By Siza Ngxabi The conference of the Community of Mandel Rhodes Scholars (CMRS) has seen an amazing turn-out from the distinguished guests in the past two days who made their own presentations and dialogues on ethical leadership, the likes of Kojo Parris and others, to scholars sharing their own research projects and other initiatives they […]
Mandela Rhodes Scholars
Mandela Rhodes Scholars who feature on this page are all recipients of The Mandela Rhodes Scholarship, awarded by The Mandela Rhodes Foundation, and are members of The Mandela Rhodes Community.
The Mandela Rhodes Community was started by recipients of the scholarship, and is a growing network of young African leaders in different sectors. The Mandela Rhodes Community is comprised of students and professionals from various backgrounds, fields of study and areas of interest. Their commonality is the set of guiding principles instilled through The Mandela Rhodes Scholarship program: education, leadership, reconciliation, and social entrepreneurship.
All members of The Mandela Rhodes Community have displayed some form of involvement in each of these domains.
The Community has the purpose of mobilising its members and partners to collaborate in establishing a growing network of engaged and active leaders through dialogue and project support
[The Mandela Rhodes Scholarship is open to all African students and allows for postgraduate studies at any institution in South Africa. See The Mandela Rhodes Foundation for further details.]
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single meeting of minds
By Lionel Faull September 6 was the day Grahamstown welcomed 40 young leaders from across sub-Saharan Africa and prominent members of the South African and Grahamstown civil society to engage one another for three days on the practice of ethical leadership — a gathering that could grow in time to become Africa’s premier conference of […]
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‘Dropping your pants ain’t proof enough!’
By Cynthia Ayeza Mutabaazi I have been following the now controversial tales and rumours surrounding Caster Semenya. She holds a one minute, 56,72 seconds, 800m record, but not without question. The latest in track and field history, the Semenya controversy may very well leave a bitter taste in the mouths of many. According to her […]
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Deepak, Phil and Oprah: A self-help paradox
By Suntosh Pillay “Are you living your best life?” Oprah Winfrey likes to ask. Jennifer Niesslein asked herself this, took it quite seriously, made a list of areas in her life that needed improving, and began an ambitious two-year experiment — follow with devotion the self-help gurus and their advice. In her own book Practically […]
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Celebrating Tata Madiba in the Big Apple!
By Judy Sikuza Tata Madiba’s birthday celebrations resulted in a New York City that was heavily infected with a fever. This was not the superfluous kind such as the swine flu which causes debilitation but rather the kind that everyone coveted to be infected with. The Mandela Day celebrations were like a fever that permeated […]
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The liberation of the caveman
By Zdena Mtetwa I have driven down Witkoppen road many times, coming from the Fourways direction in the early hours of the morning. But it took many times of doing this for me to wake up and see the view from the highway. One day, I looked afar and saw white and red lights, in […]
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O-zuma-ndias? I don’t think so
by Suntosh Pillay Half-sunk, shattered and forgotten, but the inscription remained, mortal words of an evaporated legacy: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” This, said a traveller from an antique land, was once a vast statue of a mighty ruler. Ozymandias, the sonnet by Percy Shelley, […]
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The DA’s ‘Stop Zuma’ and ‘Size Matters’ campaign
Submitted by Marius Redelinghuys “Stop Zuma!” two weeks before election day has become the epitome of the Democratic Alliance’s 2009 election campaign. However, the DA’s advertising campaign in various print media last week went further and loudly – in addition to the centrality of the anti-Zuma platform – dared to present to South Africans the […]
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The personal is political
The Community of Mandela Rhodes Scholars is a politically non-aligned body representing 93 inspiring young African leaders. While the organisation is politically neutral, the individual scholars are encouraged to be vocal in their political views. With April 22 fast approaching, the scholars have been invited to share their personal justification for their intended vote. Mandela […]
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Zuma’s not my president
by Christopher Holdridge Yesterday, I was horrified to read Jacob Zuma’s comments about Afrikaners being the only true white South Africans. With an election only three weeks away, Zuma was addressing a group of representatives of Afrikaans-speaking organisations in Sandton, Johannesburg. He stated before the gathering that “in South Africa it is only the Afrikaners […]
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Student politics
By Siziphiwe Ngxabi The race to the elections has certainly become very interesting over the past few months with all the political parties trying to score themselves support leading up to the national elections on April 22. What is likely to be even more interesting is the participation of the Student Representative Councils (SRC) in […]
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Et tu Madiba?
by Marius Redelinghuys On my way to campus Monday morning I got a bit anxious when I read the Pretoria News posters alluding to some “Madiba magic” injection into the ANC’s election campaign, I pondered the possibilities of what this could really mean, but didn’t think much of it initially. However, as I walked into […]