the beauty of South-Africa

Our CSC team spent the weekend in the Madikwe Game Reserve. This was the first time for all of us so we were in awe of all we could see. The rangers did an excellent job of driving us around and finding the animals. This was one of the best experiences in my...

Another day, another surprise

Today we worked on finding candidate themes for the Center of Excellence we want to shape. We had a good discussion with Lester, the executive manager of North-West university, who gave his view on the province and who helped us get into contact with the right people....

Did you know that…

Yesterday evening we went to a local hotel-school to have a meet-and-greet with public officials from the North-West province. The whole ‘ceremony’ was animated by Charles Ndabeni, the new CEO of tourism. He started with a list of ‘did you know...

At the university

On Tuesday 17 we went for the first time to the Mahikeng campus were we will be working. In the morning we had a workshop with iNeSI to dive deeper into our, team two’s, sub-project. It was a very good session that clarified a lot. We got to use the very nice...

Traveling to Mmabatho

On Monday we traveled to Mmabatho where we will be staying for the next three weeks. The 300 km trip took more than five hours. After checking into the hotel Professor emeritus Modise Maaja gave us a short introduction to the history of the North-West university. It...