Bernard Mackenzie (visiting curator of the coelacanth exhibit) talks to interested onlookers

Photo: Tracey van der Schyff

Wits played host this week to a specimen of fish that is considered to be an extraordinary evolutionary link between fish and amphibians.

Nationwide South African Students Congress (Sasco) protests failed to pick up momentum last week, after attempts to close nine universities were unfruitful.

In the time of the Pangea when the world was one continent, before the massive asteroid impact which ended the reign of the dinosaurs came another, bigger, mass extinction event wiping out an abundance of life ... and we owe it our very existence.

Two international postgraduate students have died in residences in the space of one month. In the event of a medical emergency, many students do not know how to react or which procedures to follow.

A go-slow went under way on Monday this week as disgruntled state doctors threatened to strike next month.

In an empty square on an immaculate campus off Jubilee Road in Parktown a large and expensive plasma screen television