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ALUMNI E-NEWSLETTER | ISSUE 6/SEPTEMBER 2013
HERITAGE MONTH 2013
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UWC's Global Education Legacy Engendering public service It seems democratic South Africa has become something of a training ground for women in leadership. The latest in a growing line of illustrious South African women to take to the global leadership stage is UWC alumna Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, who was recently appointed as a Special Envoy for Gender at the African Development Bank (ADB). Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi is among a growing number of UWC alumni holding top positions at institutions around the world.
Fraser-Moleketi described the newlycreated position, which is at the level of a vice-president, as both “interesting and challenging”, noting that the objective was to promote gender issues and support women to access the resources to be more productive. “For instance, 80% of farmers in Africa are women, yet they have problems in getting access to land and infrastructure,” FraserMoleketi explains. Prior to her appointment, Fraser-Moleketi was UNDP's Democratic Governance Director (from 2009). Her new role at ADB coincided with the Bank finalising its 2013-2022 strategy, giving her an opportunity to provide immediate input.
The well respected gender activist and public administration expert relishes the opportunity to join the likes of Phumzile MlamboNgcuka (a UWC honorary doctorate recipient in 2007) who is now Executive Director of the UN's Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women, UWC alumna Dr Precious Matsoso, who is Vice-Chairperson of the WHO’s executive board and Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the new head of the African Union, and again shape policy in Africa and the world. “It is very important for South Africa and for Africa for women to make their mark on the continent and global arena,” FraserMoleketi commented. “We must ensure that we support the ability of women to unleash their potential.” Fraser-Moleketi enrolled at UWC in 1979 to study towards a teaching diploma. She was never able to complete her UWC studies (although she obtained a Master’s in Public Administration (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria in 2006), as she left the country to join Umkhonto we Sizwe in Zimbabwe in 1980. Fraser-Moleketi remembers the University as a “vibrant hub” for political activism which did not only play its role in educating students as a university, but also served the community through outreach activities. PAGE ONE
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Life and love, Udubs style
Editorial Welcome to the sixth edition of Three-Sixt-e, the third issue for 2013. Spring is in the air and UWC is blossoming with possibilities.
Lungile Mabece and Yolisa Mqikela (right) found each other at UWC.
How some alumni found their life partners on campus has become such a feature of this newsletter that one begins to wonder whether there might be merit in an academic study of UWC's success rate on the matchmaking front. Orientation programmes introduce new students to the institution’s academic and cultural life, a soft introduction to the world of intellectual hard labour. It is a Udubs tradition to rely on older students at orientation to ease the freshers through the shock. Chaperoning an orientation trip to Kalk Bay back in 1990, one enterprising fellow was quite dedicated to his task. But it was his more serious wingman who caught Yolisa Mqikela's eye. “He was with a friend who had targeted my friend, so most of the time he was with his friend. I was not even aware that I had also become a target,” says Mqikela. Lungile Mabece, one of the orientation leaders, was then in his fourth year of studying law. She remembers being impressed by his well-mannered approach, confidence and intelligence. The couple were soon inseparable, so much so that Mabece stayed on to do his LLB after completing BProc. They left the
University together at the end of 1993, he armed with his two law degrees and Mqikela having completed her BA in social work. The couple married in 1997. After working at various non-profit institutions, Mqikela shifted focus to business, and established several enterprises. She credits UWC with more than just helping to shape her personal life. “The structure and delivery of the UWC courses really prepared us to enter the field of work,” agreed Mabece. “UWC created innovative and independent leaders in us, and prepared us for the real world. Hence we traverse different economic sectors with ease. It was fortunate that we met around the time of the release of Nelson Mandela, because it meant we could start to refocus attention on our personal lives and studies.” Mabece's approach to the new South Africa has been equally entrepreneurial and socially committed. A non-practising High Court attorney, he has a wide-ranging interest in commercial law and runs two consultancy firms. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of South Africa, with an interest in transport law.
