Marketing, Retail Business and Sport Management

We offer dynamic, industry-focused education in Marketing, Retail Business, and Sport Management, preparing graduates for impactful careers.

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Department of Marketing, Retail Business and Sport Management

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Department of Marketing, Retail Business and Sport Management

Engaging with this Department will introduce you to the world of business through the lenses of a dynamic Marketing, Retail Business and Sport Management curricula. The Department undertakes to lay a firm bedrock for career opportunities in the private, public and other sectors of government. Our pride is in the ability to promote academic intellectualism that is unfiltered and knows no boundaries. In our commitment towards harnessing top graduates, we uphold a teaching-research nexus embedded in practise-led modalities that are premised in accentuating both local and international impacts. I invite you to engage with our webpage for information on our academic programmes, including other information regarding staff and students’ research and various activities that promote social engagement scholarship.

The unique proposition set by the department of Marketing, Retail Business & Sport Management is to help you maximise your potential in all areas of life through activities ranging from authentic experiences including both practise and research-informed teaching and learning activities. We encourage you to continue your path toward personal excellence and lifelong fulfilment. Therefore, studying in this Department entails more than just the attainment of an academic qualification – it is a formative process of personal growth and wholesome development for all stakeholders.

Vision

To lead by offering dynamic curricula that is responsive to the needs of industry, government and both national and international standards.

Mission

The Department of Marketing, Retail business & Sport Management’s mission is to gain local and global recognition and status as a clearing house for academic excellence with a capacity to nurture marketing, retailing and sports practitioners of the highest calibre.

Not only do our staff and students’ competencies develop during the VUT journey, but the experience will have an impact and a positive influence on the totality of the learning individual. In this regard, the Department of Marketing, Retail Business & Sport Management enacts a reflexive response to the vision and mission of the Faculty of Management Sciences as well as in recognition of the university-wide commitment towards what is regarded as the cornerstone of a university of technology (UoT), as communicated within the Institutional-planning framework.

Latest News

15 June 2023

VUT Third-Year Sport Management Students receive SAFA CAF D Licenses

Over fifty (50) final year Sport Management students from the Vaal University of technology (VUT) received the South African Football Association (SAFA)-Confederation of African Football (CAF) D Licenses recently, marking a vital step in their journey to becoming qualified coaches. 

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31 October 2023

Lecturer at VUT Scoops First Prize at the ‘2023 W&RSETA Good Practice Awards’

Recently, Ms Bhekiwe Nontokozo Simelane, a Lecturer in the Marketing & Sport Management Department at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT) scooped the first Prize at the Retail Sector Education and Training Authority (W&RSETA) Good Practise Awards (GPA) that were held at Raddison Hotel in Johannesburg on 26October 2023.

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The pride of our department

Thando Mnyakeni
I am Thando Perseverance Mnyakeni, and I was born in Gauteng Tsakane’s east district. Currently enrolled in a diploma program in sport management, I recently completed a D license coaching course. began playing football for VUT Men in 2021 and most recently became an Assistant Coach on the VUT Technical team. As a coach, love and enthusiasm have elevated my love for football to a new level. My goal is to assist the next generation in striking a balance between athletics and academics

Sport and Recreation

Kgotso Nhlapho
My name is Kgotso Nhlapo I was born in the Free State Province, in a small town called Kroonstad. I started playing for the men’s VUT first team in 2022 and I am currently the Captain of the VUT men’s team. I’m a third-year student doing Sports Management. The course has helped to unlock so many opportunities for me in the world of sports, including elements of Sport Administration. As I recently acquired my SAFA CAF-D licence, this has put me one foot into the technical officiating space, which is an avenue I would like to explore especially by giving back to my hometown and country at large, via coaching development clubs..

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