Rhodes University is a

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located in Makhanda (Grahamstown) in the

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Province of South Africa. It is one of four universities in the province. Established in 1904, Rhodes University is the province's oldest university, and it is the sixth oldest South African university in continuous operation, being preceded by the

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(1904), University of Witwatersrand (1896),

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(1873) as the University of the Cape of Good Hope, Stellenbosch University (1866) and the

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(1829). Rhodes was founded in 1904 as Rhodes University College, named after

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, through a grant from the

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. It became a constituent college of the

in 1918 before becoming an independent university in 1951. The university had an enrolment of over 8,000 students in the 2015 academic year, of whom just over 3,600 lived in 51 residences on campus, with the rest (known as ''Oppidans'') taking residence in digs (off-campus residences) or in their own homes in the town.

History

View High Street looking west from the corner of Hill Street towards the Drostdy Arch

Herbert Baker clocktower, Rhodes University, 2004

Although a proposal to found a university in Grahamstown had been made as early as 1902, financial problems caused by the Frontier Wars in Albany prevented the proposal from being implemented. In 1904 Leander Starr Jameson issued £50 000 preferred stock to the university from the

. With this funding Rhodes University College was founded by an act of parliament on 31 May 1904. University education in the Eastern Cape began in the college departments of four schools: St. Andrew's College; Gill College, Somerset East; Graaff-Reinet College; and the Grey Institute in

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. The four St Andrew's College professors, Arthur Matthews, George Cory, Stanley Kidd and G.F Dingemans became founding professors of Rhodes University College. At the beginning of 1905, Rhodes moved from cramped quarters at St Andrew's to the Drostdy building, which it bought from the

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. Rhodes became a constituent college of the new

in 1918 and it continued to expand in size. When the future of the University of South Africa came under review in 1947, Rhodes opted to become an independent university. Rhodes University was inaugurated on 10 March 1951. Sir Basil Schonland, son of Selmar Schonland, became the first chancellor of his alma mater, and Dr. Thomas Alty the first vice-chancellor. In terms of the Rhodes University Private Act, the University College of Fort Hare was affiliated to Rhodes University. This mutually beneficial arrangement continued until the

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government decided to disaffiliate Fort Hare from Rhodes. The Rhodes Senate and Council objected strongly to this, and to the Separate University Education Bill, which they condemned as interference with academic freedom. However, the two bills were passed, and Fort Hare's affiliation to Rhodes came to an end in 1959. Nevertheless, in 1962 an honorary doctorate was conferred on the state president, C.R. Swart, who (as Minister of Justice after 1948) had been responsible for the repression of opposition political organisations. The award caused the resignation of the chancellor, Sir Basil Schonland, although his reasons were not made public at the time. James Hyslop succeeded Alty in 1963. In 1971, Rhodes negotiated to purchase the closed teacher training college run by the sisters of the

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including the buildings and grounds and a number of adjacent buildings, facilitating further expansion. Rhodes University Eden Grove

Campus

During 2008 work began on construction of a new library building at a cost of R85 million, one of the largest infrastructure projects undertaken by the university, and was completed in 2010.

Organisation and administration

Faculties and Schools

Rhodes has six faculties, listed below: *

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(1952) * Commerce * Law * Science * Education *

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The six faculties are further subdivided into 30 academic departments, of which 11 form part of the humanities faculty. The humanities faculty, being the largest in the university, consists of 40% of the student intake of undergraduate and postgraduate studies, enrolling 2669 students as of 2009.

Law Clinic

Rhodes University operates a Law Clinic, which operates as a firm of attorneys providing training to law students and free legal services for indigent people. The Law Clinic operates from two offices, one in Makhanda and one in Komani. The Law Clinic came to national attention in July 2013 when it represented 15 members of Nelson Mandela's family in their litigation against Mandla Mandela (Nelson Mandela's grandson) concerning the location of family grave sites.

Academics

Rhodes is a small, highly residential university. For most undergraduates, first and second years of study are done while living in campus residences. Rhodes' academic program operates on a semester calendar, beginning in early-February to early-June, and the second semester beginning in late-July and ending late-November. Undergraduate tuition for the first year of study in 2011 towards a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degree was R26,590 and R27,720, respectively, and the cost of board was between R35,700 and R37,600.

