Questioning whether South Africans are aware of the challenges involved in translating the aims and objectives of the constitution into reality, Rhodes University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs, Dr Sizwe Mabizela challenged audience members with tough questions during a recent debate entitled “Is South Africa a home to all who live in it?”
A member of the Visual and Performing Arts of Africa focus area in the Fine Art Department and a Masters student, Rachel Baasch showed an unusual body of work in an even more unusual setting, the tennis court at St Peter’s campus recently.
IT WAS an eerie, hushed and sombre day at Rhodes University on Friday when about 20% of the student population donned purple T- shirts, taped their mouths shut and spent the day demonstrating against the horror of sexual violence in South Africa.
A total of 10 De Beers English Olympiad scholarship winners are attending Rhodes University this year. Last year, 6748 candidates wrote the three hour open-book exam, of which the top 50 candidates are awarded full tuition for the first year of study at Rhodes, subject to meeting entrance requirements.