With Maties ahead and the clock ticking towards 80 minutes, Tuks fullback Stefan Coetzee burst through the opposition defence. His offload will be debated around dining halls and braais for years to come.
Tuks’ fake Rembrandt. Benoni preschool petrol attack. SpaceX’s hidden message. Load shedding good news. Disturbing R. Kelly testimony. Irina at Met Gala.
The latest on South African university res culture comes from Tuks, and it’s all kinds of ugly. Who wants to wave sexist signs the way of dancing women? These guys.
The last few weeks have taught us that WhatsApp blunders are anything but private, something a University of Pretoria student is finding out the hard way.
Bill Gates spoke yesterday on the topic of “Living Together”, at a Nelson Mandela Foundation event during which he pledged a $5 billion investment into Africa.
Social media and university students will always be a volatile mix, although the students of Tuks best exercise serious caution after this latest statement.
If you’ve an eye on today’s biggest stories you’ll know that violence is rife across some of the country’s tertiary institutions. Here’s the latest from two.
There’s not a campus in South Africa that hasn’t seen escalating tensions leading to ugly scenes, Tuks the latest university to grab headlines.
I’ve heard of the saying, “don’t take a knife to a gunfight”, but taking a gun to your graduation ceremony is just plain ridiculous. A female student at the University of Pretoria was wounded yesterday when she sat down, only to have a gun go off inside her graduation gown. She was wounded in her stomach and is “seriously injured.”
Wits secured their place in the Varsity Cup next year with a hard-fought 19-17 victory over defending Varsity Shield champions, CUT, in a dramatic final played in Bloemfontein last night. Their victory promotes them to the high stakes Varsity Cup next year!
After an emotional and hard-fought battle on the highveld, University of Cape Town (UCT) became rugby’s 2011 Varsity Cup winners last night against University of Pretoria (Tuks). UCT’s Ikey Tigers displayed impressive courage, mental strength and dare we say it, tiger blood, to beat Tuks 26-16 and emerge as champions for the first time since the tournament’s inception.