It is graduation season and we would like to extend our congratulations to all our new graduates. We wish you well in your future endeavours and know that you will proudly uphold UWC’s legacy of excellence. Since it is heritage month, the focus of this edition is on UWC’s educational legacy and the social value that a UWC education holds. We introduce Dr Keith Majoos, who built an impressive set of academic credentials on a solid UWC foundation, and Thando Mjebeza, a serial entrepreneur and infectious optimist. The inimitable Dr Jimmy Ellis shares his institutional knowledge of UWC in the 1960s, a very different campus culture indeed! And, in another spin on heritage, we report how UWC is contributing to science through revisiting our Khoisan indigenous knowledge. This issue also celebrates the achievements of outstanding individuals associated with the University who are making a considerable impact on the world stage. We report on several female UWC alumnae in key leadership positions, namely former South African cabinet minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, former Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, and Precious Matsoso, the Director-General of the Department of Health. Lastly, we would like to extend a warm welcome to the newly appointed dean for the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS), Professor Kobus Visser. We wish you all the best in your future endeavours and look forward to the EMS faculty continuing its upward trajectory through your leadership. Patricia Lawrence Pro Vice-Chancellor Department for Institutional Advancement
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Bioprospecting indigenous knowledge
Alumna left a lasting legacy UWC alumna Patricia Saptoe dedicated her life to the development of young people in Eastern Cape communities through education and sport. Saptoe was involved in education for 22 years. Besides teaching high school learners English and Afrikaans for over ten years, she also devoted much of her free time to sharing her skills in tennis and music with local youth. “She was a guitarist at heart and came from a family who were good tennis players,” her father Godfrey Saptoe explains. “As much as she enjoyed playing her guitar, she also loved teaching young people music.” In 1990, after obtaining a BA in Psychology, Linguistics and Afrikaans and a teaching diploma (sibling Ingrid Saptoe is also an educator), she began teaching at Humansdorp Secondary School before moving to Chatty Secondary School and Thembalabantu High School. Described as a “livewire teacher” by colleagues at Chatty Secondary School, Saptoe also played a leading role in the establishment of the South African Democratic Teachers Union in the Port Elizabeth area in the early 1990s. In 2003, Saptoe was transferred to a management role within the Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown Department of Education district offices, where she excelled. She developed heart problems brought on by a flu virus and tragically died in February 2012, at the age of 44. She is survived by her daughter, Carleen, a first-year student at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.
Associate Professor Jeremy Klaasen is part of a team of scientists that developed a kraalbos-based organic pesticide.
For centuries, the Khoisan people used kraalbos (Galenia africana) to treat various diseases and conditions, including toothache, skin ailments, inflammation, dandruff and venereal diseases. A group of scientists at UWC, led by Associate Professor Jeremy Klaasen of the Department of Medical Biosciences, has been researching the potential pharmaceutical uses and green economy commercial applications of kraalbos for a number of years. Promising discoveries have already been made regarding its many medicinal uses. Now Prof Klaasen and his team have developed a product derived from kraalbos that can reverse the resistance of crop pathogens when applied in combination with conventional pesticides. “This is an important discovery, as pesticides tend to become vulnerable to resistance after prolonged and extensive periods of use, resulting in the spreading of pesticide-resistant superbugs,” said Prof Klaasen, who holds an MSc (Microbiology) from UWC as well as a PhD (Plant Pathology) from Pennsylvania State University. “Preventing superresistance of pathogens to pesticides (fungicides and bactericides) is always a serious challenge in agricultural pest management strategies.” Aside from being a natural pesticide, this kraalbos product, developed as part of UWC’s Indigenous Botanical Adjuvant
Technology (iBATECH) Project, reduces the dose of pesticide needed to spray crops, thereby decreasing environmental contamination by commercial pesticides. The iBATECH product, which has been patented by UWC, has undergone field testing on tomatoes, grapes, apples, pears and peaches, and is registered for use on tunnel tomatoes. UWC is involved in discussions with agrochemical companies on the possibility of licensing the pesticide, and registering the product for use in South Africa and internationally. The project was funded by the Technology Innovation Agency, an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology.
DID YOU KNOW ? Kraalbos is a small, woody, soft bush with small green leaves, which grows to about one metre. This invasive perennial is found in the Northern Cape and Namibia, and often spreads extensively on roadsides and on overgrazed land. In parts of the Karoo, kraalbos is regarded as being responsible for the condition known as waterpens toxicity in sheep. During a feeding study the plant induced fatal liver damage in experimental sheep. Sheep will feed on kraalbos if there is no other feed available.
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A master of his own destiny Dr Keith Majoos has lived in Australia for the past 29 years, but remains a South African at heart. Born in Cala in the Eastern Cape, Majoos graduated from UWC in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science degree, and went on to obtain a Diploma in Datametrics from Unisa, Master’s in Business Administration from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and a Graduate Diploma in Psychology and Doctorate from the University of New England. Majoos emigrated to Australia in 1984. He has worked as an information technology consultant and a management consultant for KPMG, as a lecturer in cognitive psychology and as a provisional psychologist. His successes are all due to the teachings of the University, he proudly says. “What UWC has taught me is that I can achieve and deliver quality work under the most demanding of circumstances, and if I could achieve these things in South Africa, then I could achieve them anywhere in the world,” Majoos comments. “I have worked with graduates from some of the world’s top universities and never felt intimidated, because with a UWC qualification you can stand your ground. You are indeed ‘master of your own destiny’, which is a little truism I learned as a 17-year-old at UWC 40 years ago.” Majoos supports an NGO in South Africa that assists charities that look after babies infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
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Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor and UWC Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian O’Connell, welcome the President of the University of Missouri System, Timothy Wolfe.
