Issue 2
June 2012
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Peter de Villiers joins the UWC team The University of the Western Cape (UWC) proudly welcomes former Springbok rugby coach, Peter de Villiers, as the Director for Rugby and Sports Development. De Villiers’ expertise will not be confined to developing UWC’s sportsmen and women. His extended brief is to establish a UWC-based Resource Centre that will create a new generation of coaches, players, referees and administrators from local clubs and schools, as well as from UWC. Said De Villiers: “UWC has great facilities, and it is hoped that this programme will attract aspiring top players to join UWC both in lecture halls and on the field.” He went on to explain his move to the University: “This is my dream job. I am asked how one follows up on coaching the national side at international level. The answer is simple: by giving back and transforming sport at grassroots level; I get to do this at UWC and fulfill a lifelong ambition.”
UWC Rugby and Sports Development Director Peter de Villiers gets down to business.
Healthy change for Cape's higher education giants A multilateral agreement (MLA) signed on 29 May 2012 between the Western Cape’s four universities and the Western Cape Government will clarify the relationship between government and the universities that train health science workers including UWC. The MLA is an overarching agreement that covers a range of clarifying definitions, principles and processes that will govern the overall relationship between the Western Cape Department of Health and the four Higher Education institutions. “The agreement is of national significance because the health services are where national health and higher education must work together. This agreement is a bridge toward this essential cooperation,” said the Western Cape Minister of Health, Theuns Botha. Each university will sign its own bilateral agreement with the Western Cape Government. The Joint Agreement Governance Council (JAGC) will ensure equality in training facilities for the different universities, with the assistance of the Health Platform Committee (HPC) which will handle the allocation of the spaces for student training at the different facilities.
SKA: UWC looks to the heavens
The awarding of the major part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project to the African bid on 25 May 2012 heralds a new era for African science and technology. Professor Ramesh Bharuthram, UWC Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic and Head of the Astronomy Desk at the Department of Science and Technology, puts it this way: “The SKA is the most ambitious radio telescope ever designed to help address some of the big questions in astronomy and astrophysics: How did the Universe originate? How do galaxies form and evolve? Is there life anywhere else in the Universe?” Astronomers at UWC are heavily involved in the SKA project. Professor Roy Maartens holds the SKA/DST Chair in Astrophysics. Professor Matt Jarvis is a SKA Visiting Professor and an internationally renowned radio astronomer. There are six SKA research fellows at UWC, as well as MSc and PhD students funded by the SKA. In fact, the astronomy group at UWC was started in 2008 when the SKA project funded a post for Professor Catherine Cress, who has conducted important work on galaxy evolution and cosmology.
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Mellon Mays Programme helps good students become great scholars
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Programme held a celebratory gathering at the Life Sciences Building on Friday 4 May. The Fellows gathered to say farewell to the 2012 Fellows, who left South Africa for Atlanta in June. They will be spending four weeks at Emory University in Atlanta and will visit New York for a weekend of sightseeing. The five 2012 Fellows are all third year students: Siphathise Dyongo (Geography), Nonhlanhla Khumalo (Psychology), Ryan Loubser (History), Rhulani Maluleke (Social Development) and Chanel van der Merwe (English). Sitembiso Siwawa, a 2009 Fellow, shared her MMUF experience with the new cohort, urging them to make the most of their situation. “We will all be presented with opportunities” she said. “It is entirely up to us to what we do with them.” The MMUF programme aims to provide exceptionally promising students with the financial support and mentoring needed to help them become exceptional scholars in their fields in South Africa.
Multiple cohorts of Mellon Mays Foundation Fellows at the Life Sciences Building.
