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About Heather Dugmore

Heather Dugmore was born and raised in Johannesburg. She has a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Rhodes University, South Africa. She operates between her base in the Eastern Cape and her office in Johannesburg. Her writing reflects the diversity of her experience: from humour to environmental conservation to business to academic research. Heather contributes to leading newspapers, magazines, universities and corporates. She has produced, managed and edited content in all its multimedia forms – including books, features, photographs, websites, magazines, publications, reports, newsletters and brochures.

    When the shoes match – Uniting Wits & Braamfontein

    By |2020-03-05T06:07:45+00:00November 3rd, 2014|Features|

    Like a pair of odd shoes, that’s what Braamfontein was to Wits University ten years back. It did not make sense because Braamfontein and Wits are one. Braamfontein is to Wits what Greenwich Village is to New York University or what Bloomsbury and Camden is to the University of London. But the mismatch was real, [...]

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      The Vice-Chancellor who loves Mathematics and cares about people, not things

      By |2020-03-05T06:07:45+00:00November 3rd, 2014|Profiles|

      He loves Mathematics, sudoku and jogging. He believes that understanding our place in the universe is far more important than the accumulation of material possessions. Meet the new Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University, Dr Sizwe Mabizela. If you’re on the streets of Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape at 4.30 in the morning, you might see the [...]

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        The forgotten young

        By |2020-03-05T06:07:45+00:00November 3rd, 2014|Features|

        They’re young, they’re unskilled, they don’t have jobs, most are not well educated and they are sitting at home not knowing what to do. Lisa Garson has a plan. Lisa Garson graduated from Wits with her BSc in 1989 and BSc Hons in 1990. There are millions of very frightened young South Africans who are [...]

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          The Pursuit of Fearlessness

          By |2020-03-05T06:07:45+00:00November 3rd, 2014|Profiles|

          From Chicago to London to Outer Mongolia, Kevin Volans’ classical compositions reach beyond creed, culture or established form. Emanating from a desire for freedom, they orbit the world. The Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras (570BC – 495BC) proposed that the Sun, Moon and all the planets emit their own unique, orbital sounds – known as [...]

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            Game Changer or Boom to Bust – the shale gas controversy

            By |2020-03-05T06:07:45+00:00November 2nd, 2014|Features|

            When we talk about shale gas mining and fracking, we are not talking about one little well in the middle of the Karoo. We are talking about 60% of South Africa’s land surface being targeted for production. In this feature we journey through almost three years of the shale gas controversy, and question whether this [...]

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              Destruction of Brand Oscar – lessons for business and life

              By |2020-03-05T06:07:45+00:00September 19th, 2014|Columns|

              He was a young god at the top of the world. From New York to London billboards featured the Blade Runner in his Flex-Foot Cheetahs – the carbon fibre legs that carried him to international fame. Nike, Clarins, Oakley, Tag Heuer …the leading brands of the world all wanted a piece of Oscar Pistorius and [...]

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                Grasslands plus Grassland Birds equal Water for SA

                By |2020-03-05T06:07:46+00:00September 4th, 2014|Sustainability|

                Water, grasslands and grassland birds go together. You simply cannot secure water production for South Africa without securing the grasslands, which are our natural water factories. […]

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                  Cape flowers for pleasure, profit, employment and the green economy

                  By |2020-03-05T06:07:46+00:00July 31st, 2014|Sustainability|

                  We need to look to the earth beneath our feet to see the riches of our land. This could not be more evident than in the smallest, richest floral kingdom in the world, the Cape Floristic Region (CFR), also known as the Cape Floral Kingdom. […]

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