Cameron Bellamy of South Africa has become the first person in history to complete the highly complex swim around the island of Barbados. His unprecedented swim began on Sunday November 11 at about 11:20 am. Hundreds of swimmers from around the world were already at the Carlisle Bay start as they were taking part in the annual Barbados Open Water Festival.

Rhodes University staff and students from the department of Geography have contributed to a Nature Communications journal synopsis about global permafrost temperatures.

MR ZAK HAWA, the man who recently scooped the Megafest Business Awards Southern Region Lifetime Achievement of the Year Award, believes success is about creating benefits for all and enjoying the process. He is one man who enjoys what he does. Born and bred in Bulawayo, Mr Hawa graduated from Rhodes University in South Africa with a law degree before joining the family business, Fazak Gift Centre, in 1993.

Zama T. Katamzi-Joseph will receive the 2018 Sunanda and Santimay Basu (International) Early Career Award in Sun–Earth Systems Science at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C.

Athambile Masola “knows what poverty looks like” – the SSP Alum has taken her academic background as a Scholar and Teacher, and opened an all-girl, low-fee private school, Molo Mhlaba, in Khayelitsha, to focus on STEM skills and coding.

Meet Sibonakaliso Mavuka – Tshikululu Social Investments and Projects Specialist. His diverse role focuses on developing innovative new social investment solutions that speak to the dynamic realities and needs of the sector. As such, strategic research and analysis form a key part of Sibonakaliso’s work.

The company, run by Maria Ramos, said on Monday that it had appointed Charles Russon, an executive in charge of engineering services, to head its Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB), which is lagging behind its main competitors.

Recently appointed as deputy editor of COSMOPOLITAN magazine, Noxolo Mafu is the former deputy editor of Huffington Post South Africa. An experienced content producer and video presenter, Mafu is a Rhodes University journalism graduate, and produced and directed Soweto Rising, a short documentary that received international acclaim.