Posted on August 4, 2010 by Editor
A visitor to Grahamstown, Shane Heckler was involved in a struggle with two street boys that attempted to pick pocket him on the 21st of July. On the way back to the guest house he was staying in, he was approached by a boy that looked around 14 years old, asking for money. Shane ignored [...]
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Posted on August 4, 2010 by Editor
The Oppidan Press (inspired by the Mail & Guardian’s top 300 young people in SA) would like to recognise the 2010 Rhodes University Top 100 Students. Our aim is to recognise and build young leaders at Rhodes University. The Oppidan Press understands that the hardest part about being a leader is that no one ever pays [...]
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Posted on July 31, 2010 by Editor
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or hidden in a closet at the beginning of term three, you will have noticed that our first week of O-term happened to be Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans-sex week. Rhodes being the well-known liberal campus that it is, had an amazing line-up organized for the week. From [...]
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Posted on July 31, 2010 by Editor
South Africa’s 800m World Champion Caster Semenya was cleared on 6th July 2010 by the IAAF to return to competition. The 19-year old athlete ran and won her first race after 11 months of “gender verification tests” at a time of 2:04.22 at the Lappeenrante Games in Finland on 15th July. Semenya’s coach, Michael Seme [...]
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Posted on July 31, 2010 by Editor
Oppidans are steadily getting accustomed to the flood of students in the dining hall at the Steve Biko building. The change, which is a direct result of the ongoing renovations to the Kimberly dining hall, was a talking point towards the end of the second term. Some of the students from the hall up ‘the [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2010 by Editor
By Lisa Brigham Just a day after Human Right’s Day, Sureshnie Rider was hosting the morning show on 5fm when during the ‘reasons to feel good’ segment she received a suicide call. Just after 9:30 that morning a man called in and said that his ‘reason to feel good’ was that it was his “last [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2010 by Editor
By Maxine Samuel The SAMWU strike raised feelings of heartbreak and even hatred for some, as a beautiful town was turned into an open rubbish bin for the last two weeks. For some citizens it didn’t end well as they were either violently attacked or threatened. On 13 April 2010, the second day of the [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2010 by Editor
By Jonathan Hall Approximately 220 men are reported to have taken part in this year’s 1-in-9 Campaign silent protest at Rhodes on Friday 23 April. The protest had over 1000 registered participants this year, most of which were women. Men wore t-shirts affirming their solidarity with rape survivors silenced by sexual violence. “As men we [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2010 by Editor
By Jehan Ara Khonat Pics by: Julien Fievez For the second time in four years the question of whether or not Rhodes should participate in the Eastern Cape’s Sporting Intervarsity has been debated. This time, Barratt Lecture Theatre filled with students donning purple in all shapes and uniting them as ‘Rhodents’. The debate, held on [...]
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Posted on March 23, 2010 by Editor
It’s a good feeling to know that if you tune into 89.7fm at any time of the day, anywhere in Grahamstown that your ears will be graced with a good DJ and a rocking playlist of songs. Unfortunately this is not the case for the next few weeks. Rhodes Music Radio regrets to inform its [...]
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