The Edge March 2012


	Riding the wave of the bottled water marketing myth		"Hong Kong is South Africa's gateway to China"		Alumna throws her weight around at Commonwealth Judo Championships		The Peking Man and the US Marine

	in this issue
	Riding the wave of the bottled water marketing myth "Hong Kong is South Africa's gateway to China" Alumna throws her weight around at Commonwealth Judo Championships The Peking Man and the US Marine Sediba fossil casts turn heads in Germany Witsies unearth South America's oldest carnivorous predator Award-winning Witsies design Wits Art Museum
	alumni in the press
	Yashmita Bhana: Ain't no mountain high enough Alan Demby: Business leader William Kentridge: Art: Of magic flutes and millions Archbishop Thabo Makgoba: Essence of morality in academia Hayley Owen: This girl's got game Greg Ronaldson: On winning the largest [Poker] tournament in Africa's history and more Bernice Samuels: FNB's Chief Marketing Officer Floyd Shivambu: "The courageous, selfless activist" Craig Wing: Engineer shows how it's done
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Sediba fossil casts turn heads in Germany		Witsies unearth South America's oldest carnivorous predator		Award-winning Witsies design Wits Art Museum

what's on at wits?

	4 April: Lectures by Prof. Steven Miles, expert witness in the case against apartheid-era germ warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson, Wits Medical School			19 April Arthur Bleksley Memorial Lecture New Worlds: In search of other Earths, West Camus
	2 - 4 April: Wits education experts to speak at the first SA Basic Education Conference Opening the doors to Quality Education for All, Durban			19 April Alumni business breakfast, South Africa’s changing global competitiveness, Steuart Pennington, CEO: SA - The Good News, Wits Club
	4 April (Register by 30 March): Walmart - A successful resolution?			3, 10, 12, 13, 14 April Drama alumnus Greg Homann presents Brothers in Blood, Art Scape Arena, Cape Town
	15 - 18 April Immunisation and Aids vaccine expert Witsie Prof. Helen Rees to speak at the biennial International Microbicides Conference, Sydney, Australia			15 May Drama for Life Sex Actually Festival 2012 - Call for Entries
	16 April, 17 May The Centre for Sustainability in Mining and Industry, based at the Wits School of Mining Engineering, presents two short courses, West Campus			27 May - 15 June (Register by 13 April) Mandela Institute and Seattle Law School, Winter Law School Programme, Johannesburg

The Office of Alumni Relations, invites all Wits staff and alumni to enter the “My Wits” Photographic Competition.

Maximum entries 3 photos per person Format supply as high resolution jpg/s Deliver to Nicole Sterling, Alumni Relations, Alumni House, West Campus OR
Email to nicole.sterling@wits.ac.za
Deadline for entries: 16 April 2012

Exciting prizes to be won!

Attention Wits Law and Accountancy alumni!

The Wits Schools of Law and Accountancy want to determine your satisfaction with your Wits experience and education. The Schools thus invite you to participate in surveys that will also provide information about your career, achievements and current position. Please complete the law survey here and the accountancy survey here by 30 April 2012.

+27 11 717 1181 or Prinola.Govenden@wits.ac.za.
We appreciate your participation.

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