CAPE TOWN - On February 1, 1978, Roy Cokayne stepped into the offices of the Pretoria News, with an honours in journalism from Rhodes University in the bag. Four decades later, he’s Business Report’s most seasoned reporter, specialising in property, motoring and construction.

Mail & Guardian freelance journalist Sarah Wild won the gold award at the 2017 international AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. In a moving series on forensic science and the quest to identify hundreds of unidentified dead who pass each year through the mortuaries of a single province in South Africa, Sarah Wild told the stories of both the professionals trying to improve the identification process and the families seeking to know what happened to their loved ones.

EE Publishers is pleased to advise that Pierre Potgieter has been appointed as the editor of PositionIT magazine with effect from 13 November 2017. He has a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Rhodes University, and has been with EE Publishers since 2013 in the position of assistant editor of PositionIT.

Wesgro, Cape Town and the Western Cape's official Tourism, Trade and Investment Promotion Agency, is pleased to announce the appointment of Palesa Morudu and John van Rooyen to the Agency's board. In terms of the Western Cape Investment and Trade Promotion Agency Law, 1996, Wesgro is governed by a board - with directors representing both the public and private sector of the province.

A grand prize of R120,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Silicon Valley in the US has been awarded to Rhodes University graduate Bandile Dlabantu whose Mobile Fly Farm was announced as the winning innovation in the 2017 Global Cleantech Innovation Programme in South Africa (GCIP-SA).

Launching the party Korea Garden lodge in Lilongwe with gold and green colours, Kumwenda said Malawi politics is “deceiving” and she want to bring “fresh ideas” hoping to be elected the second female Head of State after Joyce Banda.

In the stand-up world, the situation is no less gender-skewed. Last year, all 10 of the highest-paid comedians — collectively netting a cool $173-million — were guys. By our count, of the 683 people big enough to warrant inclusion on Wiki’s list of “American Stand-up Comedians,” just 92 are women. That equates to a not-so-funny 13%,” according to a HuffPost blog, ‘Why the Gender Gap in Comedy Isn’t That Funny’.

Jan-Bart Gewald (1963) is the new director of the African Studies Centre Leiden. He was born in the Netherlands but was raised in Zimbabwe, Congo, Botswana and Namibia. He did a BA in African Political Studies and African History at Rhodes University (South Africa), he did his MA in History at Leiden University and his PhD at Leiden University under the supervision of Prof. Henk Wesseling and Prof. Robert Ross.