UWC and HNU give HOPE an eLearning environment
Students and professors from UWC joined forces with their colleagues from Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences (HNU) in Germany to develop an eLearning framework for community health workers (CHWs) of the HOPE Cape Town Association, a non-profit organisation that is active in HIV/AIDS treatment. From 21 to 25 May, a total of 26 delegates (6 students and 2 professors from UWC's Economic and Management Sciences Faculty and 14 students and 4 professors from HNU) formed several joint project groups to research and design a Moodle-based mobile course framework for CHWs that could help them train for real-life situations. Attendants were impressed by the comprehensive scientific approach the joint teams applied, and the results achieved. Prof Louis Fourie, Chair of UWC's Department of Information Systems, said that seeing the results of these young and promising students' efforts to improve the quality of life of the poor gives him confidence for South Africa, and for the world.
UWC AIMS graduates praised (and rewarded)
Students from more than 20 countries graduated from the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) on Wednesday 20 June 2012, in a ceremony held at the Muizenberg Pavilion. Eighteen of the 52 students who were capped at the graduation ceremony hailed from UWC, with the rest coming from the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University. Several scholarships were awarded to deserving students, including the Victor Rothschild Scholarship, presented to two students each year and worth R80 000 each. One of those students this time around was UWC’s Tesfalem Abate Tegegn.
The AIMS graduates enjoying a sunny academic procession.
UWC’s Dean of Natural Sciences, Prof Davies-Coleman, helped to officiate at the ceremony. He discussed how learners must be encouraged to study maths and science to make Africa a better continent. “Infrastructure is one thing, but in science, people are important. Buildings don’t change the world,” he said. “People do.”
Viva La Symphony: A little night music The Cape Philharmonic Orchestra gave two dazzling evening performances at UWC's Great Hall on 7 and 21 June, hosted by the Centre for Performing Arts. The first concert saw internationally respected conductor Victort Yampolsky and violinist Zanta Hofmeyr guide the orchestra through mesmerising renditions of pieces by Romantic composers Berlioz, Bruch and Dvorak. Hofmeyr studied at New York's Juilliard School of Music and has received numerous awards and recognitions. The second performance had award-winning conductor Brandon Phillips and young violinist Avigail Bushakevitz, a Juilliard-trained multiple award recipient, performing moving pieces by Liszt, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky. Both performances drew hundreds of attendees, young and old, who were happy to brave the cold (and for the students, the time off from exam preparations) to experience musical masterpieces.
Soloist Avigail Bushakevitz after a sterling performance.
Shaping The Future of South Africa’s Youth: Examining post-school education Shaping the Future of South Africa's Youth: Rethinking Post-School Education and Skills, a book examining the different facets of post-school education provision in South Africa, was launched on 5 June at UWC. Dr Joy Papier, a member of UWC's Further Education and Training Institute (FETI) and one of the book's editors (alongside Helene Perod and Nico Cloete) provided an overview of the work, which includes an analysis of the impact of the national qualifications system on occupational training, the capacity of the post-school system to absorb large numbers of young people, and a youth perspective on education and training policy. Book Launch attendees (from left): Northlink CEO Leon Beech, Ford Foundation's John Butler-Adam, UCT's Prof Muller, UCT's Cecil Mlasheni, Dr Joy Papier of FETI and UWC DVC Prof Ramesh Bharuthram
Cecil Mlatsheni, member of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) and one of the book's 17 authors, shared a few ideas from his chapter, dealing with youth, education and unemployment. “Education is the central, probably the best, way to try to address the issue of youth unemployment. So let’s invest in educating the youth and reap long term benefits,” said Matsheni.
A Biography of a Leader of Distinction Hundreds of dignitaries attended the launch on 25 June, in UWC's Main Hall, of Dr Hoosain Ebrahim’s book Shaykh Muhammad Salie Dien: A Leader of Distinction . The book – the result of years of research, including hundreds of hours spent at the late Shaykh Dien's bedside, an experience Dr Ebrahim says is engraved in his heart – discusses Dien’s early life, his studies, and his decades-long status as an imamand community leader in Athlone, and also carries many of the sermons he delivered. Speakers such as Shaykh Igsaan Taliep, principal of the International Peace College SA (IPSA), explained how Shaykh Dien’s lived a life of service to the community, ceaseless learning and preaching the holy scripture of Islam. UWC Vice-Chancellor Prof Brian O'Connell spoke movingly of his personal interaction with Shaykh Dien, and of how this book is part of a worthy attempt to reconstruct history in a way that gives due where it's deserved.
