Nelson Mandela University, as a dynamic African University, is committed to excellence and innovation, and fostering a pioneering and inventive spirit among our students and scholars. It is a University that acts as a social laboratory for experimentation, innovation and creativity to find answers to epic challenges facing society and the economy today.
NMU recently established and launched a number of research hubs such as the Centre for Broadband Communication to conduct pioneering research around optical fibre data transport for the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope; an innovation hub to support small business in Port Elizabeth and beyond; a Centre for African Palaeoscience; and a Research Chair in Earth Systems Science. More exciting is the development currently underway of a range of new maritime and marine education and training, research, innovation and engagement programmes to support South Africa and the continent’s blue economy initiatives.
The fossilised seal traces date back about 75,000 years.
A multiracial crowd sings the South African National Anthem at 2019 memorial service for the late rugby Springbok Chester Williams.
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While crocodiles are not native to Canada, fossil traces have been found in northern British Columbia that indicate that during the Cretaceous Period, giant crocodiles roamed.
Branching gerbil burrows leading to a debris mound preserved on an ancient dune surface.
Charles Helm
There is something near-miraculous in the concept of tiny creatures, weighing just grams, making tracks and traces so long ago, that are now evident in rock.
Un gardien et son troupeau, dans le parc national de Waza, au Cameroun.
Paul Scholte
Pour certains pays, notamment en Afrique, gérer ces espaces, immenses et souvent isolés, se révèle être illusoire tant leurs moyens budgétaires et humains sont structurellement insuffisants.
For rhino specialists, translocation has been one of the most important tools in the conservation box of tricks.
Frédérik De Klerk et Nelson Mandela accompagnés de Bill Clinton durant la remise de la médaille de la liberté de la ville de Philadelphie, le 4 juillet 1993.
Tom Mihalek/AFP
Prix Nobel de la Paix 1993 avec Nelson Mandela pour sa participation à la dissolution de l’apartheid, Frédérik De Klerk n’a jamais cessé d’entretenir le flou sur sa position vis-à-vis de ce régime.
Former South African President FW de Klerk photographed in Pretoria in 1989.
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The 2021 local government elections signals widespread disillusionment with representative democracy that only a sea change in service delivery can fix.
Many countries, including South Africa, use regulations to control smoking in public so that they do not harm non-smokers. Likewise, getting vaccinated is for the common good of society.
Postdoctoral Researcher (DST-NRF Innovation Fellow) DST-NRF Research Chair in Shallow Water Ecosystems Ocean Sciences Campus, Nelson Mandela University