I would like to welcome all of you as we start yet another academic year, especially because it is a time when education in general, and higher education in particular, are going through one of the most testing times in South Africa. The debates may seem to be only local but some of them are also taking place globally...read more.

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Professor Anthony Okoh, Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, and Leader of the Applied and Environmental Microbiology Research Group (AEMREG) has recently been elected to lead the prestigious South African Society for Microbiology until 2013 whilst his two Doctoral students, Ms Sekelwa Cosa and Dambudzo Penduka ...read more.