Enrolment of first year students in journalism leaps up by 30% in 1979. Why?
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"Possibly because the Information scandal has made journalism seem like a glamorous profession." At least this is the opinion of Journalism staff who compare the jump in numbers with a similar phenomenon at journalism schools in the United States after Watergate.
Of course, the increase may also be linked to the growing reputation of the Rhodes department, the only one of its kind at an English-language university in South Africa.
Bulletin, 1979 (2): 3
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The ambitious undertaking of a multivocal history stretches further than the direct inhabitants of this department and the names we all know; Berger, Jaffer, Stewart, Switzer. Behind the individuals that have shaped, directed, influenced and affected this department are the individuals that have shaped, directed, influenced and affected them and their selves.
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Below is a word documented titled "The view in the rear-mirror does not give much guidance". It was originally presented by Guy Berger at the Critical Tradition Colloquium in Grahamstown in August 2004 and then revised in 2005 into the form it stands in below.
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Alistair Maxegwana
Guy Berger
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