government’s national lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic, WSU will, for the first time in its history, conduct a virtual graduation ceremony scheduled to transmit on the...

WSU FASHION DESIGN STUDENTS PRODUCE 2000 MASKS IN COVID-19 BATTLE
WSU’s courageous second-year Fashion Design students have braved the Covid-19 pandemic to help produce two thousand Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for university staff. The five-day mass...

AFRICA’S GENERATIONAL WEALTH THROUGH INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IP
African indigenous knowledge systems along with other rural innovations could yield generational wealth for Black communities through Intellectual Property (IP) applications and commercialization,...

IT’S GLOVES OFF IN UNMASKING THE EFFECTS OF COVID-19
The threat to the country’s socioeconomic profile by the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic has jolted at least one WSU lecturer to do his bit in fighting the negative effects of the imminent economic...

WSU PROFESSOR: AFRICANS ARE NOT IMMUNE TO COVID-19
WSU Head of Department: Public Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Professor Francis Hyera, has dispelled myths around the racial profiling of the Covid-19 pandemic rumoured to be a...

WSU RESEARCHER COMBATS POLLUTION IN ANTARCTICA
ANTARCICTIA Chemical Technician at the Walter Sisulu University based National Pollution Laboratory, Lonwabo Nettie, has returned from his environmental research quest to change protocol and...

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND INTERNATIONALIZATION HOSTS A FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR WORKSHOP
Community Engagement and Internationalization held a Fulbright Scholar workshop with the focus of enhancing international opportunities through fellowships and grants for students and staff within...

ALUMNUS CLEARS STUDENT DEBT THROUGH WSU BURSARY FUND DONATION
Indebted students should soon graduate as WSU alumnus and former University Sports South Africa boxing chairperson, Lonwabo Mafunda has paid it forward by donating funds to clear...

MULTI-MILLION RAND STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROJECT DRAWS TO A CLOSE
WSU and the government’s Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) bring to a close a project that has seen WSU bolster its academic profile by increasing research output, developing the...

RESEARCH FOUNDATION CROWNS WSU DVC AMONG TOP IN SA
Walter Sisulu University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic Affairs and Research (DVC-AAR), Prof. Rushiela Songca was recently recognised as one of South Africa’s most established researchers by the...

HUAWEI AND DCDT KICK-START 5G NETWORK TRAINING AT WSU
The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) have collaborated with Huawei to provide 5G training to Computer Science students and ICT staffers at Walter Sisulu University. The...

GENETIC STUDY IN AMAXHOSA FINDS NEW INSIGHTS INTO SCHIZOPHRENIA
A groundbreaking research study in the Eastern Cape has found a strong link between Schizophrenia and rare genetic mutations which predispose to the disorder. WSU researchers, Zukiswa Zingela and...

LTD HEAD, PROF NDEBELE, APPOINTED TO CHE NATIONAL COMMITTEE
A WSU academic executive is set to actively participate in the strengthening and tightening of the quality of teaching and learning in the country’s higher education sector following his appointment...

FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT IN EDUCATION SYSTEM NEEDED TO CREATE JOBS
A decorated Tshwane University of Technology professor has called for a material and significant shift in the design of the education system which will mould and produce job creators instead of job...

WSU MARVELS LOCALS AT ANNUAL FASHION EXTRVAGANZA
Walter Sisulu University’s (WSU) fashion department once again marveled East London’s fashionistas at their annual flaunt held at Hemmingways Mall on Saturday evening, 7 December. The fashion...

WSU STUDENTS STUDY PORTUGUESE YOUTUBE & BUILD MACHINE FOR RURAL AGRICULTURE
Four WSU National Diploma: Mechanical Engineering students will effectively re-imagine subsistence living and agri-business for rural Eastern Cape communities through their Corn Sheller...

WSU IT STUDENT DAWNS MISS OR TAMBO CROWN
WSU Information Technology student, Hlumela Bekentla was crowned Miss OR Tambo 2019, in Mthatha recently. She shared her journey to victory and said that since the OR Tambo did not hold...

WSU STUDENTS TO SAVE AMPUTEES MILLIONS WITH GROUNDBREAKING PROSTHETIC INVENTIONS
WSU Medical Orthotics and Prosthetic students, Zanodumo Godlimpi and Siphosethu Mgwili’s ground-breaking prosthetic leg inventions may give financial and physical relief to the over three million...

WSU RESEARCHER’S MEMORY LOSS CURE BREAKTHROUGH
A new medical breakthrough by WSU’s pharmagnostic researcher, Dr. Taiwo Olayemi Elufioye could help recover memory loss through a groundbreaking anti-aging drug discovery at the university. In her...

