Category: Lizzie’s Page
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The 5 youngest teenagers to score a hat trick in the Europa or Champions League
Originally posted on The archive of Elizabeth-Jane: Scoring a hat trick in any game is a difficult feat unless you’re Messi or Ronaldo who do it for fun. Scoring a hat trick in Europa or the Champions League as a teenager is a highly regarded feat even for Messi and Ronaldo. There are a handful…
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Are Chelsea pulling off the ‘United way’ better than Ole?
Originally posted on The archive of Elizabeth-Jane: Manchester United and Chelsea are truly down in the dumps right now, 8 points from 6 games and falling fast down the table. Both have iconic players at the helm in Ole Gunnar Solskjær and Frank Lampard, but are they cut out to manage two of the biggest football clubs in…
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Wits fostering entrepreneurship?

Originally posted on The archive of Elizabeth-Jane: Who is your target market? Do you have contacts that can give you access to capital? Do you have a space or a location to sell your product? These are the age old questions any new business has to answer before it can even start up. For the…
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Slice of Life: It is just a game after all, right?

Originally posted on The archive of Elizabeth-Jane: Originally published in Wits Vuvuzela on October 5, 2018 Football is the most watched sport in the world with a fan base of just under 4 billion people. The game is believed to have originated in England in 1880 but is today a global sport officially played in…
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Book review: The Lost Boys of Bird Island

Originally posted on The archive of Elizabeth-Jane: Originally published in the Wits Vuvuzela on August 25. The death of author Mark Minnie, under suspicious circumstances, has renewed interest in his recently launched exposé The Lost Boys of Bird Island, which shines a light on the dark underbelly of some of South Africa’s twisted apartheid leaders.…
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Student sexually assaulted by mining engineering student

Originally posted on The archive of Elizabeth-Jane: Originally published in the Wits Vuvuzela on August 2, 2018. Chamber of Mines Building School of Engineering. Photo: Elizabeth-Jane Ringrose A female student was sexually assaulted on the west campus of Wits University on Friday, July 27. First-year Digital Arts student, Taliah Naidoo says that a male student…
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The Funny Side of an American President

Originally posted on The archive of Elizabeth-Jane: Originally published in the Wits Vuvuzela on July 25, 2018 Barack Obama talks at the Nelson Mandela annual lecture. …
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Rojo fires Argentina into the knock out stages
Originally posted on The archive of Elizabeth-Jane: The stage was set at the Saint Petersburg stadium in Russia for a mouth-watering clash between Argentina and Nigeria. The super eagles in their traditional dark green took on Messi and company in a must win game on Tuesday night. After a rousing rendition of the national anthems…
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Gun-toting student sparks fear at Wits Matrix

Originally posted on The archive of Elizabeth-Jane: Originally published in Wits Vuvuzela, April 20, 2018 Students outside the Matrix where the incident occurred. Photo: Elizabeth-Jane Ringrose A male Wits student brandished a “fake” gun at the Matrix on Friday, April 13, sparking fear and anxiety in the…