Top students announced

The top students in 2009 in the Economics Department were announced recently at a departmental award ceremony. Melissa van Rensburg received the Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA) medal for the best Honours dissertation in the country in 2008, while Stephen Reid (pictured below with Sophia du Plessis) was awarded the annual Cloete-medal for the best postgraduate student and Genesis prize for the best Honours student. Ignatius Barnardt and Johannes Burger received the first and second prizes for third-year Economics students, while Marianne Knoesen and Francois Kamper came in first and second in the second-year category respectively. Ruhan Meyer was the best first-year student in 2009 with Rachelle Strydom in second place.