On Saturday 03 September 2022, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Vice-Chancellor Professor Sizwe Mabizela officially handed over a hood and gown to Dr Latozi Madosini Mpahleni, in full view of Dr Mpahleni’s family and the community at Mkhankatho village in Libode, outside Mthatha.

Two Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Honours graduates, Kristen Paige Burgess and Emily Ann Webster, were awarded the Patrick and Margaret Flanagan Scholarship this year (2022). Burgess is currently enrolled for a Master's in Chemistry at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 and Webster for a Master's in English Literature at the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Cape Town (UCT).

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 School of Journalism and Media Studies TV Lecturer and PhD candidate Thandeka Gqubule-Mbeki has been appointed to President Cyril Ramaphosa's National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council.

Much of Southern Africa's documented history is dominated by the written records of the colonial project. As a result, the region's history is either murky or neglected. But Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s Library Services, through its Cory Library branch and in collaboration with the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Cape Town (UCT), plans to change this through the Five Hundred Years Archive (FHYA) project. The project seeks to make diverse historical materials available to researchers.

On 25 August 2022, the Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 community and public at large were invited to the fourth virtual public lecture in which the Registrar of Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Professor Adéle Moodly, reflected on the advancement of women in leadership in higher education institutions. The Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Innovation Professor Peter Clayton, welcomed everyone to the public lecture.

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When six former Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 fine arts classmates decided to revive their love of printmaking six years after graduating, they formed a collective and mounted a life-changing art exhibition at the National Arts Festival in Makhanda.

The Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Chamber Choir (RUCC), conducted by Mr Kutlwano Kepadisa, are currently on their first tour since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. They are visiting Johannesburg and Bloemfontein between 19 and 23 August 2022.

On 16 August 2022, Associate Professor in Chemistry Kevin Alan Lobb delivered a lecture titled "Software-based chemistry and its ideal placement in remote and post-COVID learning". The lecture explored teaching strategies that assisted students during remote and online teaching and how they remain useful now that in-person instruction has resumed.

On 12 August 2022, Nombulelo Gongqa, a Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 alumna and the current Director of Organisational Change/Transformation at Diocesan School for Girls (DSG), hosted a conversation titled "Work of the Heart" for the postgraduates of the Organisational Development course at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网.

Manager of Academic Administration Suzette Flanagan presented the effect of horses on people's well-being in her motivational address at the annual Registrar's Division Women's Day event on 10 August 2022. This event recognises women's strengths in adversity and is done in commemoration of women and girl-children who continue to experience the injustices of a patriarchal system.

The draft university policy is not about the public sector at all. Instead it sets out the future designations that will be available in the private higher education sector. It attends to the demand by private institutions that they too should be able to call themselves ‘universities’.

Situated for years in full view in the Alumni House foyer, a historical Visitors’ Book has been available for students, parents, alumni, and visitors to comment in and leave their details. Sadly, due to the Protection of Personal information Act (POPI), this book will no longer be able to be used for its intended purpose.

Proctoring software monitors a student’s computer or phone while they write exams. These programs have been around for some time but became ubiquitous during online learning in the pandemic.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 constituencies converged at Mpekweni Beach Resort in Port Alfred from 12-14 August 2022 to deliberate and review the current Institutional Development Plan (IDP).

It has become a tradition, started by Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s Registrar, Professor Adéle Moodly, to host a Women’s Day seminar within her Division and to honour women staff. This year, the Registrar’s Division flipped the script and celebrated her instead.

Associate Professor Susi Vetter from the Department of Botany was recently elected President of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa (GSSA). The GSSA elects a new incoming President every year who serves on their Council for the following three years (as Vice-President, President, and Immediate Past President, respectively).

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Master of Science student, Ariana Watkins, will fly the Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 flag in London after she was selected for a studentship at the Francis Crick Institute through 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 College London (UCL).

One of the sources of social discontent in post-apartheid South Africa is the legacy of white racism. This toxic legacy is evident in racialised poverty and inequality.