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11-year-old drummer boy studies at UWC
Daniel Petersen, 11, has become South Africa’s youngest university student.
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oung — but already acclaimed — drummer Daniel Petersen made history when the 11-year old registered for and started classes at UWC in February, becoming the youngest university student in South Africa. Petersen made his way to the University’s classrooms for the first time recently, joining the Centre for Performing Arts. Music means everything to him, says Petersen. So to pursue his dream of becoming a top drummer or musical director, he needs to learn as much he can, he adds.
Like most other boys his age, he enjoys chatting to his friends, and also plays water polo and squash. “Everyone, if they work hard, can achieve anything,” he says. “You have to put in the hours. If you don’t practise you can’t be number one.” It’s no surprise that music is in Petersen’s genes. His father played jazz drums professionally, and his grandfather was a musical director. But he may already have surpassed them. Petersen has taken to the stage alongside the King of Pop’s drummer, met Stevie
Wonder’s daughter, played at the famed New Orleans Jazz Festival (when he was six!), and performed at Madiba’s 90th, 93rd and 95th birthday celebrations, and at a fundraiser for the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital. His schedule for this year includes touring with four international artists and going to New Orleans again, he also has gigs lined up in Russia and Las Vegas. Petersen still has bigger dreams, though. He counts Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and Miley Cyrus among the superstars he would like to perform with.
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UWC welcomes new students for 2014
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students over the years, and you are all part of the ongoing success of UWC.” UWC’s Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian O’Connell, had a few more words of wisdom for the fresh UWC community. “The matric class of 2013 starts their university life 20 years after we obtained our freedom and created the democratic Republic of South Africa,” he said. “They have experienced the wonder and the challenge of our new struggle thus far, and now, as university students, they stand The Orientation process went even smoother this year than in previous years. As Dr Birgit Schreiber, Director of the Centre for Student Support Services, explains: “Over the past few years we had a steady increase of completed registrations on the first day of our lectures. This year, 84% of our targeted first-year students were registered on day one of our academic year. This is in part due to our excellent Orientation programme and administrative functions – and also due to our online registration facilities, which enabled our students to register efficiently.”
ready to write the next chapter of our nation’s development.”
UWC Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Brian O’Connell, welcomes first-year students to UWC.
First-year students are welcomed to campus at the 2014 Orientation programme.
Beware the donk: UWC deconfusers fight first-year funk
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n 29 January 2014, in the UWC Student Centre, the DONK was finally arrested by UWC’s League of Deconfusers, with the help of Campus Protection Services. But the fight against the DONK’s forces was just beginning. Confused? Not to worry, that’s what the fight is all about. The struggle between the League and the DONK (Doom of Not Knowing, personified in an alien invasion) was just part of a new, fun way to get firstyears to learn more about UWC — a tool that turned orientation into a virtual game. Students and staff from UWC CoLab set up interactive and interacting multiple platforms — a website as well as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts (some fun videos can still be viewed). Peer Facilitators played the role of Deconfusers, fighting the DONK by helping new UWC students find out what’s happening on campus, pointing out
where to find things, and so on. Over Orientation, the new students completed tasks by visiting places on campus, searching for information on UWC websites and social media accounts, and attending events on campus (particularly the 20 Years of Democracy: The Dynamics of Building a Better Society conference celebrating UWC’s international partnerships). Uploading their results in fighting the DONK earned students points that they could use to claim a selection of prizes, from hamburgers to computers. While mostly fun and games, there was a serious side as well. “We wanted to look at subjects that are very academic, but that are also topical,” says CoLab’s Wouter Grove. “We looked at big questions: students got to venture their opinions, and to find out more about AIDS and e-learning and UWC’s history. All in all, it was very stressful, but very interesting.”
Based on the exercise, CoLab may well look into producing virtual games.
Deconfusers march proudly while the DONK (Doom Of Not Knowing) is apprehended by Campus Security.
CoLab is a joint undertaking by UWC, the national e-Skills Institute and the National Media Institute of South Africa. CoLab is focused on developing young, local talent and a local ICT ecosystem that address South Africa’s socio-economic challenges and meet local needs.
