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NMU makes mark on global impact rankings
Zamandulo Malonde Features reporter 24 April 2021
ON THE MAP: Nelson Mandela University has secured high rankings in the global Times Higher Education Impact Rankings Image: WERNER HILLS
Nelson Mandela University has scored highly in the 2021 global Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings.
The university ranked fourth in SA after the University of Johannesburg, the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town as the top three.
THE Impact Rankings are global performance tables that assess universities against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) essentially measuring higher education institutions’ contribution to the SDGs.
Absa appoints Punki Modise as interim financial director
By Dieketseng Maleke
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Financial services group Absa has appointed Punki Modise as an interim financial director. She also becomes an executive director on the boards of Absa bank.
The announcement made by the institution on Friday comes after Jason Quinn who held the position of financial director was appointed interim Group Chief Executive.
Quinn replaced Daniel Mminele who stepped down this week due to ’divergent professional views and approaches’.
Quinn said about Modise’s appointment: “Punki is a highly skilled banking and financial management leader with years of experience at Absa and across the financial services sector.”
Son granted R2000 bail for allegedly stabbing his father to death following an argument
By Charlene Somduth
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Durban - DEENAN Ryan and his son Shamith shared a close relationship. But on April 10, while drinking alcohol together at their home in Tarkastad, in the Eastern Cape, they allegedly began arguing. Minutes later, one of them was dead.
Ryan, 57, a businessman, had allegedly tried to punch Shamith, 29, who is unemployed. In retaliation, Shamith allegedly stabbed his father twice in the chest and eight times in the back. Shamith handed himself over to the Tarkastad police station that night. He was arrested and charged with murder.
The Trial of Cecil John Rhodes.
Adebajo originally comes from Nigeria and when he was offered a Rhodes Scholarship in 1990, he accepted, despite harsh backlash from his family; a family that felt it was wrong for Adebajo to be accepting this, however prestigious, award created by the infamous imperialist, Cecil John Rhodes.
Adebejo accepted nonetheless and has since then made a name for himself as an esteemed academic and writer. Adebajo describes something of his motives and feelings towards his decision to accept the scholarship and the subsequent success he would have in his career in his latest work:
I felt that I should accept even the crumbs from the great imperialist’s gluttonous feast, but promised myself that, having completed my studies, I would bite the hand that fed me by persuing anti-imperial causes and eventually “trying” the self-styled “Colossus”: Cecil John Rhodes.