FINANCE FEATURE: Too old, too poor, too late
Financial literacy is not a side effect of wealth; wealth is a side effect of financial literacy – unknown My grandmother spent 48 years of her life working for a popular retail outlet in the heart...
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FINANCE FEATURE: Sneaker resellers rewrite the rules
Questions have been raised about the expensive resale industry within the growing sneaker culture of South Africa. One day sneaker reseller Joe Hebert calls one of his friends, who happens to be a...
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“It’s a match!” – dating during a pandemic Youth is the time to get to know people, find your significant other and date but my failures in pre-covid dating may have actually been for a good reason. I...
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Social media ‘sbwling’ is sucking your savings dry
Tables of silver ice buckets filled with the finest top-shelf liquor: Bottles of Armand de Brignac Ace of Spades, Louis Roederer Cristal and Veuve Clicquot are standard features at the best clubs and...
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Covid-19 infecting queer students’ lives
Covid-19’s lockdown regulations have deprived students of spaces that provide them with a sense of community. Prior to the pandemic, Wits University’s East Campus would be filled with so much colour. I...
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The lockdown of tobacco and the costs of lighting up
In March 2020, South Africa imposed a tobacco ban as part of the country’s response to curb the spread of covid-19. This resulted in various behavioural changes among young people, some evident even in...
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Christian students overcome covid culture shock
The instability of the past year prompted Christian students to challenge their personal routines and evaluate their relationships with God and their churches. There are certain habits and practices a...
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Pandemic triggers lifestyle changes for students
Students are finding that their historical way of living and their future outlook have drastically changed, due to the impact of covid-19 in affecting household incomes. It is the beginning of 2020....
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Baptism of fire for medicine students
For final-year medical students, the covid-19 pandemic has been the start of their future as doctors, physicians, nurses and surgeons. It has been a dive into the deep end of healthcare and was truly a...
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Student dropouts overwhelmed by remote learning
Although universities say their dropout rates have not increased during the covid-19 pandemic, students are still struggling with learning. Sarah Wilmot (25) was more than a year into her master’s...
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Covid-19 intensifies digital divide in schools
The demand for distance learning is growing rapidly due to the covid-19 pandemic and it is further exacerbating the education inequalities in the country. While she is teaching and writing on the...
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Rotation at schools is a vicious circle
The impact of rotational learning on South Africa’s widening inequality and the educational outcomes of disadvantaged students. “Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great...
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Girls have nothing to show for decades of sex education
Statistics from the past year point to wide gaps in translation between what is being taught in schools about sex and what is really happening to many young girls in South Africa. More than two decades...
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Wits Rugby supporters show love on Valentine’s Day
The FNB Varsity Cup is back for 2022, this time with supporters in the stands, a first since the start of the pandemic For the rest of the world, it was a day of love, filled with flowers, chocolates...
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No changes 10 months on
Parts of the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital still remain closed, leaving patients and staff frustrated. The Defend our Democracy campaign held a picket outside the Charlotte Maxeke...
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Braam pays tribute to Riky Rick
Fans say goodbye to a beloved South African rapper the only way they know how – through a full blown street party. Rikhado ‘Riky Rick’ Makhado (34) passed away on the morning of Wednesday, February 23,...
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Students honour slain bystander
Some Wits University students want De Beer street to be renamed after the innocent man who was shot and killed during a protest. In remembrance of Mthokozisi Ntumba (35), students, workers and...
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The List
Johannesburg’s coolest hangout spots and events for students With many of the establishments in and around campus, re-opening this year, Witsies will finally get a real taste of typical campus...
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The List – Part Two
Need a break from the books? We have a few ideas on how to take the load off. Here is a list of student-friendly places to visit in your spare time. As the current restrictions allow for more places to...
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IEC kicks off voter registration at Wits
The campaign targets tertiary institutions to get rid of misconceptions surrounding elections and to encourage more young people to vote. The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), in...
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