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Rhodes University
Founded in 1904, Rhodes University is a well-established University located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
It is a small research intensive university which enjoys the distinction of having amongst the best undergraduate pass and graduation rates in South Africa, outstanding postgraduate success rates, and the best research output per academic staff member.
The University takes pride in its motto, Where Leaders Learn, and in producing graduates who are knowledgeable intellectuals, skilled professionals, and critical, caring and compassionate citizens who can contribute to economic and social development and an equitable, just and democratic society.
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There’s a perception among young South Africans that farm jobs are back-breaking and financially unappealing.
Deeply influenced by Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement, artist David Koloane, who died on 30 June 2019, believed that artists have a right to define their own work.
Agriculture appears to carry a stronger set of negative stigmas than other careers, but this is only half the story.
The abandonment of crop farming fields isn't new. But some researchers say it's accelerated in the last two decades.
The major issue is why this kind of research was being produced 25 years after the end of apartheid.
Vocation specific language courses can encourage both linguistic and cultural awareness. They can equip students with the basics they need to communicate.
South Africa is ahead of the pack when it comes to research output in Africa. But this ranking is not a celebration.
To help establish South Africa's gaming industry as a viable career path for more diverse participants, more support for the technical training required has to be considered.
Universities have both a responsibility and a degree of potential influence on public schooling that set them apart and impose a special duty of leadership.
These programmes allow institutions to claim they're doing something without really tackling the issues that lead students to plagiarise.
Government support for the arts, culture and heritage is important even in tough economic conditions.
Research shows that mother tongue teaching is the most ideal tool for early child education.
Maps can show "the big picture" to lots and lots of people in an engaging and colourful way.
Forensic linguistics can play a valuable role in interpreting evidence.
El suajili se está expandiendo al norte, oeste y sur de África lo que propicia contactos comerciales, académicos y sociales con buena parte del continente.
Understanding stories – those of the murderous as well as of the compassionate – is vital to generating the critical mass necessary to save natural environments and their multiple denizens.
South Africa's job summit ignored the great chasms that exist on how to create jobs.
South African editors and journalists failed in their ethical contract with society.
South Africa needs to rethink the role of the informal economy as it mulls over ideas to beat joblessness.
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Senior lecturer, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Professor & Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods, Rhodes University
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Professor of English, Rhodes University
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Lecturer, Rhodes University
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Professor and Dean of Education, Rhodes University
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Post-doctoral fellow. Rhodes University, Rhodes University
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Lecturer in History, Rhodes University
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Professor of Economics, Rhodes University
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Post-doctoral research fellow, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor and Director of Rhodes Business School, Rhodes University
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Professor of African Language Studies, Rhodes University
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SARChI Research Chair in Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa, Rhodes University
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Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University
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Senior Research Officer Institute for water research, Rhodes University
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Doctoral Student in African Languages (Law and Language/ Forensic Linguistics), Rhodes University
