Rhodes Music Radio JMS50

JMS50

At the beginning of the year when we welcomed new students into Journalism and Media Studies 1, we asked them “What stories will you tell?” We know that this new generation of journalists and media makers has lots to say to the world and so many stories to tell. This is also a year of marking time, looking back and forward, and it strikes us, that of everything we’ve done in the last 50 years, it is our alumni who are our most powerful contribution to the media world. The story we have told for 50 years is YOU! And in this year of celebration we want to reconnect with you and draw you back into conversation and relationship with us.
Weekly English South Africa Business · Education
39 Episodes
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Interview with Prof Admire Mare

Admire Mare holds a PhD in Journalism and Media Studies from Rhodes University. His thesis explores how politically engaged youth use Facebook as a platform for political action in a hybrid and democratic regime, and his study population was drawn from youth organisations in South Africa and Zimbabwe. This work…
3 Jul 2023 46 min

Interview with Daneel Knoetze

Daneel Knoetze graduated in 2011 from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Journalism and Media Studies. After cutting his teeth at the Cape Argus, he moved to Ground Up and then became Communications Officer for Ndifuna Ukwazi. In all three roles Daneel championed poor communities, focusing on…
3 Jul 2023 28 min

Interview with Atiyyah Khan

Atiyyah Khan completed a degree in Journalism at Rhodes University in 2009. In 2010 she won the Pulitzer Fellowship award, and achieved an MA in Arts Journalism at the University of Southern California. Atiyyah is a journalist, arts writer, archivist, DJ, record collector and events-curator in Cape Town. Since 2007,…
30 Jun 2023 55 min

Interview with Angie Kapelianis

Angie Kapelianis attended Rhodes University in the 1980s. After a stint with the NBC in Namibia, Angie returned to South Africa, and joined the SABC, where she has remained ever since, initially as a radio journalist in the unsettled period before the 1994 elections, covering pre-election violence on Gauteng’s East…
29 Jun 2023 39 min

Interview with Graeme Joffe

Graeme Joffe has been involved in sports journalism since his varsity days. As a student, while doing his Journalism degree at Rhodes University, Graeme worked on Rhodes Music Radio. After completing his degree, he moved to Atlanta in the United States, working as a World Sport Presenter for CNN from…
29 Jun 2023 31 min

Interview with Prof Margaret Jjuuko

Margaret Jjuuko obtained both her MA and PhD in the School of Journalism and Media Studies. She has taught and consulted on a number of media training and developmental projects in Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and South Africa. She has served as Secretary General of the East…
29 Jun 2023 45 min

Interview with Jin Jeon

At the beginning of the year when we welcomed new students into Journalism and Media Studies 1, we asked them “What stories will you tell?” We know that this new generation of journalists and media makers has lots to say to the world and so many stories to tell. This…
29 Jun 2023 33 min

Interview with Zubeida Jaffer

Zubeida Jaffer was an 18-year-old student at UCT when she first entered a newsroom looking for a holiday job at the Cape Times. Instead of running errands as she expected, she ended up writing news reports. This experience led to her enrolling as a journalism student at Rhodes, where, uniquely,…
29 Jun 2023 33 min

Interview with Stephen Grootes

Stephen Grootes started his B Journ degree at Rhodes University in 1994, auspicious year of the first free and fair elections in South Africa’s history. He has continued his career in a similar vein, working for long hours as a political reporter and becoming well known for his analysis of…
29 Jun 2023 30 min

Interview with Nick Grubb

A JMS and Rhodes Music Radio alum, Nick Grubb completed his BJourn in the mid-90s and started his career here in the Eastern Cape, with the Eastern Cape News Agency, from which he moved to Radio Algoa as News Editor. In 2002 he moved to flagship SABC station 5FM as…
28 Jun 2023 16 min

Interview with Alison Gillwald

Graduating from Rhodes University with a B.Journ in the early 1980s, Alison received her PhD in 2009 from Wits University. Her thesis reflected her working career in telecommunications, having been appointed by Parliament to the founding Council of the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (SATRA) in 1997, after establishing the…
28 Jun 2023 57 min

Interview with Paula Fray

Paula Fray obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Rhodes University in 1986, graduating into the politically-fraught environment of the period. Early in her career, Paula worked for the Cape Argus, where she received the Olleman’s Trophy for top cadet journalist in 1987. In 1999, Paula became the first Black…
28 Jun 2023 18 min

Interview with Erhlich Pippa

Pippa Ehrlich graduated from Rhodes in 2009 with a BJourn specialising in TV. She started her career as a researcher and production assistant at Flying Fish productions, helping to produce a number of award-winning excerpts for the investigative television programme Carte Blanche. She then worked variously as a freelance journalist;…
28 Jun 2023 23 min

Interview with Phillipa De Villiers

The multi-talented Philippa Yaa de Villiers obtained her BA degree, with Journalism as a major, from Rhodes University, going on thereafter to obtain an Honours in Dramatic Art and Scriptwriting from Wits University and to study mime and theatre at the Lecoq International School of Theatre in Paris. In 1998,…
28 Jun 2023 1 hr 04 min

Interview with Rebecca Davis

A Google search reveals an inordinate number of Rebecca Davises across the world, but only one who has been described as ‘one of the funniest writers in South Africa today’. This Rhodes alumna finished her studies at Oxford University, honing her skill with words through a role in lexicography at…
28 Jun 2023 37 min

Interview with Kathryn Cleary

Kathryn Cleary graduated in 2019 with a BJourn, majoring in Journalism and Media Studies, Politics and History. She worked as a journalist and news editor for Grocott’s Mail before becoming a freelance journalist and regular contributor to Spotlight, a mainly online publication monitoring SA’s response to TB and HIV and…
28 Jun 2023 17 min

Interview with Sherwin Bryce

An Eastern Cape original, born and raised in East London, Sherwin Bryce-Pease has excelled in both radio and television journalism. Sherwin started his broadcast work with RMR during his student years, and began his working career as an intern in the Marketing and Communications Division at Rhodes University, thereafter completing…
28 Jun 2023 16 min

Interview with Tanya Accone

Tanya Accone received her Journalism degree from Rhodes University in the early 1990s, moving seamlessly thereafter into the dawning age of new media and the digital revolution. An early career stint at The Washington Post saw her take web content from conceptualisation through to publication for the International, National, Business…
28 Jun 2023 37 min

Interview with Guy Berger

Guy Berger graduated with a BA in Journalism from Rhodes in 1977 and BA Honours in 1978. While still a student he founded and edited a local community newspaper, Izwi laseRhini. In 1980 he was detained, tortured and spent three months in solitary confinement before being brought to trial and…
28 Jun 2023 30 min
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