Surviving students in recovery
Updates on the surviving Wits students that were involved in the horrific Limpopo accident.
WITS PRAYS: Students and Staff gather to commemorate the lost and surviving Witsies. Photo: Nadia Omar
Students are #IAmConstitution
THE #IAmConstitution debate brought forth issues students have with South Africa’s Constitution on Tuesday night.
Freedom of the headscarf
An exhibition by IRTQA is the first of its kind at the Constitutional Hill, showcasing the identity of the ‘headscarf’ for women in South Africa.
Q&A with Zabalaza Mchunu
Zabalaza Mchunu is a Wits alumnus and marketing manager at VOW FM. A self-described God-fearing person, he is known for his interests in public speaking, acting and comedy. Zabalaza is also known as ‘Date my Family’ after he appeared on the DSTV dating show of the same name. His choice of a ‘Sandton Girl’ whose family were better cooks left Twitter views unhappy with his decision, a choice Zabalaza also regrets.
SRC gives to food programme
R150 000 donation to the Wits Citizen Community Outreach by the Wits SRC.
Wits security guards lose their jobs
39 security guards lose their jobs following a liquidated company. (more…)
From construction management to musician
A former Wits student is getting significant airplay for some of his music.
The Disability Unit moves up
The Disability Human Rights Unit has recently moved to the first floor of the East Wing at Senate House. It was previously located on the ground floor.
Scribbles and Nibbles: For students by students
TWO Wits Law students, Khanyisile Madonko, 22, and Ritondeni Matamela, 23, have found a savvy way to make money by opening a café and restaurant, Scribbles and Nibbles.
ENTREPRENEURS: The owners, Khanyisile Madonko and Ritodeni Matamela will be opening their business soon on campus. Photo: Nokuthula Zwane
The café is located on West Campus at David Webster Res, far from the centre of the university and the Matrix – the largest food court space on campus where most students find themselves grabbing something to eat and socialise.
Scribbles and Nibbles is aiming to cater for students around Wits.
Madonko and Matamela wanted to target students on the Wits campus, and provide a convenient location that was not Braamfontein.
With the distance being an issue from the Matrix, the Scribbles and Nibbles team has thought of a different way to get to students on campus: delivery.
“Delivery will be to Wits and Braamfontein and how we will be getting it to you is with bicycles,” said Matamela.
Matamela and Madonko declined to talk about the specifics of how their business got off the ground but they said they owed it to their “networks”. They said that while it was a challenge to manage university work and the business it was “doable”.
Madonko said that finding time to think of a sustainable business plan that looks at student empowerment is their main mission.
“Every university has tuck shops but does not have structures that empower students … This business is for black empowerment,” said Madonko.
Matamela said they chose the name “Scribbles and Nibbles” because it had a catchy ring to it.
“It was a name I fell in love with, you would want to say it all the time,” he said.
EFF show IAW solidarity at Wits
The EFF showed its solidarity with Palestine in a gathering on the Wits University campus earlier today.
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