Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 student Marina Khoza, who will be graduating with a distinction in MSc (Botany) this year, was part of a team that won a $5000 cash prize for its Africa THINKS indigenous knowledge teaching solution at the Business of Conservation Conference (BCC) in Rwanda last year.

A group of radio astronomers led by the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics has conducted a multi-frequency and multi-band study of the Shapley Supercluster, where the formation of large structures is ongoing at the present cosmological age.

Prof Roy Sargeant, who was appointed Head of Speech and Drama at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 in 1973, passed away at the end of 2021. In addition to establishing the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网's reputation as one of the premier drama training schools in South Africa, Prof Sargeant co-founded the National Arts Festival in 1974 with Prof Guy Butler. He was also integral to the creation of the Student Drama Festival and the Standard Bank Young Artists Awards.

A collaboration between Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 astronomers, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Cape Town (UCT) and Swinburne 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Technology (SUT) based in Melbourne, Australia, has resulted in a discovery of a mysterious chain of hydrogen gas clouds with the size of a massive galaxy through the South African MeerKAT radio telescope. The international team is led by an Astronomer from the Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 visiting Professor Gyula Józsa, SUT’s Professor Michelle Cluver, and Professor Thomas Jarrett from UCT.

South Africa’s coalition negotiations after the November 2021 election were full of unexpected plot twists. November’s news reporting reveals clear, almost cartoonish characterisations of our largest three parties emerging from a backdrop of extremely complex negotiations and a soap-opera-worthy web of love-hate relationships.

The word corruption has its roots in the Latin adjective corruptus which refers to something that is spoiled, corrupted or perverted. In South Africa, evidence of the perversion of public funds abounds. In his 2021 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement the country’s finance minister Enoch Godongwana warned that rampant corruption was a persistent issue draining public finances.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网's Old Rhodian Golf Club hosted its first Old Rhodian Bursary Day since 2019, raising more than R80 000 recently.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 hosted its fourth and final Leadership Conversation for the year, with its 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, Dr Roger Scoon, on 30 November 2021.

The Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 community is saddened by the passing of Ambassador Lindiwe Mabuza, who died yesterday afternoon at the age of 83. A few months ago, the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Senate and Council voted to confer the degree of Doctor of Literature (D Litt) (honoris causa) on Ambassador Mabuza at the April 2022 graduation ceremonies.

In 2020, the Foundation for Human Rights and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA approached the Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Library to make accessible the Zietsman/Goniwe Inquest documentation, archived at the Cory Library for Humanities Research.

Claire McCann, a Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Community Engagement student leader and joint Honours in Economics and Politics student, has been granted a Southern African Rhodes Scholarship to complete her Masters degree at the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Oxford in England.

Vaccines are ultimately the best way to ensure that we beat COVID-19, yet vaccine hesitancy remains a threat to protecting our community. In this series, Virologist at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 and member of the Provincial COVID-19 Expert Panel, Professor Rosemary Dorrington, addresses queries, fears, and misinformation.

As per its tradition, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 presented the inaugural lecture of Professor Kenneth Mlungisi Ngcoza last week. The hybrid lecture titled ‘From poverty to 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网: Journeys, Challenges and Opportunities’ welcomed guests who attended virtually and face-to-face.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s Distinguished Professor Tebello Nyokong recently received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from her alma mater, McMaster 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 in Ontario, Canada, where she completed her MSc in Chemistry in 1981. This award marks her second international honorary doctorate and her fifth honorary degree overall.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, home to the oldest biotechnology academic programme in South Africa, boasts no less than seven graduate distinctions from the Biotechnology Innovation Centre this past October.

Siphumze Bani is a Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 October 2021 graduate who started his journey at the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 in 2013. He has now completed his Masters in Biotechnology (distinction) with an impressive thesis project on water desalination through the Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Biotechnology Innovation Centre (RUBIC).

After successfully incorporating a Mental Health and Wellbeing course as part of its first-year psychology curriculum, the Vice Chancellor’s Mental Health Task Team decided to cater for staff and academics and train them on Basic Counselling Skills.

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Claims and counter claims regarding an alleged sexual assault incident involving a lecturer and a student recently featured prominently on various media platforms.

The Rhodes Business School will add a beneficial module to its full-time Postgraduate Diploma in Enterprise Management (PGDip EM) programme next year to better equip entrepreneurs with technology skills for successful business projects.