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Issue 2 • March 2013 • For daily updates visit www.uwc.ac.za
Inside HySA’s hydrogenpowered golf cart page 4
STOP THE VIOLENCE
UWC Speak Out Campaign page 8
Parliament partners with UWC page 14
I TAKE RESPONSIBILITY!
UWC football ladies make the Banyana Banyana cut page 15
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Where’s the game? Check the barcode before you buy the meat
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ow do we really know what we are eating? Professor Sean Davison, Professor Maria Eugenia D’Amato and Kevin Cloete from UWC’s DNA Forensics Lab recently released findings that show how DNA barcodes can be used to identify even very closely related species. Results from the study show that the labelling of game meat in South Africa is very poor, with different species being substituted almost 80% of the time. Using mitochondrial COI DNA barcoding and cytb sequencing, researchers analysed samples of game meat – used as biltong – from supermarkets, wholesalers and other outlets, and compared them to known samples and library sequences. Of 146 samples, over 100 were mislabelled. All the samples labelled as beef samples were correct, but in the most badly labelled case, 92 % of kudu meat was actually from different species. Only 24% of meat identified as springbok and 30% of meat identified as ostrich biltong was correctly identified. The rest were horse, impala, hartebeest, wildebeest, waterbok, eland, gemsbok, duiker, giraffe, kangaroo, lamb, pork or beef. Worryingly, one sample labelled as zebra was in fact mountain zebra, a Red-Listed species threatened with extinction. The reasons for the mislabelling are as yet unclear. The biltong market is complex – with the involvement of hunters and ranchers, small-scale family businesses and wholesalers as well as manufacturers who buy meat, the points of entry for either error or intentional
Kevin Cloete, Professor Sean Davison and Professor Eugenia D’Amato of UWC’s DNA Forensics Laboratory, examining possibly mislabelled South African biltong. substitution are numerous. “The delivery of unidentifiable animal carcasses to market and the general lack of regulations increase the chances of species mislabelling and fraud,” says D’Amato. “This has implications for species safety, but
also has cultural and religious implications. This technique is also able to provide new information about the identity of animals and meant that we found several animals whose DNA had been misidentified in the scientific libraries.”
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Professor Shirley Walters the embodiment of lifelong learning
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rofessor Shirley Walters is a leader in South Africa in the promotion of lifelong learning within higher education, and in society at large. Walters is a former anti-apartheid campaigner and a leading figure in adult education in South Africa. She was also the first female professor in the field of adult education in the country, and the first one to start research into gender equity at UWC (in the ‘90s). That research led to the establishment of the University’s Gender Equity Unit. The Unit was the first of its kind at a South African university and this year celebrates its 20th anniversary. Walters’ work led to the development of an intercontinental master’s degree in Adult Leaning and Global Change, which is a co-operative, web-based course jointly managed by universities in South Africa, Australia, Canada and Sweden. She is the founder of the Women’s Hope Education and Training (WHEAT) trust, which supports skills development among women. In addition, she is the founding director of the UWC Division for Lifelong Learning. Recently she was appointed to the Ministerial Oversight Committee that is focusing on the transformation of South African universities. The committee was established by Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande in an attempt to monitor
the progress of transformation at public universities, and to make recommendations directly to the Minister regarding policies aimed at ending racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. The Committee will consist of seven members. The University of KwaZuluNatal’s Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Malegapuru Makgoba, will chair the committee. Other members of the committee will include the University of Fort Hare’s Vice-Chancellor, Dr Mvuyo Tom; the University of the Witwatersrand’s transformation and employment equity director, Nazeema Mohamed; Congress of South African Trade Union’s (COSATU) second deputy Prof Shirley Walters, Founding Director of the UWC president, Zingiswa Losi; and a member Division for Lifelong Learning (DLL). of the University of the Free State’s performance in terms of the set institutional International Institute for Studies in Race, and national transformation targets and Reconciliation and Social Justice, Andre Keet. benchmarks, while best practices will be The seven appointees are set to study and identified. evaluate the effectiveness of transformation Walters describes the appointment as an frameworks, charters, policies and strategies affirmation of all the work she has done of all universities. They are also required and as a way for her to continue making a to produce an annual report on policies and contribution. “For as long as I have been practices that impact on transformation at with UWC, I have been committed to bringing universities, a document that would also list about change, and this will serve as an achievements and challenges. opportunity for me to continue doing so,” she In addition, the committee will propose a says. reporting mechanism to track universities’
UWC’s HIV Counselling and Testing Drive helps hundreds
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IV/AIDS is a disease that affects millions of people worldwide, with a large concentration of them in Southern Africa. It is spread mainly through sexual contact, and UWC believes in stopping the spread of this disease by encouraging students and staff to equip themselves with the knowledge of their HIV statuses. For this reason the University hosted its first quarterly HIV Voluntary Counselling and Testing Drive (VCT) in the Main Hall. The drive commenced on 11 February 2013 and ended on 14 February. Hundreds of students were tested and found it to be a worthwhile experience. Students visiting the Main Hall were able to attend a pre-testing information session, where peer educators explained, with good humour, the basics of preventing and dealing with HIV, answered the basic questions about how condoms work, explained why you should not bite your nails if you are going to engage in foreplay, and addressed how to engage in safe oral sex. These peer educators graciously volunteered to spend the year raising awareness regarding HIV, both on campus and at 25 high schools in the Western Cape, and have attended several training sessions this year. Attendees also had access to individual pre-testing counselling by trained counsellors. Taking the HIV test itself was quick and easy – there was just a little prick of the finger and a short wait before students received their results (which were delivered discreetly and kept entirely private). Friendly post-results counselling was also provided to ensure that students understood their results and – depending on the circumstances – knew how best to deal with it.
