Date: Thursday, 24 November 2022: The first event kicked off with a media briefing, where Vice Chancellor of Rhodes University, Professor Sizwe Mabizela emphasized to the media the importance of…
Sometimes, one person fills a career so thoroughly that writing a short article about them becomes almost impossible. A feature article perhaps, or even a biography,, might be more suitable.…
Lindile Mpanza cut her journalistic teeth via a Carte Blanche Investigative Journalism TV Scholarship, directly after completing a BJourn from Rhodes University in 2007. As a researcher for the show,…
It is mostly thanks to Rhodes alum Angie Kapelianis that the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is available in transcript form. In 1998 Angie realised that only 52…
Admire Mare holds a PhD in Journalism and Media Studies from Rhodes University. His thesis explored how politically engaged youth used Facebook as a platform for political action in a…
Atiyyah Khan completed a degree in Journalism at Rhodes University in 2009. In 2010 she won the Pulitzer Fellowship award, and achieved an MA in Arts Journalism at the University…
Photographer and School of Journalism and Media Studies alum, Daylin Paul is perhaps best known for his ongoing photo-documentary series Broken Land, for which he won the 2017 Ernest Cole…
Heather Robertson came to Rhodes University to complete an MA in Journalism and Media Studies two decades into a very successful career as a journalist. Her career has taken her…
Dr Kameshnee (Kammy) Naidoo completed her BJourn and MA (with distinction) at Rhodes University in the 1990s. While at Rhodes, Naidoo worked on student newspapers Activate and Rodeo. She later…
The Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies is celebrating its half-centenary in 2022, and, without doubt, these first fifty years have seen extraordinary shifts in the South African…
