Rhodes University – The Mail & Guardian

/ 4 September 2024

Scientists break down South Africa’s Nqweba Meteorite

It flashed across the sky – at 72 000km an hour – and sounded like 92 tonnes of TNT exploding

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By Sheree Bega

Friday

/ 18 June 2024

The stage is set for a cracker of a National Arts Festival

National Arts Festival continues to create platforms for creatives, 50 years later

By Lesego Chepape

Partner Content

/ 26 January 2024

Makhanda’s education renaissance

Rhodes University and civic organisations partnered up – and radically boosted results

By Jamaine Krige

Thought Leader

/ 4 October 2023

We increasingly need the courts to defend justice

Online news articles in September were dominated by references to courts – cadre deployment, contempt, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, Eskom, corruption, Makhanda high court

By Ian Siebörger

Thought Leader

/ 20 September 2023

Cape Town in colour: A rediscovery

A walk through the city centre and two suburbs was an exercise in mindfulness and learning how to be home again

By Cassandra Scheepers

The Green Guardian

/ 24 April 2023

Little podlet weevil may beat back invasive mesquite tree

The pods make a delicious coffee and the cattle like them too, but the tree sucks up groundwater and destroys biodiversity

By Lesego Chepape

The Green Guardian

/ 27 January 2023

Invasive water hyacinth explodes on Hartbeespoort Dam

Heavy rain and pollution has led to the aquatic weed increasing its coverage to about 50% of the dam

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By Sheree Bega

Friday

/ 4 August 2022

‘Native of Nowhere’ by Mbali Khoza

Through a series of interventions, Mbali Khoza explores how native people across time and space have mused over, navigated and negotiated black mobility.

By Sonri Naidoo

Education

/ 24 June 2022

South African universities rule roost in Africa

The University of Cape Town and the University of Johannesburg are top universities on the continent in the latest international rankings

By Wachira Kigotho

The Green Guardian

/ 13 April 2022

Insect army winning fight against invasive water hyacinth

The coverage of the invasive superweed has been reduced to 12.5% from 40% in February

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By Sheree Bega

The Green Guardian

/ 12 December 2021

Insect army tackles Hartbeespoort Dam’s water hyacinths

About 300 000 planthoppers have been released on Hartbeespoort Dam to control the green horror

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By Sheree Bega

Business

/ 6 December 2021

MTN staff members who refuse vaccination will be fired

MTN has joined the list of companies that have made vaccines mandatory

By Anathi Madubela

The Green Guardian

/ 20 November 2021

South African rowing in peril as Roodeplaat dam gets choked by plant colonies

Poorly treated wastewater in Tshwane is to blame for the water hyacinth and cyanobacteria colonies

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By Sheree Bega

Business

/ 5 October 2021

Mboweni calls on business to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies

‘We know what needs to be done, we just need to get on with what we need to do,’ said the former finance minister

By Eunice Masson

Friday

/ 9 July 2021

A landscape is politicised through events taking place in: Senzo Shabangu’s ‘ Humble Abode’ exhibition

Senzo Shabangu’s solo exhibition, showing as part of the National Arts Festival, interrogates the contradictions of life in Makhanda

By Fadzai Muchemwa and Lifang Zhang

Education

/ 15 March 2021

UFS: Private security moves on campus to monitor protests

The vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State has spoken about academic measures for students for the academic year following the national shutdown

By Aliyah Price

National

/ 19 January 2021

Q&A Sessions: George Euvrard, the brains behind our cryptic crossword

George Euvrard spoke to Athandiwe Saba about his passion for education, clues on how to solve his crosswords and the importance of celebrating South Africa.

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By Athandiwe Saba

Education

/ 9 August 2020

New education policy on gender violence released

Universities and other higher education institutions have to develop ways of preventing or dealing with rape and other damaging behaviour

By Bongekile Macupe

Coronavirus

/ 26 July 2020

A small number of students can return to university, but some choose not to

They stayed away because they feared getting Covid-19, had comorbidities, were in quarantine, had become infected and the safety measures such as curfews were too limiting

By Bongekile Macupe

Coronavirus

/ 23 July 2020

South African universities record 22 deaths from Covid-19

A Universities South Africa survey shows that 20 people — 19 staff members and one student — at local universities have died after contracting the coronavirus

By Bongekile Macupe

Opinion

/ 29 June 2020

Hashtag lessons from the US and South Africa about racism and antiblackness

The #Black Lives Matter, #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements show that democracy cannot happen without decolonisation

By Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Article

/ 14 April 2020

What universities are doing in the fight against Covid-19

While teaching students during lockdown, institutions of higher learning are also using their expertise to make masks, develop vaccines and research labour abuses

By Bongekile Macupe

Article

/ 16 March 2020

Government’s plan for universities and schools – the story so far

Ministers outline initiatives and the plans for all education institutions

By Bongekile Macupe

Article

/ 6 March 2020

Pensioner goes back to class

Fifty years after matriculating, a 67-year-old has become the oldest-ever first-year student to study at Rhodes University

By Bongekile Macupe

Article

/ 7 February 2020

The grim reality of education: The poor get poorer schooling

Attention has been given to democratic South Africa’s first matric pass rate of more than 80%, but the reality is that schools with a 0% pass rate still exist

By Chris Gilili and M&G Data Desk