A recent interview with Michael Markovitz on TechCentral is introduced with the statement: "You’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone in South Africa as passionate about public broadcasting as Michael Markovitz."…
Known for being the first white woman to be convicted as an operative of Umkhonto we Sizwe, Marion Sparg grew up in the Eastern Cape, graduating from Rhodes University with…
Philippa Yaa de Villiers has spent a career in the arts exploring an elusive otherness. Daughter of an Australian mother and a Ghanaian father, she was adopted at nine months…
Stephen Grootes started his B Journ degree at Rhodes University in 1994, the year of the first free and fair elections in South Africa's history. His career as a political…
Steyn Speed completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism at Rhodes University in 1992. During his short time at the university he was a student activist and editor of the student…
Yolisa Njamela-Zikhali was awarded her postgraduate diploma in Journalism and Media Studies from Rhodes University, and has been working in the media for the past 24 years. Her career has…
Nick Grubb came to Rhodes in 1992, and immediately found a place, and a lifelong passion, at Rhodes Music Radio. Completing his BJourn in 1995, Grubb started his career in…
Paula Fray obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from Rhodes University in the 1980s, graduating in 1986 into the politically-fraught environment of the period. She moved on from university to…
Lizeka Mda graduated from Rhodes University in 1984 with a B.A. Honours in Journalism and Sociology. Her time at the university remains fresh in her memory; in an article in…
Elna Schütz graduated with a BJourn in 2013, specialising in radio and audio. Her involvement with journalism was always more than purely academic; while studying at Rhodes University, she worked…
