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GREETINGS FROM OSAMA DUMAKUDE( THE FOUNDER)

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION

GENTLEMEN AND LADIES PLEASE BRAVE YOURSELF FOR THE RECHARGED AND HOTTENED VERSION OF CAMPUS HIGHLIGHTS. MOST OF YOU THOUGHT WE ARE DEFUNCT SOMETHING WHICH IS NON-TRUE. IN FACT CAMPUS HIGHLIGHTS IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. IT WILL BE OPERATIONAL AS FROM 10 MARCH 2008

YOURS SINCERELY

OSAMA DUMAKUDE AND THE CREW

Tips for Adjusting to University Life

The first few weeks on campus can be a lonely period. There may be concerns about forming friendships. When new students look around, it may seem that everyone else is self-confident and socially successful. The reality is that everyone is having the same concerns.

If they allow sufficient time, students usually find peers in the university to provide structure and a valuable support system in the new environment. The important thing for the student to remember in meeting new people is to be oneself.

Meaningful, new relationships should not be expected to develop overnight. It took a great deal of time to develop intimacy in high school friendships; the same will be true of intimacy in university friendships.
Increased personal freedom can feel both wonderful and frightening. Students can come and go as they choose with no one to "hassle" them. At the same time, things are no longer predictable. The strange environment with new kinds of procedures and new people can create the sense of being on an emotional roller-coaster. This is normal and to be expected.
It is unrealistic to expect that roommates will be best friends. Roommates may work out mutually satisfying living arrangements, but the reality is that each may tend to have his or her own circle of friends.

University classes are a great deal more difficult than high school classes. This means the student needs to follow the course outlines and keep up with the readings. The student must do the initiating. If a class is missed, it is up to the student to borrow lecture notes from someone who was present.

"It never hurts to party once in a while"

Protest Ended

On Monday morning, 18 February 2008, approximately 140 students engaged in a peaceful protest on the Pietermaritzburg campus to highlight what they regarded as insufficient accommodation in University residences.
After negotiations, 66 students are being allocated accommodation at a privately-run residence in town (25 rooms) and in residences on campus where places that were allocated but not taken up have been released (41 rooms). Some students will also be sharing accommodation.
It was also agreed that further accommodation would be located by the end of the first week of March 2008. Of the 140 students on the list presented to the Department of Student Housing, it would appear that only 56 students had actually applied for accommodation for 2008.
The protest is over and the University is committed to ensuring that the matter is resolved timeously and effectively.
Professor Dasarath Chetty
Pro-Vice-Chancellor(Corporate Relations)

New Year`s Resolutions

It's only January 2 as I write, and I've already broken my New Year's resolutions.January has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward to the coming months. It's a time to reflect on the changes we want (or need) to make and resolve to follow through on those changes.Below are the areas in which Campus Highlights think everybody should improve on

FAMILY RESOLUTIONS:

Agree to disagree. Learn to cooperate and compromise. Put yourself in your loved one's shoes, and truly try to understand how they are feeling and why they are reacting the way they are. Think before you speak or react. If all else fails, make believe the person you are hard on is a stranger, we often treat strangers kinder then our loved ones. Try not to hold a grudge, end an argument with the agreement you are on different sides of this particular topic, and don't allow it to upset the other aspects of your relationship.

COMMUNITY RESOLUTIONS:

Volunteer somewhere you feel you could make a difference. It could be a hospital, nursing home, church daycare, literacy programs, meals on wheels or you local SPCA. You'll know what feels right. There are volunteer opportunities everywhere. Check the Internet, local newspapers, and charities in your area.
Get involved in your neighborhood, join or start a block club. Many areas have community centers, where there are senior activities, and crafters clubs. Your local library may even have a readers circle you may want to join.

PERSONAL RESOLUTIONS:

Plan to exercise for 10 minutes everyday. Stretching is great for circulation, walking around the block is great for your heart. Not anything strenuous, just something to get the joints moving. Dancing and yoga are also good for your over all well being.
Read a daily devotion, mantra, or quote to enlighten your spirit. Keep a daily journal of best thing that happened today. Meditate, pray or focus on something beautiful in nature. Any of these suggestions will do wonders to nurture your inner spirit and will also help relieve stress.

