"We have to do something to help unemployed people so they don't have to resort to this," was the reaction of a prominent Rhodes academic who is recovering at home after being attacked and robbed by two men this week.
Author: Kayla Roux
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Most of Grahamstown's water supply has been cut off since Sunday. While some residents have not had running water for weeks, the most recent outage has sparked wide outrage.
Two brothers aged 21 and 29 handed themselves over to the police this afternoon following the murder of a 45-year-old Zolani Resident in Grahamstown, according to a release by the SAPS.
A Rhodes student is currently being treated for meningitis, according to a release by the university over the weekend.
Scifest Africa, South Africa's national science festival, is held in Grahamstown and hosts more than 45,000 visitors every year. But in between all the lectures, exhibitions, workshops, talks and debates going on during the week, you could be excused for feeling a little bewildered!
This year’s Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) bears almost no resemblance to that of 2012. Apart from a series of anonymous posters, placed around campus and Peppergrove Mall, responding to IAW’s references to Israel as an “apartheid” state, the voice of “the other side”, those of an Israeli standpoint is entirely missing. This was not the case in 2012, due to the formation of the Balance the Debate (BTD) campaign.
American Astrobiologist Henry Throop is convinced that there is life out there, somewhere, in outer space. How? The presence of bacteria in enormous salt lakes and burning hot geysers, acidic mineral-rich mines and ocean floors has told him what he needed to know.
The first art exhibition to come to SciFest Africa is opening tomorrow evening at 5pm at the Albany Museum, and blends together superstition, art and science in awe-inspiring ways.
"Habemus papum" – These were the words, meaning "we have a pope", announced by Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran at the Vatican on Wednesday night as Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Many of our childhood memories involve either getting a bicycle, learning to ride a bicycle or falling off of one. Then the novelty seems to wear off as we become accustomed to the motorised side of life, leaving behind health benefits and grazed knees.