UWC-Missouri partnership strengthened UWC’s long-term partnership with the University of Missouri (UM) System in the United States took another positive step when the newly-appointed UM President Timothy Wolfe visited in July. Wolfe, who took over the presidency of the four-campus university in 2012, met with UWC’s leadership and also participated in the UniverCity Cape Town Dialogues, a workshop on the 'role of universities as placemakers', hosted by UWC on 5 July. In 1986 the University of Missouri South African Education Programme (UMSAEP) began when a formal memorandum of academic cooperation was signed by the late Professor Jakes Gerwel, and the thenUM President, Claude Peter Magrath. This agreement was the first ever between a historically non-white South African university and a US university. UMSAEP's purpose is to advance mutual understanding between the institutions' faculties and to develop cooperation in teaching, research and service. More than 500 academics have gone through the programme and many students have travelled between the two universities as well. Leolyn Jackson, Director of UWC’s International Relations Office,
believes that Wolfe’s visit was an important opportunity for the University to showcase itself, and highlight the achievements of the partnership. “His visit has added value to the partnership, and it is good for the collaboration moving forward,” Jackson commented. “Our visit to South Africa and UWC couldn’t have gone better,” Wolfe wrote in a letter of appreciation to the UWC leadership. “Like you, we are very proud of the long partnership we have enjoyed, and look forward to many more years of collaboration and friendship.” Wolfe added that the challenges the University and South Africa had overcome were “a source of inspiration" and "we can see that the fruits of your labour is paying off for students, the community and the rest of the country”. Professor Rodney Uphoff, Director of UMSAEP, said that Wolfe now has an even greater appreciation for the wonderful partnership between the two institutions. “I am confident that with President Wolfe’s full support we will be able to continue to build even more research and teaching collaborations between UM and UWC.”
The September 2013 Graduation ceremonies will take place from 18 September to 20 September at 18h00 at the UWC Main Hall. The annual Desmond Tutu Peace Lecture will take place on Monday, 7 October at 17h30 at the UWC Main Hall. The 60s and 70s Alumni Reunion will be taking place from 4 October to 6 October at the UWC Main Hall and Student Centre. For more information telephone the Alumni Relations Office at 021 959 2143 or email alumni@uwc.ac.za.
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Mentoring gives students the edge Mention peer mentoring and Lorato Mokwena’s face brightens with excitement. This master’s in linguistics student credits UWC’s Peer Mentoring Programme (PMP) with not only facilitating her adjustment to university life, but also for providing her with skills that equipped her for the world of work.
Ricardo Rangasamy of ABSA with the Love and Peace team, winner of this year’s Kings of UWC Football tournament.
Love and Peace reign again Like many participants, Zaheer Petersen took to this year’s Kings of UWC Football tournament with enthusiasm and zeal. But this UWC alumnus was not only upbeat because he helped his team, Love and Peace, successfully defend its title when it demolished Octopus Prime 10-0 in the competition final. It’s the growing popularity of the five-aside competition that pleases him. While on campus (he studied at UWC from 2007 to 2009), Petersen used to play football with his friends on an open space near the cafeteria known as the Dell, but campus security guards would often chase them away (ball games, other than on the sports fields, were not allowed). “It struck me that it would be ideal to have the field for a day and play,” Petersen recalls.
The tournament has been managed by the Alumni Relations Office in the Department for Institutional Advancement (IA) for five years. At first an informal competition organised by students, the tournament has been managed by the Alumni Relations Office in the Department for Institutional Advancement (IA) for five years, and is
progressing better than Petersen could ever have imagined. This year 16 teams participated in the tournament, which was sponsored by ABSA, Glaceau vitaminwater® and alumna, Candice Jones. “The tournament is professionally run, better structured and is more appealing than before,” he says.
The event brings together alumni and students in the spirit of football, to connect and reconnect in a fun way. The event is a highlight on the University’s social calendar and, as it did this August, brings together alumni and students in the spirit of football, to connect and reconnect in a fun way. Patricia Lawrence, Pro Vice-Chancellor for IA, lauded Kings of UWC as an event with a “noble intent [that] is setting an example to other alumni and groupings on how to support [their] alma mater.”
