March 19

Camp Darfur Follow-Up (Friday 9 March)

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Click here for images of Camp Darfur.

The week-long Darfur exhibition (VARSITY Edition 2, Tuesday 6 March) culminated in a refugee camp on Jameson Plaza, where individual students and societies could build a shelter on Plaza from cardboard, plastic and bedsheets. The day event, organised by Stand Up, was poorly attended, despite being supported by several societies; this was attributed in part to the blistering afternoon sun, with temperatures reportedly soaring to 35 degrees. However, several dozen students did attend the candle-lit vigil held that night on Jameson plaza.

Pictures: MURRAY HUNTER

March 19

Students March For Zim (16/03/07): Photos

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Click here view images from the protest: Zim March

While Jammie drivers Downed Tools, leaving pedestrians to walk up to campus in the blistering heat, things were hotting up elsewhere on campus. Hundreds of students gathered to join a protest march through the city of Cape Town, from Grand Parade to Parliament. The march included numerous student bodies, including the SRC (which organised the event), ZimSoc, Sasco and the DA, as well as the Movement for Democratic Change. Present were notables such as SRC President, Zuki Mqolomba; from the MDC, Sara Reith and former SRC President, Nqobizitha 'Fire' Mlilo; even the Independant Democrats' Patricia De Lille.

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March 19

Finally, Finally. Varsity Newspaper Goes Online.

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Print media is dead. Dead as disco. That's the fact. (South Africa is one of the only countries in the world where newspaper readership is on the increase: elsewhere, in the modern world, print media is on a steady decline.) Newspapers are just too damned expensive, and, let's face it, a terribly inefficient way of spreading information.

So now Varsity Newspaper is blogging.

Of course, we still love a good paper. (My motto has always been that it isn't news if it doesn't leave inkstains on your fingers.) But, as part of our efforts to drag Varsity -kicking, screaming and biting- into the 21st Century, we'll be contributing regular opinions, newsflashes and photojournalism to this forum.

Hope you enjoy.

Murray
Deputy Editor