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Alumni e-News Issue 1 / May 2012
New Chancellor takes the Helm UWC inaugurated The Most Reverend Dr Thabo Cecil Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town, as its new Chancellor on 28 February 2012. Archbishop Makgoba succeeds Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who stepped down after more than two decades as Chancellor. In his inaugural speech, Dr Makgoba remarked that he was “something of a perpetual student at heart,” having been either a student or lecturer for most of his life. Archbishop Makgoba holds a BSc, a Masters of Education in Applied Psychology and Educational Psychology (both from Wits), and he was awarded a doctorate for a thesis on “Spirituality in the South African Mining Workplace” by the University of Cape Town. He has lectured at Wits University (1993-1996) and served as Dean of Knockando at Wits College of Education. Paying tribute to the new Chancellor, Brian Williams, the Chairperson
Council Nominations The University of the Western Cape (UWC) hereby invites its donor community to nominate from its ranks two persons to serve on the Council of UWC for a period of three years (from 1 July 2012 – 30 June 2015). The University also invites nominations from its members of Convocation to elect two members to serve on the University Council.
of Council of UWC and President of Convocation, described Dr Makgoba as “a teacher and scholar who believes in using the full resources of education and scholarship to engage with the challenges of our time.” Echoing this theme, Dr Makgoba remarked that “there is equally no morally or ethically neutral way of pursuing or sharing learning. Both are always inextricably linked to the world around: the world in which we live; the world from which our students come, and to which they return. Education must fit us for engagement with such a world.” The Chancellor was quite scathing in his assessment of the general state of education in South Africa today, and warned against the acceptance of falling standards and mediocrity. He left the audience in no doubt as to his view of UWC’s mission in a challenging world: “Our task is both to provide moral leadership, and to help form the moral leaders which our country, our continent, so desperately need.”
Information regarding eligibility for nomination and election of the donor and Convocation representatives can be found on our website (www.uwc.ac.za). Nominations must reach the Registrar by 4 May 2012 and can be mailed to The Secretariat, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535, or faxed 021 959 3443, or e-mailed to secretariat@uwc.ac.za.
Upcoming Events Convocation AGM, Saturday, 9 June 2012 at the UWC Library Auditorium, 11h00-13h00. UWC Open Day, 10-12 May 2012, at the UWC Main Hall, 09h00 – 16h00. UWC Alumni ‘Club 99’ presents a Winter Ball Langarm Dance, Saturday, 14 July 2012, 19h00, at the UWC Main Hall. Ticket Price: R80.00 (single). Dress: Formal. Band: Strand Combo. Bring your own platter and xyz.
Archbishop Makgoba is the youngest person ever to have been elected Archbishop of Cape Town. That may be one of the reasons he believes so strongly in the potential of the University’s young students.
Editorial Welcome to the first edition of Three-Sixt-e, the UWC Alumni Newsletter. The newsletter will be published quarterly on the UWC website. Although in English, we welcome feedback and submissions from alumni in any South African language. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed putting it together! In this issue, we welcome our new Chancellor, Dr Thabo Cecil Makgoba, to the UWC fold. May we all benefit from his wisdom and humility. You can read more here about recent advances in science education and research at UWC. UWC currently has 87 NRF-rated researchers, many of them in natural science disciplines. Our Deputy ViceChancellor (Academic), Prof Ramesh Bharuthram, is the current chairperson of the Astronomy Desk, a body that is the Minister of Science & Technology’s key policy advisor on the development of astronomy in South Africa. These excellent academics are helping to make UWC one of the leading science institutions of higher education in Africa and a global player in international scientific research. Already UWC produces the highest number of black and female postgraduate science students in the country but, as can be seen with our massive investment in the Life Sciences Building, we are aiming ever higher. The University continued to attract distinguished guests, including former president Thabo Mbeki, the British Foreign Secretary and the Cuban ambassador to South Africa. All hailed our struggle history, of which many alumni are justifiably proud. Fittingly, the institution has launched the Kader Asmal Moot Court, in honour of the struggle icon. Whatever its academic achievements, it is the students and alumni who breathe life into a university. We are making steady progress in establishing our Alumni Association’s footprint and expanding our services to alumni. As can be seen in the article on the Symonds family, the institution remains the first choice of many alumni for postgraduate study. We hope that more alumni will emulate the Symondses in future.
