The requests of student bodies around the country for the name of colonialist Cecil John Rhodes to be removed from Grahamstown's Rhodes University will not go forward. The decision comes as a result ...

Jonis Ghedi Alasow is a Master's student in the department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes Universtiy. His research is on popular emancipatory politics with particular reference to ...

It’s official: Rhodes University will not change its name. Following some years of highly charged debate and wide consultation‚ the Rhodes Council‚ the university’s highest decision-making body‚ made ...

The council of Rhodes University has voted against a name change for the institution citing financial constraints. The university made the announcement today through a six page long statement by ...

Grahamstown - The Rhodes University Council - the institution's highest decision-making body - has decided it was not a "prudent" time to rename the university. Over the past few years the university ...

EFF leader Julius Malema has called for Rhodes University to be named after anti-apartheid activist and Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko. Malema was delivering a public lecture at the university ...

Roughly two weeks ago, amid a flurry of online racial insensitivities, the Black Student Movement (BSM) occupied the Rhodes University Council Chambers, which they promptly renamed “the Black Student ...

The governing council for Rhodes University, in South Africa, voted 15 to 9 not to change the university’s name following years of debate, the Johannesburg-based TimesLIVE reported Wednesday. The ...