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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Nobukhosi Ndlovu (2006)
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Nobukhosi Ndlovu was a student in the SJMS from 2006 to 2009.
"I had always wanted to do Journalism and Media Studies and at the time I heard Rhodes was the best.
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I remember majoring in Communication design and spending many nights in the lab. We always knew it was time to go take a nap before lectures whenever we heard the bread truck make deliveries in the morning. The design class became my family.
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I am proud to have studied at Rhodes SJMS."