Wits Review April 2024
Volume 51
Cover feature – April is the cruellest month. So begins TS Eliot’s epic poem The Waste Land. And so begins the hardest month of training for the Comrades Marathon. Heather Dugmore tracks down some personalities behind Wits’ distinguished legacy of distance running as the Varsity Kudus Running Club turns 45 this year | Profile – John Perlman’s dream for every child in South Africa to play sport | Wits Spaces – Joburg is the perfect place for Marlene Dumas's latest gift | International Witsie – Deputy news editor in Washington DC, Kenichi Serino, says he’s rooted to journalism, biltong and blossoms | Books – ‘Are there ancient paths or rights of way in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg?’ asks Prof Ivan Vladislavi? in The Near North | Wits End – Academics laboured in their pyjamas long before it was trendy