Why join the Alumni Association? For 50 years, the University of the Western Cape has produced quality graduates, advocates for social change who have gone on to become leaders in all areas of society. Along the way, our students have had to overcome economic and political obstacles not experienced by their more privileged peers. Their experiences have forged a unique culture and history at UWC.
It is with good reason then that the institution proudly regards its graduates and students as the bedrock of the University. The relationship between the University and its alumni is based on more than nostalgia, however, and is a relationship of mutual benefit.
By joining the Alumni Association our alumni access a network that includes old friends and classmates as well as many prominent and influential UWC graduates. Benefits for alumni who register with the Association include receiving the annual UWC 360 Degrees Alumni Magazine, membership of regional alumni chapters and invitations to UWC and alumni special events and seminars. Plans are in place to expand the basket of membership benefits.
To join the UWC Alumni Association, please register online on our website at www.uwc.ac.za/alumni or contact the Alumni Relations office (tel: 021 959 2627 or email: alumni@uwc.ac.za).
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To ensure that postgraduate students get the most out of campus life – and manage to graduate and move on to productive careers – UWC has appointed a full-time Director of Postgraduate Studies to run postgraduate seminars and workshops.
Spotlight on: Prof Jimmy Ellis Prof Jimmy Ellis, BA Hons (UWC), MA (UNC-Chapel Hill), P h D ( U N C ) , h a i l s f ro m Swellendam. He first enrolled at UWC in 1964 for a BA Social Science. His long and illustrious career included 31 years at UWC (27 as a lecturer in Sociology), and 12 years at the University of Johannesburg (first as Head: Community Development & Inter nationalisation and later as Director: Public Affairs). Jimmy retired in 2011 as the Director of International Relations at the University of Johannesburg. His wife Henrietta Ferguson is a UWC alumna, (BA Social Science, BA Hons Social Work) who also holds a Masters in Social Work from UNC-Chapel Hill. They have four children. Their son William (MA Sociology, UWC, 1998) has lectured in Anthropology and Sociology at UWC since 2004. Q. Who was your biggest influence in terms of your decision to follow a career in tertiary education? A. I must say that the inspiration definitely came from my grandfather, my dad and my paternal uncle, although the actual encouragement came from my first professor in Sociology. My original choice was to go into the ministry but I was not selected for training for the profession. The next choice I was encouraged to follow was social work. Having returned to UWC to come and work there a year after graduation, I then started a career in tertiary education that stretched over 43 years. Q. Why did you choose to study and work at UWC? A. The choice was not really a choice as we were caught up in the apartheid dilemma of the time – to go to [the then-named University College of the Western Cape] UCWC under protest, or apply for a permit to go to a “white” university, íf you had the right grades and the money! We were actively discouraged from going to UCWC while at high school.
The choice to work there initially followed when an opportunity to go back was offered after a rather unsatisfactory job in a government office situation, governed by apartheid prescriptions. Over the years the choice to work at UWC was strengthened by a commitment to be part of a transformation process that grew stronger over time. Q. What’s your most enduring memory of your days as a UWC student? A. The most enduring memory of the first stint (1964-67) has less to do with the university than the community of Bellville South in which most of us boarded with families and spent our social lives. The small number of students on campus served as a support and encouragement to one another under conditions of severe challenges, academically, politically and socially. On campus [I remember] our facing up to the ideological drivel dished up by administrators and some lecturers (Gans Meiring: “I’ve promised Dr Verwoerd that I will further the aims of separate development at the UCWC”; a lecturer: “Is it not wonderful that coloured people can now be trained to work with their own people?”). One also had to endure scorn for attending an apartheid institution from friends attending institutions such as UCT. Q. What’s the greatest challenge in tertiary education in South Africa right now? A. The greatest challenge to tertiary education is not to sink to levels of mediocrity in the light of the large numbers of students coming into tertiary education [who are] extremely poorly prepared for study. Furthermore, the challenge is to consolidate the transformations of tertiary education achieved through struggle, particularly to serve the broad South African community through appropriate research agendas that will sustain these advancements. Q. Lastly, what’s the best career advice you can give students studying at UWC today? A. A university career only lays the foundation for what we will be attempting as a career. To further benefit from it they need to benchmark their own progress and achievements against those alumni of UWC who have made their contributions to the South African development agenda in all major walks of life: in education, in politics, in jurisprudence, in health care, in social services, in the economy, etc. They have proved that challenges, whether politically, economically, socially and educationally, can never be justification for mediocrity and lack of commitment or resting on one’s laurels, expecting others to do it for you.