The Faculty of Arts will be hosting its
2012 STUDENT ADVISING AND APPLICATION DAY for prospective undergraduate and postgraduate students Saturday 28 July 2012 from 09h00 to 15h00 at the University of the Western Cape Main Hall Prospective 2013 students will be presented with information on degrees/courses and the cost of studying and financial aid, as well as an opportunity to apply to study at the Faculty of Arts at UWC. Applicants are advised to bring certified copies of their ID Documents (and the ID numbers of parents/guardians/spouses, if applicable), certified copies of their latest school results (and academic transcripts for postgraduates) and R50 for the application fee. For undergraduate enquiries and to RSVP, please contact Mr Bronwen Geyer at 021 959 3000 or via email at bgeyer@uwc.ac.za For postgraduate enquiries, please contact Ms Franwin Strauss at 021 959 2407 or via email at fstrauss@uwc.ac.za
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UWC’s Prof David Sanders honoured at UCT UWC’s Prof David Sanders received an Honorary Doctorate of Science in Medicine at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) June Graduation on Friday 8 June 2012, in recognition of his contributions to the field of public health, and especially of his efforts in understanding and combating the effects of social injustice in health care.
Prof David Sanders, former Director of the School of Public Health.
The citation touched on Prof Sanders’ decades-long role as a pioneer thinker and a visionary leader who has helped to develop new paradigms of public health, and has fought to promote health for all. His work has contributed to the understanding of primary health care as a framework for health and development, and to improvements in child health through research, teaching and training, and policy advocacy and service development.
The annual David Sanders Lecture provides a platform for eminent speakers to discuss challenges dealing with public health, politics and social justice.
Emeritus Prof Sanders served as the Director of the School of Public Health (SOPH) from its inception in 1993 to 2009, and is an iconic figure in public health, recognised nationally, regionally and internationally for his work. Based at UWC, where he established South Africa's first multidisciplinary master's programme in public health, he works on policy and service issues with national and international organisations, including the WHO, UNICEF and Save the Children.
Electron Microscope Unit gets a big gift “The right machine, at the right time.” That's how Prof Basil Julies, Programme Director and Head of the Electron Microscope Unit (EMU), put it when Mineral Services handed over a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to UWC's Science Faculty in a ceremony on Monday 11 June. Mineral Services Managing Director of Group Business Brett van Coller explained why UWC was chosen to receive the instrument: “We investigated various institutions and the ethos UWC is applying matches ours – which is great.” The SEM, worth around R4 million new, will be used to peer into matter on an atomic scale, for research into a variety of materials studied by groups on and off campus in the Western Cape area. It will also be used to train new users in analytical scanning electron microscopy, including students, present and future researchers.
Prof Basil Julies and DVC Prof Ramesh Bharuthram take a closer look at the SEM after it was donated to the University by Mineral Services.
The University’s EMU is already home to plenty of high-tech equipment, including a Tecnai F20 FEGTEM full analytical transmission electron microscope, Hitachi X650 scanning electron microscope with X-ray analysis, Hitachi 800 Transmission Electron Microscope, new Fischione Plasma cleaner, and many more.
Awarding Academic Accounting Excellence SAICA Accounting In May, UWC's Department of Accounting , in association with the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) Southern Region, held its annual award ceremony where top accounting students were rewarded for their success and achievement. Among the guests who attended were parents, academics and representatives of leading accounting and auditing firms – including KPMG, Ernst & Young, PwC and Deloitte – as well as commerce and industry. In collaboration with SAICA, UWC runs the Thuthuka Programme, aimed at changing the accounting profession's demographics.
