By TUMELO THAMANGA Rhodes University Football Club’s road to redemption in the USSA Football tournament took place from 2-7 July. After last year’s pitfalls and relegation to Section B of the tournament, improvement was expected, but no one could have predicted that the RU Trojans (the women’s team) would take home silver in the B league on their return. The Trojans’ opening match against the University of Mpumalanga signalled their intentions. Playing counter-attacking football, they pressed their opponents off the ball and attacked with potency and intensity. Once Zizo Balintulo opened her goal account, they scored in quick succession. UniMpumalanga could…
Author: Tumelo Thamaga
The department of Political and International Studies of Rhodes University, in collaboration with Sociology and Anthropology along with the History department of Nelson Mandela University and the African Gender Institute of the University of Cape Town hosted a Colloquium celebrating 30 years of Ifi Amadiume’s award-wining text, Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. Titled #Amadiume@30 the event was held on 21-22 September 2017. Dr Siphokazi Magadla of Rhodes Political and International Studies opened the colloquium with discussions on ‘Matrifocality and Matriarchy within African societies’. This was followed by a plenary session chaired by Dr Babalwa…
The Department of Political and International Studies of Rhodes University are hosting a Colloquium Celebrating 30 years of Ifi Amadiume’s award-wining text: Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society. The event began yesterday and continues today (Friday). Day one of the Colloquium opened with reflections by Professor Ifi Amadiume on his book followed by a plenary session chaired by Dr Babalwa Magoqwana of NMU with a panel of Dr Nthabiseng Motsemme (NIHSS) – “Paying with our bodies and souls”: The existential failures to develop the next generation of Black South African women academics. Ms Yaliwe Clarke (UCT)…
Rhodes University Football Club participated in the USSA Football tournament from 3 to 7 July. The highly anticipated tournament has demonstrated that there is a lot of work to be done by Rhodes Football if they wish to be seen as competition favourites in the near future and if they hope to qualify for Varsity Sport. The gulf in class among the teams in Section A was shown with Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) beating the RU Trojans (the Rhodes Women team), a whopping 16-0 and again when the Trojans lost 15-0 to University of Zululand. The Rhodes men’s team…