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Andries Coetzer tackles his disability head on
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isually life so much impaired, easier. Even the Andries community was Coetzer is not aware of people one to wait for good with disabilities things to happen to and what we him. He is also rightly can and can’t proud that he did not do. It was very let his disability stop different to the him from making his community and dreams come true. school in Vryburg. “If you make a One of my biggest mind shift, you can highlights was achieve anything being accepted you set your mind to study to and not stagnate physiotherapy in due to negative 2012. In my first perceptions,” Coetzer year I achieved 2 says. As and 5 Bs.” A matriculant of Coetzer was the Pioneer High School Andries Coetzer walks out of the Main Hall at UWC. one of the in Worcester, Coetzer is recipients of currently in the second a VisionTrust year of his Bachelor of Science (BSc) studies bursary. “The main aim of the trust is to in physiotherapy at UWC. According to make the world a more accessible place for Coetzer, his biggest challenge to date was persons living with disabilities. For example, overcoming the hurdles that prevented him in order for a blind person to work a standard from following his dream. computer, he/she requires specially adapted “Since I was in matric, I’ve wanted to screen reading software. This software could become a physiotherapist, but due to my cost anything between R10 000 and R15 000 circumstances my maths marks were too and could be the only obstacle hindering low for me to qualify. Initially I didn’t know a blind person from securing a meaningful what to do, so I studied marketing from 2008 job. The VisionTrust provides blind and to 2010, which I completed. I then decided other disabled persons with free access to not to give up on my dream and to improve these and similar essential aids. The laptop my maths. In 2012, I was accepted to do I received had a huge impact on my studies. physiotherapy at UWC. I really do believe you I can follow better in class and the lecturer can do anything if you really want to, despite gives me his notes electronically before the your circumstances.” class starts. It makes it much easier. We also Life has not always been easy for Coetzer. do a lot of research in class and the laptop “Besides not being selected for physiotherapy enables me to do research online. I’m very when I completed matric, I was attending grateful to organisations that support people a mainstream school in Vryburg when I was with disabilities as it can be very expensive,” younger. I completely felt like an outsider says Coetzer. as I was the only visually impaired student The next dream for Coetzer is to complete and most of the kids didn’t know how to his degree and start his own practice. handle me, as they weren’t informed about “I would also like to help someone to people with disabilities. I then moved to the achieve his or her dream,” he says. Pioneer School and the teachers there were In his free time, Coetzer enjoys playing fantastic. They were completely natural with the guitar and spending time with his friends. me and I was surrounded by people with During his long holidays, he visits his mom in the same disability as my own. It just made Vryburg in the North West Province.
Lynn Hendricks of UWC’s Alumni Relations Office with two students at the launch of the Alumni T-shirt Competition 2013.
Design competition promotes innovative thinking
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WC students got their creative juices flowing and their design skills put to the test when they took part in the Alumni T-shirt Competition 2013. The competition, run by the Alumni Relations Office in the Department for Institutional Advancement, called for participants to create a design or illustration that communicates being proudly ‘udubs’. “We want to see pride, passion, commitment and loyalty for UWC,” said Alumni Relations Officer, Samantha Castle. The winning designs will be printed on the UWC Alumni T-shirts for this year’s summer and winter ranges, and will be sold in the Campus Lifestyle Store. The winner, to be announced on 26 March 2013, will walk away with a brand new iPod Shuffle.
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HySA Systems is one of three Centres of Competence developed under the National Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Research, Development and Innovation Strategy (Hydrogen South Africa, acronym HySA). The HySA Centres of Competence have made significant progress in securing partnerships with the international and local private sector organisations, which will enable HySA to penetrate the global fuel cell market.
(From left) Grant Healy (Melex Electrovehicles), Stuart Elliot (Melex Electrovehicles), Cordellia Sita (DST), Prof Bruno Pollet (HySA Systems), Cosmas Chiteme (DST) and Mandy Mtyelwa (DST) at the unveiling of the hydrogen-powered golf cart.
HySA’s hydrogen-powered golf cart: a look into a hydrogen future
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ydrogen South Africa (HySA) Systems Integration & Technology Validation Competence Centre at UWC, together with Melex Electrovehicles, has developed the first hydrogen fuel-cell golf cart on South African soil. The vehicle, built by local South African company Melex Electrovehicles, is being used in a study by HySA Systems, a national centre of competence established by the Department of Science & Technology and the National Research Foundation as part of its HySA initiative, to investigate the viability of hydrogen in transport applications in South Africa. Early results are encouraging – the range of the golf cart is nearly doubled by the use of a hydrogen fuel cell. In addition, it is virtually silent in operation, can reach
speeds of up to 50 km per hour and is emission-free. Professor Bruno G. Pollet, Director of HySA Systems at UWC, explains: “The only emission from this golf cart is water! And the hydrogen fuel source can be produced by using renewable technologies such as solar or wind energy. The entire process – from production to driving – is purely green.” Globally, the transportation industry is of massive economic and ecological importance. With around a billion cars in use and a growing global population, traditional hydrocarbon cars contribute to oil depletion and increasing air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. For this reason, alternative fuel development is incredibly important – and hydrogen fuel-cell technology is particularly promising.
