Telephone: (015) 293 9400 24-30 January 2018 FindFind your SuperSupe Rugby guide inside: Pages 11-18 Win a Smart Tab with Vodacom Qiniso Nyathi (Vodacom, Executive Head Commercial Limpopo Region) holds the prepaid Vodacom Smart Tab 2, 3G that one lucky reader can win by entering the SMS competition proudly sponsored by Vodacom in partnership with BONUS. The winner will be announced at the rugby match, Vodacom Blue Bulls vs Cell C Sharks at the Peter Mokaba Sport Complex on Saturday, 27 January. Job-hunting success Graduate made offer by local business after she roped in social media - Page 2 Everlasting love 68 years later and this couple is still as in love as the day they said ‘I do’ UniLim: Law on par Nelie Erasmus measures in place to address the issues the faculty will then be reviewed again - Page 2 in the institutional review reports and an before the CHE decides on the way forward. RUMOURS that the University of Limpopo improvement plan had to be submitted He said a swift decision will be taken by (UL) does not admit new law students for within six months of receipt of the report. committees involved. Bright-smile boffin the 2018 academic year were refuted by the Institutions were required to report to Makaula said any decision taken will institution. the Higher Education Quality Committee not have an adverse effect on students Dental assistant Rofhiwa This follows media reports last year that (HEQC) from time to time on progress currently enrolled as they will continue the law faculty might be closed down after a made in respect of improvement to the with their studies even if the accreditation Nekhavhambe report was released by the Council of Higher programme. is withdrawn. The university may at a later helps keep Education (CHE) in April 2017 on standards “We issued a notice of withdrawal of stage re-apply for accreditation if problems and accreditation of law faculties nationally. accreditation as the issues threatened the are solved. your smile At the undergraduate level, UL offers quality of the programme and were putting Kgalema Mohuba, Marketing and bright a four-year LLB programme and an LLB the programme at risk,” Mokgatle said. Communication Executive Director of extended curriculum which takes fi ve years Dr Siyanda Makaula, Senior Manager UL, said they have admitted students both to complete. at the CHE’s Directorate for National qualifying for LLB mainstream and the - Page 5 The Director of the council’s National Standards and Reviews told BONUS extended programme. “The university is in Standards and Review unit, Olivia Mokgatle, the reasons for a possible withdrawal consultation with CHE regarding matters said last year the council found various of accreditation of programmes at the pertaining to the LLB programme. As the issues relating to staff, the curriculum, university are confi dential and he could not University of Limpopo we are confi dent we teaching and learning assessment that were elaborate. have rectifi ed all concerns were raised in the not up to standard at various universities. He said the university has until May to report,” Mohuba said. These institutions were requested to put report on changes and improvements and [email protected] 2 Bonus | News 24-30 January 2018 Love at first sight, 68 years later Miranda Chauke done that way. I had to ask around about burden to carry so you must put her fi rst, her and it took me a year to get all the hold back your ego and learn to say you are A LOVE that can withstand decades is a information I needed to go to her family and sorry. Marriages fail today because there is clear description true to Jagoobhai and make arrangements for our marriage,” he a lot of independence, young people do not Manjulaben Mistry who celebrated their explained. like being told what to do and they do not 68-year wedding anniversary on Monday, Manjulaben also explained that it was want to compromise. Nobody wants to give 15 January. love at fi rst sight for her too, when she in, even if it’s for the sake of peace in the The two met while attending the fi nally met him when his family paid her home,” he explained. The couple celebrated same wedding and Manjulaben caught parents a visit. They now have four children their anniversary with their children and Jagoobhai’s attention, but couldn’t make his and fi ve grandchildren. grandchildren. “It was a family affair, we move as it would have been viewed as an Even though every marriage has its just had a nice meal together which doesn’t inappropriate action. “There was a wedding ups and downs, the secret to solving this happen often because our children live in party from Durban coming to Johannesburg is knowing how to compromise. “When different parts of the country,” he concluded. and she was one of them. I instantly took one gets angry, the other one must know [email protected] a liking to her but in those days, I couldn’t that they must give in. Men also need to approach her and speak to her because remember that women have a things were not The placard Pamela Nkuna used to gain support on Facebook. Photo: Supplied Job hunting success on Facebook Miranda Chauke SOCIAL media may have its pitfalls, but a Facebook user’s plea for employment has just paid off. A local geohydrological consulting fi rm, EnviroXcellence, came to Pamela Nkuna’s rescue, employing her as a junior geologist. Pamela obtained her honours degree in Geographic Information System (GIS) at the University of Cape Town in 2016 and was since then unable to fi nd employment. 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