UWC’s Life Sciences Building auditorium on 14 February 2012. The Secretary’s two-day visit was aimed at furthering and deepening the UK-South African relationship and followed a successful Bilateral Forum in 2011 and visits to South Africa by British Prime Minister David Cameron, the Prince of Wales and the Lord Mayor of London.
Hague singles out UWC Britain’s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, The Right Honourable William Hague, delivered a public lecture at
Mr Hague’s lecture, entitled ‘Britain and South Africa: A 21st Century Relationship’, was in fact his maiden speech in South Africa as Foreign Secretary, and the only public talk of his short tour. Directly addressing the students and staff in the audience, Hague explained his reason for wanting to speak at UWC: “You
represent your country’s next generation of leaders. You belong to a South Africa that is a growing force in world affairs, and that is shaping a new global role for itself. How South Africa exercises that role in the future will have a major impact not just on your region but on our world.” Mr Hague emphasised South Africa’s importance as a trading partner and the economic gateway to Africa. He stressed South Africa’s emerging role in international relations, especially its moral leadership as a country that had transformed itself into a democracy, and acknowledged the “distinguished role in that struggle” that UWC had played.
According to a recent National Research Foundation survey, UWC is one of the top three universities in South Africa in the research areas of Biotechnology, Molecular Biosciences, Physics, Computer Science, History and Development Studies.
Gauteng Alumni Chapter The UWC Gauteng Alumni Association Chapter elected a new executive committee at its annual general meeting on 19 November 2011. They are Dr Raymond Patel (Chairperson), Julia Paris (Deputy Chairperson), Ashley Theron (Treasurer) and Ndumi Sinyenyeko-Sayo (Secretary). Keynote speaker Professor Edith Vries (UWC alumna) encouraged alumni to support their alma mater by joining the the Alumni Association. “We are alumni of a prestigious and historically rich university. UWC alumni were privileged to walk the corridors of the University and to acquire a good tertiary education – the fundamental thread that binds us.” She urged those present to support the University by pledging donations to the Chancellor’s Fund and promptly pledged a personal donation of R5 000 to the fund. The Chancellor’s Fund directs funding to UWC’s state-of-the-art Life Sciences Building. Apart from networking and reminiscing about old times, the AGM also provided those present with an opportunity to discuss the new Alumni Association Constitution.
The new Research Chairs are in Nano-Electrochemistry and Sensor Technology; Microbial Genomics; Earth observation applications for Water Resources Assessment and Management; Multi-level Government, Law and Development; Nuclear Science; and Health Systems complexity and change. UWC has been awarded seven Research Chairs in the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) of the National Research Foundation (NRF). A total of sixty Chairs were awarded in the stiff competition with 23 other institutions that saw UWC submit no fewer than 22 proposals. The main aim of the SARChI is to strengthen scientific research leadership and capacity in South African universities. Research Chairs are tenable for five years, renewable for two further five-year periods, giving a total life span of 15 years. Eligibility for renewal will be entirely performancelinked. The SARChI award is worth up to R2.5 million per annum per Research Chair in Tier 1 and up to R1.5 million per annum per Research Chair in Tier 2. The award covers salaries, postdoctoral fellowships and postgraduate student bursaries, research operating costs and equipment for the laboratory relevant to the Chair.
