Primarashni Gower
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/ 15 May 2007

Fort Hare VC resigns

University of Fort Hare vice­chancellor Professor Derrick Swartz has announced that he will step down from his position at the end of this year. The university council accepted his resignation a few days ago. Swartz was appointed acting vice-chancellor in 1999 and has turned the university around from the brink of financial ruin to one that has been making a surplus in the past four years.

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/ 14 May 2007

Rewarding excellence

Mmamosadi Monareng, Thamsanqa Makhathini and Colin van Tooren are category winners in the annual Aggrey Klaaste Mathematics, Science and Technology Educator of the Year Awards. Their hard work and dedication has won them each 20 computers for the schools they serve.

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/ 7 February 2007

Skilling up

Radhika Patel* wanted to become a lawyer, so she studied towards a BA degree in legal studies and psychology. After assisting a colleague who was studying law, she found that law "was too mundane and not as glamourous as depicted on TV".