Monday, June 18th, 2012 at 11:35 am
Vice-Chancellor at Commonweath Club, San Francisco
Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Saleem Badat, makes a June 13 appearance at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco with South Africa’s Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, the Hon. Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim. The following day he joined an eminent…
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Thursday, June 7th, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Launch of Vice-Chancellor’s Website
The University is pleased to announce the launch of the new Vice-Chancellor’s website. It is full of information from his graduation address to who’s who at Rhodes. Read recent newspaper articles about or by Dr Badat. Well worth a visit…
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Split SKA still an ego boost for SA
Business Day – Editorial
IT IS a measure of SA’S tender national ego that the Square Kilometre Array
(SKA) radio telescope project developed a sense of national competition somewhat akin to winning the right to hold an international sporting tournament. Even after…
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 at 9:03 am
Top international SKA scientist joins Rhodes
Daily Dispatch, by David MacGregor, Port Alfred Bureau
RHODES University is reaching for the stars after a top international scientist accepted a prestigious academic post that will see him splitting his time between Grahamstown and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
Rhodes academics…
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 at 9:35 am
Tony Granger (1974) Elected New President of The Insurance Institute of Shropshire and Mid-Wales
The Insurance Institute of Shropshire and Mid-Wales announces the election at the AGM on 26.4.2012 of Tony Granger BA LL.B B.Com ACII CIP DipPfs CFPcm FRSA as its new President of the Institute for 2012. Mr. Dave Vanner ACII was…
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 at 2:47 pm
Chairman of UK Trust receives Honorary Degree from Rhodes University
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Geoffrey de Jager’s Graduation Speech
Rhodes University Alumnus and philanthropist, Mr Geoffrey de Jager, urged the Faculty of Commerce graduands in his graduation speech today (Saturday, 14 April) not set out just to make money,…
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
Oprah Leadership Academy – 21 of the 72 Girls of the class of 2011 for Rhodes
The first matric class of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls has joined thousands of other matriculants around South Africa in the anxious countdown to early January when exam results are published. The matric class wrote the NSC examinations.
Most…
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Caroline Rowlands : 2011 Winner SA Business Club Award
The winners of the SA Business Club Awards 2011 were announced at a glittering ceremony at SA House on Thursday the 24th of November 2011. The evening was opened by world renowned baritone Njabulo Madlala, whose performance of Nkosi Sikelel’iAfrika…
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011 at 3:35 pm
South African Breweries Project Eden and Rhodes University
Although still very much in the research stages in the Department of Icthyology & Fisheries at Rhodes University, Project Eden could ultimately be part of a water-recycling process within the brewery. Read more.
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Evita brings a taste of Kossie Sikelela to London
What do one of South Africa’s most famous white women and 150-odd Old Rhodians have in common? You’re forgiven if you thought the connection goes no further than a piece of paper. After all, Rhodes University presented her alter ego…
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