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Wits Pride Week 2012 starts Monday
The annual Wits Pride Week kicks off at Wits University on Monday 1 October. PRESS RELEASE: For the past 18 years South Africa has been making great strides to erase the legacy of apartheid… but what...
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Students feel that the poor should not be used as “guinea pigs” for law graduates. Students for Law and Social Justice (SLSJ) held a debate between UJ and Wits students about the pro bono clause of the...
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The Man on the Mountain
Pic: www.africaimagery.com In her first feature for Wits Vuvuzela, Lisa Golden profiles Salvatore Serio, a healer in the town of Magaliesberg for over 40 years. In north-west Gauteng lies the sleepy...
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A confiscation of livelihood
Luyanda Majija’s first feature for Wits Vuvuzela tells the story of Johannesburg hawkers’ struggle to make a living against the JMPD’s duty to enforce the law. Police patrol the streets of...
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Long and costly quest for a cure
Wits Vuvuzela journalist Hazel Meda addresses the issue of depression and somatoform disorder in her first feature. Somatoform disorder can be very debilitating, says psychiatrist Werdie van Staden....
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Braamfontein’s hip Mother Theresa
Hazel Meda tells the story of Mama Yvonne who has been running a soup kitchen in the city of Johannesburg for the last 32 years. Yvonne Moloelanga has run the soup kitchen at Holy Trinity Catholic...
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Joburg Justice site goes live
The Honours in Journalism class of 2012 ended off their academic year by publishing Joburg Justice – an in-depth investigative project that focused on the criminal justice system in South Africa....
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Masutha opts out of SABC’s ‘One Day Leader’
Former Wits SRC president Morris Masutha shocked viewers last week when he left SABC 1’s reality series, One Day Leader, after winning a challenge and qualifying for the next round. LEADER ON THE RISE:...
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Witsies on the small screen
DRAMA ON INTERSEXIONS: Wits Drama student Zola Nombona was featured on Intersexions this week. Photo: Nokuthula Manyathi Two Wits drama students have appeared on the acclaimed local drama Intersexions,...
View ArticleDrama students and parents meet over sexual harassment
The School of Arts is continuing to deal with the fallout over allegations of sexual assault and harassment in the drama department with a third discussion forum with drama students, their parents and...
View ArticleMedia Studies tackles sexual harassment allegations
DR LAST Moyo has stepped down as head of the Media Studies department pending an official investigation following allegations of sexual harassment published in the Wits Vuvuzela. The paper reported...
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Vandalism marks Israel Apartheid Week at Wits
DEFACED: A student looks at the Israel Apartheid Week wall that was defaced. The words “Propaganda” and Brain-washed” were scrawled on the wall. Event co-ordinator Tasneem Essop said she was...
View ArticleWits Paediatric Fund reaches the halfway mark
UPGRADES to the Paediatric Casualty Unit (PCU) at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital will get a boost with the help of a fundraiser headlined by a well-known author. Gerald Garner, a registered tour...
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“Con Mommies” strike Braamfontein
Lutendo Maiwashe standing at the door of the Legit store where she was scammed. Photo: Shandukani Mulaudzi A group of “motherly” con artists scammed a Wits student last week after luring her away from...
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Witsies help to feed fellow students
The Student Affairs division at Senate House has started a drive to collect food and toiletries for students who are most in need of these items. Ashina Sarawan, Projects Officer for Student Affairs...
View ArticleUPDATED: Israeli-born pianist abandons performance after protest at Wits
UPDATE: 15 MARCH SAUJS nationals liason officer, Harry Hoshovsky, has responded to protest action which took place during Israel Apartheid Week. Wits Vuvuzela, 15 March: Vandalism marks Israel...
View ArticleWits Vuvuzela responds to lecturer complaint
Media Studies senior lecturer Dr Last Moyo has objected to elements of Vuvuzela’s story last week in which a number of students made allegations of sexual harassment against him. “The editor of...
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Media mis-reporting HIV rate among SA schoolgirls. True rate is 12.7 percent
Reproduced with permission of Africacheck.org. See the full article here. by Julian Rademeyer The claim that 28 percent of South African schoolgirls are living with HIV started with a remark by Health...
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Have you heard about Prisoner A?
Story and images reproduced with permission of the of the Wits Justice Project. Prisoner A, Ronnie Fakude, is a remand detainee, or a person awaiting trial behind bars. Read Carolyn Raphaely’s...
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