Campus Column: Haynes on: social entrepreneurship - A university degree is no longer a guarantee of future security; and it is highly likely that this generation of... What do you think?: Alcohol and Rhodes - Do you have something to say about alcohol consumptionin relation toRhodes students or the administration? Have your say by... Waterpolo: Slideshow of Intervarsity Waterpolo... Campus Politics: China and African Development - By Bilal Randeree - Bilal is our guest columnist and is from Newcastle and is a chartered accountant. He not only... Breaking news: Yet another student knocked down - By Julien Fiévez - On the evening of Friday the 5th of March, a Rhodes University student was knocked over by a... Diary of a first year: In this new section of our website, we get exclusive notes from various first years on their trials and tribulations that come with their first year... Box Office Break Down: The Latest Movies: hot or not? - By Lisa Brigham - THE ORPHAN - Horror - * * * - Gave this film a '3 star' because even though it definitely gave us... Campus Help: Valentine's Day: Our resident 'agony aunt' is right here to relate to! This month she tackles 'Valentine's Day Demons'... guys and girls 'this is it' with Roza... Campus Sport: With New Year's resolutions to 'get fit' fast fading we thought you may need a little nudge in the right direction! Sports reporter Fabio De... Campus Competition: The Red Elephant Project is a new competition that the oppidanpress.com is running in hopes of encouraging students to 'go green'. - This competition... Rugby: Intervarsity Round Up - By Litha Mpondwana - RUGBY - After a pulsating game of running rugby earlier in the day, which saw NMMU narrowly defeat a... Student Travel: A current view of Zimbabwe - By Chelsea Nelson - Slideshow: - During the 2009 December vacation I travelled with my family to Zimbabwe. Not an ideal... Note from the Ed.: Dear Readers, web-surfers and Rhodents - In this edition we ask you what you thought of Valentine's Day and got some interesting responses! - We also... Campus Opinion: Intervarsity and Our Reputation - By Lisa Brigham - Rhodes University students made a big effort to attend the Intervarsity week-end events as they... The ABC of an HIV test: By Lisa Brigham - Photographs by Dee Alcock - I recently attended the New Start event on campus with a photographer to show students how easy it is... Rave Reviews: Getting Retro at Rev’s - By Abigail McDougall - The lollipop-red doors of Rev’s Diner swing open and spill rock ‘n roll out into the street.... Campus Fashion: Campus Fashion - The top5 things you need in 4th term to keep you fashionable on campus are... - 1) Wafer or Grill glasses: these can be found at... Campus Help: In hopes of giving you as many tips and top advice as possible in O-week 2010, we brought in our 'shoulder to cry on', our 'pillar of strength' and... Campus Explorer: From the 2nd till the 8thof December 2009, the Rhodes University Underwater Club embarked on a trip dedicated to SCUBA diving on Aliwal Shoal, a... Campus Views: This month we asked you the question "what did you do for valentines day?" for our monthly Campus View section. - Look out for our team asking...

About Us

The Oppidan Press website team has tirelessly been working on this new website since the beginning of 2009. Our reporters have kept up with our ‘funky’ theme and bravely tackled new topics at fresh new angles to keep our students informed and interested in student news.

We have kick started the new website with an Intervarsity theme so that you can all check out the events you attended, the events you missed and yourselves if you managed to run into a reporter or a photographer that covered Intervarsity.

Under the new editorial team of  Lisa Brigham and Paul Harris (and a lot of help and support from Andrew Lynch -our tech guy- and other members of the Oppidan Press team) we hope to revolutionize online student media and keep you all coming back for more.

Please give us feedback to our reporters content in the form of posts or blogs and we’ll use your input to better the site!

Thank you for your patience and interest!

The Oppidan Press website team