Twelve names to change the world
DST/NRF professor in Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology at Rhodes University and director of the DST/Mintek Nanotechnology Innovation Center for Sensors, Professor Tebello Nyokong, will represent Africa and be one of the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), located in Burgos, Spain, "12 NAMES TO CHANGE THE WORLD."
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Teaching the teachers
The Eastern Cape education department remains in the news for all the wrong reasons. From court battles between unions, provincial and national departments, teacher strikes, the state of education in the province suffers.
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Flanagan scholarship winner off to Cambridge
Port Elizabeth resident, Nadine Sampson has been awarded the 2012 Rhodes University Patrick and Margaret Flanagan Scholarship worth R300 000 per annum for two years full-time study.
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“Blue Note’s band represents a joyful defiance of the apartheid laws”
Maxine Macgregor, widow of acclaimed jazz musician and composer Chris Macgregor, travelled from her rural homestead near Tonneins in Bordeaux in France last week to sit on a panel discussing his band, the Blue Notes, at the recent indaba held at Rhodes University. ...read more