FINANCIAL RESOLUTIONS:

Budget, spend less, and have more. Plan meals, shopping trips and make a list. Stick to the list and do not buy anything except what is on the list. Plan monthly allowance for birthday and special occasion gifts. Start putting money from coupon savings, bottle returns, or loose change in a jar for next year's holidays. Have a yard sale and put those proceeds away as well. Cut down on your heating bills by wearing layers of clothing. Cut down on your electric by using candlelight. Walk to the corner store instead of driving. Shop at thrift stores, rummage sales and garage sales for clothing, garden ornaments, and household decor. Sometimes someone else's trash (Throw Away) can become a favorite treasure for a few dollars instead of twenty or more.

Put your hands together, Lindelani Mahlalela

Be afraid be very afraid. In another bid to upgrade campushighlights,the team has acquired the services of the most talented cartoonist of our time "LINDENI MAHLALELA". Yes if you are in some sort of leadership position or according to us in the public eye, you will be featured.Not worry though he wont make shower projections on your head or make you reflect a beetroot. In essence he will reflect just what is on campus at the particular time. On the left is a snippet of one of his works. So I say again put your hands together.Ayeeee ye!

ARE YOU CLOGGING UP SPACE???????

Words of wisdom, guys and girls let us be realistic. it is with sadness that my advise comes in the mist of exams,but 'studying is the most important thing here' think about it, there were thousands if not millions of applicants and wanna be applicants who couldn't make the exemption or cut the grade. at the same time there were another couple of thousands who made the grade but couldn't get in to varsity because the space was given to you. or they lacked funds, I am interested in those that couldn't get space. don't you think you are being unfair by clogging up space here, as the years go you register this course and de-register that, one could say that you lack direction and shouldn't even have been here in the first place, if you are that type of person think about that guy who couldn't get to varsity whom given half a the chance would have been out of here a long time ago. look at your student number (as you read what year in fact not by year are you in) do you reflect that person.if you reflect a kind of person afore described, do yourself and your country a favour that is worth a huge weight.Study and pass or just open the gap for a person deserving of a chance. A

The famous 10 questions!!!!!!!

1. What are the chances of people getting addicted to these energy boosters.

2. Hey dude were you part of the WAWA organisation this year.

3. Don't the people on campus resemble zombies during exam time.

4. Did you attend the SRC exam prayer meeting.

5. Was it well organized or did they fail to do that as well.

6. Are you going to pass your exams.

7. What does next year hold for RAG

8. How many hearts did you break this year.

9. Don't you think this campus would be better if we were all humble.

10. Campus Highlights has been good to you neh.

Compiled by Bongs Halimani

More Revelations in our time.

