Volume 3 Issue 2
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Contributors
Clementine Poggi
Clementine Poggi is a second year Bachelor of Arts student at Varsity College. She is from Switzerland and moved to Cape Town three years ago. At the beginning of her degree, she discovered her love for writing and created her blog,
“clemsfavourites”. She believes that the blog offers her a platform to extend her writing.
Marco Jooste
Marco is currently completing his English Master’s Degree at the University of the Western Cape. His thesis focuses on the representation of Heathcliff in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
He tutors in the first-year undergraduate English programme at UWC, while also lecturing English on a part-time basis at Varsity College Rondebosch. Marco loves nature and is currently planning an expedition to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. It is his desire to finish his Doctorate in English and pursue a career in academics.
Ndimphiwe Bontiya
Ndimphiwe recently found a passion in theatre production, including improv acting and has an interest in jazz fusion music.
Ndimphiwe’s interest in improv acting grew because it is about more than just art, but an expression of self-discovery.
Ndimphiwe started a program called “The Sister, Sister Workshop”
in 2016 which had its second offer this year. The program focuses on building a healthy self-esteem in homosexual individuals.
Auriane Lamy
Auriane is an exchange student from France, at the University of the Western Cape for one year. She completed courses in the History department as well as in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department. Her studies at UWC taught her new academic and political approaches which have influenced her to reconsider her Euro-centric academic career. Auriane is currently completing her Master’s degree in Urban Policy at Sciences Po Paris.