Student body

Rhodes admitted 1592 students in 2012. The tables below show the racial and gender composition of the university for that year.

SARChi Chairs

Rhodes holds fourteen of the national research chairs appointed under the South African Research Chairs Initiative. This accounts for approximately 7% of the total awarded nationally in South Africa, a significant proportion given the university's small size. * Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproduction: Human and Social Dynamics ( Catriona Macleod) * Marine Ecosystems ( Christopher McQuaid) * Radio Astronomy Techniques and Technologies (Oleg Smirnov) * Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology ( Tebello Nyokong) * Mathematics Education ( Marc Schafer) * Numeracy ( Mellony Graven) * Intellectualisation of African Languages, Multilingualism and Education ( Russell Kaschula) * Insects in Sustainable Agricultural Ecosystems ( Steve Compton) * Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods (

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) * Marine Natural Products Research ( Rosemary Dorrington) * Biotechnology Innovation & Engagement ( Janice Limson) * Global Change Social Learning Systems Development: Transformative Learning and Green Skills Learning ( Heila Lotz-Sisitka) * Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa ( Ruth Simbao) * Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Eukaryotic Stress Response ( Adrienne Edkins)

Research bodies

* Centre for Biological Control

Student life

Halls of Residence

* Allan Webb Hall * Courtenay-Latimer Hall *

Desmond Tutu Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 193126 December 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbish ...

* Drostdy Hall * Founders Hall * Hobson Hall *

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Hall * Miriam Makeba Hall (formerly Kimberley Hall East) * Kimberley Hall West *

Lilian Ngoyi Lilian Masediba Matabane Ngoyi, "Mma Ngoyi", (25 September 1911 – 13 March 1980) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. She was the first woman elected to the executive committee of the African National Congress, and helped launch ...

Hall *

Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the ...

Hall * St Mary Hall

Media

There are three student newspapers, ''Activate'', ''The Oppidan Press'' and ''Cue'', which has been published daily during the National Arts Festival held in Makhanda every year for several decades. ''Activate'' celebrated its 65th birthday in 2012, while ''The Oppidan Press'' was only first published in 2007 with its target readership being mainly Oppidans. The journal '' Philosophical Papers'' is edited in the department of philosophy.

Ranking

In 2011, the

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ranked the Rhodes 5th in South Africa and 700th in the world.

Notable alumni and staff

In academia, Old Rhodian Max Theiler was awarded the

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for his research in virology in 1951.

Notable alumni: general

* Matthew Muir – Artist *

Beth Diane Armstrong Beth Diane Armstrong (born 1985) is a South African sculptor. Her skills, ambitious scale and large projects have allowed her to assume the role and position alongside many of her South African male counterparts. For the last number of years she ...

– Sculptor * Diane Awerbuck – Writer * Norman Bailey – Opera singer * Nick Binedell – Founding director of the Gordon Institute of Business Science of the

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Troy Blacklaws Troy Blacklaws is a writer and teacher from South Africa. He was born on 9 September 1965 in Pinetown, Natal Province. After his schooling at Paarl Boys' High School he studied at Rhodes University before being conscripted in to the South Africa ...

– Novelist *

Alex Boraine Alexander Lionel Boraine (10 January 1931 – 5 December 2018) was a South African politician, minister, and anti-apartheid activist. Early life Alex Boraine was born in Cape Town and grew up in a poor white housing estate. He would leave h ...

– Politician; academic; co-founder of IDASA ( Institute for Democracy in South Africa) and the International Center for Transitional Justice * Sir Rupert Bromley, 10th Bt. – Business executive * Guy Butler – Poet * Efemia Chela – writer *

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– Zimbabwe Sevens rugby player * Nan Cross – Anti-conscription and anti-apartheid activist * Achmat Dangor – Writer *

Embeth Davidtz Embeth Jean Davidtz (born August 11, 1965) is an American-South African actress. Her screen roles include movies such as ''Army of Darkness'', ''Schindler's List, '' ''Matilda'', ''Mansfield Park'', '' Bicentennial Man'', ''Fallen,'' '' Junebug, ...

