“One must strive for community service and develop the community of Grahamstown,” says Dr Saleem Badat, referring to Rhodes University’s vision and mission statement. In his keynote address last Monday evening, the Vice Chancellor referred to the importance of giving back to the community, marking the official opening of Community Engagement Week.
Author: Busisiwe Hoho
The 2009 Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Community Engagement Award has been awarded to chemistry lecturer Joyce Sewry and science education lecturer Dr Kenneth Ngcoza.
Rhodes students got into the spirit of giving for Community Engagement Week by helping those in need, and having a good time while they’re at it.
It has been seven years that a Raglan Road resident has been living with a stinking problem. Mzwamadoda Williams says his neighbour’s leaking sewerage pipe spills over into his property despite several attempts by the municipality to fix the problem.
local prominent firm of attorneys was caught unawares by a power cut on Wednesday. Gys Niesing, the director of Nolte Smit Attorneys said that their electricity supply was switched off at 9.15am without the firm having received any prior warning.
The Auditor-General (AG) has given his verdict of the municiplaity’s books. It says adverse. And it is the second year in a row that Makana has been in this category. There is only one lower category which is called ‘disclaimer’. But at least we know one thing: no money has been embezzled, nobody has hands in the till or anything like that.
The blazing heat was relentless as groups of people who work and live on Kwandwe Game Reserve entertained guests and officials at the inauguration of the Mgcamabele Centre at KwaPontak Village.
Every square inch of Café Blanca was covered with Rhodes students on Saturday night. The purpose of this mass invasion was the Singing for Soup concert, a fundraising initiative by Masincedane, the Rhodes University soup kitchen society.
I once met a woman who had reached 100 years of age. So I asked her what her secret was. She smiled and said, “A fresh pot of chicken curry every day does the trick.”
“Hip -hop grew and self-started, crude and black-hearted, in the African habitat, nude and black–blooded.” These were just a few of the words of poets in motion, or rather poets of emotion at Lounge Around where The Hip Hop Death Sessions were launched recently.