# Platform game Astro Bot was the big winner at the BAFTA Games Awards, earning five honours including best game of the year and best animation. The psychological horror game Still Wakes the Deep won three awards. The award for leading performance went to Alec Newman for his role as Cameron McLeary in Still Wakes the […]
# Warren Eva het geskiedenis gemaak deur die eerste Suid-Afrikaner te word om Annapurna in Nepal te bestyg, wat een van die gevaarlikste bergspitse in die wêreld is. Hy het die hoogte van agt-duisend-en-91-meter bereik en daarmee sy naam onder elite-bergklimmers verewig. Dit volg op sy geskiedkundige klimtog van die tweede hoogste berg in die […]
# Die Kaapse Skiereilandse Universiteit vir Tegnologie gaan sy gewese adjunk-visekanselier, Anthony Staak, vereer met ʼn eredoktorsgraad in die Fakulteit Ingenieurswese en die Bou-omgewing. Die 69-jarige Staak het in 2018 afgetree nadat hy 37 jaar van sy loopbaan daaraan gewy het om hoër onderwys te bevorder. KSUT sê hy het toegesien dat duisende studente graad […]
# Warren Eva has made history as the first South African to summit one of the most dangerous mountains in the world, Mount Annapurna in Nepal. He reached the summit at eight-thousand-and-91 metres, cementing his place among elite mountaineers. This achievement follows his historic climb of the second tallest mountain in the world, K2 in […]
# Cape Peninsula University of Technology will be bestowing an honorary doctorate on its former deputy vice-chancellor professor, Anthony Staak, in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment. The 69-year-old retired in 2018 after dedicating 37-years of his career to advancing Higher Education in South Africa. CPUT says Staak has overseen the graduation of […]
# Die Universiteit van Fort Hare gaan volgende maand eredoktorsgrade aan twee vooraanstaande skeppers toeken by sy herfsgradeplegtigheid. Die skrywer Mda Mda gaan ‘n eredoktorsgraad in regte ontvang terwyl die dokumentêre fotograaf Omar Badsha ‘n doktorsgraad in filosofie kry. Meer as drie-duisend studente gaan hulle swaarverdiende grade tydens die gradeplegtigheid ontvang, waarvan 64-persent vroue is. […]
# Die bekroonde Hollywood-akteur, Robert De Niro, sal volgende maand die ere- Palme d’Or-toekenning ontvang op die 78ste Cannes-rolprentfees. Ander akteurs wat hiermee vereer is, sluit in Meryl Streep en Jodie Foster. De Niro het ʼn lang geskiedenis met die fees. Hy was 14 jaar gelede voorsitter van die beoordelaarsjurie, en het op die rooitapyt […]
# The University of Fort Hare will award honorary doctorates to two distinguished individuals during its Autumn Graduation next month. Author Mda Mda will receive a Doctor of Laws honorary doctorate, while documentary photographer Omar Badsha be awarded a Doctor of Philosophy. More than three-thousand students will receive their hard-earned degrees during the graduation ceremony […]
# Award-winning Hollywood actor, Robert De Niro, will receive the Honorary Palme d’Or at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in May. He follows the footsteps of fellow Palme d’Or honorees Meryl Streep and Jodie Foster, among others. De Niro has had a long relationship with the Cannes Film Festival, presiding over the […]
