14+ hour, 25+ min ago  (759+ words) Professor Aileen Boshoff spends much of her life studying invisible things. Deep inside some of the world's deadliest parasites are microscopic proteins working constantly to keep those organisms alive. Hidden from the naked eye, these proteins help dangerous pathogens fold…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (312+ words) President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Rhodes University Alumni, Advocate Sally Ann Collett, as a Judge of the Eastern Cape High Court Division in Makhanda. Collett graduated with her BA and LLB Degrees in 1984 and 1986, respectively. The mother of five, who…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago  (556+ words) There are some errors in your form. International Community Engagement Conference - 7 May, Makhanda Moments before standing up to deliver his keynote address, Professor Tim Eatman took a few deep breaths. "I get nervous," he quietly confided to this writer, seated…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (987+ words) Mattie Shuttleworth sits with her five sons, including a young Professor Stanley Gordon Shuttleworth, future Rhodes University scientist, seated to her right. It began with a woman who refused to let her son leave school at sixteen. Around the time…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (127+ words) Rhodes University hosted its Open Day on 9 May 2026, welcoming prospective learners from Makhanda and across South Africa to explore the institution's academic offerings, student life, residence culture, sports, and support structures. Reinforcing the institution's student-centred ethos, newly appointed Chief Financial…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (127+ words) Rhodes University hosted its Open Day on 9 May 2026, welcoming prospective learners from Makhanda and across South Africa to explore the institution's academic offerings, student life, residence culture, sports, and support structures. Reinforcing the institution's student-centred ethos, newly appointed Chief Financial…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (137+ words) Following her viva held on 6 May 2026, Abongile Sonkosi became the first candidate to graduate with a joint doctorate between Rhodes University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA). Her thesis,"Majority versus Minority: Experiences of Black Female Ph D Candidates in South…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (394+ words) As the Rhodes University Economics Department welcomed Lesetja Kganyago, the Governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), the Eden Grove lecture hall was heavy with one question that everyone was silently asking: How much longer can we afford to…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (413+ words) At a time when universities across the world are increasingly measured by rankings, outputs and revenue, a different question echoed across the Rhodes University campus in Makhanda: what would it mean for higher education to be reparative for the cultivation…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (170+ words) As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, the struggle for education has shifted from a fight for rights to a fight for affordability. This systemic gap is particularly devastating given that NSFAS is currently grappling with a budget…...