UWC's award-winning accounting students, Back row (from left): Mr A Ntshongwana, Mr A Govender, Ms C Bam, Mr S Abrahams. Front row (from left): Ms D Nambahu, Ms BN Melapi, Mr H Hellenberg, Ms AP Mbotoli, Mr HK Malange. Absent from photo: Ms J Inglis, Ms H Chaye.
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Top Arts Student advocates change Ashley van Heerden was awarded a merit for Top Foundation Year Student at the University of the Western Cape’s (UWC) Arts Faculty Dean's Merit Awards on Tuesday 15 May. The awards recognise students who are top of their class in particular courses. Van Heerden has long been actively involved in his community. He was one of the first young people to attend the inaugural Youth Environmental Symposium, and over the past year he has been an active participant in several projects, including: the Emerging Leader Programme (ELP), the Advanced Leaders Programme (ALP) and Greening the Bush.
Prof Duncan Brown and Arts Faculty Top Foundation Year Student Ashley van Heerden
Education Faculty Awards: Celebrating our future educators The Faculty of Education held their fifth annual Dean’s Merit Awards ceremony at the School of Public Health. Ululations resounded as 75 students – including seven who graduated Cum Laude in March – were honoured their hard work and success during the 2011 academic year. Dean of Education Prof Zubeida Desai remarked that these students are pillars of the education system, and that the country will depend on them to make sure pupils are fully prepared for post-school life. Prof Christopher Knaus, a visiting Fulbright Scholar, challenged students to transform education. “You must not merely teach the content of your subject; we need you to teach the young people how to become better citizens who speak their minds,” he said.
EMS honours the best of the best The Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) Faculty recently held their annual Dean's Honours event, where parents, students and staff gathered to celebrate academic excellence, enjoy a nice dinner, and relax with the smooth sounds of the Belhar-organized Marimba Band and Cape Town-based singer and actor Elton Jansen. The ceremony saw 14 students receiving a certificate for achieving an average of 75% or more for their first year of studies, top undergraduate and postgraduate students being honoured for their achievements, and even the Faculty receiving a few well-deserved awards of their own.
EMS Award winners at the Deans Honours Awards
Top Master's Student, Nasheeta Adams, who completed her Master's in Industrial Psychology in 2011, expressed her appreciation: “No words could describe the sheer gratitude I feel. I came into UWC as a blank canvas and all of you – together with your support, motivation and kind words – have moulded me into the woman I have become.”
Natural Sciences Merit Awards: The Naturals The Science Faculty hosted the Dean's Merit Awards Ceremony at the Life Sciences Auditorium in the New Life Science Building. Faculty, family and friends watched as eighteen students with pass rates of 80% or higher (in 2011, naturally) were honoured by Deputy Dean Prof Fisher and Vice Rector Prof Bharuthram for their efforts. Deputy Dean of Science Prof Fisher, Vice Rector Prof Bharuthram, and the Dean's Merit Award Winners: Fungai Shumba, Edyth Parker, Randall Joseph,Juliet Nagawa, Babalwa Zenzile, Abdullah Haydar, Taariq Firfirey, Alison Louw, Fumani Mabuza, Jané' Slinger, Lukhanyo Rintsana, Edmund Mabande, Anne Yonkeu, Tracy Calvert-Joshua, Joshua Moran, Sha'ista Moolagee and Majorie van Zyl. Not pictured: Galetlwaelwe Koswane.
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Welcome to our new Dean of Community and Health Sciences Prof Hester C Klopper is an internationally recognised academic with experience in public health, policy development, nursing and health care. In November 2011, she was bestowed the honour of being elected the President Elect of Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI), the second largest nursing organisation in the world – the first time in 87 years a person had been elected for this position from outside of North America.
Community and Health Sciences Dean Prof Hester Klopper.