New UWC book launched The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) launched its new book, Becoming UWC: Reflections, pathways and unmaking apartheid's legacy, at the School of Public Health on 3 April 2012. ‘Becoming UWC’ relates the history and achievements of UWC, and the struggle waged there against apartheid. The launch coincides with UWC’s 50th anniversary, serving both to remind us of the road travelled and as an opportunity to reflect on the legacy
Rector and Vice-Chancellor Prof Brian O’Connell said this was a proud moment for UWC. “Our achievement is more remarkable in that, since we already have four SARChI Chairs [in Astrophysics, Bioinformatics, Education and Land Issues], our university was not considered as a ‘redress’ institution and had to compete in the same pool as the historically advantaged institutions.” “Building on the seminal work done especially in the Humanities and Social Sciences during the struggle, our staff and postgraduate students have risen to the challenge of creating a significant research capacity in many disciplines,” O’Connell said.
inherited by the present generation of students and academics. Edited by Prof Premesh Lalu, the director of the CHR, and CHR Postdoctoral Fellow Noëleen Murray, the book features chapters contributed by Julia Martin, Premesh Lalu, Noëleen Murray, Ciraj Rassool, Neil Myburgh, Emile Maurice, Keith Gottschalk, Arthur Nortje, Deela Kahn, Wendy Woodward, Patrick Cullinan, Ingrid Masondo, Maurits van Bever Donker and Leslie Witz. The publication was generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. ‘Becoming UWC’ can be purchased at the Cashier's Office in the Administration Building, UWC.
UWC also has its own SANBI on campus – the South African National Bioinformatics Institute, the South African node of the European Biological Network. Researchers at this SANBI have assembled genomic databases for parasites responsible for sleeping sickness, malaria and Chagas disease, and have discovered genes that could be targeted by drugs and vaccines.
UWC and SANBI partnership On 31 March this year the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, Derek Hanekom, witnessed the historic signing at UWC of a memorandum of understanding between UWC and the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). “History will prove this agreement to be of great importance because even generations to come will learn of it and will feel its impact. We must develop appreciation for our biodiversity. We must make it interesting again so that from early on, the youth have an option to study and choose a career in biodiversity,” said Hanekom.
Life Sciences Building Officially opened by Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor on 3 August 2010, the five-storey building is designed to accommodate 1 800 undergraduate and 273 postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers, staff and visitors. Besides the initial cost of R550 million, the ongoing additional costs of maintaining and upgrading facilities and technology represent a large investment in science research and teaching in South Africa. Although raising these funds will be a challenge, the scientific community and the broader economy will reap the benefits of this bold initiative for generations to come. Among the many superb features of the Life Sciences Building are: • • • • •
13 classrooms (total capacity of 375 students) an anatomy lab that can accommodate 336 undergraduate students 3 computer labs (combined capacity of 160 students) 6 small library and meeting areas more than 400 offices and workstations for staff, postgraduate students and visiting scholars.
In terms of the agreement the University will act as an advisor and consultant on matters relating to biodiversity management. UWC will also provide information technology infrastructure to assist SANBI with the management of and dissemination of biodiversity information and make available the results of research projects to SANBI in order to enhance biodiversity knowledge, awareness and management in SANBI’s national botanic gardens. SANBI undertook to make its national botanical gardens and associated natural estates available to researchers and students attached to UWC and, together with UWC, to monitor and evaluate progress on projects. SANBI chief executive officer Tanya Abrahamse said the aim was to get people to know how to use biodiversity information in their homes and communities. “We want to empower both the citizen and the scientist. This MoU will ensure that biodiversity information is carefully gathered, studied and disseminated”.
The building also houses many specialist areas, among which are an animal house for small rodents (300 m2), an autoclave preparation room (32 m2), greenhouses on the roof (100 m2), refrigeration space (64 m2), a cadaver store (60 m2) and areas for embalming, dissection and bones storage (60 m2).
University of the Western Cape taking on Greening UWC is committed to managing its everyday activities with the best environmental practices. As an institute of higher learning, the campus community realises the need to reduce waste and manage water and energy use responsibly. As part of this ongoing initiative the Facilities Management department is leading the way through education and public awareness for both staff and students to increase recycling on campus.
