BUSINESS mogul in the making, writer and fashionista Milisuthando Bongela is making strides internationally as one of four “millennials” in the world represented on a popular CNN business show.
Providing possibly one of the first accounts of the social history of a plant in South Africa, Professor William Beinart (Oxford) and Dr Luvuyo Wotshela’s (Fort Hare) Prickly Pear: The Social History of a Plant in the Eastern Cape explores dynamic systems of local knowledge and local informal markets that have been generated around the plant.
Rhodes University will bestow an honorary doctorate on Leymah Gbowee, one of the 2011 Nobel Peace laureate’s at its 2012 Graduation ceremonies which will be held from 12 to 14 April.
Professor Alfredo Terzoli, head of the Telkom Centre for Excellence at Rhodes was
awarded the vice chancellor’s distinguished community engagement award on Monday 26 March. The purpose of the award is to acknowledge academic staff who make an effort to stimulate community engagement activities between Rhodes and the community through teaching and research.