Just a little run down for readers who don't know what the big deal is about the controversial 'Arms Deal' and the SA Government, it goes like this...in a nutshell..
In the early years of South Africa’s shining happy Rainbow democracy, while the citizens were lolling in the afterglow, the ANC government spent R60 billion on military arms that the country didn’t need. British and German investigators suspected that bribes of over one billion rand were paid to facilitate the deal. Jacob Zuma, Thabo Mbeki and the late Joe Modise have all been drawn into the saga. Andrew Feinstein, an ANC Member of Parliament who attempted to investigate the deal against the wishes of the party leadership, has written the explosive story of what really happened in the arms deal: the personalities, the scheming, the cover-up and the corruption. In chronicling the ANC’s decline into a run-of-the-mill, tawdry governing party under Thabo Mbeki, Feinstein revealed in his recently released book 'After the Party', the inner workings of the ANC in office. After the Party tells the story of a cosmopolitan, white, Jewish South African, married to a Bangladeshi Muslim (hau..!), who was deeply committed to the ANC until he was expected to choose between his principles and the party.
Well, seems Andrew has caused quite a stir by sticking to his principles, goody, but I'm sure he was rather nervous when he decided to leg it to the UK where he now lives with his wife and kids, and works as a financial consultant! Don't blame him..shitstix..some folk have been necklaced for a lot less!
The circumstances surrounding his decision to reveal extraordinary insights into the state of contemporary South Africa and the battles currently raging within the ANC, and the release of the book at the end of October seemed to be smack on time to cause a bit of itchy scratchy with the run up to the presidential nominations. One can only hope that this snow ball is going to really gather momentum from here on...we can all hope, that said, who better to help pull the rug out from under the ANC than one of their own..!
"Who the fuck do you think you are, questioning the integrity of the government, the ministers and the president?" - Essop Pahad to Andrew Feinstein
Two of the key figures in the genesis of the arms-deal scandal -- Patricia de Lille and Andrew Feinstein -- went public again this week, fanning the embers of a corruption storm that has been smouldering for nine years.Feinstein, the former African National Congress (ANC) leader of Parliament's public accounts watchdog Scopa, resigned when the party moved to curtail investigations into the arms deal. He is now living in London. He was in South Africa this week to launch his new book, After the Party, which contains dramatic new revelations on the affair.And De Lille alleged in Parliament this week that she had evidence of three payments by warship supplier Thyssen-Krupp on January 29 1999, each of R500 000, to the ANC, to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and to the Community Development Foundation, a Mozambique charity associated with Mandela's wife, Graça Machel.The payments were allegedly made into foreign accounts with Credit Suisse First Boston.The three entities have denied any knowledge of the payments, while Thyssen has declined to comment.But it is the details revealed by Feinstein that are likely to prompt new scrutiny of the arms deal and the investigation process.In his book Feinstein alleges:That former defence minister Joe Modise received more than R10-million from a variety of bidders;That a report submitted by Scorpions investigators to their bosses recommended that arms deal corruption involving the ANC itself should be investigated. This was driven by a number of factors, Feinstein writes, including "trips that the party's treasurer general, Mendi Msimang, made to Switzerland to meet the successful bidders"; andThat Italian submarine bidders Fincantiere were told they had won the contract, but were informed later that they had been dropped in favour of the Germans. They were offered the chance to "better the Germans" via a payment of $15-million in bribes.Feinstein points out that this is the same sum under investigation by the German authorities, in relation to an amount allegedly solicited by South Africa's former chief of acquisitions, Chippy Shaik. Shaik has denied the allegation.Feinstein also contradicts public claims by senior government figures that there was no attempt to interfere with the probe into the arms deal once Parliament had authorised a joint investigation team (JIT).He writes: "I was told by someone from the JIT about a meeting with the president at which they… were told who they could and could not investigate."Elsewhere he claims: "It was made clear to investigators that a shadowy financier close to Mbeki and Zuma who has played an ongoing role in financing the ANC, was off limits."One investigator told Feinstein: "The hand of the presidency over the investigation was palpable."He notes: "For instance, the charge sheet for the arrest of Schabir Shaik was drawn up to charge both Shaik and Zuma. When presented to Bulelani Ngcuka, he is alleged to have responded: 'I will charge the deputy president only if my president agrees.'"Recounting how he was hauled before the party's top brass after Parliament had authorised its own investigation, Feinstein writes: "I was given a brief opportunity to try to explain the prima facie evidence we had and the process we were following."Within a few minutes [Minister in the Presidency Essop] Pahad had launched into a ferocious diatribe, spluttering 'Who the fuck do you think you are, questioning the integrity of the government, the ministers and the president?' Pointing aggressively at me, he shouted that we should simply withdraw the resolution."

From SouthAfricaSucks.com

Your Sincerely Fika Mathe

By Fika Mathe

Eita gents couldn't wait any longer. This is an interesting but very controversial issue, it needs critical thinking when dealing with. It is surprising that some girls and guys manage to sleep with more than four people in one month, not consideration whether those people are just by passers or boy/girl friends, but the same people have a nerve of judging somebody who is a sex worker. How different is a person who sleeps with three people in a week just for the fun of it to a person who sleeps with the same number of people just to make a living and earn means of survival? People, is this about money or is this about sexual morality and respecting one's body which is God's gift and temple? Then if it is about morality and self respect, then these two categories are no different from each other. And actually when looked from an economic and intellectual perspective, the one which does it for money is even better because he/she at least gains something out of it to try and make some aspect of their life better. These people (sex workers) can also be seen as better-off because they show some sense and they do something risky for a reasonable reason than some one who does the same act for free of charge and just for fun. It’s an economic principle guys- The cost- benefit analysis works here. The one who sleeps around for money is at least saying I am worth something, they at least attach some value to there bodies, though it is being undervalued. This is better than someone who sleeps around just as most of the people do just for mahhala, treating themselves as valueless, allowing anybody to violate their body anyhow at no cost. Hear me very well, I am not supporting prostitution in anyway, but I am against people who judge others and to find that they do the same thing indirectly and even worse off, because they gain nothing from it. So if you know that you have more than one sexual partner, I would suggest that you don’t even begin judging prostitutes, because you are no better than them and in fact you are even worse than them. They are better, both morally and economically speaking.No hard feelings about, just an expression of thoughts.Mojah, Fikzozo( Fika)

FOOD FOR SOUL- Make Mistakes - Really Okay!!!