“Being involved in PMP for four years at different levels granted me the opportunity to develop crucial skills which put me a step above the rest, especially professionally,” Mokwena attests. These skills include conflict management, leadership, professionalism, time management, emotional intelligence and goal setting. Mokwena joined the programme in her first year after she realised that she needed guidance and assistance to overcome the anxiety that often overwhelms first-year students. She has since gone through all PMP stages – mentee, mentor, head-mentor, senior student coordinator and intern. Laetitia Permall, BA, 1986, HDE, 1987, MPsych, 2007 (UWC), Manager of the Academic Support Office in the Centre for Student Support Services (CSSS), said PMP was born out of the realisation that senior students could help first-years in their transition to university. Since the programme’s inception in 2006, thousands of students have gone through the programme (700 first-year students registered this year). In the first semester of 2013, 3 828 mentoring sessions were conducted. PMP has also brought in alumni to share their stories at workshops. Permall believes the PMP speaks to the retention, throughput and development goals in UWC’s Institutional Operating Plan. PMP also creates optimal opportunities for student engagement, a key to student success. “Research shows that retention of firstyear students increases their probability of graduating,” Permall says.
“This is an occasion for students and alumni to come together and stay together,” Lawrence said at the opening of the tournament. As well-organised as the event is, Petersen believes Kings of UWC can get even bigger, and possibly (his biggest dream) even earn a spot on television.
Laetitia Permall and Lorato Mokwena speak highly of the Peer Mentoring Programme.
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Great Golf Day again
Making IT happen In 2002, having just obtained his master's in information systems management from UWC, Thando Mjebeza was flabbergasted when he realised that there were few black-owned firms in the SAP IT consulting sector. “I thought, this can’t be difficult,” Mjebeza recalls. So, to prove the point, two years later he started Zimele Technologies, an information communication technology consulting company specialising in SAP systems implementation. Based in Cape Town, the company now employs between 50 and 60 people. “It’s all about the will,” says Mjebeza, who also obtained his BCom Honours in Management, BCom Honours in Information Systems and an HDE at UWC. “If you tell yourself that you will do something, and put hard work into it, it will happen. The only thing that is holding us back is ourselves.” Mjebeza believes that the information technology (IT) sector is essential for economic growth. “Our agricultural sector, for instance, is not as productive as it should be because there is not enough IT being utilised to support it. Countries that have less land than us are yielding the same or even better results because they are more technologically sophisticated.” When Zimele was started, it partnered with UWC and the City of Cape Town to run a leadership programme aimed at empowering youth by equipping them with consulting and IT skills. Still committed to youth empowerment, Thando personally sponsors the education of two or three school learners every year.
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First Prize winners of the 2013 UWC Johannesburg Golf Day, Warwick Head and Colin Smith, alongside UWC Pro Vice-Chancellor, Patricia Lawrence.
Golf courses are ideal places for having fun, initiating relationships and possibly striking some business deals, and the Randpark Golf Club’s Firethorn Course in Johannesburg was no different on 23 July. Scores of UWC alumni reconnected with their alma mater and old classmates on a mild winter’s day at the ninth annual UWC Johannesburg Golf Day. Seventy-six players took part in a Better Ball Stableford format of the game. The winners were Warwick Head and Colin Smith, while Owen Baker and Dave Skews took home second prize. Mandla Mbukwane and Bashkar Latchman came third. UWC's Vice-Chancellor and Rector, Professor Brian O’Connell, introduced the annual Golf Day to participants and spoke about its importance to the University’s overall development. The event, which was arranged by the Department for Institutional Advancement (IA), is aimed at promoting relationships between UWC graduates and the institution in support of the University’s Development Fund. The Development Fund disburses bursaries to needy and deserving students. Patricia Lawrence, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Department for Institutional Advancement, informed participants about UWC's fundraising projects, among which were the upgrade of the Sports Centre, the completion of construction of the new Chemical Sciences building, and the first
ever alumni reunion for the classes of the 1960s and 1970s, scheduled to take place in October. Lawrence thanked the companies that sponsored watering holes at the event, including ABSA Corporate, Budget Car and Van Rental, Ceragon South Africa, Multichoice DStv, Nampak Recycling, New Generation Management Consulting, PPS Insurance for Professionals, SBV Services and Stanlib. Andre de Wet sponsored wine which was auctioned and bought at R5 000 by alumnus Angelo Petersen, Group General Manager of Corporate Services at Capespan Group.