This hydrogen transport demonstrator will be compared with the existing UWC campus fleet of diesel and electric vehicles (the latter part of the reason the University was named South Africa’s Greenest Campus in 2012). This will allow HySA Systems scientists and engineers to learn more about the efficiency and performance of this technology, and how it can be implemented cost-effectively in the formation of a viable green means of transport in South Africa. Pollet says: “Thanks to the support of the Department of Science and Technology, we are starting to make the necessary steps to gear up towards a zero-emission campus, as well as a functional hydrogen and fuelcell infrastructure in South Africa, which will hopefully help to create new jobs and working partnerships with local businesses.”
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PharmaSea Project turns ocean depths into a drug-research lab
UWC IMBM students hard at work in the lab, working on the PharmaSea project.
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WC researchers are involved in the ambitious PharmaSea project, a largescale project, funded to the tune of €9.5 million by the European Union, that will take researchers from all over the world to the deepest, coldest and hottest parts of the planet in search of organisms that could fuel new drug discoveries. Led by Professor Marcel Jaspars of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and coordinated by Dr Camila Esguerra of the University of Leuven in Belgium, the PharmaSea project focuses on biodiversity research and bioprospecting for pharmaceutically useful compounds. The international PharmaSea team are collecting samples using strategies commonly used in the salvaging industry, dropping samplers off fishing vessels to trench beds to collect sediment samples. They will then attempt to grow unique microorganisms and isolate novel drug-like molecules that may be useful in the development of medical drugs or cosmetics. PharmaSea researchers will be analysing all sorts of marine bioorganisms, from bacteria to deep-sea sponges to fungi and more, evaluating their potential as novel drug leads. PharmaSea researchers will search the Atacama Trench in the Eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile, the Arctic waters off Norway, the deep trenches off New Zealand and China, and the Antarctic waters as well. The deep trench environments
A colourful cold water sea squirt (genus botryllus): one of the many organisms studied by the PharmaSea team. are considered to be interesting sources of novel bioactive compounds, as the organisms that live there do so under extreme conditions. Up to now, only a handful of samples from deep trenches have ever been investigated. UWC researchers, led by Professor Marla Tuffin, Acting Director of the Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics (IMBM), with the assistance of Professor Michael Davies-Coleman, Dean of Science and a
leading expert on the chemical and structural characterisation of natural marine compounds, will be involved in the ’Biodiversity Mining’ part of the programme. IMBM researchers will employ classical microbiological isolation techniques, as well as modern metagenomic technologies, to screen for and isolate novel microorganisms associated with South African marine sponges and sea squirts, and to identify new drug-like activities produced by these microorganisms. The project holds great potential for discovery as the world’s oceans host much of the planet’s biodiversity (over thirty animal phyla versus only a handful on land, for example) and also present significant opportunities for bioprospecting. “There is an interesting phenomenon in marine ecosystems whereby the ratio of potentially useful natural compounds to the total compound screened is higher in marine organisms than in terrestrial organisms,” says Tuffin. “Biodiscovery in marine resources will therefore have a higher probability of commercial success for a given sample size.” The PharmaSea project is a very multidisciplinary one, bringing together experts from a range of different fields and providing an opportunity for collaboration with some of the world’s leading experts on marine bioprospecting. “This is an exciting opportunity that opens many doors for South African researchers,” says Tuffin.
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UWC receives new Scanning Electron Microscope: Looking small, thinking big
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WC welcomed a new addition to its Electron Microscope Unit (EMU) on 11 February, when the Unit unveiled their latest acquisition: an Auriga High-Resolution Field Emission Gun Scanning Electron Microscope (FEG SEM). Supplied by Carl Zeiss (the German-based manufacturer of optical systems, industrial measurements and medical devices) and worth around R9 million, the instrument is one of only two of its kind in the country. It is equipped with a range of state-of-the-art detectors and specialised components. The instrument will allow biologists, chemists, materials scientists and nanoscientists of all sorts at the University to observe objects and conduct research at extremely small scales. UWC’s Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian O’Connell, started the proceedings, welcoming attendees and explaining how this instrument highlights the quality of science produced at UWC. The FEG SEM meets technological needs not fulfilled by the LEO 1450 SEM that the EMU acquired last year. But, Programme Director and Head of the Electron Microscope Unit, Professor Basil Julies said that the LEO was “the right instrument at the right time,” and he explained why that assessment still holds true. Prof Basil Julies, Director of the Electron Microscope Unit, demonstrating The LEO SEM was purchased to serve as a feeder instrument for how to use the new Auriga FEG Scanning Electron Microscope. the new high-resolution SEM that was still to come. Now that it’s Dr Romilla Maharaj of the National Research Foundation, which arrived, the EMU can get down to some serious science, said Julies. provided the funding for the instrument, highlighted the enormous “Today is the seed of hard work. And tomorrow comes the harvest of amount of work that goes into actually putting together a proposal for knowledge.” a grant of this nature, and actually receiving the equipment. “This is Julies explained briefly how the device works and what makes this a celebration and a key milestone,” she said, “and fits in well with the type of instrument special. overall plan to improve the quality of research, to expand our human The main attribute of the Auriga FEG SEM is its high-resolution capacity and research training, and to promote long-term planning capabilities, he said. It comes equipped with a charge compensation around research.” facility that allows researchers to view non-conducting, un-coated UWC Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Ramesh specimens. It also has an anti-contamination device that can clean Bharuthram, discussed how this new instrument, together with such specimen surfaces while the specimen is in the SEM chamber. The projects as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in astronomy, displays Auriga FEG SEM utilises several electron detectors, some of which are UWC and South Africa’s place in the scientific community. “We can unique to the instrument. produce brilliant Masters and PhD students, we can be experts using UWC Physics Professor Chris Arendse presented some of the work world-class facilities. As we do not operate in isolation as a university, done on the instrument, discussing some of the photovoltaic research this instrument can become a tool for collaboration and partnership at being conducted on campus by MSc and PhD students. He spoke of a national level.” the interesting work in nanoscience that will hopefully improve the UWC researchers will be the chief users of the FEG SEM, but there efficiency of solar cells. is substantial co-operation between the Electron Microscope Units Daniel Sims, the Managing Director of Carl Zeiss South Africa, of UWC and the University of Cape Town (UCT). The instrument expressed his pleasure at working with the EMU, and at seeing the will be available to researchers from UCT, Stellenbosch University, instrument in action. Cape Peninsula University of Technology, iThemba Labs, and other “I always love seeing the pictures from the machine,” he said. institutions in the Western Cape. “By obtaining this SEM, the EMU has put in place a platform for the This will relieve some of the bottlenecking that is natural to a field University,” he added. “The relationship between UWC and Carl Zeiss that is so dependent on expensive high-tech instruments that require is only just beginning. The instrument can be used for years to come some expertise to operate. and can be upgraded to keep up with developing science. ”
Nanoscience is an important part of UWC’s research programmes. Staff and students at UWC are already using the EMU’s instruments to work on photovoltaic research (solar cells), superconductor studies, geological studies, fossil research, fuel cell research, restorative dentistry studies, and many other things.
