Recipient of NSFAS funding at Rhodes donates money to help others

Seven Old Rhodian movers and shakers were named in the Mail & Guardians top 200 Young South Africans for 2016. Congratulations to Claire Waterhouse, Harriet Etheredge, Buhle Ngaba, Krivani Pillay, Baba-Tamana Gqubule, Siviwe Gwarube and Sian Ferguson.

Announced as one of the four 2012 winners of the Theatre Arts Admin Collective’s Emerging Theatre Director’s Bursary, Nicola will be given a platform to write, direct, cast and perform plays over during the year, under the mentorship of the Theatre Arts Admin Collective,

As CEO of one of SA’s big-four banks, Sim Tshabalala is driving expansion into Africa Sim Tshabalala, the chief executive of Standard Bank South Africa and one of three deputy CEOs of the Standard Bank Group (Africa’s largest banking group, with assets of R1.34-trillion and earnings of

Cameron Bellamy (2001), Ryan Palmer (2001), Greg Pienaar (2000), Gordon Simpson (2000) Micheen Thornycroft (2006), Sam Wells (2000), Richard English (2002) and Thato Mabelane (2001) are all participating in the Ubunye Challenge with the aim of raising £250 000 (almost R3 million), the campaign hopes to give half of the funds raised to the Angus Gillis Foundation and the other half to the Africa Foundation to assist in early child development. At the moment, Cameron and members of the Angus Gillis Foundation are choosing five different sites around the Eastern Cape at which to place five Edutainers to act as crèches.

After Rhodes Hans spent 5 years working in Johannesburg; first as an analyst programmer in logistics at UTi Worldwide, then as a developer in online gaming at Dariel Solutions, and finally as a consultant at Mint Management Technologies. In 2006 he was recruited by Microsoft and moved to Seattle to work on the Internet Explorer team.

Gregor Röhrig spent a good part of his 20s capturing street life across the globe – watching people and their daily going-ons. His fascination with ordinary people has translated into his exhibition, Streets of Our Lives, which you can see at the Alliance Francaise Du Cap Art Gallery in the Mother City.

'Kwani?' Managing editor Billy Kahora has been shortlisted for the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing . The 13th Caine Prize shortlist was announced by Ben Okri OBE, the new vice president of the Prize. Billy has a Bachelor of Journalism degree and post-graduate