STTI is an international nursing honour society with more than 130 000 active members belonging 480 chapters in 88 countries.
And in January 2012 she received another honour, and gave one in return, when she became UWC's Dean of Community and Health Sciences. UWC is proud to welcome her into the fold.
Hail the Hydrogen Guy: Prof Bruno Pollet at UWC
In March, world-renowned hydrogen and fuel cell technologies researcher Prof Bruno Pollet came aboard as Director of Hydrogen Systems Integration and Technology Validation Competence Centre of Competence (HySA Systems).
HySA Systems Director Bruno Pollet
Co-hosted by UWC and the South African Institute for Advanced Materials Chemistry (SAIAMC), HySA Systems is one of three national Competence Centres that were initiated by the Department of Science and Technology's National Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Technology Flagship Project – also known as Hydrogen South Africa (HySA) – to further research in hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.
End of an EMS era: Prof Tapscott moved to UWC’s School of Government
After serving as Dean of the Economic and Management Sciences faculty for a decade, Professor Christopher Tapscott, stepped down on Wednesday 13 June. Tapscott, who will be taking up the post of Director at the School of Government, delivered some inspiring parting words. “As a university we need to reflect on our role in this culture,” he said. “We can’t always compete with our neighbouring universities, but we can strive for excellence in other areas. Going forward we should always take that excellence with us. It will take a lot of hard work to make that excellence shine forth, but I look forward to the challenge.
Prof Tapscott
UWC welcomes our new Dean of Natural Sciences A hearty UWC welcome to marine researcher (and Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa) Prof Mike Davies-Coleman, who joined the Faculty of Science as the Dean of Natural Sciences. Prof Davies-Coleman began his academic career as a lecturer in pharmaceutical chemistry, became interested in marine natural products chemistry, and went on to build a productive marine natural products and biotechnology research programme at Rhodes University, publish scores of research papers, and win numerous national and international research and teaching awards. Part of his mission as Dean is to promote an understanding of some of the great research performed by the many fine UWC scientists.
New Dean of Natural Sciences Mike Davies-Coleman.
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: In 2003, UWC acquired the first protein X-ray crystallography facility in South Africa, with the funding of the Carnegie Corporation. Since then, it’s proven itself extremely useful in conducting worldclass biotechnology research.
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UWC Psych Students doing it for the kids Fourth year students from UWC's Psychology Department took a special message to the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour in March: “Shout if you love kids.” Their lecturer, Umesh Bawa, suggested they use the tour as a platform to raise awareness against child abuse and neglect. The class made placards and collected pamphlets about child abuse, obtained a quilt which spectators could sign in support of the worthy cause, and proclaimed their message along the road on race day. Later, the students presented their experience in class, but Bawa also got to experience his students in action - he was one of the 35 000 cyclists who tackled the 110km race.
UWC BPsych students promoting awareness about child abuse at the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour.
The Fast and the Flat: Racing for Life On Saturday 2 June the University of the Western Cape’s main campus played host to 1 397 dedicated runners, who braved the rain to take part in this year's Fast and Flat Race. Third place in the 10km Challenge went to Virginia Ngudlumana, with Nkosinathi Mayo, coming in second and Anthony Gogongwana taking the top spot. For the more fun-oriented 10km League Walk, Andrew Fraser took the bronze, Pietre Vorster took second place, and coming in first was Armond Nel. The Fast and Flat Race promotes the fight against HIV/Aids: a portion of each entry fee was donated to an HIV/Aids charity.