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700 teachers from across the Cape Peninsula attended the 16th LOK Symposium at UWC.
700 teachers inspired at LOK Symposium
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rofessor Nico Koopman of Stellenbosch University, delivering the keynote lecture at the 16th LOK (‘Letterkundeondersteuningskomitee) Symposium, hosted by UWC on 23 February 2013, encouraged more than 700 teachers to be the agents of change our society needs. Koopman started the proceedings by thanking all the teachers who took time out of their busy schedules to attend the Symposium. The Symposium was geared towards finding new ways of improving their craft. Koopman also thanked UWC for being instrumental in making this successful symposium possible for many years. Koopman said that teachers need to be appreciated, honoured and respected. He posed the following question to the 700 teachers in attendance: Why is it important to honour our teachers? He said that teachers play an important role in moulding our children into great individuals and future leaders. “Children learn character at a very young age; character shows integrity in your life and this is taught at schools, at primary level already,” he said. He noted that teachers need to be honoured because they play a pivotal role in teaching children good judgment. “Having strength, staying motivated, having hope even in the worst circumstances is taught,” he said.
Koopman said the teaching of particular subjects is important, but children also need to be taught good reasoning and sound analytical methods. “It is good to see so many teachers from across the Peninsula in attendance today. It shows that they love what they do and want to keep improving their work,” he said. The latter part of his presentation spoke to language teachers in particular. “In order for engineers to describe their work to its very best, for politicians to deliver their speeches effectively, language is a central focal instrument. Through our words, teaching and language, we are developing a new society, a new world, and securing a good future,” said Koopman.
Professor Nico Koopman inspired 700 teachers at the LOK Symposium at UWC.
WC’s Faculty of Education, together with the Centre for Education Policy Development (CEPD), hosted a conference focused on Post-School Education and the Economy on 11 February 2013. The aim of the conference was to consider questions about the intersection of the economy with education, training and skills systems. The questions included: How, in the light of the high unemployment rate in South Africa, especially among the youth, could these linkages be thought of in ways that could promote sustainable livelihoods and work? What principles should inform such conversations? How have other countries responded when faced with similar challenges? “The labour market is moving a lot faster than the education system,” pointed out Patrick Werquin, a professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts Métiers (the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts) in France, as well as a former senior economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Directorate for Education, and an education programme specialist at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. “Many countries are struggling to eradicate poverty which has had a great effect on education.” The concern of participants at the colloquium was focused on the extensive costs that a university education demands. Professor Pundy Pillay of the University of Witwatersrand said, “Inequality of access and outcomes by gender, socio-economic status and region will always be contributing factors when deciding to attend university.” Pillay made an example of how people who are born poor and who are from the rural areas need to take out loans to complete their studies. As a result, such students experience no economic growth over the first few years of their careers because they are responsible for paying back sometimes sizeable student loans.
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UWC’s Rector and ViceChancellor, Professor Brian O’Connell called upon all students and staff of UWC to stand up against violence directed at women and children. On 26 February 2013, a special ceremony at the Main Hall was held in aid of showing support against genderbased violence and child abuse. Academics, staff and students wore badges reading “Stop the Violence. I take Responsibility”, and were encouraged to pledge their support to act, participate and speakout against gender-based violence.
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UWC student pledges never to put his hands on any woman at the UWC Stop the Violence event.
Student displaying his pledge against violence directed at women and children.
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n his book Moral Minds, Harvard’s Professor Marc Hauser argues that we humans are genetically predisposed to create moral systems. While those moral systems may be very different in different cultures, they all express the culture’s view of what is good or bad. He reflects upon what he calls “The Golden Rule” and how many cultures have expressed this rule in different words. For instance, Buddhism speaks of “Hurt not others in the way that you yourself would find hurtful.” Taoism’s version states: “Guard your neighbour’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbour’s loss your own.” Christianity speaks thus: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Islam in turn reads: “No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.” It would seem that the Golden Rule has found a place in many of the world’s cultures, but significantly it has often been raised to the level of a decree from God or the gods. Hauser argues also that, “Humans appear to be uniquely endowed with the capacity that enables large-scale co-operation among unrelated individuals and to support stable relationships that rely on reciprocity”. He adds that, “A central aspect of our capacity to reciprocate ....