DON’T EXTEND HOMES WITH RETIREMENT FUNDS
Save, pay your taxes and do not extend your home with your retirement fund pay-out warns WSU Tax lecturer Rholihlahla Vuzane, CA (SA). According to Rholihlahla, instant gratification and limited...

WSU’S PRINCE TAKES THE DVC THRONE
Former WSU Buffalo City Campus Rector Dr Prince Jaca is fast climbing the ladder following his most recent appointment as Deputy Vice-Chancellor Institutional Support. This is yet another high...

WSU RE-ACCREDITED FOR LAW DEGREE AND MORE
Walter Sisulu University is pleased to officially announce that the Council On Higher Education (CHE) have re-accredited the University for its Bachelor of Laws degree on Friday, 8 November. A...

WSU’S R180 MILLION STUDENT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT
Walter Sisulu University is refurbishing teaching and learning facilities on all its four campus to costs in excess of R180 million for building construction, ICT, residence and student...

WSU VC SPLURGES R25K ON STUDENTS’ ART
WSU Fine Art students displayed arresting scenes of political, socio-economic and spiritual works of art at the Ann Bryant Gallery...

R200 MILLION UNIVERSITY LIBRARY WINS TOP AWARD
WSU’s collaborative project, the Phyllis Ntantala Library is the recipient of this year’s South African Institute of Architects Border Kei Regional Award – the highest honour at its level. The...

7 PHD’S FOR WSU’S EDUCATION FACULTY
WSU’s October graduation provided lucrative returns for one of its faculties in Mthatha where seven doctorate students received their degrees at the Zamakulungisa Site. The Faculties of Education...

WSU VC THANKS UNIVERSITY DONORS & FRIENDS
WSU Vice-Chancellor (VC) and Principal Professor Rob Midgley displayed unequalled courtship during his inaugural VC’s dinner with university donors and funders in Johannesburg recently. The...

WSU A SPECIAL NEEDS AND DISABILITY CHAMPION
Visually impaired Nontsikelelo Siba is accompanied on stage to be awarded her National Diploma in Human Resource Management during the October WSU graduation ceremonies. She is one of many with...

PHYSICS STUDENT CLINCHES KARATE WOLRD TITLE
A final year WSU physics student kicked, punched and chopped his way to capturing a prestigious international karate title in Russia this month. October 12 marked a momentous occasion for karateka...

MCA CHATS WITH WSU’S NEWEST DVC: ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND RESERCH, PROFESSOR SONGCA
WSU’s newest Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic Affairs and Research, Prof. Rushiela Songca shares her plans for research development at the University and her approach to the endless possibilities...

GBV CAMPUS SAFETY A WSU PRIORITY
WSU young men from Buffalo City campus and Butterworth campus gathered in Butterworth recently for a Young Men’s Imbizo hosted by Student Governance, Leadership Development Unit. The purpose of the...

10 WSU FASHION STUDENTS TO UNDERGO A 10 DAY MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME
Ten Walter Sisulu University (WSU) Fashion students have been selected to undergo a 10- day mentorship programme with Palesa Mokubung, founder of the acclaimed fashion label Mantsho, in...

WSU ART STUDENTS TO EXHIBIT SOON!
As the world celebrates International Artist Day, WSU B-tech students are finalising their art work that they will exhibit at the Ann Bryant Gallery on the 5th November. The International...

WSU ALUMNI DEVELOP CO-LEARNING MOBILE APPLICATION
Two Walter Sisulu University alumni, Silindile Ngwane and Simamkele Ndabeni have developed an educational application called Sesyme. The duo launched the two-months-old co-learning mobile...

MP QOBOSHIYANE MARVELS AT MTHATHA’S FIRST ART EXHIBITION
Eastern Cape Legislature deputy-speaker Mlibo Qoboshiyane was nothing short of impressed by O.R Tambo district’s budding artists who had impeccably immortalised heroes and heroines of the region at...

WSU HOSTS INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Close to 150 researchers and academics representing numerous national and sub-Saharan universities have congregated in East London for an intensive three-day research conference aimed at tackling...

STUDENT LEADERSHIP IS NOT A FULL-TIME CAREER
Professor Somadoda Fikeni says the transient experience of student leadership in South Africa leaves many young leaders in a post university career lull. The critically acclaimed political analyst...

NGCUKAITOBI: MEN DON’T DESERVE POWER TO END PATRIARCHY
The toxic male culture of “ii-way” and “projects” – catcalls objectifying women within leadership structures – has not changed since long-gone liberation struggle days says WSU convocation...