There are over 19 000 students at UWC right now. That means for every 1000 000 people you come across, three of them will be UWC students… and many of the rest will be alumni.
A UWC Family It is not unusual in a fifty-year-old institution for several members of a family to have studied or worked there, but the Symonds family’s affinity for UWC may well be a record (we’d love to hear from other UWC families). Not only have nine members and two generations of the family studied here (most more than once), but two of them also chose to work at the institution. Althea Whitaker (nee Symonds) believes the family’s love for education was inspired by their father, who had a very strong belief in the value of higher education, and their grandfather, who was a teacher. “When our children opt to study and
succeed it makes us proud that they too have realised the value of education for themselves,” said Althea. Four of the five sisters ended up as educators. Althea (Masters in Public Administration) lectured in the School of Government for 10 years. She is now the acting Director of the C o m m u n i t y D e v e l o p m e n t Wo r k e r s ' Programme (CDWP) in the Western Cape Provincial Department of Local Government. Althea’s daughter Chandra graduated with a BCom degree and is now enrolled for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education. Another sister, Carlin, who holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Governance and
already has two degrees from UWC (BA and BEd), is the principal of Cedar Primary in Bonteheuwel. Older sisters Alverna and Gail did their NPDE in the Education Faculty and are now teachers. The other sister, Reneé, has served the School of Pharmacy for 15 years and is currently its administrative officer. Reneé's daughter Gené has a master’s degree in Occupational Therapy. The Symonds’s UWC connection includes their extended family. Cousin Dale Louw, who already has a BSc from UWC, has completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Education, and a paternal cousin, Ruby Matthys, obtained her B Iuris at UWC. Ruby is currently a magistrate based in Roodepoort.
Kader Asmal was a forthright independent thinker who dedicated himself to human rights and international relations. After leaving South Africa in 1959, he qualified as a barrister in both England and Ireland within four years and three years later held two master’s degrees – somehow still finding time to start both the British and the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement. He was a law lecturer and professor at Dublin’s Trinity College from 1963 and a visiting law professor at UWC until his return from exile in 1990, when those roles were reversed. He played a crucial role in the negotiations that preceded South Africa’s first democratic elections and served as an MP in Parliament until 2008. He passed away in June 2011, aged 76, leaving behind a powerful legacy.
New UWC Moot Court unveiled The University of the Western Cape has honoured its former Professor Extraordinary in the Faculty of Law, Kader Asmal, by unveiling a moot court in his name. The Kader Asmal Moot Court will celebrate the values Prof Asmal stood for and will honour his contribution as a legal practitioner, activist, intellectual and teacher. The Moot Court will provide students with invaluable opportunities to perfect the analytical, research and writing skills required by the legal profession, while developing confidence and techniques in oral argument by participating in simulated court proceedings. In many instances, moot courts also present alumni with an opportunity to contribute to the institution, as practicing legal professionals are often called upon to preside over proceedings in moot courts. The Moot Court will be regularly used by postgraduate and undergraduate students for moot court competitions and debates as well as for local and international conferences and seminars.
Minister Trevor Manuel Talks Politics and Change with Students "What should be our theory of change in South Africa?" This question was posed by National Planning Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel, when he addressed second-year political studies students at UWC's Library Auditorium on 11 April 2012. The lecture was part of their POL 211 Learning Outcomes lecture series, which allow the students to witness real-life reflection on classroom material – in this case, the work of the National Planning Commission. Manuel, who was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Commerce by the University in 2002, began his lecture with a YouTube video, "Planning Thandi's future: Diagnostic Report by the NPC" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIiRsFYsRcg). The animated
presentation cleverly illustrated the economic challenges a woman faces in South Africa and the need for cohesive national planning and political leadership. Manuel then spoke about South Africa's Vision 2030, emphasising nine major challenges facing the country: inadequate jobs and job opportunities, crumbling infrastructure, a resourceintensive economy, exclusive planning, deteriorating education, a high disease burden, public service unevenness, corruption and divided communities. "We need to embody a certain set of values that will live long after we are gone," he said, adding that all citizens must be afforded equal opportunities to meet their potential to better serve the cause of the nation. Pointing out that there was not a single country in the world that had taken South Africa's route to democracy, he noted that we had to walk our own path and not outsource our responsibilities to create a better South Africa.
