The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg is a multi-campus South African public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as ...

Wits University announces the reopening of one of humanity’s most important palaeontological sites to the public. The world-renowned Wits Sterkfontein Caves reopens to the public from 16 April 2025.

Wits University students now have until Tuesday to register. The university and the SRC have agreed to extend the deadline. More than 97% of undergraduate students are registered so far. Wits ...

The university requires students to have a debt of less than R10,000 or pay 50 percent of what they owe. A handful of Wits university students with historical debt have gone on a hunger strike.

In 2022, Wits University and mining firm Anglo American announced a multimillion-rand investment in funding the refurbishment, expansion and digitalisation of the 62-year-old Johannesburg Planetarium.

The Students' Representative Council (SRC) at Wits University has launched Kobo Ya Thuto: SRC Legacy Fund, an initiative aimed at addressing financial exclusion among students. The funds seek to ...

The Kubo Ya Thuto initiative, as it is called, will seek to raise R15 million from donors including Wits alumni, corporates, and private citizens, which will be matched by the university for a ...

Ten years after the pivotal “Fees Must Fall” movement which highlighted the financial barriers faced by some South African students, Wits University's student representative council (SRC ...

Rapper A Boogie Wit da Hoodie is scheduled to perform at Personal Checks (P-Checks) in Krzyzewskiville later this month, per a video shown during the Tuesday night Duke men’s basketball game.

About 50 students have been staging sleepovers on the AMIC Deck of the University of Witwatersrand’s (Wits) Braamfontein Campus in solidarity with the many students who are still looking for ...