MEDIA COVERAGE ON XENOPHOBIA SCRUTINIZED IN JOURNALISM LECTURER’S PHD THESIS
Media coverage in South Africa regarding incidents of xenophobia and how such reports influence society’s attitudes towards foreign nationals has come under scrutiny in one WSU academic’s research...

SUICIDE PREVENTION AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE A DAILY MISSION
Alcohol and substance abuse, relationship breakups and feelings of hopelessness are some of the leading contributing factors concerning suicidal thoughts among students, says WSU’s senior student...

WSU PARTNERSHIP TAKES STAFF AND STUDENTS TO CHINA
WSU Vice Chancellor and Principal, Professor Rob Midgley attended the China (Zhejiang Province) – South Africa (Eastern Cape Province) Economic & Trade Exchange Forum to facilitate the signing...

ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY GRADUATE GETS NOMINATED FOR SATMA AWARD
An analytical chemistry graduate’s knack for creating explosive musical blends has seen Ndevana-born Ntando Kondo swapping his lab coat for a mic and mixer with great success over the last two...

CONVEX MEMBER HEADING TO CHINA TO PARTICIPATE IN LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
A WSU convocation executive member and former SRC Mthatha campus president has underlined greed, arrogance and selfishness as the main threats to the complete and utter demise of the Ubuntu-centred...

PR GRADUATE WINS TOP BUSINESS AWARD
A WSU Public Relations graduate has added yet another trophy to her ever burgeoning collection following her win at a municipal women’s business awards ceremony which took place in East London...

WSU HR STUDENT AWARDED BEST IN SOUTH AFRICA
Genevieve McGowan a third –year Human Resource Management student in Butterworth Campus took part in the South African Board of People Practices (SABPP) National Top Student Recognition Awards and...

WSU ENACTUS HEAD WINS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE YEAR
Walter Sisulu University Senior Student Development Practitioner and head of the WSU ENACTUS team, Nombulelo Blaai took home the administrator of the year award at the ENACTUS South Africa National...

WSU LEARNING & TEACHING DEPT RESPONDS TO 4th INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
The nature of our jobs is changing; it requires skills that will be essential in future, because the Fourth Industrial Revolution has impacted all spheres of life. International Computer Driving...

WSU PROF’S TRADITIONAL TEA RELIEVES MENTAL HEALTH
WSU research students gave arousing presentations on a herbal product tea by WSU’s professor Adebola Oyedeji at the Bio Africa Exhibition in Durban recently. Oyedeji has two different herbal teas,...

WSU-PSSA CONFERENCE JUST WHAT YOUR BODY NEEDS
The Physiology Society of South Africa (PSSA) in collaboration with Walter Sisulu University continues its quest to empower the physiology industry through its Forty Seventh (47th) annual conference...

WSU WOMEN LEADERS: I AM WOMEN, I AM FIERCE
As we continue to celebrate women’s month, Walter Sisulu University also celebrates women breaking boundaries and taking up leadership roles in the institution. For many years, leadership roles...

NYDA AND WSU’S ANSWER TO UNEMPLOYMENT
As the figures of unemployment in South Africa continue to increase the National Youth Development Agency (National NYDA) is deteriorating the situation by training WSU journalism students to start...

WSU TOURISM STUDNETS HEADED FOR CHINA
A dream that they never thought could come true has become a reality for five Walter Sisulu University Tourism Management students, who will be traveling to China to participate in the Homestay in...

JOURNALISM GRADUATE’S SOUTH KOREAN
The personification of “Womandla” was brought to life last week when a WSU graduate who teaches English in South Korea cycled approximately 388kms in 5 days in what would turn out to be a most...

ADV. NGCUKAITOBI: DECOLONISE
Walter Sisulu University has an opportunity to remodel and decolonise South Africa’s “apartheid based” Law degree so to accommodate all South Africans according to firebrand Advocate, Tembeka...

WSU RESIDENCE INDABA ADDRESSES
The second leg of the Student Accommodation Indaba held a dialogue about current student accommodation challenges and possible solutions to overcome these challenges, at the Queenstown Health...

DEAN’S RESEARCH REVEALS THAT WSU
A particular focus into one aspect of the state of health and wellbeing among WSU employees recently earned one of WSU’s academic managers a doctorate in Health Sciences during the institution’s May...

CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN RURAL
The National Electronic Media Institution of South Africa (NEMISA) in partnership with WSU hosted a research colloquium themed ‘Bridging the Digital Divide: Connectivity and Sustainable Centres in...

