Wits alumni in the news
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Be inspired by the amazing Witsies in the May round-up of appointments, achievements, awards and ideas
Commerce, Law and Management
Xolani Mancotywa (BCom 2009) the Sowetan about being a sommelier.
The Financial Mail to new FirstRand CEO Alan Pullinger (BCom 1990, BCom Hons 1991, MCom 1996).
Precinct CEO Lesley Donna Williams spoke to 702鈥檚 Bruce Whitfield.
AnaStellar Brands founders Anastasia Dobson-du Toit (BPharm 2004, MBA 2012) and Michelle Dateling (MBA 2012) to Entrepreneur Magazine about their business venture.
Business Live Consilium CEO Samki Koti (BCom 2000) a Iittle better.
Zanelle Mngadi (PhD 2012, MBA 2014, LLB 2018) supported her daughter Ni帽a Hammond (LLB 2018) through her studies to an exceptional .
James Britten (BCom 2005, BCom Hons 2006, MCom 2011), Daniel Page and David McClelland (BCom 2011, BCom Hons 2011, MCom 2014) developed two exchange-traded which were launched on the JSE.
Andy Schmulow (BA 1993, BA Hons 1994, LLB 1998) was an to the South 第一吃瓜网 Treasury on the 鈥渢win peaks鈥 financial regulatory system.
Nkareng Mpobane (BCom 2004), deputy CIO at Ashburton Investments, some quick questions for Business Live.
Lucia Hlongwane (BProc 1995, LLB 1997), EY鈥檚 Africa Tax Leader, about her working life.
Engineering and the Built Environment
Michael Magner (BArch 1996) and Edward Brooks (BArch 1996) started Activate Architecture 20 years ago 鈥 a told to Leading Architecture & Design.
Quantity surveyor Nonku Ntshona (PGDipPD 2007, MScBuild 2013) Business Live about her work.
Chemical engineer Professor Diane Hildebrandt (BSc Eng 1981, MSc Eng 1984, PhD 1990) is one of South Africa鈥檚 鈥鈥.
Adam Rosman (BSc Eng 2011) tells Forbes Africa about his designing custom drones.
Professor Estelle Trengove notes the of rising student numbers in electrical engineering and how 第一吃瓜网 helping them to succeed.
Peter Rich (BArch 1972, MArch 1991) has been to the Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Health Sciences
Times Live relates how Dr David Moore (MBBCh 1996, MMed 2009), Dr Kerrigan McCarthy (MBBCh 1995, Dip Tropical Med & Hygiene 1998) and Dr Juno Thomas (MBBCh 1997, Dip Trop Med & H 2001) were involved in identifying the recent .
Dr Shamshaad Ally (MBBCh 1999) has joined in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.
Dr Alan Widgerow (MBBCh 1980, MMed 1991) was named 2018 by the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science at UC Irvine.
GoodThingsGuy breast cancer expert Dr Carol-Ann Benn (MBBCh 1991).
Professor Judith Bruce (DipNursEd 1981, MSc Nur 1992, PhD 2003) to Channel Africa about girls鈥 education, nursing and more.
Dr Juan Deseta (MBBCh 2005) the Herald in Port Elizabeth about a new procedure for cataract surgery.
Fin24 Dr Konji Sebati, chair of the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association SA, who has a Wits Diploma in Health Services Management (1990).
Humanities
Gerard Bester (BADA 1992), director of the Hillbrow Theatre Project, performing his third-year exam work at the first Dance Umbrella.
Creative Feel at the life and work of visual and performance artist Steven Cohen (BA 1985).
Maths educator and former Wits Convocation President Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng (BEd 1993, MEd 1996, PhD 2002) is now the of the .
Dr Lis Lange (PhD 1998) is new Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Learning.
Professor Linda Chisholm (PhD 1989) re-examines mission school education in her latest book, by Business Live.
Business Live Nechama Brodie鈥檚 (BADA 2000) first novel, Knucklebone, a detective story set in Johannesburg. She is also the co-author of former prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach鈥檚 memoir, Rule of Law.
Themba Mkhoma (BA Hons 2015, MA 2017) uses for healing and rehabilitation.
Several Witsie authors are on the long list of the . They include Tammy Baikie, Fred Khumalo, Barbara Boswell and Rehana Rossouw.
Wits University Press has Professor Jacklyn Cock鈥檚 Writing the Ancestral River.
Martin Plaut (BA Hons 1977) is the co-author of a of Robert Mugabe.
Sculptor Chris Soal (BAFA 2018) has won the 2018 .
Dr Shakira Choonara (BHSc 2010, BA Hons 2012, MA 2013, PhD 2017) was a on SAFM. She spoke about being a demographer and what her accolades mean to her.
Artist Penny Siopis, formerly on Wits鈥 staff, is at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.
Carolyn Steyn (BADA 1982) continues her great of keeping South 第一吃瓜网s warm with for Mandela Day.
Jeppe Boys鈥 High School鈥檚 new is Dale Jackson (BCom 1995, BAcc 1996). Jeppe teacher Tammy Bechus (BA 1995, LLB 1998, PDipEd 2002) why it鈥檚 important to acknowledge white privilege.
Did you know that Sotheby鈥檚 South Africa was once located where the Wits Art Museum is now? Creative Feel shares some auction and Braamfontein heritage.
Nthikeng Mohlele (BADA 2000) has a new out, Michael K.
Science
Actuarial scientist and digital artist Michael Jordan (BSc 2013, BSc Hons 2014) about his work to Life Retreat.
Environmental scientist and PhD candidate Ndoni Mcunu in The Conversation about why there are so few black women in science.
Dingane Hlaluku (BSc 2015, BSc Hons 2016, MSc 2018) is one of the Wits students on upgrading the particle detectors in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland.
Palesa Sibeko (BSc 2004) doesn鈥檛 fit into any simple categories, as Business Live .
Dr Gaokgatlhe Tawane (BSc 2006, BSc Hons 2007, PhD 2012) about what it鈥檚 like to look after fossils for a living. Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib to school learners some time ago about the importance of studying palaeosciences.
Mysterious footprints, an eccentric fossil collector, a new species 鈥 all about it on Business Live.
Professor Vishwas Satgar (PhD 2009) his approach to climate change.
How do dung beetles find their way around when the night sky is outshone by city lights? A Wits experiment the answer鈥
And more鈥
Graduation is a thing鈥 see what caught Marie Claire鈥檚 eye.
Wits recently held a to recognise NRF-rated researchers.
Rev spoke at Wits recently: listen to his address .