where the long-term merits of particular actions outweigh the short-term and selfishly tasty alternatives is the ability to delay gratification.” There are countless examples of this throughout human history, but also many instances where the Golden Rule is egregiously violated and where we humans have related to one another brutishly. Up against this Golden Rule are what Catholics might call the seven deadly sins but which others, like Dawkins, have called the “selfish gene”, a genetic mechanism for survival at any cost. Here, too, human history is replete with examples of unspeakable savagery humans have visited on others, even in the name of religion. With respect to our morals, we humans have come a long way and most on our planet would, at least rhetorically, support the many international conventions and laws constructed in partnership to give expression to the Golden Rule. Yet we are a long way away from creating heaven on earth and we are now entering or have already entered a period in human history that will deeply challenge our commitment to care for one another. When energy is scarce and fresh water is scarce and food is scarce and housing is scarce and jobs are scarce and we experience such dramatic changes in our social and natural
environments that our solid foundations turn to quicksand, we will be deeply tested in this regard. The historian Mohan writes that, “Women living in a cultural revolution and in a world of war, violence, and social upheaval, are impelled as never before to ask the hard questions of the meaning of historical existence.” We, South Africans, are facing such a time and the evidence is before us, expressed often in brutal violation of women and children. As we watch and listen and hear the stories about poverty, crime, rape, drug abuse and other social ills, the question that comes to mind is: how does one, out of the destruction wrought by the colonial and apartheid pasts, which included slavery and many other forms of oppression, construct a vibrant, caring and selfreliant community ready to face the future with confidence and good will? How do we remain hopeful and steadfastly optimistic? Just recently I was at a local church, leading a discussion on community development in response to the congregation’s concerns about the growing disconnectedness of the people, especially the youth, who were turning more and more to self-destructive behaviour. Such behaviour has become endemic on the Cape
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UWC Students encouraging South African men to protect our women.
Members of UWC’s GAYLA pledge against the abuse of women and children in our country.
ian O’Connell, on Gender Violence Against Women Flats where gangs flourish, where drug-abuse and violence are ubiquitous, where schooling is in a state of deep crisis and where life has become extremely cheap. There is evidence everywhere of communities in turmoil and the need to build a strong sense of community has now clearly emerged as one of the most critical challenges facing our young democracy and, indeed, the world at large. W B Yeats warns us of the danger of losing our sense of humanity, what it means to be human. He writes in his poem, The Second Coming, “Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” What is the role of the University with respect to the matter of preserving and extending our concept of humanity? What does this place set aside by our nations to gather together their most talented to engage with all the knowledge created by humankind and to use that knowledge to shape their thoughts and actions, while striving consistently to create new knowledge to respond
to the social and natural challenges that confront us. The University is a vanguard institution – its task is to lead using the best knowledge available while creating even better knowledge if the situation demands it. Our mandate says we teach and learn, we research and we engage with community. Our nation looks to UWC and its sister institutions to engage with humankind and its environments, to make sense of these, to practice internally what the sense made tells us, and to make the sense made, together with our practices and the tools that we develop to support it, available for humankinds use. Two examples of sense-making, drawn from Thomas Hobbes, relate directly to this meeting. The one is that we must not be at war with one another, we must care for one another. The other is that we must not believe that we can do without help and support from one another, that we are self-sufficient. We need one another if we are to endure. Another truth from another sage, in this case, Amartya Sen, is that we must have ideals but approach them with real actualisations, by fixing the small things around you that you have some
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control over, doing this on agreement, based on public reasoning on rankings of alternatives that can be realised. Humankind has reached a critical juncture in its history and it behooves all of us to engage in the struggle to remain human.
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ISTA 16: Setting sail to clean up the environment
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he sixteenth biennial country in sub-Saharan Africa. The trip International Symposium on allowed the attendees to experience Toxicity Assessment (ISTA 16) excellent scientific sessions amid was hosted by UWC from 21 beautiful and changing scenery. to 26 February 2013. The gathering, ISTA provided a platform for saw delegates from all over the researchers, administrators, world discuss the latest research regulators, NGOs and policy-makers in approaches and techniques for from Australia, Europe, North and evaluating contaminant impacts South America, and Asia to discuss on ecosystems, and the way these the changing science of ecotoxicology, have advanced over the last three presenting the latest data and decades, in step with the revolution discussing developments in all facets in the understanding of living of environmental toxicology and ecoorganisms and populations. sustainability, as well as debating The event commenced on 21 strategies for better management February at UWC’s Life Sciences of ecosystems and public health. The UWC ISTA 16 ground crew takes a break between sessions at Auditorium, where ISTA International Delegates from academia and industry the opening ceremony of the International Symposium on Toxicity Chairpersons Professor Christian discussed the latest research methods Assessment. Blaise and Professor Paule Vasseur, and results in genetics, ecology, UWC Rector and Vice-Chancellor toxicology, nanoparticles research, Professor Jacqueline Golden discussed the role Professor Brian O’Connell; and Chairperson of bioinformatics, and related topics. of hope in managing our water resources in a the Symposium (and UWC lecturer), Professor The Symposium also provided opportunities country known for water scarcity. Edmund Pool, welcomed delegates and put for networking, particularly for the young After the morning session, delegates departed the conference in perspective. Professor researchers and students participating. for the Cape Town harbour to sail the high seas Johannes van Wyk from Stellenbosch University They could participate in the Symposium’s onboard the luxury cruise liner, the MSC Opera, launched the scientific part of the symposium, competition for best manuscript and for the remainder of the symposium. Research providing an overview of the special place presentation, and also had free run of the ship talks and presentations were held aboard the in ecotoxicology held by Xenopus laevis, the (when they weren’t preparing for their talks or ship as it voyaged between Cape Town and African clawed frog, or plantana, and its status digesting the information they’d been presented Walvis Bay, Namibia, moving from one of the as South Africa’s biggest biotech export. UWC’s with). world’s floral biodiversity hotspots to the driest
