Three Old Rhodians have been selected to participate in the 2018 Mandela Washington Fellowship of the Young African Leadership initiative (YALI. They will participate in a six week academic and leadership program at the University of Iowa, USA and attend a three day summit in Washington with US leaders. They will form part of a cohort of 700 leaders across the African continent.

Rhodes University on Thursday said Director of the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics (AGCLE), Professor Pedro Tabensky, had developed a learning module for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) under its Education for Justice (E4J) initiative

Nicky Quekett: an inspirational life. By any standards, Nicolette (Nicky) Quekett has lived a remarkable, and for those fortunate enough to know her, an inspirational life. Although she would not think so, she has been a role model of how to live life to the full for many.

Rapula was selected to participate in the 2018 Mandela Washington Fellowship of the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI). He will participate in a 6 week academic and leadership program at the University of Iowa, USA and attend a 3 day summit in Washington with US Leaders. He will be part of a cohort of 700 leaders across the African continent. Rapula is Founder & CEO of Tantalum Group which is a private healthcare group of companies that is promoting private healthcare access to augment the over reliance and dependence on public health systems.

Currently living and working in Johannesburg Beth Diane was born in South African in 1985. In 2010, she completed, with distinction, her Masters of Fine Art at Rhodes University. Rhodes bought her BFA exhibition, Hibernation, for their permanent collection. Armstrong has partaken in several solo exhibitions, a number of group shows and projects locally and internationally, as well as being included is various private and public collections

Lisa MacLeod, head of digital at Tiso Blackstar Group, South Africa has been elected vice president of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers during the 70th Wan-Ifra's annual congress in Estoril, Portugal on Thursday, 7 June. Seven executives from leading news media companies were also elected to new terms on the board of Wan-Ifra.

Nicolas Haralambous, 34, better known as Nic Harry, is the perfect model of a young entrepreneur in South Africa. His story ought to be a mandatory case study for school learners, university students and young entrepreneurs, especially in the technology sector. To learn from Nic about technology entrepreneurship, you have to look at his businesses, which cut across industries with tech as a common thread.

Rhodes University alumna Joanna Pickering was recently awarded the prestigious Skye Foundation scholarship to complete her second master’s degree in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action at the Paris School of International Affairs, a graduate school within The Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), in Paris, France.