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The
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Oppidan Press
Press Edition 9, 5 September
Edition 4, 5,
Edition 259April 2007
May 2007

Rhodes finances not

quite out of the Woods
By Lionel Faull

“The decision was

nepotistic. It must
never happen again.”
Illustration: Alex Dubb

VC Badat: “We are not a basket case”

By Lionel Faull

53 Bathurst St Grahamstown. Tel 046-622 2950/622 8700. Tim: 082 800 9276 Kevin: 082 772 0400
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Editorial
Ed’s view point

Illustration: Alex Dubb

Opinion

Together rather than apart

By Maserati Motloung

I was never affected by

apartheid so why should
I benefit from BEE?

Lionel Faull
editor.oppipress@gmail.com

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Celebs say yes, yes, yes to rehab The Oppidan Comm ent
How Oppi apathy killed
off my fantasies
By Tinashe Gorimani

Moss is known to thrive

in the wet, but a certain
Moss grew thanks to a
dry white powder called
cocaine.

Pic: Supplied

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Features
How far is too far? Bingeing through the night

Pic: Jennifer Campbell

Pic: Leon Schnell

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“ Art will remain the most astonishing activity

Arts
of mankind born out of a struggle between
 wisdom and madness, between dream and
reality in our mind. -Nagedalena Abakanowicz

The Big Screen

Becoming Jane
The Secret is out
By Sarah Laird

“The conversation turned

to one of frustration as
they argued that this new
so-called ‘philosophy’ is the
same as every other
self-help option given to
the world”

Pic: Supplied
“It does manage to stir
up enough emotion to
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render the inaccuracies
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20:00: OutRhodes Gender Blender
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Entertainment 7

Sharing is caring: set your books free Hitting the G-spot

Sex, drugs
and alcohol
By Takondwa Nyasulu
Pic: Catherine McDonald

And the cow jumped over the moon…

By Nelisa Mniki

Pics: Gaynor Barnard

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“You Ring We Bring”

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(046) 622-3042
The sex and relationship column of The Oppidan Press,
Hitting The G-Spot, is intended to explore sex and sexual

28 New Street relations in a responsible and informative way. Sex

– whether you’re getting it or not – is a big part of being
a young adult and Hitting The G-Spot is here to promote
personal safety, physical health and emotional wellbeing.
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SciTech
Google phone rumoured
SciTech shorts
Calculator drive for
The great Creation debate
for release in 2008 underprivileged By Laura Richter and Andrew Slaughter

By Seranne Howis and Laura Durham By Laura Richter

Prices valid from 5 September

to 16 September

Pic: Leon Schnell

St Anna 750ml St Clair 750ml

R16 99
each R15 99
each
Cool Gadget of the Week
The thermoelectric generator
Assorted Pieman’s Jumbo burgers Gadget discovered by Seranne Howis

R9 99
Pies

R6 99
If you’re far from a plug and your laptop is starting
each to run out of battery power, you may soon be able to
power it by plugging it into your shirt. Researchers at
each Applied Digital Solutions have discovered a new way
to harness body heat. The researchers have designed
a thermoelectric generator that converts body heat
into electricity. The size of the generator is such that
it could conceivably be built into clothing. The heat
generated by a person’s back surface would be suf-
ficient to power a laptop. However, the charge is just
enough to run the laptop, not to recharge it as well, so
it would switch off when you unplugged the shirt. A
more practical application that the company is aiming
Pic: Supplied

towards is powering a pacemaker off the generator.

The device is so new that it doesn’t have a name yet,
but the pacemaker application will debut next year.
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Business 9

economic indicators

Exchange Rate (29 August 2007)

Companies recall cheap Chinese exports
Weighted average of the banks’ daily
rates at approximately 10:30am. By Shingirirai Chaza

Rand/Dollar R7.1811
Rand/Pound R14.4386
Rand/Euro R9.7928

Interest rates (30 August 2007)

Repo 10.00%
Repurchase rate: rate at which the
private banks borrow rands from the
SA Reserve Bank.

Prime 13.50%
Benchmark rate at which private
banks lend out to the public.

Inflation Rate (July 2007)

CPIX 6.5%
Consumer Price Index excluding
interest rates on mortgage bonds (for
metropolitan and other urban areas);
12-term % change.

CPI 7.0%
Consumer Price Index (metropolitan
areas); 12-term % change.

Contact Shingi on

Pic: Leon Schnell

business.oppipress@gmail.com
if you’re interested in writing for
this section.

Business shorts
Travellers finance Drought causes
airport expansion meat price hikes
By Simon Allison By Shingirirai Chaza

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BlackGold edges KDFC in

thrilling internal league final
By Simon Allison

No amount of expectant
heavenward glances
made the skydivers
actually materialise.
Pic: Leon Schnell

Twenty20 World Cup: short but sweet

By Richard Moor

Pic: Supplied
TOP TWENTY20 BATSMEN
Batsmen

R. Ponting (AUS)
Runs Balls

98* 55
The romance of rugby’s

D. Martyn (AUS)

G. Smith (SA)
96 56

89* 58
biggest spectacle

P. Collingwood (ENG) 79 41 By Anesu Chingono

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Good luck to students for this semester

Cape to Rio Cane: R36.55

Hot Sex: R54.95
Sedgwicks Old Brown Sherry: R19.95

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Sun: 8am - 1pm
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Glitzy gala crowns

sports personalities
By Saint-Francis Tohlang
Pics: Gavin Tweddle

Aiming for record. . . again Men

Winner:
By Pete van der Woude Thabo Limema (Taekwon-Do)
1st Runner up:
Clive Eley (Hockey)
2nd Runner up:
Dave Elliot (Rugby)
Women
Winner:
Natasha Ruscheinski (Aquatics)
1st Runner up:
Jax Stephenson (Hockey)
2nd Runner up:
Phillipa Francis (Tennis)
Your shoulders are on
fire, you can barely
stand, yet you still
have to draw the bow
that you love, but have
learned to hate.
Pic: Leon Schnell
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Sport inside: pg 10
BlackGold re-asserts supremacy News
Oppies frazzled at Grazzle Keep cool about condoms
By Anja Muller-Deibicht
By Lionel Faull

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Vice-Chancellor Badat saves the day

By Tami Duncan