– Actress * Rob Davies – Minister of trade and industry of South Africa * Mick Davis – Businessman, chief executive of Xstrata * Geoffrey de Jager – Philanthropist and industrialist; founder of

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* K. Sello Duiker – Novelist and screenwriter *

Sir Michael Edwardes Sir Michael Owen Edwardes (11 October 1930 – 15 September 2019) was a British-South African business executive who held chairmanships at several companies including motor manufacturer British Leyland. Education Edwardes was born in Port El ...

– Business executive *

Robin Esrock Robin Esrock ( ; born 1974 in Johannesburg, South Africa)Allan Gray – Investor and philanthropist * Mluleki George – ANC MP and former prisoner on Robben Island * Igle Gledhill – Physicist * Chris Hani – Former leader of the

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and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe * Errol Harris – Philosopher * Trevor Hastie – Statistician *

Peter Hinchliff Peter Bingham Hinchliff (25 February 1929 - 17 October 1995) was a South African Anglican priest and academic. He was the Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 1995. Early life Hinchliff was born i ...

– Anglican priest and academic * Humphry Knipe – Adult film writer/director *

Herbert Kretzmer Herbert Kretzmer (5 October 192514 October 2020) was a South African-born English journalist and lyricist. He was best known as the lyricist for the English-language musical adaptation of ''Les Misérables'' and for his long-time collaboration ...

–

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journalist and lyricist of ''inter alia'' the musical ''Les Misérables'' * Alice Krige – Actress *

Margaret Legum Margaret Jean Roberts Legum (8 October 1933, Pretoria, South Africa – 1 November 2007, Cape Town, South Africa) was a South African/British anti-apartheid activist and social reformer, who specialized in economics. Legum attended Rhodes Univ ...

– Economist and anti-apartheid activist *

Frances Margaret Leighton Frances Margaret Leighton (8 March 1909 – 8 January 2006) was a South African botanist and educator. After graduating from Rhodes University with her M.Sc degree in 1931, she worked at the Bolus Herbarium until 1947. Her primary research intere ...

– Botanist *

Kai Lossgott Kai Lossgott is a South African interdisciplinary artist whose object, body and lens-based practice encompasses the fields of performance, photography, writing, drawing and film. Background and education Lossgott was born in Marktoberdorf, Germ ...

– Interdisciplinary artist * Mbuyiseli Madlanga – South African Constitutional Court judge * Mandla Mandela – Chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council and grandson of Nelson Mandela * The Hon Justice Lex Mpati – Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa and current chancellor of Rhodes University *

Patrick Mynhardt Patrick Beattie Mynhardt (12 June 1932 in Bethulie, Free State, South Africa – 25 October 2007 in London, England) was a well-known South African film and theatre actor. He appeared in over 150 stage plays in South Africa and Engla ...

– Actor * Marguerite Poland – Writer * Ian Roberts – Actor * Michael Roberts – Historian * Kathleen Satchwell – Judge * Sir Basil Schonland – Scientist * Barry Smith – Musician * Ian Smith – Former Prime Minister of

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(now

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) * Wilbur Smith – Novelist * William Smith – Television science and mathematics personality * Kaneez Surka – Artist, actor and comedian * Robert V. Taylor – Former dean of

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– MP and Shadow Communications Minister * Max Theiler – Virologist,

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winner (1951) * Micheen Thornycroft –

Olympic rower * Kit Vaughan – Emeritus professor of

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at UCT * David Webster – Social anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist * Mark Winkler – Author *

Timothy Woods Timothy Phillips Woods (born 24 December 1943) is a South African schoolmaster and educationalist. One of the sons of Arthur Phillips Woods and his wife Katherine Isabella Woods, he was educated at Cordwalles Preparatory School, Natal, Michael ...

– Former head of

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, England * Dana Wynter – Actress * Simphiwe Tshabalala – Standard Bank CEO

Notable alumni: journalists, media celebrities in South Africa

One of the most well-known departments on the Rhodes campus is the university's school of Journalism and Media Studies, through which many of South Africa's most notable media celebrities have passed. There are also an especially high number of radio celebrities who graduated at Rhodes – many of them having spent time with the university's campus radio station

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. * Matthew Buckland – Media-owner and entrepreneur * Steve Linde (born 1960) – newspaperman * Anand Naidoo – Anchor and correspondent for

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English based in Washington DC; previously with CNN *

Jeremy Mansfield Robert Jeremy Clayton Mansfield (15 August 1963 – 31 October 2022) was a South African radio and television personality. He worked on numerous radio stations as a presenter and voice-over artist, and also presented numerous television shows a ...

