The Ukufunda Book Drive: Donate a Book

At the end of 2011, I worked with photography student Ashleigh Swart to create a Public Service Announcement campaign to encourage people to donate new or second-hand children’s books in aid of literacy. Here is an example of the three PSAs created. Please support the Ukufunda Book Drive by visiting the Pepper Grove Pick n [...]

The Ukufunda Book Drive: Where are all the books?

At the end of 2011, I worked with photography student Ashleigh Swart to create a Public Service Announcement campaign to encourage people to donate new or second-hand children’s books in aid of literacy. Here is an example of the three PSAs created. Please support the Ukufunda Book Drive by visiting the Pepper Grove Pick n [...]

The Ukufunda Book Drive: Informational

At the end of 2011, I worked with photography student Ashleigh Swart to create a Public Service Announcement campaign to encourage people to donate new or second-hand children’s books in aid of literacy. Here is an example of the three PSAs created. Please support the Ukufunda Book Drive by visiting the Pepper Grove Pick n [...]

Always Listen to Your Marker

The sense of communication is something that is very important in the world of print and one valuable lesson can be learnt from this semester in print: always listen to your editor. This means that when studying journalism you should always listen to your primary tutor as they have a massive say on how your [...]

The Communication of Print

This was an opinion piece written about the Second Year Print course in JMS 2 at Rhodes University. Studying journalism at Rhodes University is hard work: you have to psychically read what is expected of you, you have your life governed by this over-bearing subject and you have fellow students who all have their own [...]

The Entertainment of Booze

Have you ever noticed that the first thing Rhodes students will ask about events is if they serve booze? It seems as though the most important aspect of any social event is the alcohol that will be supplied. Quite often free (alcoholic) punch is used as incentive to get Rhodents to certain events and to [...]

The Drama about Roscoe (please forgive me :P)

I’m not the biggest fan of this article, I don’t think  that I wrote it very well mainly due to the fact that I didn’t sleep for 24 hours when I wrote it.  (but it’s up to you to decide how good it is) “Who am I to complain?” says Roscoe Ratangee between drags of [...]

A Fictional Obit

This article is completely FICTIONAL. It was a part of a journalism exercise where we had to do a series of articles on one particular person, with the final article being an obituary. But there was a catch… seeing as the person was ‘dead’, we were not allowed to interview them again. It was an [...]

Stress Monkey

Stress. Many cringe at the sound of this word, yet it is a factor that lives in all our lives. Dealing with stress is an important issue, especially in the life of a student. However one student gives a golden nugget of advice to those struggling with this burden: “sweat out the stress” recommends Sarah [...]

Are You Really Smarter than a Rhodent?

Nelson Mandela Hall’s event “Are You Smarter than a Rhodent?” took place at Barratt Lecture Theatre last week on 17 August. The game show event was created by Rhodes student Shuaib Akoojee and was loosely based on the TV show “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?” “This Dean of Students event is used promote [...]