The Board of Trustees of The Mandela Rhodes Foundation has announced that after more than 15 years at the helm of the organisation, its founding Executive Director Shaun Johnson has expressed his desire to step down in the course of 2019 and to pass on the baton of leadership.

The technology market in South Africa is much smaller compared with the European and American giants. Tarsus Distribution Group CEO Miles Crisp uses that to his advantage.

Cape Town open water swimmer Andrew Chin loves the extreme in lakes, rivers and oceans. On 29th November 2018, he completed his fifth Swim for Rivers challenge on the Mtamvuna River in KwaZulu-Natal. He swam 70 km over a 6-day period, finishing at the mouth of river just south of Port Edward.

A logical place to begin is the man who is credited with setting up South Africa’s first TCP/IP link to the United States. In 1988, Mike Lawrie lead an informal team at Rhodes University which used donated equipment to salvage their own Internet gateway.

MyBroadband has strengthened its tech journalism team, with Jamie McKane being promoted to the position of senior journalist while Bradley Prior has joined the team as a journalist. Bradley has a BJourn from Rhodes University and, as you would expect, loves tech and is a PC gamer.

In July 1964, when he was twenty-four years old, Lewin was sentenced to seven years in prison for his activities in the African Resistance Movement, a small group of activists that executed acts of ‘protest sabotage’ against the apartheid state, targeting, as Lewin wrote in his 2011 memoir Stones Against the Mirror, victims ‘made of metal and concrete, not flesh and blood’.

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.