Alumni in the news March 2020
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Witsies making the headlines
COMMERCE
(BComm 2008) traded his office job for farming in the Eastern Cape and breaks stereotypes.
(BComm 1986) steps down as executive director of Investec and announced as new CFO of Ninety One.
(BEconSc, BEconScHons 1993) offers advice to young technologists on the growing role of technology which is crucial in today鈥檚 data-driven business.
(BComm 1969, LLB 1960, DLitt 2008) former Judge of the Supreme Court and Chair of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa welcomed at Wits Business School as Honorary Professor.
ENGINEERING AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT
(BSc Eng 2000, MSc Eng 2002) brings new energy to Sasol and is appointed as Senior Vice-President of Secunda Chemicals Operations.
(BSc Eng 2011) shares her big plans on using artificial intelligence in medicine.
Director of Wits Business School and BCX chair in digital business, (BSc Eng 1982, MSc Eng 1985), shares useful insights on the future of work.
(BSc Eng 1980, PhD 1990) celebrated for his dedication to the field of engineering.
MEDICINE
(MBBCh 1988, DTM&H 2000) co-authors a study which proves successful in treating drug-resistant TB.
(MBBCh 1986) outlines why the historic HIV Vaccine Clinical Trial has been stopped in South Africa.
(MBBCh 1981, MSc 1991, PhD 2000) Head of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Wits and lead author of the Phase 3 trial that reduces cholesterol to near-normal levels among patients with a cholesterol disorder.
HUMANITIES
who works part time at the Wits Writing Centre, has a new enigmatic novel that transports readers into seductive and dark worlds.
(BA 1991, BA Hon 114, LLB 1995, LLM, 1997, PhD 2010) provides a brief explainer to Tito Mboweni鈥檚 Budget Speech.
(MA 2003) offers youngsters guidance on how to stand for their values.
(BA 2017) tackles period shame in TEDx talk. Nonjabulo Gumede (BA 2017) expands her conversations about identity politics in Africa.
SCIENCE
(BSc 1978, BSc Hon 1979, PhD 1988) from the Global Change Institute at Wits explains that spekboom isn鈥檛 more effective than the Amazon rainforest at sucking carbon out of the atmosphere.
deputy director of the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and senior lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Wits, argues mathematical modelling can be used to understand the Eskom crisis.