The Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane, Mr Kgosientsho Ramakgopa, recently appointed Prof Enslin van Rooyen as one of eight commissioners to provide strategic guidance and advice on the city’s development for the next five years.

Innovative research on improving the post-harvest quality of tomatoes conducted by Prof Dharini Sivakumar, Associate Professor at the Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT) Department of Crop Science could have far-reaching spin-offs for subsistence and resource-poor farmers in the future.

Ambassadors from 17 African countries, including Sudan, Kenya, Angola, Ethiopia, Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire, gained first-hand knowledge about a unique cost-effective, comprehensive solution for treating toxic wastewater, regardless of its chemical composition, during a fact-finding visit to the Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT) Soshanguve Campus this week. The system was launched at the Tshwane University of Technology late in 2011.

The Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT) newly appointed Registrar, Prof Matoane Mothata, assumed duty today, 1 February.

Professor Ben van Wyk, the newly appointed Executive Dean of the Tshwane University of Technology’s Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment said in a recent interview there are many challenges facing the Faculty, but he regards them as opportunities for making a difference.

Dr Edgar Nesamvuni, the newly appointed Executive Dean of the Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT) Faculty of Management Sciences, says the improvement of the students’ success rate and staff qualifications are two main priorities for the Faculty.

Prof Mokubung Nkomo, Extraordinary Professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of Pretoria and a Director at that university’s Centre for Diversity and Social Cohesion, has been appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) of Teaching, Learning and Technology at the Tshwane University of Technology. He took office early in January.

Marthinus Bekker, a Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Clinical Engineering graduate, has invented a device that can collect hundreds of litres of drinking water when placed outside in the rain. The Rain Catcher, as the device is called, was able to collect about 650 litres of rain water in few weeks during the rainy season.