Author: Gugulethu Vundla

First gambling and tobacco – and now dagga are in the sights of Boston College lecturer Richard McGowan. McGowan spoke at the Biennial Conference of the Economics Society of South Africa (ESSA) hosted at Rhodes University recently. McGowan, Associate Professor of the Practice in the College’s Finance Faculty, focused on legalisation around marijuana in South Africa. Boston College is a higher education institute in Boston, US. In ‘The newest acceptable Sin and Font of Revenue’ McGowan spoke about how the US had gone about changing legislation in certain states. His paper laid out a potential taxation framework and regulation of…

Hoodies, bangles, beaded necklaces, earrings and shopping bags are among the items Grahamstown will soon be able to buy from a new craft project. Community activist Michael Robin Wynne, dubbed ‘Batman’, has started the project in partnership with Masivuke Day Care Centre for Adults with Disabilities. The centre serves adults with mental and physical disabilities. Masivuke project leader Boniwe Caroline Ncalezi, along with a group of volunteers, provides a productive base for Grahamstown’s disabled people. Three times a week they meet to learn new skills, and create the crafts Grahamstown’s public wants to buy. The aim, Wynne explained, was to teach them…