Matieland available online
December 24, 2010 
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The latest edition of Matieland, Stellenbosch University’s alumni magazine, is now available online at www.matiesalumni.net or click here.
The edition is packed with articles on among others the media personality and MatiesAlumna, Ruda Landman, and a follow-up article on the HOPE Project. In the article “Groen is die nuwe maroen op Matie-kampusse”, Dr Barbara Pool, Director: Projects, gives an overview on sustainability at the University.
There are also articles on solar energy in South Africa, the MIH Media Laboratory and on Eric Ward, Matieland’s well-known glassblower. In the series on academic courses at Stellenbosch, more is provided on Geographical Information Systems while JC Krynauw, leading the Intervarsity Sing Songs over many years in the 1960’s, provides insight on how they conducted Intervarsities in those years.
Matieland is also bursting with news on reunions while the alumni spotlight falls on among others Santie Botha, new chancellor of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, and Serusha Govender, a TV news journalist.
Mr Rugby, Dr Danie Craven, was born 100 years ago and SPORT24 journalist Marco Botha, sheds some light on this remarkable rugby man. Last but not least, Leon-Ben Lamprecht, a journalist at the outdoor magazine WEG, reveals all in how he lost “The Bet” as a student.
The online edition has a number of links to videos. .
- Visit www.facebook.com/matieland for the Matieland Facebook site.
Hi there
Kindly please note that I do not reside at 65 Nicolaas Smit Court, Helwan Road, Thaba Tshwane, 0187 anymore.
My new address is: 25 Douglas Road, Wynberg, Cape Town, 7800.
Will it be possible to read the full copy of Matieland online from now on?
Kindly please advise herein.
Sincerely yours
Elma
I have a confession to make. I’m really hesitant though, because I know you’ll judge me. OK, here it is: I’m a red head. I’ve been posing as a brunette for the better part of 4 years, and it has saved me from the onslaught of insults that my fellow ‘gingers’ have had to endure. According to South Park, we have no souls. According to the editor of the Sunday Times magazine’s ‘hot or not’ column from a few years ago, I have no chance of being considered ‘hot’ as, according to him, “Lindsay Lohan could be hot, but… she’s a ginger”. The latest blow came when I saw that my old university’s magazine had dedicated an entire page to ginger jokes. It’s great to poke fun at people, and gingers are the perfect victims, as there are very few of us (so there’s no chance of mass revolt) and, as we have no souls, it’s unlikely that we have any feelings either. Well, believe it or not, we ‘lesser beings’ do have feelings and, as I know from personal experience, those feelings are assaulted day in and day out. I thought we were trying to move away from the legacy of judging people based on how they look. We don’t tolerate discrimination based on skin colour, so why is it OK to tolerate discrimination based on hair colour?
Kelly, 23
US personnel and students: Note that you do not need your inetkey open to download the PDF from matiesalumni.net, as opposed to reading the magazine online.