Rhodes University’s School of Journalism and Media Studies (JMS) is compiling a book in celebrationof its 50-year anniversary. By reflecting on the school’s five decades

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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,

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

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.

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

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

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,

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

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

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

Cape Town-born David Mann is an award-winning writer, editor and arts journalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He currently works as the process writer for

While completing a BJourn at Rhodes University in the early 1980s, David O’Sullivan started his forty-year career as a radio and TV journalist at the

Upon graduating in 1988 with a BJourn from Rhodes University, Deidre Uren made thedecision to relocate to the Eastern Cape, where she has remained since.

James Oatway graduated with a BJourn from Rhodes University in 1999, and two decades later he has been awarded a JMS50 Alumni Award from the

Multi-award-winning director and producer Jin Jeon grew up in South Africa and studied at Rhodes University in the early 2000s, completing her BJourn degree in

Audrey Brown grew up in Kliptown, Soweto, in the tumultuous 1970s and ’80s, when apartheid Prime Ministers Vorster and Botha imposed vicious, ever-increasing restrictions on

A trend among graduates of the Rhodes University School of Journalism and MediaStudies sees alumni using skills gained in both their degree studies and in

Angela Quintal spent five years at Rhodes University in the late 1980s, obtaining aBJourn and LLB degrees. In her role as the Africa programme coordinator

Tony Lankester has made a habit of making things happen in the radio and theatre worlds. Arriving at Rhodes University in 1991, after a gap

An Eastern Cape original, born and raised in East London and educated at Rhodes University, Sherwin Bryce-Pease completed a degree in Journalism and Linguistics at

In the early 1990s, Rhodes University JMS graduate Anand Naidoo became a well-known face on South African TV, as a presenter on M-Net, and a

JMS Alumnus Graeme Joffe has, since 2012, waged a war against SASCOC (South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee), which, his intensive research has shown,

Photographer and School of Journalism and Media Studies alumnus, Daylin Paul is perhaps best known for his photo-documentary series Broken Land, for which he was

Tanya Accone is an innovator and futurist with a vision to share with the world – which she can do through her work as head

Sue Valentine’s postgraduate studies at Rhodes University coincided with the PW Botha State  of Emergency, and overlapped with massive political rumblings and shakings in the

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the School of Journalism and Media Studies, we celebrate graduates from our programme who have achieved excellence in their careers.

One of our alumna of the week is the renowned Rebecca Davis!

by Jenna Kretzmann Pippa Ehrlich is the co-writer, editor, and director of My Octopus Teacher (2020), South Africa’s first original Netflix documentary which went on

By Keren Banza Harugumi Mutasa has been reporting news from Africa for nearly 20 years. She graduated from Rhodes University with a BJourn in 2004

By Keren Banza The corridors of the Africa Media Matrix Building (AMM) have nurtured many students who have gone to shape the world of journalism;