2026 News
Partnership with Nelekat boosts employability for TUT graduates
Industry partner Nelekat plays a vital role in equipping TUT graduates with practical skills through internship training and certifications, strengthening career readiness and workplace confidence.
Faculty ideates Women in the Arts initiative 2026
The TUT Research Niche Area: Artivism as a Tool to Combat Gender-Based Violence(s) hosted a collaborative workshop for Faculty of Arts & Design staff to shape the Women in the Arts initiative 2026.
TUT SWiP workshop expands African language content on Wikipedia
The recent SWiP Workshop, hosted at TUT, equipped language students with practical skills, added about 440 000 new words in African languages to Wikipedia, and strengthened digital language resources.
FEBE welcomes new generation of problem solvers
More than 2 400 first-year TUT students took their first step towards becoming engineers and built environment professionals during their official welcome at the 2026 orientation event.
TUT students apply classroom knowledge to practical on-site construction trade skills
A group of 117 Building Sciences students from TUT recently participated in a three-day practical training camp designed to expose them to the realities of the construction trade environment.
Graduates from TUT’s Women Leaders Programme receive certificates
A special certification ceremony was recently held to acknowledge and celebrate 23 exceptional TUT women who successfully completed the 2025 Women Leaders Programme.
TUT co-hosts global conference on green and sustainable development
TUT, North-West University, University of Fort Hare, University of Kigali and KCA University, Kenya, co-hosted the 2nd International Conference on Green and Sustainable Development (ICGSD) in March.
TUT honours staff at Management Sciences’ Academic Excellence Awards
Dr Edgar Nesamvuni led celebrations as the Faculty of Management Sciences honoured staff for outstanding achievements in research, teaching and learning at the annual Academic Excellence Awards.
Prof Maluleke unveils 21st Century Mbombela Campus Library
The newly refurbished Mbombela Campus Library, which includes digital resources, collaboration spaces and research areas, was officially opened by Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Prof Tinyiko Maluleke.
Can anything be more beautiful than a library?
We are gathered here to do something rare and beautiful; something during which we will also make a bit of history. Talking about history, let me go back a bit to the brief history of libraries.