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Q&A with Nhlanhla Masemola
Johannesburg-based fashion designer, Nhlanhla Masemola, a top 10 finalist of the Africa Fashion International (AFI) Fast Track Programme. Nhlanhla Masemola, a Johannesburg-based fashion designer and...
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Wits computer labs ‘not maintained’
Students are frustrated by the poor maintenance and monitoring at CNS labs on campus. Wits students are frustrated with computer labs not being regularly maintained or monitored by the Computer and...
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Pikitup strike set to continue
Johannesburg streets expected to get a little messier next week. Pikitup employees have ensured the streets in Braamfontein are strewn with rubbish during their strike. Photo: Nobathembu Zantsi...
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Wits graduand is Miss South Africa 2016
Ntandoyenkosi Kunene, an education honours graduand is the new Miss South Africa. Newly crowned Miss South Africa 2016, Ntandoyenkosi Kunene. Photo: Stephanie Weil. A soon-to-be honours in education...
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Arts initiative to fund music tours across SA and SADC
A recently established fund is seeking applications from musicians who need to tour. Source: Facebook.com The Mobility Fund is an arts initiative through Southern African Music Rights Organisation...
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Six Sailing Ladies make waves
The six Sailing Ladies, a team of sailing women from the Wits Yacht Club (WYC) are challenging gender roles in a male-dominated world, with a campaign to enter their team into the famous Cape to Rio...
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COOL KID: Rhema Stephani Namakau Socika,
Poet and Co-founder of ” We Original Kreatif and Enlighted (WOKE), an arts movement, Rhema Stephani Namakau Socika, features as this week’s “cool kid” This week`s cool kid is poet Rhema Stephani...
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Forgotten Treasures Before the Rainbow
Mabhelandile Belle is a financial accounting student at Wits who has started a campaign titled “Before the Rainbow”. His mission is to tell stories of ordinary citizens about life during apartheid....
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Social science students vote for transformation
A new student council has been voted into The School of Social Sciences and are acting for managerial transformation in the faculty. LET’S TRANSFORM: Electoral groups are looking to transform...
View ArticleYour communication devices are spying on you
The Right2Know campaign and Media Policy & Democracy Project are challenging the mass surveillance. It is now very easy for individuals to be spied on through their personal communications devices....
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October 6 against private security on Campuses.
October 6 movement is calling for unity against securitisation on campuses. Students and members of October 6, an organisation of workers and students, from Wits and University of Johannesburg (UJ)...
View ArticleHow sexting is creating a safe space for curious millennials
Young people are expressing their sexuality through technology but is no reason to panic. This article originally appeared on The Conversation Africa. by Melissa Isabella Meyer Millennials have become...
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Fundraising for anti-rape device begins
A potential anti-rape device may soon be in production in South Africa. The developers of a new anti-rape device are hoping to raise enough capital through a crowdfunding initiative to produce their...
View Article9 Takeaways from Time of the Writer
Nine things you have to know from the annual Time of the Writer Festival which just wrapped up in Durban. This year’s theme for the Time of The Writer (TOW) literary festival was ‘Decolonising the...
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From construction management to musician
A former Wits student is getting significant airplay for some of his music. Vanco Featuring Sasa- We Mama. Graphic: Provided. Artist : Vanco_sa Record Label: Sounds Different Entertainment VUVU RATING:...
View ArticleWits Law launches joint PhD with Dutch university
Wits partners with Erasmus University in a new joint PhD Programme in Law. Doctoral students in law will now have the opportunity to receive a joint PhD from Wits in Johannesburg and Erasmus University...
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First-time rugby player makes the Wits team
Abdul Mayimele went from being a small-town boy who knew nothing about playing rugby to playing for the Wits Under-First20 rugby team. Abdul Mayimele, middle, a Wits student who has made the Wits Rugby...
View ArticleDo you #HaveTheBalls to talk about your family jewels
A new campaign which aims to break the silence around testicular cancer was launched recently. A BALLSY new online campaign aimed at breaking the silence around testicular cancer was launched last...
View ArticleOPINION: When every song is seen as a protest
Men’s Hall Residence students were celebrating their fellow housemates at graduation today but bystanders assumed they were protesting. Earlier today, while on my way to photograph graduating students...
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How to launch a successful music festival
A new music festive debuted in Clarens over the Easter weekend. Lush festival hosted a variety of local and international artist, including the well known Xavier Rudd from Australia who played to a...
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