Training healthcare professionals to tackle lymphoedema
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he general shortage of healthcare professionals with advanced lymphoedema education is a common problem, near ubiquitous worldwide and magnified in developing and emerging countries. To increase awareness of lymphoedema management, the School of Nursing and the University of Missouri host an annual lymphoedema training course at
UWC. A Complete Decongestive Therapy (CDT) course was held from 14 to 25 January 2013, and was co-ordinated by the School of Nursing in collaboration with two facilitators from Missouri, Maureen McBeth and Kathryn Anilowski, and South African lymphoedema therapist Thea van Schoor. The participants were also lucky enough to attend a presentation on the state of lymphoedema worldwide by Professor Jane Armer, Director of the African Lymphedema Framework Project in Missouri. Lymphoedema, a blockage of the lymph vessels that results in the build-up of lymphatic fluid in the body’s tissues, is a chronic and debilitating condition, especially for cancer survivors, and is progressive unless treated with specialised techniques. The current standard of care for the treatment of lymphoedema, as outlined by the International Society of Lymphology (ISL), is Complete Decongestive Therapy (CDT). CDT is a ‘multi-modal’ intervention employed by healthcare professionals with advanced education in treatment techniques. The training at UWC followed criteria set by the Lymphology Association of North America (LANA). That programme specifies 135 curriculum hours, of which two-thirds must be dedicated to practical learning and one-third to didactic teaching. A total of 19 participants successfully completed the full 135-hour course, and each received a certificate endorsed by the US-based Norton School of Lymphatic Therapy.
All the happy students who successfully completed the Complete Decongestive Therapy training course UWC offered in January 2013, along with the course facilitators.
Kathryn Anilowski, Thea van Schoor and Maureen McBeth acted as facilitators during the Complete Decongestive Therapy training course UWC offered in January 2013.
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Medical Bioscience students Megan Stemmet, Siposethu Nco and Eveline Kaambo, seen here with the best poster presentation from the 2012 ICAN conference.
The Infection Controllers: ICAN award-winning students
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hree medical students from the Medical Biosciences Department of UWC made their mark at the International Congress of the Infection Control Africa Network (ICAN), held at the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, from 27 to 29 November 2012. PhD student Eveline Kaambo and MSc students Megan Stemmet and Siphosethu Nco have been conducting research under the supervision of Professor Charlene Africa, who runs a research programme that investigates the normal microflora of the oral cavity and vagina of pregnant mothers in an attempt to establish how they contribute to adverse pregnancy outcomes. The trio’s poster presentation, titled “The Association of Asymptomatic Vaginal Infections with Preterm Delivery”, examined vaginal swabs for the presence of Group B Streptococcus (GBS), Garnerella vaginalis and Chlamydia colonisation in pregnant
women. It also won the students the award for Best Poster at the conference, out of more than 200 presentations from researchers from all over the African continent. The win was as unexpected as it was welcome. “I was quite surprised to hear that our poster won first prize,” says Megan, “because it was very different from most of the conference presentations – but I suppose that made it unique. The conference provided the students with the opportunity to meet researchers from diverse backgrounds and attend a variety of scientific sessions, workshops and discussion groups. The sessions covered mathematical models, infection control practices, ways to educate lay people about infections, environmental baselines and barriers to infection control, and even looked into the pathogen-carrying capacity of mobile phones.
“The ICAN conference was a huge learning opportunity,” says Siphosethu. “Listening to speakers from all over the world talk about emerging resistant bacterial infections and how they manage these infections was a real eye-opener.” The take-home message of their research is, says Eveline, this: “Since asymptomatic vaginal colonisers have been implicated in adverse pregnancy outcomes (including preterm labour and chorioamnionitis), it is imperative to screen for the presence of GBS among pregnant women, and establish optimal prevention of perinatal GBS infection in both preterm and term neonates.” The work can have long-term importance. Africa says: “The outcomes of this research will guide us in intervention studies where mothers at risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes can be identified early in their pregnancy and can be monitored in order to prevent preterm delivery.”
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South African and Indian musical fusion Art and History in the form of sound
(From left) Professor Ari Sitas, poet, dramatist, sociologist and co-initiator of Indo-African collaboration; Professor Sumangala Damodaran, singer, composer, economist and initiator of Indo-African collaboration; and UWC representative Professor Des Roberts at the launch of the Insurrections CD in Delhi, India.
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he School of Cultured Creative Expressions of Ambedkar University in Delhi (AUD) launched Insurrections, a musical collaboration between Indian and South African artists, on 30th January 2013. Produced by South Africa History Online (SAHO) and the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at UWC, this CD is a collection of 12 compositions put together by 15 musicians and poets – all masters in their fields – from both countries. The compilation spun out of a performance by members of the Insurrections Ensemble at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town in October 2012. Poets and musicians Claude Cozens, Sazi Dlamini, Sumangala Damodaran, Tapan
Mullick, Neo Muyanga, Malika Ndlovu, Tina Schouw and Ari Sitas are the South African contributors. The launch of the CD was held at the Kheshmere Gate campus in Delhi, India, with 240 guests celebrating the occasion. The Dean of the Faculty of Cultured and Creative Expressions at AUD, Professor Shivaji Pannikar, spoke about the importance of such international collaborations and commended the project for fusing individual and collective creativity. Sitas, who is also one of the curators of the project, talked briefly about how the musicians responded to the process, and what was aesthetically and socially important. “The project tried the difficult route of
moving beyond language, solidarity and defiance to create compositions that spoke across barriers. It showed that another world is possible and that it will most certainly be about music too,” he said. “The great discovery of the project is that dialogue became possible through the fretless instruments such as the sarod, the cello, the double bass and the Zulu bow. Then a common language was established through them.” As part of the launch celebrations, guests were treated to the sounds of Sumagala Domodaran, Pritham Ghosal and Tapan Mullik, who performed two of their joint arrangements, Where Are We Now?(Fiaz) and Insurrections of the Flowers.