When you fall, do you get right back up? Do you learn from your mistake and move on? Or do you kick yourself so hard in the butt that you just mope around for days in your PJs and wonder why you're so miserable? Come on! Get a grip!Okay, okay, that was uncalled for, but seriously, the more mistakes you make, the more you learn. The more you learn the more you grow and the more likely you'll be a future bright star in the sky.When you were a young growing child, how were you supposed to know the oven was hot? Or that you can't put metal in the microwave? Or that when you say something impolite you'll hurt someone's feelings? You would have either experienced these things first hand, or you were taught that these were all things to avoid.Mistake AnxietyA constant fact of life is that we all make mistakes. What varies is how we all handle a self-inflicted setback. Some get angry; others get upset, while others encounter the wretched beast known as denial (What mistake? It wasn't me!).Just like we mentioned in a previous article: "The Key's in the Hole. Now turn it!", it's important to take a chance! If you make a mistake, at least you turned the key and made a valiant attempt. If you were too terrified of turning the key, you never would have known whether you would have been successful or not! And you couldn't have possibly made a mistake to learn from!I mean, how can you learn without messing up every once in a while?

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BOW DOWN FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BLOGGERS

In Zulu we say, 'into enhle iyabongwa' yes as the semester draws nearer and nearer to its end there is a roller coaster ride of emotion. One thing we would like to say to 'you' yes you is that thank you for managing to take time out from your studying and logged onto CH. Not only for today though, in the past couple of weeks CH has seen a very significant number of growth in people who log on. This can be attributed to our hard working technical director Nkosiyethu otherwise known as Osama, who has boomed our campus with his masterpiece 'campushighlights'. Today we are standing at more than 6ooo people and fast approaching 10 ooo in just less than five months. we get regular hits from Cape Town, JHB(Rosebank) DBN and as if that is not enough we get more hits from the US than we get from Jhb and cape town, the list of international loggers is endless. There is Canada, Jamaica, Tanzania, Germany, Rwanda, if I had to count every country i would take half a page. The bottom line is that as you log on today you have not chosen the wrong people, 'res ipse liquitor' ( the facts speak for themselves because we are INTERNATIONAL( world wide if you like).

COUNT DOWN TO LIMPOPO

By Kombisa Sidloyi

A lengthy audit of ANC branches has come to an end thereby puting an end to the widespread uncertainty over how many votes at the leadership contest will go to branches in SA's nine provinces.

The party announced on Thursday that 906 votes, almost 25% of the total 3 675, would go to delegates from Eastern Cape province. KwaZulu-Natal will send 608 delegates to Limpopo. An additional 400 votes will be assigned to members of the National Executive Committee, Women's League and other bodies. "This audit is now final and complete," ANC Secretary General Kgalema Motlanthe told reporters at the party's headquarters in Johannesburg.

Motlanthe, an intellectual who has good relations with both the Mbeki and Zuma camps, also has been mentioned as a possible ANC leader.

STUDENTS ARE WARNED

As part of the tender specifications, the Department of Health requires that all condoms be certified by SABS as being of adequate quality in terms of the standards set by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The Department of Health is recalling all condoms supplied by one of the seven companies, Zalatex (and produced by Latex Surgical Products [LSP]) as a precautionary measure. This follows charges that Zalatex bribed an official of the SABS to approve condoms that were not conforming to the quality standards. Close to 5 million condoms supplied by Zalatex have been collected since the recall and an additional 7,5 million condoms have been quarantined at the company's warehouse. An urgent meeting of the Bid Adjudication Committee has been called for next week to review the contract with Zalatex and the recommendation from the Department of Health is that the contract should be cancelled. The Department has ceased buying any stock from Zalatex. The public is urged to continue to support the recall of these condoms by returning to the nearest health facility all condoms with a lot number: 4308/ZLX*.

In the meantime, it is important to continue to encourage the correct and consistent use of condoms as an important barrier against unwanted pregnancies and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) including HIV infection. The Department of Health will continue to work together with SABS to ensure that all condoms distributed by government conform to the quality standard set by the WHO.