– Radio host, television presenter, comedian *

Eusebius McKaiser Eusebius McKaiser (28 March 1979 – 30 May 2023) was a South African political analyst, journalist, and broadcaster. Among others, he wrote for the ''Mail & Guardian'', the ''Sunday Times'', ''Foreign Policy'', ''The Guardian'', ''The New York ...

– Social activist, author, radio show host * Haru Mutasa – Correspondent for Al Jazeera International * Zaa Nkweta – Former Carte Blanche presenter *

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– Mail & Guardian editor-in-chief * Toby Shapshak – Journalist and African technology thought leader *

Barry Streek Barry Streek (30 August 1948 – 21 July 2006) was a South African political journalist and anti-apartheid activist. Early life and education Barry Streek was educated at Michaelhouse in Kwazulu-Natal after which he completed his national serv ...

– Political journalist and anti-apartheid activist * Rob Vember –

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Notable staff

* Prof Thomas Alty

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– physicist; Principal and Vice Chancellor of the university *

Margaret Ballinger Margaret Ballinger (''née'' Hodgson; 1894–1980) was the first President of the Liberal Party of South Africa and a South African Member of Parliament. In 1944, Ballinger was referred to as the "Queen of the Blacks" by TIME magazine. Biogra ...

– Political activist; taught in the history department *

André Brink André Philippus Brink (29 May 1935 – 6 February 2015) was a South African novelist, essayist and poet. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and taught English at the University of Cape Town. In the 1960s Brink, Ingrid Jonker, Etienne Lero ...

– Writer *

Andrew Buckland Andrew Frederick Buckland (born 4 February 1954 in Zimbabwe) is a South African award-winning playwright, performer, film director, mime, and academic. Biography Born and schooled in Zimbabwe. He is married to actress Janet Buckland. Their ...

– Performer and playwright * Julian Cobbing – Professor of African history; wrote an influential and controversial theory on the nature of the

Mfecane The Mfecane ( isiZulu, Zulu pronunciation: ̩fɛˈkǀaːne, also known by the Sesotho names Difaqane or Lifaqane (all meaning "crushing, scattering, forced dispersal, forced migration") is a historical period of heightened military conflict ...

Ward Jones Ward E. Jones is a scholar at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, where he is a professor of philosophy. He joined the department in 1999. His DPhil. thesis, entitled ''The View from Here: A First-person Constraint on Believing'' was ...

– Professor of philosophy * Don Maclennan – Professor of English and notable poet * Catriona Ida Macleod, head of the psychology department * Obie Oberholzer – Photographer * D. C. S. Oosthuizen – Philosopher, Christian, critic of apartheid * Selmar Schonland – Botanist * J.L.B. Smith – Ichthyologist; first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, a fish previously thought to be extinct * H.W. van der Merwe – Founder of the Centre for Intergroup Studies,

* Etienne van Heerden – Writer * Arthur Matthews (mathematician), founding professor at the university * Graham Glover - Author, Associate professor, editor of the South African Law Journal

Name controversy

The university's name references

, a British businessman who heavily aided British imperial interests in South Africa, which led to controversy starting in 2015. Protests held that year by Rhodes Must Fall led to the

removing a statue of Rhodes, and similar protests against Rhodes' legacy occurred at Rhodes University. Some students and outlets started referring to it as "The University Currently Known As Rhodes". In 2015 the university council undertook to determine whether or not the institution should change its name, as well as consider several other ways it could deal with the issues. In 2017, the Rhodes University Council voted 15–9 in favour of keeping the existing name. While the university agreed with critics that " tcannot be disputed that Cecil John Rhodes was an arch-imperialist and white supremacist who treated people of this region as sub-human", it also said it had long since distanced itself from the person and had distinguished itself with the name Rhodes University as one of the world's best. The main argument against the change was financial, as such a change would cost a significant amount of money and the university was already having trouble with its budget. Furthermore, changing the university's name could have an adverse effect on its recognition internationally.No name change for Rhodes University following council vote
, ''Mail & Guardian''

References

External links

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