THE SISULU’S IMMORTALISED AT NATIONAL
WSU Fine Art students display aesthetic patriotism through their alma mater’s namesake, Walter Sisulu and his wife Albertina themed pieces at the National Arts Festival in Makhanda. The art works...

WSU LECTURER DISPLAYS PRIVATE PARTS
A mass of bandaged penises, piled on a hospital stretcher made of a white bed-cover with two red stripes, flinched faces at the 2019 National Arts Festival in Makhanda (Grahamstwon). The provoking...

GERMAN – EC PARTNERSHIP PAYS OFF FOR WSU BOXING STUDENT
A WSU student’s decision in 2005 to take up boxing as a means of defence against a schoolyard bully has propelled him to heights far beyond his intentions to use the hobby as a means to stave off...

BALLERS AIM TO DRIBBLE THEIR WAY TO TOP 8 AT FINISH AT USSA GAMES
The WSU women’s basketball team will square up against a Mdantsane-based outfit on Friday 28 June ahead of the upcoming USSA National Basketball Championships set to kick off in Cape Town from 1-5...

NGCUKAITOBI LANDS CONVOCATION PRESIDENCY
After almost nine hours of hard bargaining by delegates in efforts to elect a new convocation president, Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi emerged victorious at the WSU Convocation AGM held in Mthatha...

A ROAD SHOW TO SPARK WATER CONVERSATIONS
The Water Research Commission ran a campus road show with Walter Sisulu University to familiarize new and upcoming project leaders with the process for research proposal submissions and...

IN CLAYMAN’S TERMS – A CONCRETE LOOK AT RELIGOUS CULTS
A simple contraption used to lure and trap birds during a hunt served as the source of inspiration for a WSU lecturer’s winning piece during a prestigious national sculpting competition held in...

WISEUP TO IMPROVING YOUR TEACHING AND LEARNING OUTPUT
A modest-sized group of lecturers from WSU’s Buffalo City Campus congregated at the Chiselhurst Site in East London recently to share their different experiences in working with e-Learning tools...

PROFESSOR SAYS LAND IS PART OF AFRICAN LANGAUGE
Land is language and language is land according to the keynote speaker and renowned language Professor Ncedile Saule at the regional African Languages Association of Southern Africa (ALASA)...

WSU DUO APPOINTED TO PRESIDENT’S 4IR COMMISION
WSU Buffalo City Campus Rector Dr Prince Jaca will add yet another high profile responsibility to his ever growing plate after being recently appointed to the Presidential Commission on the Fourth...

PR STUDENT UP FOR NATIONAL HERO’S AWARD
A budding businesswoman whose ambition knows no bounds is up for a prestigious national award for her heroics in leading social change through her exploits as an entrepreneur. WSU public relations...

DISABLED STUDENTS TO APPLY FOR EXTRA TIME DURING EXAMS
WSU Vice Chancellor and Principal Prof Rob Midgley has committed to leading the charge in ensuring that the institution fulfils its duty in offering inclusive and equitable education for students...

WSU PARTNERSHIP BRINGS EC’S FIRST BLACK AGRI INSURANCE ASSESSORS
Walter Sisulu University (WSU) and the Land Bank Insurance Company (LBIC) signed a twinning Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in 2018 that has seen to the enrolment of 20 postgraduate students into...

WSU ALL BLACKS ASSEMBLES “BEST TEAM THE UNIVERSITY HAS EVER HAD
Upheavals arising from lack of depth that plagued the WSU All Blacks rugby squad during last year’s Varsity Shield competition are headaches of the past as this year’s team is the most balanced in...

WSU PRESIDENT LISTED AMONG TOP SA YOUTH IN LAW
WSU alumnus and reigning Convocation President, Zincedile Tiya was listed among the top 100 most influential young South Africans in the category of Law and Governance in the year 2018, according to...

WSU’S R13-MILLION FACULTY INVESTMENT
Walter Sisulu University’s Komani Campus has invested in excess of R13-million into a new faculty building that will accommodate the influx of keen students enrolling at the budding campus. The new...

DEPUTY MINISTER GIVES WSU THE NOD
Department of Higher Education and Training deputy minister, Buti Manamela said WSU was at a better place in 2019 than it was last year during his national university registration visits. In the...

WSU KOMANI CAMPUS WELCOMES NEW STUDENTS
The great hall at the Whittlesea Site outside Queenstown was filled with excited students and parents on Saturday 18 January as the campus’s rector welcomed the students to the institution. “You...