Alumnus and CEO of Tropic Plastic Gives Back
Tropic Plastic & Packaging Industry (Pty) Ltd is a family owned business established over 55 years ago. The company was founded by Ebrahim Bhabha in the 1960s. It was then taken over by Mr Fazel Bhabha who had a vision of growing the enterprise to be one of the largest in the country. Today Tropic
Huawei developing connected graduates in an intelligent world at UKZN
The lives of fourteen UKZN undergraduate, honours and master’s students were made easier when they were awarded full bursaries to cover their tuition, accommodation, books, as well as a living stipend. At a function held on campus, at the UKZN Foundation Board Room Huawei Technologies South Africa handed over bursaries to the value of R1 530
FPT Group Sails into UKZN Bearing Bursaries
FPT Group (Pty) Ltd is one of the few organisations that offers a broad and diverse range of landside and port logistical services, which include handling, packing/unpacking and storage. It aims to deliver a complete integrated suite of logistical solutions, from point of origin to point of destination. FPT Group has taken it upon themselves
East Coast Radio Bursaries Empower Female Students in CCMS
Nine grateful students from the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS) in the School of Applied Human Sciences (SAHS) have received full tuition bursaries from East Coast Radio, KwaZulu-Natal’s leading commercial radio station. Academic Leader for Community Engagement in SAHS and CCMS Professor, Lauren Dyll reflects on how timely East Coast Radio’s generosity is:
Ford Wildlife Foundation Vehicles Boost Life Sciences Research
Novel research on hippos and other important research on fish, herps, birds and mammals underway by students and researchers in the School of Life Sciences at UKZN is benefitting from the donation of two Ford Ranger D/C 4×4 vehicles from the Ford Wildlife Foundation (FWF). Provision of these vehicles forms part of Ford Motor Company of
Bulk Connections, Providing A “Poverty Escape Plan”
Author and journalist, Dudu Busani-Dube, (cited in Black Tax, Burden or Ubuntu 2019) gives a critique that freedom in South Africa did not come with a plan out of poverty for the previously disadvantaged. Bulk Connections, a company based at the Durban Port, has provided hope out of the poverty-trap for forty-one students at the