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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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Most of the million gardners employed in South Africa earn less than the minimum wage.
The public politics of African writers has been in the spotlight again due to the bitter disagreement between Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Akwaeke Emezi over transgender issues.
There’s no perfect teaching approach guaranteed to prepare student teachers to teach subjects in English in a multilingual environment. But there are things universities can do to prepare them.
A greater understanding of interconnectedness created by river maps could influence people to become more engaged with conserving river systems.
South Africa frequently invokes its celebrated constitution that is based on human rights, but has often failed to live up to its ideals.
There’s ample evidence that colonial imprints and mindsets in many cities and towns around the world today still dominate the availability of green spaces and how they’re managed.
Since the 19th century, biologists have treated the larvae of lampreys as a relic of evolutionary ancestry that could potentially give clues about vertebrate origins. Now fossils overturn that view.
With the community, the group of theatre-makers and academics created a play that could also serve as a policy brief on what’s missing from the battle to reduce drug use in Durban.
The truth remains that no artist through Nigeria’s postcolonial years has contributed close to what Fela did – and continues to do - for human rights and social justice.
Large areas targeted for forest restoration in Africa are covered by savanna and grassland, which provide important ecosystem services that would be lost should they be converted to forests.
When pop star D'banj signed up to help get Goodluck Jonathan elected president, fans turned on him. But a hit song turned things around.
The draft public procurement bill makes room for confidentiality without defining it and limiting its use to narrow circumstances. This leaves the door wide open to abuse.
The media’s muting of women’s voices when reporting the COVID-19 crisis keeps women on the margins.
South African neighbour law also requires property owners to tolerate a degree of nuisance from their neighbours.
From red berets to full-on cosplaying, leaders across the continent have a robust relationship with fashion.
Most educators have no experience nor did they receive preparation during their training on how to deal with teaching in a crisis.
Universities that pay academics to publish their research should do so with caution.
Guidance on strong passwords has changed and children need to learn about it in a way that suits their stage of development.
South Africa’s that current land reform strategies focus too narrowly on agricultural outcomes and transferred ownership - this undermines equitable and sustainable land reform.
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Research Associate, Rhodes University
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Marine biologist, Rhodes University
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Postdoctoral Fellow with the NRF/DST SARChI Chair Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme, Rhodes University
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Lecturer & MA Programme Coordinator, Rhodes University
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Professor of English, Rhodes University
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rhodes University
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Senior lecturer, Rhodes University
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Research Associate of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor of Environmental Anthropology, Rhodes University
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Director, Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics, Rhodes University
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Program Manager at Wildlife Conservation Society, Rhodes University
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PhD Candidate/Research & Teaching Assistant, Grenoble Ecole de Management/Lecturer in Organisational Psychology, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Rhodes University
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Politics lecturer, Rhodes University
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Lecturer in Sociology, Rhodes University
