WITS NEWS: Harold Pinter Comedy at Wits
This information is taken from Wits News: please contact wits.news@wits.ac.za Celebration – by Harold Pinter; directed by Clara Vaughan. The last play Harold Pinter is a scathing comedy depicting...
View ArticleWITS NEWS: Movie festival for Deaf awareness month
This information is taken from Wits News: please contact wits.news@wits.ac.za September is Deaf Awareness Month and the Centre for Deaf Studies at Wits will be celebrating with a special Movie...
View ArticleWITS NEWS: African State-formation and bureacracy in comparative perspective
This information is taken from Wits News: please contact wits.news@wits.ac.za The Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and the Mapungubwe Institute (MISTRA)...
View ArticleWITS NEWS: Ridwan Mia main speaker at Golden Key symposium
This information is taken from Wits News: please contact wits.news@wits.ac.za Dr Ridwan Mia, Wits alumnus who spearheaded the skin graft operation for burn victim Pippie Kruger will be the guest...
View ArticleWITS NEWS: Transforming Home Affairs one conversation at a time
This information is taken from Wits News: please contact wits.news@wits.ac.za Wits Business School will host Home Affairs Minister, Naledi Pandor and the Director of Wits African Centre for Migration...
View ArticleWITS NEWS: Hayani heads home to Jozi
This information is taken from Wits News: please contact wits.news@wits.ac.za After sold-out performances at the National Schools Festival in Grahamstown and rave reviews hot off the Cape Town run,...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Wits loses another Dean
By Thuletho Zwane and Dineo Bendile Wits University has lost yet another senior member of staff after the Dean of Commerce, Law and Management, Professor Nqosa Mahao, gave Wits Vuvuzela exclusive...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: Get that summer body
By Nokuthula Manyathi and Pheladi Sethusa As summer creeps on in, health and fitness are key to looking and feeling good all season. Wits Vuvuzela put together a few health and fitness tips that can...
View ArticleSurvivor: ANN7 edition
BROADCAST CONFESSIONS: Lebogang Molefe chose her studies over a job at ANN7. Photo: Pheladi Sethusa A Witsie is the latest member of the African News Network 7 (ANN7) to leave Gupta Island, less than a...
View ArticleProject W cries foul over portfolios
Bayas’jwayela: Project W’s Jamie Mighti listens on as Progressive Youth Alliance’s (PYA) Tebogo Thothela explains why some SRC portfolios were merged and new ones created. Photo: Ray Mahlaka By Emelia...
View ArticleTri-continental film festival comes to Wits
This is the first year that Wits hosted the People to People International Documentary and Tri-continental film festival on its premises. The People to People International Documentary Conference was...
View ArticleEFF triggers PYA exodus
SOME SRC members, who are also ANC Youth League (ANCYL) members, have dropped their black, green and gold T-shirts in favour of the red berets of Julius Malema’s new party. SRC vice president internal,...
View ArticleLETTER TO VUVU: Wits has Pride
I AM writing with regard to the Wits Vuvuzela article entitled “No Pride at Wits.” Being a critical discourse analyst, I am concerned with the way in which the university student newspaper has reported...
View ArticleOPINION: Politics does matter
by Pearl Pillay OVER THE past few weeks, the hills of Wits have come alive with the sound of democracy. “Elections” seems to be the buzzword on campus of late. Whether it be clubs and societies, house...
View ArticleOPINION: The great Alex Ferguson rule
by Jamie Mighti SOUTH Africa is a strange country, where the level of sports excellence is hilariously inconsistent. On the one hand, Bafana Bafana keep losing games and can only dream of the World...
View ArticleOPINION: We the disabled, the invisible
THE ISSUE of disabilities has always been a sore point for the university and, barring a few extraordinary individuals, it has been treated with reluctance and a measure of reservation. Everybody in...
View ArticleEnjoying food that has roots
SO DELISH: Students at the Postgraduate Office joined in for a feast of traditional Kenyan food....
View ArticleVOX POPS GALLERY: What does Heritage/Braai Day mean to Witsies?
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View ArticleWits excels at budget speeches
Wits has the highest number of candidates in the semi final round of the annual Nedbank and Old Mutual budget speech competition. Witsies are in the lead with eleven candidates and the University of...
View ArticleNew Res complex for Witsies
A new residential complex for the University of the Witwatersrand will be opened in 2014. The new residence comes in light of the increase in the number of students at the university. The number of...
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