Runners of all ages taking to the track for the 5km Run and Walk section of the Fast and Flat Race
London 2012 Olympics: UWC gets them going for gold Grant Goldschmidt, beach volleyball player and UWC Sports Science alumnus, Freedom Chiya, made the cut for the London 2012 Olympics in April after he and team mate Freedom Chiya beat teams from 38 countries in the CAVB Beach Volleyball Continental Cup in Mauritius. The last – and only – time a South Africa beach volleyball team competed at the Olympics was in Athens in 2004. Troyden Prinsloo, a swimmer who has trained with UWC coach Cedric Finch since February, will also be flying the SA flag high at next month’s Olympics, after he came fifth in a10 km Olympic qualifier held in Setabul, Portugal, in June. The freestyle swimmer previously represented South Africa in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Freedom Chiya and Grant Goldschmidt, will represent South Africa at the London Olympics.
IRB Junior Rugby Championships: A triumph for UWC and the Babyboks
South African Under-20 captain, Wian Lieberberg.
From 4 June to 22 June, twelve of the world's fiercest under-20 teams clashed in the fifth International Rugby Board (IRB) Junior World Championships. In the end South Africa's junior team, the Babyboks, emerged triumphant, defeating New Zealands at Newlands Stadium on 22 June. The event was also a triumph for UWC Rugby Stadium, who co-hosted the tournament, with three games played on each of five game days. On the same day the Babyboks crushed the Babyblacks, UWC Rugby Stadium saw th th Scotland trounce Samoa in the 11 place play-off, Fiji claim victory over Italy in the 9 place play-off, th and England beat Australia in the 7 place play-off.
UWC Wellness Day: Fun, sun and the game of champions This year's UWC Wellness Cricket Day, held on 23 March, saw the event attain new heights, with a greater level of commitment from all staff and more teams entering the event than ever before. Organised by the UWC Wellness Cricket Day organising committee, Nehawu and the HR Department, the day aims to build stronger bonds across the institution while promoting benefits to personal health and welfare. Ultimately everyone involved enjoyed a great event – from the King Kong-style chestbeating attempts to intimidate rivals to the inspiring speeches to the health and fitness stations and boot camp, to the mascots, the bands, and (of course) the food.
Best of the best: the All Star Team poses for a photo after the Wellness Day Awards
: When UWC opened its doors in 1960, only 166 students enrolled in the first classes. Today there are over 19 000 students pursuing their tertiary education through UWC.
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Infonomics 101: Institutional Web Governance Policy UWC's web governance policy is currently under review as part of a process of improving our online presence. The website is perhaps the most visible aspect of UWC. It is therefore crucial that we have a clear policy outlining areas of responsibility. The governance policy will provide guidance about content development, content management, and other technical aspects related to the management of the university website. On approval by university council, it will serve as the law for the university’s online environment. The university community is encouraged to contribute in the process of developing the policy. The university community is encouraged to view and discuss the draft policy. Further information on the draft policy is available at www.uwc.ac.za/infonomics. Comments and suggestions can be submitted online.
UWC’s Convocation AGM at the Library Auditorium UWC held its Annual General Meeting of Convocation on Saturday 9 June, which saw last year’s president, Brian Williams, re-elected to serve another term. Williams said that the Convocation had a lot to celebrate, with members within the academic staff who made it possible for the university to receive seven new South African research chairs initiatives (SARCHIs). Future developments at the university were highlighted by Institutional Planner Larry Pokpas, including the planned establishment of a new Chemical Science building.
Brian Williams speaks at the Convocation AGM at which he was re-elected President
Conversation for Change dialogue at UWC The Community of Mandela Rhodes Scholars’ (CMRS) inaugural Conversation for Change dialogue series came to UWC on 28 May. This dialogue series aims to bring together academic institutions, public intellectuals, social activists, business leaders, students and community members to engage in a national conversation that will move us beyond narrow understandings of critical issues. The UWC dialogue, facilitated by Judy Sikuza, dealt with "The Role of Education and Entrepreneurship in Advancing Social Transformation" and featured panellists from various institutions, including Minister of the National Planning Commission Trevor Manuel, young teacher and Mandela Rhodes Scholar Athambile Masola, and Dr Mamphela Ramphele, founder of Citizens Movement for Social Change.
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