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Heineken’s shameful exploits in Africa
Research by investigative journalist exposed the depths into which the beer company was prepared to sink, for profit. By Nolitha Ngamlana DUTCH transnational beer company, Heineken, has been accused of...
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Interviewing tips every journalist needs
Steps to conducting a good interview. By Ongeziwe Yashe Interviews are essential to the work of journalists and therefore need to be conducted correctly and with care. This was the central message...
View Article24 ways to survive freelance journalism
Journalist Raymond Joseph shares his top tips for surviving as a freelance journalist. Veteran journalist Raymond Joseph, a South African freelancer, shared his 24 tips on surviving the world of...
View ArticlePlayer debuts at Super Rugby
Witsie makes a mark as he makes his first international rugby debut. WITS STUDENT and Lions player Wandisile Simelane made his international debut in the Vodacom Super Rugby union at the José...
View ArticleWits fixes gaze on the double
A penalty shootout was needed to send the Clever Boys through in the Nedbank Cup with second-string keeper Ricardo Goss the hero. BIDVEST Wits remain on track for a league-cup double after progressing...
View ArticleWits students win regional law competition
Wits postgraduate LLB students earn a spot in an international law competition after winning the Regional Round in Africa. Four Wits postgraduate law students are set to participate in the...
View ArticleWitsie bags budget speech competition’s top prize
Masters student takes the prize as Witsies dominate the final shortlist for the budget speech student competition in Cape Town WITS MASTERS’ student Baneng Naape was the big winner at the Nedbank and...
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Q&A with Niza Jay Ncoyini
Niza Jay Ncoyini is a Wits BA Dramatic Arts alumnus and is currently an actor, director, writer and filmmaker. The actor appeared in South Africa’s award winning film, Inxeba: The Wound as well as...
View ArticleRollercoaster ride with Joburg Philharmonic
The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra delivered a world series of a performance. THE JOHANNESBURG Phil-harmonic Orchestra (JPO) launched the Summer Season of their World Symphony Series at the...
View ArticleStudents to represent South Africa at SuperComputing competition in Germany
Two students will be jetting off to Germany to represent South Africa against the best in the computing world TWO THIRD-YEAR computer science students have been selected to participate in the 2019...
View ArticleAward-winning writer gains national recognition
Playwright Neil Coppen wins prominent award Neil Coppen’s play Tin Bucket Drum, published by Wits University Press, won the English Academy of Southern Africa Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose on Friday,...
View ArticleYouth theatre talent gains international recognition
Theatre Duo selected to international youth festival. A Place of Knowing, a play which premiered at the Emakhaya Theatre in Braamfontein last year has been selected for the International Youth Arts...
View ArticleSLICE OF LIFE: Budgeting, saving and auditing yourself
The annual budget speech is an opportunity for the government to evaluate the financial wellbeing of the nation and to outline how the nation’s purse will be used in the new year. The event is a time...
View ArticleIEC grants students opportunity to register
Students that missed out on voter’s registration have another chance. Students that didn’t register to vote in the national elections have until Thursday February, 21, 4pm to do so on Wits Main and...
View ArticleCool kid: Addai-yaw ‘Yaw Majesty’ Coker
This week’s cool kid is an all-round artist perfecting his craft A creative unbound by the divisions within art, Addai-yaw ‘Yaw Majesty’ Coker is an all-round creative with an entrepreneurial touch....
View ArticlePrivate security set to remain on campus indefinitely
By Naledi Mashishi Private security personnel are set to remain at Wits University indefinitely as the institution says it has no immediate plans to remove them. The guards, who have been outsourced...
View ArticleRhodes University to remain open despite water crisis
Rhodes University has reassured staff and students that it will remain open despite the ongoing water crisis in Makhanda. Rhodes University has tampered down earlier warnings by the vice-chancellor...
View ArticleFaculty of Health Sciences to celebrate centenary
By Naledi Mashishi The Wits Faculty of Health Sciences will be observing its 100th birthday through a range of activities and events in 2019. The Faculty which is based at the Wits Medical Campus in...
View ArticleLive performance disrupts established norms, expectations
By Naledi Mashishi Live performance can be used as an act of transgressing societal norms and expectations. This was the sentiment shared by the panellists at the launch of Acts of Transgression:...
View ArticleUNICEF launches a Wits chapter
UNICEF-Wits to recruit Witsies to advocate for social justice. International children’s rights organisation, UNICEF, (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund), will be officially...
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