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Haw and Inglis builds up UWC
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poor service delivery in communities should WC has received a welcome boost not rely on the State to provide for them. of R200,000 from the construction Instead, they should be gaining knowledge company Haw and Inglis, at places like UWC. money that will go towards the University’s long-term strategy to build capacity in science and technology. More specifically, the money will be invested in the University’s new Chemical Sciences Building. At the cheque handover ceremony, Francis Chemaly, the financial and executive director of Haw and Inglis, said the company feels privileged to partner with UWC. “This institution is willing to do the hard yards and there is a feeling here that they can bring something better.” UWC’s Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Construction Company Haw and Inglis donates R200,000 Professor Brian O’Connell, expressed towards facilities at UWC’s Chemical Science Building. his gratitude for the donation. “What “That is what these buildings are all you do for us today is not only assisting us about,” O’Connell noted. “These buildings with the Chemistry Building, it is part of the are bringing people into a space that says, ingredients with which we want to change you have what it takes. the consciousness of this nation.” He added that the young people protesting
Professor Michael Davies-Coleman, Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, highlighted the faculty’s many successes. The faculty has registered a record 3,200 students, including over 900 postgraduate students. It has also grown its staff numbers to 133 academic and 88 support staff, with a further 40 extraordinary staff connected to the faculty. In addition, the faculty hosts seven research Chairs awarded under the aegis of the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI), the largest amount received by any South African University. “What remains crucial to us is the community of the next generation of young scientists,” Davies-Coleman said. “A large number of students now, because of buildings like these and buildings that you are so kindly sponsoring, are saying, ‘This is as good a place as anywhere else in the world. We are going to stay here and contribute and feed back directly into our communities’.”
BANKSETA injects R21 million into CA training at UWC
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he training of black chartered accountants (CA) received a major boost when the Banking Sector Education and Training Authority (BANKSETA) recently awarded R21 million to UWC towards programmes that will grow the number of African and Coloured CAs in the country. The money will be used to develop 260 African and Coloured chartered accountants at UWC over two years (20132014). The main purpose of this initiative is to help Coloured students pursue careers as chartered accountants. While the number of African chartered accountants in South Africa has increased steadily over the past few years, the number of Coloured chartered accountants has remained low. UWC is considered ideally placed to run the programme, given its incredible 92% pass rate in the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Initial Test of Competence (SAICA ITC) examinations. Partnering with BANKSETA and UWC is the South African Institute of Chartered
Accountants (SAICA), itself committed to the transformation of the CA profession. The funding forms part of SAICA’s transformation programme, its Thuthuka Education Upliftment Project. CEO of BANKSETA, Max Makhubalo, shares some CEO of BANKSETA, Max Makhubalo, says inspiring words with EMS students. the partnership allows the SETA to fulfil one of its major objectives. who would otherwise not have had the “One of the core missions of BANKSETA is means to fund themselves in their pursuit to support and encourage transformation of becoming CAs,” said Visser. “BANKSETA through partnerships. This is one such is helping us make the dreams of these partnership where we believe that we will students come true.” be advantageously placed in encouraging Lwando Bantom, project director of that transformation. UWC has a wonderful transformation at SAICA, explained that team looking after this project and the the Institute’s agreement with BANKSETA management of it has been very impressive calls for a workplace readiness programme — not to mention the students as well.” to be set up, which will become a core According to the Dean of the Faculty of component of the UWC training courses. Economic and Management Sciences at Such programmes are designed to equip UWC, Professor Kobus Visser, the money students, at an early stage in their budding opens new opportunities for the Faculty careers, with some lasting skills, said and students. Bantom. “We are very excited to have BANKSETA “These are opportunities rarely made on board with the Thuthuka Pilot available in a university environment and programme at UWC as this has enabled this is just one of the things which will set us to reach a broader number of students these students apart from the rest.”
