A new education initiative that focuses especially on early childhood education has been launched in Grahamstown. Two fourth year Rhodes students, Cathleen O’Grady and Kati Auld, are the organisers of Shine, a new society at Rhodes.
Author: Busisiwe Hoho
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Rhodes University is pleased with the general behaviour of the student body at the Carnival held last Friday night. Last week, the Student Representative Council(SRC) said that the party was held as a test to determine whether students can behave at parties that are hosted by the university.
Posters promoting Rhodes University’s Anti-alcohol Abuse Week have sparked controversy as the woman student who appears in the poster was unhappy that her picture was used without permission.
Mult iple Grammy-winning legend and flamboyant superstar, Sir Elton John will stop over in Port Elizabeth as part of his solo tour Under African Skies. Elton John, the most successful singer/songwriter of his generation, will perform live at the NMMU Sportsfields, South Campus, in Port Elizabeth on Friday, 26 March.
If you close your eyes, The Class can be a story about any school, anywhere. Pupils from different cultural backgrounds are flung together in a shared space and expected to just make it work. Mr Marin (François Bégaundeau) is a French teacher at a tough inner-city middle school in Paris. His learners are brutal in their scrutiny of everything he says.
Watering, along with composting, feeding and mulching, is a vital component in successful gardening. During prolonged dry periods gardeners may want to make use of grey water to keep their gardens alive.
The nation-wide measles outbreak that has been particularly prevalent in some parts of the Eastern Cape, has not affected Grahamstown.
Three break-ins have occurred over the last week in the same area just off High Street. Two houses in Thompson Street and Mad Hatter’s coffee shop on High Street have fallen victim to burglars. In the early hours of Monday morning on 8 February, two burglars entered 3 Thompson Street by bending back the burglar bars on the kitchen window.
Young athletes from Grahamstown know how to charm the media. During the Albany Athletics meet for field events on Wednesday, the young stars shared snippets from their lives with Grocott’s Mail. David Kombe (16) from Kingswood College came first in the U17 high jump with a personal best of 1.86m, making it to the provincial championships last year.
Oatlands Bakery was broken into for the fourth time in two years on Saturday. In the previous burglaries only flour, oil and other supplies were stolen, but this time thieves got into the main office upstairs and managed to wrench open a safe containing money, documents and various other valuables.