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NEW APPOINTMENT
Universities must listen to industry Professor Kobus Visser, the newly appointed Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at UWC, feels strongly that education should be linked to the needs of commerce and industry if it is to be relevant. “Historically, our university has not had strong linkages with the world of work,” comments Visser. “As an engaged university we need to establish closer relations and partnerships with commerce and industry and the public sector to ensure that we supply the required and appropriate knowledge and skills of the kinds that will make our economy grow.” Visser, who also intends to increase the Faculty’s focus on addressing innovation and creativity in the small, medium and micro enterprises (SMME) sector, added: "Entrepreneurs form the backbone of successful economies and we need to provide educational opportunities and support in enterprise development for this significant sector of our economy."
OBITUARIES
Prof Kobus Visser is the new Dean of UWC’s Economic and Management Sciences faculty.
Prof Visser, who has lectured at UWC for 30 years in entrepreneurship, leadership and management (he is also an alumnus), succeeds Professor Christopher Tapscott. During the 80s and 90s, Visser witnessed and experienced the University going through difficult and often tumultuous years: when the apartheid government threatened to close the university; periods of dwindling number of students; and threats to merge UWC with the then-
UWC mourns the recent passing of our alumni, staff, students and friends, including:
Peninsula Technikon. "UWC stood fast, worked hard, and now it is a thriving institution which has become one of the top universities in South Africa. The leadership of the University has done an exceptional job in steering this organisation in the right direction. It is up to people like me and my team to say: ‘you’ve brought us to this point, now it is our job to take this national asset into its next phase of growth’. It is a challenge I am looking forward to.”
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Jessica Fortuin, BA Social Work, passed away peacefully on 24 June 2013 at the age of 59. A gender and social development activist in the non-profit sector for 34 years, she was the Western Cape manager of the National Development Agency (NDA) at the time of her passing. She joined the NDA in 2003.
Dr Jean Swanson-Jacobs, an academic and struggle stalwart, died on 7 July 2013 at the age of 57 after suffering a stroke. Swanson-Jacobs, perhaps better known as Jean Benjamin, completed her PhD in Social Psychology at UWC in 1996. Swanson-Jacobs lectured at UWC in the early 1980s, later serving as Head of the Department of Psychology. PAGE SEVEN
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From Bush College to Proudly UWC – the Education in the Bush By Jimmy Ellis
Celebrity Corner
unknown piece of UWC history and legacy that went with it. For deep within those thickets was a clearing where the real meaningful education, informal as it was, took place.
Many contemporaries will recall the special room in the old Library with the collection on Marx, Lenin, and other communist literature kept under lock and key.
I fondly remember when UWC formally became the University of the Western Cape in 1973, with a former colleague in the Sociology Department saying: "Now we have become the University of Port Jackson". The irony in this epithet, with the change of name that went with cleaning out those bushes through which we walked to the old Caf from L20 or to the Library, may be lost to some, while others may only recall the bad memories they still harbour from that era.
Many contemporaries, particularly in the Social Sciences, will recall the special room in the old Library with the collection on communism, inclusive of Marx, Lenin and all other literature regarded as subversive at the time, being kept under lock and key. You needed special permission from the Chief Librarian to use it, and then your name and time of use would have been recorded in a special book we all knew was not kept as an exclusive University record. We engaged in the first line of academic boycott by avoiding that room.
Some students who wanted to study this material, engaged in their own real bush education.
I remember less fondly the thick stands of Port Jackson bush, as alien to the Cape Flats as many of the ideas, dished up to us then, were to good education.
Some students who wanted to study this material, unhampered by some lecturers’ sanitizing or dismissive comments about its importance, engaged in their own real bush education. Right there within the Port Jackson bush, in the area across from the Social Science and Old Arts building. Not all were part of it and, of course, it happened secretly.
For me like many '60s contemporaries, I remember less fondly the thick stands of Port Jackson bush, as alien to the Cape Flats as many of the ideas, dished up to us then, were to good education. And yet, now that they are gone there is a largely
As we celebrate the academic institution of note that UWC has become today, let us recall that it was once necessary to turn the bush college education we got into our own education in the bush to become proud UWC Alumni.
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Hit recording artist Jimmy Nevis delivered a highly entertaining performance at the Google launch hosted by Information and Communication Services (ICS) at the UWC Student Centre on 30 July 2013.
Correction An article published in the previous edition of this newsletter incorrectly stated that, Professor Cudore Snell was an interim dean and associate professor at the School of Social Work at Howard University in the US. It should have stated that Prof Snell is the dean and a professor at the School of Social Work at Howard University in the US. The Three-Sixt-e team sincerely apologises and regrets this error.
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