Under the strain of the economic times, with a second recession looming over our heads and recited as a warning for us to behave, save, budget and look to the growing fields and industries to absorb the influx of the newly unemployed, the questions and doubts of what to study – and if what we have chosen to study will …

The South African Police Service (SAPS), an executive branch of government that enforces the law, exercises its official public governmental power in terms of Acts of Parliament such as the Constitution of 1996, the Criminal Procedure Act and the Child Justice Act. In terms of section 205(3) of the Constitution of 1996, the objectives of the police service are to …

We had fun during the parade yesterday! Check out pictures on our Facebook page. Now we are getting ready for our roundtable debate this Friday afternoon 11 May, 16h00-18h30, Humanities Graduate Centre Room, South-West Engineering. You are all warmly invited! Refreshments will be served. Full details are below.

After exPress imPress’ impressive participation in the WALE 2011 parade, we’ll be hitting the road again today with a new outfit. Please join us at 12h00 at the AMIC deck, East Campus, Wits University (close to the bus stop in Yale Road where buses leave for student residences). Let’s show dem we can make the circle bigger!

WALE 2012 is about to kick off tomorrow! Students and staff members of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand are participating in a number of events at the Wits Arts and Literature Experience (WALE). We hope to see many of you there! For a full programme of WALE, please click here.
Wednesday 9 May, 12h00, AMIC …

The Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand invites you to its fifth roundtable this semester in the Topics in Media and Cultural Studies series. Please join us Wednesday 9 May 2012 from 2-4pm in the Committee Room, Faculty of Humanities, South-West Engineering Building, Wits East Campus. Full details on the speakers are below.

I got the splendid opportunity to attend a private screening of this movie on the 11th of April 2012. As soon as we got there, we realised that this movie is a big deal.
As I stood in the line to get popcorn, I was losing my mind at the sight in front of me. Lungile Radu was standing there. Right …

A few weeks ago, a student from Wits University came to visit the Steve Biko Foundation (SBF) and learn about the work and programmes of the Foundation. Before I could go into my exposition of the life of Steve Biko and how this influenced the founding of SBF, she interrupted with a very distressed voice and said, “Why are blacks …

Well, not wanting to turn down a movie showing at the Il Grande, Monte Casino’s mega-cinema, I chose to see Wrath of the Titans over Paul Rudd and Zooey Deschanel’s Our Idiot Brother, and although I heard good things about the latter, I’m pretty happy with the decision I made!
A follow up to Clash of the Titans, Wrath of the Titans saves a bit of face for …

Judging by the heated debates that ensued following the viewing of the ‘KONY 2012’ video during one of our Media Studies classes, one cannot ignore the resounding success of Jason Russell’s production. It went viral on the internet, mainstream media and arguably started a global debate! On YouTube, this video had 88,193,902 ‘views’ the last time I checked it.
There are …