From Mr Asker

1: Who will be excluded?
2:Wasn't that mc in the wob function just fabulous?
3:The new house comm is in, now what?
4:Are the people you voted for still giving you the same attention as they did when a vote was needed?
5:Just how diligent is Msawenkosi Khumalo?
6:When are you going to start with your exam preparation?
7:When will Osama answer that question?
8:I saw Rag gathered around the steps outside big chill, are they still in operation?
9:What exactly is this Denision scandal that everyone is talking about?
10: How long will the new house comm remain in favour with the students ?

Being Gay On Campus

By Osama Ka Sethenjwa Dumakude

Socrates, Philosopher; Sir Elton Jones, Rock Star; Frederick the Great, King of Prussia; Barney Frank, U.S. Congressman; George Michael, musician, Someone you know ,Someone you work with, Someone you care about, Someone you respect, Someone you love, the list of gay eminent people is endless.
South Africa's post-apartheid constitution enshrines gay and lesbian rights through statutes on equality which ban discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, as well as race and gender. That follows a tumult over the gay and lesbian rights. I am quite sure that there is someone you respect or attend Ethics or Biology lecture with who is gay or lesbian. The credit for new innovations should go to those people who have secured a place for all homosexual people in the new South Africa. Through dedication, hard work, and sheer drive they have been instrumental in shaping the new law modification governing the practice of homosexuality, gays place in the work force and their civil rights. The BIG question is how we, as students, treat our fellow students who are homosexual. Are they what they are by choice or by nature? What is our perception towards them and what is their perception towards us?
Whatever the cause of homosexuality may be but the purpose of this article is mainly to tell everybody to feel free to disclose their beliefs, sexual orientation and their political inclination that they think they best articulate and represent their ideas and needs. Fortunate enough this campus boasts so many organizations which serve as a platform for students to voice their concerns.
Everybody has been to high school level and there were times when he/she was protesting for his/her freedom in silence. University is a place where each of you must try to discover thyself. It is a place where one should try to create her/ his own sense of identity. Whether you are what you are by either choice or nature but be proud of yourself. Yes, human beings have innate degree of conformity, but you must not sacrifice what satisfies your desires in the name of conformity. Try not to confuse your freedom and responsibility. Be what you are as long as it is self-regarding.
There might be stigma attached to being gay or lesbian but persist on leading your homosexual life so that people will see that there is nothing wrong with what you are.
In conclusion, let it be clear to everybody that this article was written to shed some light to the much-debated topic of homosexuality, not to provoke the homosexuals. They are more than welcomed to respond this article

SA citizens think Zuma will be President:Survey

By Khombisa Sidloyi

Research surveys showed today that "most" South Africans think Zuma will be the next President. The second most popular candidate was current Deputy President

Zuma-27%
Ngcuka-10%
Mbeki-8%
Ramaphosa-7%
Sexwale-6%
Zille-4%
Nkosazana-Zuma-3%
Manuel-2%
De lille-2%
Leon-2%
Poor Understanding of politics

"However we should'nt get too excited". The fact that some people opted for candidates that are not from the ruling party demonstrates a lack of political understanding. Yes they are exercising their views which is constitutionally correct,but then offcourse when excersing democracy we should do so being mentally sober.
The survey also asked respondents if they thought Zuma becomming the President in 2009 would bring disaster to the country. 48% felt doom was imminent, this feeling differed between race groups.
30% of Blacks felt a Zuma Presidency would be disastrous, 69% of Whites, 78% of coloureds and 81% of Indians felt the same. 36% of the inhabitants of the Durban region predicted disaster if Zuma would come to power.

Campus Highlights Pays Tribute to Lucky Dube

By Osama Dumakude
ACHIEVEMENTS: IN JUST 43 YEARS: Lucky Dube - August 3, 1964 to October 18, 2007
HEAR: Gallo CE Ivor Haarburger talks about his friend Lucky
IN SONG: Listen to Lucky Dube’s Taxman here.
PICTURES:A LIFE IN SONG: Moments in the life of revered reggae artist: Lucky Dube
ON STAGE: Watch a video of Lucky in concert
SADDENED: Music industry mourns Dube’s death
SINGERS SAY: Role model par excellence
IN CONCERT: Saving the best, for the last
IN CONCERT: Saving the best, for the last
ON TRIAL: Suspects are brought into the dock