The University of Johannesburg has appointed geneticist Dr Charlotte Scholtz as netball manager following a yearlong search for the right candidate to head up this high performance sports club.

The annual Accountancy@UJ Chess Open 2012 took place in September 2012 at the University of Johannesburg’s Auckland Park, Kingsway Campus. The competition is organised in conjunction with Gauteng West Chess and is a highlight on the chess calendar.

Rising hockey stars will have a final chance to impress national selectors ahead of September’s Junior World Cup qualifier when they meet at the national student hockey champs at the University of Johannesburg next month. The University Sport South Africa (USSA) championships will see teams from 19 tertiary institutions, as well as a Namibian invitational side, compete for honours in the two premier divisions from July 1 to 7.

enke: Make Your Mark an NGO will host a conference at UJ from June 24 to 30, 2012. The conferences brings together students from across South Africa with various backgrounds with the aim of equipping them with skills and networks so that they can go back to their communities and implement a community action project which will result in the betterment of their community.

Nedbank started an exciting new competition this year for final year undergraduate accounting students who have business acumen and a strong sense of social responsibility to apply their entrepreneurial skills to benefit others.

South Africa’s top junior female 200m sprinter Chanté van Tonder will aim to add to her clutch of gold medals when she represents her country at the IAAF World Junior Track and Field Championships in Barcelona, Spain, in July.
The 18-year-old University of Johannesburg student secured her place at the international competition with a winning performance during the recent CAA Southern Region Junior Championships in Windhoek, Namibia.