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UWC staff member shines at conducting competition
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WC’s Centre for Performing Arts (CPA) applauds staff member and project co-ordinator, Wesley Lewis, for his second-place finish in the Len van Zyl Conducting Competition 2013, which took place in the Cape Town City Hall on 10 February 2013. The competition is run in conjunction with the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) as an initiative to support and develop classical-music talent in South Africa, and took place over four rounds. At the first round in June 2012, 17 participants were whittled down to nine for the second round, at which stage four candidates were selected for the third round. In the third round, each candidate conducted the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra. The semi-final took place at the Artscape on in February 2013, where Lewis, Johan Grobler and Xavier Cloete (of KZN) were selected as the three finalists. At the lively finals, the conductors pulled out all the stops to impress the judges. Cloete was named the winning conductor, with Lewis placing second. CPA manager, Henriette Webber, says the event drew the Centre’s attention to a number of things, and inspired a new collaboration. “This competition for me has highlighted the needs that the performers have. I am currently entering into a partnership agreement with Northwestern University [in the US] to offer conducting as a course at UWC, and these courses are aimed at addressing the performers’ needs highlighted during the competition,” she announced.
he Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at UWC launched the book Namibia’s Red Line: The History of a Veterinary and Settlement Border at the Clarke’s Book Shop on 19 February 2013. Written by Giorgio Miescher, the book, based on archival and oral records, tells the story of the border-building process in Namibia that took more than 60 years to complete. Described by David William Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and history at the University of Michigan, as a “work that has moved the history of an internal border towards the centre of the history of colonialism and empire in Southern Africa”. The 340-page volume describes and discusses the process that began with the formation of a temporary veterinary defence line against rinderpest by the German colonial authorities in the late nineteenth century, and ended with the construction of a continuous twometre-high fence by the South African colonial government six decades later. Miescher finalised the manuscript at the beginning of his two-year stay (from 2011 to 2013) at UWC as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research. The book was launched as part of an international CHR workshop on the South African Empire. Professor Leslie Witz from the History Department at UWC described it as “a book that provides a compelling and vivid account of an historic journey along the line, as it is constantly remapped and reinscribed upon the landscape, defining Namibia’s space and time for almost a century and still continues to cast its shadow like presence.”
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Parliament partners with UWC
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Celebrating the UWC and Ruhr University Bochum 10-year partnership
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t is important to have international partnerships when we want to tackle the issues that the world faces.” These were the words of the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mr Roland Herrmann, during when UWC and Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) celebrated its 10-year partnership. The two universities celebrated the decade-long partnership between the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy at the RUB and the School of Government and Institute for Social Development of UWC on 8 February 2013. The collaboration between these two universities was established after they signed their first co-operation agreement in September 2001. This was followed by the launch of the Bochum Programme in Development Management at UWC in June 2002. In 2009, the focus on teaching and research was further enhanced through the establishment of the Development Research Division (DRD), a research-oriented training programme aimed at preparing the next generation of leaders to meet typical social, economic and political challenges. During the course of the celebrations in February, an opportunity was given to the scholarship holders of the South African-German Centre for Development Research and Criminal Justice (SA-GER CDRCJ) to share their experiences of the programme. Coretta Jonah, a PhD student at the DRD, commended the programme for training future African leaders, describing it as an example of international collaboration at its best. “A student from Ghana applied to study in Germany and ended up in South Africa, where she found world-class facilities which made it easy for her to achieve her academic goals,” said Jonah. Dr Wilhelm Löwenstein, Vice-Rector of Ruhr University Bochum, credited the success of the partnership to the Rectors of the two universities. “I would like to thank the leadership of UWC for their support; I strongly believe the success of the partnership is due to the dedication and cooperation of the Rectors,” said Löwenstein.