Hidden History revealed UWC alumnus Prof Archie Dick has authored a new book published by the University of Toronto Press, entitled ‘The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures’. The book explores the political history of South Africa through the practice of reading and shows how books and the social practice of reading were employed in the political strategies of various antagonists in our history. Dr Dick holds a BBibl, BBibl (Hons) from UWC, an MLS from the University of Washington and a PhD from UCT. He has served on several key national committees in library and information science and is Chairperson of the National Council of Library and Information Services. He is the author of ‘The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Information’ (2002), as well as numerous chapters in books, journal articles and papers. Dr Dick is currently based at the University of Pretoria’s Department of Information Science.
The Annual Dullah Omar lecture honours the late (1934-2004) anti-apartheid activist and human rights lawyer Abdullah Omar, who was instrumental in the establishment of UWC’s Community Law Centre, becoming the Centre’s director in 1990. Under his leadership, the Centre made major contributions to policy formulation and human rights advocacy in the run-up to South Africa’s first democratic elections.
Tribute to Dullah Omar
Friendship with Cuba grows
The 8th Annual Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture was hosted by the University of the Western Cape’s Community Law Centre and Law Faculty on 16 February 2012. Former President Thabo Mbeki delivered a typically wide-ranging and erudite lecture entitled ‘Reflections on Peace-making, State Sovereignty and Democratic Governance in Africa.’
Cuban Ambassador to South Africa, His Excellency Mr Angel Villa, gave an illuminating talk at UWC on 30 March 2012, entitled ‘Cuba Myths and Realities: Tourism, a people-driven strategy to overcome the US embargo’. The lecture was presented at the invitation of UWC’s Convocation, in support of efforts to strengthen relations with Cuba.
Mbeki, who has been much involved in quiet diplomacy in Africa since leaving government, gave a succinct exposition of how, in his view, the “UN Security Council wilfully elected to ignore” the African Union’s negotiated “roadmap for the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Libya” by sanctioning military intervention by NATO.
Villa reminded the large audience of Cuba’s long shared history with Africa, which began with the shipping of hundreds of thousands of African slaves to the Caribbean. The audience needed no reminder of Cuba’s more recent role in assisting the liberation of many African countries, including South Africa. Villa described the tremendous growth of tourism in Cuba, despite the long-standing US embargo. He said Cuba had only 300 000 foreign tourists in 1995, but 27 million tourists visited Cuba in the last year alone. Villa said Cuba was the biggest economy in the Caribbean and “we should like to reposition our tourism industry so that this will be reflected on our GDP.” Before the growth in tourism, the US embargo severely affected the Cuban economy. He said in the 1990’s Cuba lost 85% of its foreign trade and 35% of its GDP due to the US embargo. Despite this “Cuba has had no illiteracy since 1961.” Plans are afoot to have some UWC students and staff visit Cuba to show support for the Cuban struggle against the embargo and to explore opportunities for cooperation.
“In essence,” Mbeki declared, “NATO intervened, not to impose a no-fly zone to protect civilians, as prescribed by the UN Security Council, but to lead and empower the opposition National Transitional Council in a military campaign to overthrow the Gaddafi regime.” According to Mbeki, the post-Libya scenario sees Western governments more willing to intervene in Africa to advance their interests, and some African governments all too willing to go along with it. “Dullah understood the intimate relationship between - and fought for the realisation of the integration through our efforts as Africans, of the objectives of democratic rule in Africa - the construction of sovereign developmental African states committed to serve especially the interests of the poor, and the achievement of peace among the Africans, regardless of race, colour, gender, religion and historical origin,” said Mbeki. In closing, Mbeki remarked: “I make bold to pose to you a question I believe you have to answer in terms of your practical actions as a centre of learning, teaching, research and uninhibited intellectual inquiry and expansion of the frontiers of knowledge - what shall we, the Africans, do, regardless of the continent of our abode, to ensure that tomorrow belongs to us?”
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