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Find your way to the Potchefstroom campus and get your bearings when you arrive.
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Your guide to Potchefstroom
Potch in
Potch in
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From your first day on campus to a Saturday in town. Find somewhere good to eat, work out what to do next at varsity or discover something you’ve walked past a hundred times.
Find Potch
Where are you headed?
A few useful places to start. Follow the links for current details from each place or organisation.
River Café
Restaurant on Calderbank Avenue. Check the café’s site for opening hours and bookings.
Visit River CaféNWU Botanical Garden
Take a walk in the garden beside campus. Check the visitor entrance and opening details before you go.
Plan a visitThe Feather Hill
A Potchefstroom boutique hotel with a restaurant and spa. See rooms and booking details.
View accommodationNWU student residences
Explore residence options and the official application process for the Potchefstroom campus.
See residence informationAardklop
Potch’s arts festival. Find programme and ticket information from the festival organisers.
Visit AardklopVista’s Restaurant
Breakfast, lunch and dinner at The Feather Hill. See menus and table booking details.
View menusNWU Museum
Explore collections that tell the story of the university and the area around it.
Explore the collectionsNo matches in this directory. Try another search or ask Puck for help finding something specific.
Ask Puck
When you don’t know where to start.
What can I study if I like working in a lab? Who do I speak to if I’ve failed a module? Where can I take my dad for supper? Ask in your own words. Puck can help you narrow the question and find your next step.
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First campus drop18 January 2027
See Potch
A town magazine worth keeping.
Potch Alive is a printed guide to the place you’re getting to know. Expect local stories, a little varsity history and practical things to know in your first weeks. Pick up the magazine on campus and follow its QR codes to find more online.
Explore the online guideTap Puck
What happens if you tap that?
We’re planning small Puck Points around town. Tap or scan one with your phone and it might tell you a story, send you to the next clue or reveal a ridiculous Easter egg. Every so often there could be a surprise reward, like a coffee upgrade or R10 airtime.
Some points will be easy to spot. Others are there for someone to stumble across.
See what a Puck Point might reveal.
Website demo. Rewards are examples.Made for Potch
Half of all revenue goes back.
Hey Potch commits 20% of all revenue to Potch projects and upliftment and 30% to an NWU student bursary fund, with preference for Potch-based families. The remaining 50% supports running and growing Hey Potch.