WC hosted the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) public lecture on 20 February 2013. The lecture addressed the topic, Implementing Project Democracy: The role of Parliament in general and the NCOP in particular. The Honourable Mninwa Mahlangu, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, was the keynote speaker at the event and described the partnership between UWC’s School of Government (SOG) and the NCOP as a “good marriage”. The event marked a culmination of The Honourable Mninwa Mahlangu, activities set out by the NCOP last year Chairperson of the National Council of when it celebrated its 15th anniversary Provinces, addressed the audience at (it was established in 1997). In turn, the UWC. SOG is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. UWC Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian O’Connell, described the proceedings as a sense-making session, and said that the NCOP public lectures need to be beneficial to our communities and country. “We still have major challenges here in South Africa, such as the fact that we need to deal with the ravages of Apartheid, and creating a strong democracy that works,” said O’Connell. He posed the following question: What is the relationship between democracy and parliament? In turn, Mahlangu said that the NCOP would implement a programme that would be geared towards promoting public education in order to create awareness among South Africans with regards to how Parliament works, the content of its work and the general composition of the state. As part of its public integrative strategy, the NCOP started the Parliament to the People Programme, which was conceptualised to enhance the participatory aspect of our democracy. “The programme ensures equal access to Parliament by all South Africans, though it is focused mainly on reaching rural, poor communities,” said Mahlangu. Additionally, the partnership between the SOG and the NCOP seeks to establish links to promote awareness and sharing of institutional knowledge, and to collaboratively design, develop and implement a suite of capacity building and research programme that will be mutually beneficial to both parties. It aims to create a platform for reflecting on the NCOP’s challenges and successes, as well as to develop an engagement on strategic functional areas of the NCOP (e.g. legislative developments, public participation, oversight, co-operative government and intergovernmental relations). Mahlangu said that UWC, through its SOG, has been involved in some work relating to the NCOP, such as the intergovernmental relations audit report published in 1999. “The report was critical for the NCOP at a number of levels. Among other things, it raised the issue of functional overload, limited resources and a challenging legislative process,” he said. “Much of the introspection carried out by the NCOP over the years was thanks to this examination by the SOG and UWC,” he added. Mahlangu started his lecture by thanking O’Connell for being pivotal in the fundamental change that was brought about in this beautiful country. Mahlangu said that this lecture marked the beginning of a new era in relations between the NCOP and UWC. “We chose UWC because of the role the institution played in breathing intellectual life into our struggle for a democratic and just society.”
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UWC football ladies make the Banyana Banyana cut
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he University’s contribution the trio in Banyana Banyana. to sports development took “This is an indication that we are another positive step with working towards achieving academic three students selected into as well as business objectives, the Banyana Banyana national squad thereby ensuring that we continue for the 12-nation Cyprus Women’s to strive towards achieving our vision Cup. of excellence through sport,” says UWC Ladies Football Club’s Groenewald. midfielder-cum-striker Jermaine “Women’s sport is a key area Seoposenwe (first-year BCom), of transformation, and Banyana goalkeeper Kaylin Swart (first-year BA) Banyana has contributed immensely and defender Vuyo Mkhabela (secondto the national transformation year BA Sport Science) are among the agenda. We are confident that our four Cape representatives in the 22students’ inclusion is creating future member squad. Nocawe Skiti of the opportunities to further strengthen Gugulethu-based Cape Town Roses FC (Fom left) UWC FC players Kaylin Swart, Jermaine Seoposenwe and women’s sport development, makes up the fourth Cape selection. including competing at the highest Vuyo Mkhabela have been selected for the Banyana Banyana squad. Banyana Banyana is placed in competition levels possible.” Group C of the tournament, which Groenewald indicated that UWC Recreation South Africa’s National Academy takes place from 6-13 March 2013. has prioritised football by focusing Programme. UWC has been particularly Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and on coaching, upgrading facilities and providing successful in drawing players from marginalised South Korea are the other teams in the group. support to athletes. communities, and partnering with such players UWC is committed to major developments “We are already seeing the impact of the to help them compete at the highest levels. in sport and sport-related work as part of its strategies we are employing to support football. Head of the Sport Administration Department 2025 vision. As a result of that commitment, Our female team currently plays in the Sasol at UWC, Ilhaam Groenewald, commented that the University has been identified as one of the league, which is the top league for women’s the University is excited about the inclusion of 14 institutions of higher learning by Sport and football in South Africa.”
UWC confident for upcoming home-turf victory against FNB UFH
FNB UWC are confident that they will perform well in this year’s FNB Varsity Shield.
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Manuel shines for UWC rugby
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eighing in at a muscular 120kg and standing 2.03m in his socks, 23-year-old Pallo Manuel appears to have been built for rugby. He has duly put that impressive physique to good use for UWC rugby, and has played a key role in FNB UWC’s impressive performance in this year’s Varsity Shield Cup. Manuel, born as the second of three sons to Minister Trevor Manuel, who is in charge of the National Planning Commission, brought a wealth of experience to the UWC team. He has been a member of the Boland Cavaliers since 2012, and played for the University of Cape Town (UCT) between 2009 and 2012, forming part of that university’s 2011 Varsity Cup-winning team. The lock forward graduated with a BA in Sports Science at UWC on 11 March 2013 and is now doing his honours in the same field. He chose to play for UWC this year “to give back to my university”, and to learn from the immense experience brought by former Springbok mentor Peter de Villiers, who is at the helm of the UWC rugby side. Manuel notes that there has been a greater sense of brotherhood among his UWC teammates this year, and that they have learnt valuable life lessons from De Villiers. “One thing Peter has concentrated on is the notion of self-improvement, not only as a player but as a person,” Manuel shares. “He teaches us to be good leaders.” Among his most memorable moments as a UWC rugby player was the “overwhelming experience” when the squad was introduced to the firstyear students at a packed swimming pool during Orientation week. Then there was their first win of the season, against the Vikings from the Tshwane University of Technology. “There was a lot of hype about the game and we played well.” The biggest challenge for the team, according to Manuel, is to not drop their heads when things are going against them on the field. “There is a mentality that we’re losing our away games and that is something very difficult to come out of. But with Peter in charge, we will be able to turn this around.” Manuel admits that there may be some expectations from him as the minister’s son, but he has not felt any pressure. “I am not my father, I am an individual. I want to be seen as Pallo Manuel, not as Trevor Manuel’s son.” Pallo Manuel is one of the key members of the UWC rugby team in 2013.
Calvin De Bruin (centre) and Captain Charlie Van Jaarsveld, (right) tour the Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children.
FNB UWC visits Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children in Athlone
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