News for the students, by the students NELSON MANDELA UNIVERSITY LIFESTYLE & MOURNS THE PASSING OF ENTERTAINMENT PROFESSOR LUNGILE PEPETA HOW TO 08 MAKE By Ioanna Haritos CHICKEN ALFREDO Nelson Mandela University recently learned of the passing of the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Professor Lungile Pepeta. His passing is not only a great loss to the University, but also to the province, with him being instrumental in the training of Paediatric Cardiologist in the public SCIENCE AND health sector. TECHNOLOGY Professor Pepeta joined Nelson Mandela University in January 2017 with JUST the vision of launching a medical school 13 SCIENTISTS to meet the country’s growing need for healthcare professionals, whose focus would be to provide primary, preventative healthcare, particularly to the poorest in our communities. He recently played a pivotal role in the management and containment of COVID-19 both at the University and in the larger communities, working with healthcare professionals, businesses, and political leaders. SPORT His commitment to the public health MADIBAZ sector in South Africa, as well as his passion 15 NAME NEW for serving others makes the loss even COACH greater. His memory will be cherished, and TO TACKLE VARSITY CUP sorely missed by those at the University, as well as all those whose lives he has impacted in the broader community by his work as a Paediatric Cardiologist. The livestreaming of Professor Pepeta’s Photo: Supplied funeral took place on 12 August 2020. If you missed it you can view it on the Nelson Mandela University YouTube page on: youtube.com/watch?v=egq5QrGM_ LETTER FROM THE EDITOR LETTER FROM THE EDITOR NEWS NELSON MANDELA UNIVERSITY’S COVID-19 SELF-SCREENING TOOL News for the students, by the students Administrator Sade’ Prinsloo LETTER FROM Sade’[email protected] THE EDITOR Editor-in-chief Ashley Malepe [email protected] If information tickles your fancy, from hardcore news all the way to science Marketing and technology, then this jam-packed [email protected] edition has plenty to fill your hunger for knowledge and information around you. Communications Sisanda Ngqkoqwane Starting off with sad news, Madibaznews [email protected] mourns the passing of the Dean of Health Science Faculty, Professor Lungile Pepeta. News Editor Ioanna Haritos On a lighter note, in this edition we learn [email protected] how to make chicken alfredo asparagus pasta that could be a meal for lunch or Lifestyle & Entertainment Editor supper. Christina Mak’Ochieng [email protected] For fashion appeal, you would be happy to learn that haute couture could Sports Editor Photo: lowvelder.co.za Gina Cossavella be as visionary on virtual platforms and [email protected] just maybe, fashion show could very well be a thing of the past. In the very same By Ioanna Haritos Science and Tech Editor breath of art and evolution, we cover Neo Motsiri floriography – the language of flowers. Along with Nelson Mandela University’s primary health and safety precautions [email protected] Flowers are not just decorative scented on campus, a secondary COVID-19 Screening Tool will be used to monitor staff and gestures but a language. student health and provide status updates on the number of confirmed cases on Port Opinions Editor Elizabeth and George campuses. 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The Ashley Malepe health and wellbeing. views expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent those of the Nelson Mandela University. 2 Term 2 FebruaryTerm 2020 2 2020 Term 2 2020 Term 2 February 2020 3 NEWSOPINIONS LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT COVID-19 CREATES CRISIS FOR THE SOCIAL MEDIA: EASTERN CAPE HEALTH SYSTEM THE SOCIALLY ACCEPTED VEIL By Kamohelo Tladi By Lerato Nyathi From the moment we are thrown into a very different things. The way I see it, we are As COVID-19 cases in South Africa continue to rise, healthcare services country-wide world unknown to us, we are met with a sort going about it all wrong because we are seeking struggle under the immense pressure of the overwhelming hospital conditions and systematic of nervousness which we resolve by relating others before we seek ourselves. This results failures. to others. From a young age, we make it in us connecting to people on society’s terms our life’s mission to belong. We wear certain instead of our own. Most of us are hiding behind The Eastern Cape has been one of the most affected provinces in South Africa. With an clothes which represent best the identity we social media, creating fictitious realities simply infection rate of over 70 000, COVID-19 has managed to cripple an already failing health care want to portray. A mother will buy her child because they are socially accepted. When did system. Staff shortages, medical equipment supply, infrastructure challenges, and corruption clothes which resemble the child’s sex. The we start being so unaware of ourselves? At which have exacerbated the current crisis. BBC News reports on the conditions of the Eastern Cape child will then grow up believing that those point did we start allowing external factors to tell public hospitals and government’s failure to invoke section 100 of the constitution that allows for are the colours which a male wears. At every us the meaning of fulfilment? Social media has national interference when a province fails to fulfil executive obligation, ‘As doctors, unions, and point in our lives we are made to choose given us validation for not knowing ourselves. It management fight over scarce resources, one senior doctor described the situation as “an epic between one thing and another. Before we acts as a veil, behind which we hide and remain failure of a deeply corrupt system” while another spoke of an institutional burnout…a sense of know it, we become adults who have lost un-becoming. chronic exploitation, the Department of Health essentially bankrupt, and a system on its knees sight of what it means to be human. We all with no strategic management. have a yearning to belong, and by belonging, If you ask me, I would say that social media connection becomes a possibility. has created a divide instead of bridging the Beyond the intense working conditions, many of the staff fear for their own health as patients gap between humanity. Even more sad, is that continue to become more aggravated due to infections going untreated. However, the provincial Social Media is a means for connection. it creates a divide from self. The world is a government claims that the health care system has not fully collapsed and stands as a top priority Theoretically, it was meant to bridge the gap beautiful place, filled with beautiful things, but for service delivery. between people, no matter which part of those beautiful things have no benchmark. Learn the world one is in. However often times the to make up your own mind, so that you may live The South African government hopes the Eastern Cape sets precedent for other provinces on primary and the resulting goal seems to be two your own life, earnestly. the prioritization of resources for healthcare professionals and institutions. Photo: Supplied Photo: Unsplash Term 2 February 2020 4 Term 2 2020 4 Term 2 2020 Term 2 2020 5 LIFESTYLEOPINIONS & ENTERTAINMENT LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT THE VAMPIRE DIARIES ALTERNATIVE ENDING By Phelisa Mkendlana If you are all about vampires, werewolves, witches, and hybrids, basically all things supernatural then I hope you know the story of Elena, Stephan, and Damon. The Vampire Diaries, particularly the story of Klaus and Caroline. I have watched the series more than three times now, their story always shreds me to pieces, every time. They were never given a proper chance to be a couple, Caroline liked him a lot but because her friends hated him, and she was not sure how to feel about it, she chose to side with her friends. Vampire Diaries ending with Caroline leaving for New Orleans with Klaus would have been a sight for sore eyes. Caroline was not just any girl for Klaus, she was feisty, Photo: Unsplash forward, strong, intelligent and a no-nonsense person that was all new to him, she drew him in and so did he. I honestly feel like they deserved to be together, they had fire. Caroline could have been his redemption. Caroline’s relationship with Stephan Salvatore felt forced, I did not feel anything towards it. They only got together because the love of his life fell in love with his brother, Bonnie had Enzo, I guess it was only fitting for them to almost end up together if it was not for Stephan dying. Stephan and Caroline have absolutely no chemistry. That is the only thing about Vampire SOUL FOOD Diaries that still haunts me to this day.