The Campaign To Free West Papua

In a lobbying campaign to gain support against the injustices inflicted upon his people, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and West Papau independence leader, Benny Wenda was welcomed at Rhodes University on his first official visit to South Africa on Tuesday, 22 February 2015.

Student's Olympic Dream Fulfilled

The Youth Olympics is a breeding a ground, a creche for the freakish, athletic ability human kind can reach.

Comings and goings of the SRC elections

The 2015 Student Representative Council (SRC) elections have come and gone with only the thought of why some candidates made it, while others didn’t, remaining.

OppiKoppi 2014 Gallery

OppiKoppi 2014 was wild, and with a theme like “Odyssey” it had plenty of memorable moments. Here are some of them as captured by Activate:

The Best of Fest 2014

The Great Field has been closed off and exams forgotten; the National Arts Festival is just around the corner.

Zuma’s new cabinet: Who is In and Who is Out

The newly re-elected South African President, Jacob Zuma, made his cabinet announcement on Sunday evening, 25th May 2014.

Elections proceed smoothly at Rhodes University

Rhodes University students, most of them voting for the first time, came out in their numbers to participate in the most competitive and anticipated election in twenty years.

Rhodes celebrates record graduation statistics

Rhodes University had a record 2 367 students graduate in the annual ceremony which started on Thursday, 10 April and continued through the weekend. The graduation ceremonies took place at the 1820 Settlers Monument.

Former Rhodes student Dadoo presents book for IAW

Students gathered in the Rhodes University sociology seminar room today where author and former Rhodes student Suraya Dadoo, spoke about her book Why Israel?

Thuli Madonsela reveals the truth about Nkandla

South African Public Protector Thuli Madonsela released her 400 page report on the upgrades of Nkandla, President Jacob Zuma’s homestead on Wednesday 19 March.

‘Finding Graham’s Town’ premieres at the Rat

Kyle Robinson, a Rhodes Journalism graduate, and his all-local production team presented their proudly Grahamstonian project, a short film titled ‘Finding Graham’s Town’

McDonalds coming to Grahamstown

Grahamstown’s skyline will soon be embracing a new addition: the big, yellow ‘M’ that most of us have dreamed about for years will arrive shortly.

Cliff hanger- Gareth Cliff getting involved in student radio

Gareth Cliff is going to take 5fm Campus invasion to the next level. Many awoke to the sad news that their favourite morning DJ is leaving 5fm yesterday morning.

SAMWU makes demands to Makana

t is business as usual for Makana Municipality as the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) have ended their sit-in and have returned to work as of 25 March.