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New equipment aids students with disabilities
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ew wheelchairs and voicetranscription software were but some of the recent purchases made by the Centre for Student Support Services (CSSS), which assists UWC’s growing number of students with disabilities. The acquisitions were made possible by a grant from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). It is also the latest instalment in UWC’s proud history of ensuring that all learners have fair access to education, including those with disabilities, explains CSSS Director, Dr Birgit Schreiber. “It is our focus to equip our living and learning context and the support and development provisions with a range of modalities, so that students with disabilities find easy entry into the UWC environment,” says Schreiber. The University has quadrupled the number of students with disabilities over the past few years. It is now home to almost 300 students who have self-identified themselves as living and learning with a disability. This, adds Schreiber, is an indication of the kind of welcoming learning environment that has been created at the University. Among other services, teaching venues have large screens and loop systems for hearing
aids. Student Development and Support has also been equipped to offer disability — friendly interventions by ensuring flexible provisions. Each student is individually assessed by the CSSS and its Office for Students with Disabilities (OSwD), to ensure that each student gets support and develops in line with the student’s and UWC’s goals. “We equip students with devices which support their academic development,” says Students who will use some of the equipment purchased by Schreiber. “We also equip the CSSS, with Mrs Evadne Abrahams, Coordinator of the lecturers with tools to improve Office for Students with Disabilities, and Dr Birgit Schreiber, flexible provisions within the Director of the Centre for Student Support Services. teaching context.” UWC’s disability policy is and disability as a constructed conclusion informed by the social model of disability, dependent on the society into which it is shaping its exam policies and formal reports embedded,” explains Schreiber. about matters concerning disability. This is There is a pressing need, she adds, to the same model adopted by the DHET and explore the relationship between students’ government since 1994. success and their experience of universities “Notions of disability within the social as academic and social spaces. model, along social and political constructs, “UWC is keenly aware of the enabling or focus on the way society ― in this case, UWC hindering impact the institutional context ― is organised, and hence considers diversity may have on disabled students.”
The Office for Students with Disabilities (OSwD) at the CSSS is dedicated to promoting equality, opposing unfair discrimination and encouraging participation of all students in university life. The OSwD facilitates access to campus services, resources and academic materials for students with special needs or disabilities, such as students who are blind, deaf, mobility impaired, or have chronic medical conditions. Each student is individually assessed, and a programme is designed to foster the development of each student’s full potential. To find out more, contact the office on 021 959 3586, or find it in the CHS Building, second floor.
Mainstreaming indigenous knowledge for a more prosperous Africa
Prof Meshach Ogunniyi, a world-leading expert on indigenous knowledge systems, provides an overview of the subject at the conference.
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ne problem that colonised people have is that they do not have a sense of themselves ― we call it colonial mentality. Colonial mentality means that you have no sense of yourself; your concept of selfhood is lost. So everything is a reflection of what you were told to do. There are many problems with that, if you have no sense of yourself.” One of those problems, Professor Meshach Ogunniyi of UWC’s School of Science and Mathematics Education (SSME) explained
further, is the generation and retention of knowledge. “Before I went to school, I knew a lot about my environment,” said Ogunniyi, speaking at a two-day workshop for academics and students on Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Science & Mathematics Education, hosted by the SSME at UWC’s School of Government. “I grew up in a farming community and knew the names of hundreds of trees, and what they are used for. When I went to school, I was introduced to different names, and a different system of understanding my environment. As a result I forgot what I brought with me from home ― as many indigenous people may forget that they have knowledge to contribute.” The workshop ― as well as the entire Science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (SIKS) programme hosted by the SSME ― focused on developing research skills that would allow students to design, develop and implement curricula at school level. Science curricula, in particular, should not simply be transplants from foreign soil, noted Ogunniyi. Rather, they should be
complemented by knowledge that reflects the character of South Africa. It’s about training a cohort of teachers, he said, able to take what they learn and cascade the knowledge and skills into a number of schools. Ogunniyi has long been a champion of reforming curricula to take advantage of ― or at least acknowledge ― indigenous knowledge systems. For his decades of research, the Southern African Association for Research into Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (or SAARMSTE) honoured him with its Lifetime Service Award at the Association’s 2014 conference. This was only the second time in its 20-year history that SAARMSTE had made the prestigious award. “What has always struck me about this project is that it’s like a family, and that’s very unique to see in a growing movement of this kind,” said Professor Zubeida Desai, Dean of the Faculty of Education. “And one of the reasons for that is the leadership provided by Professor Ogunniyi, who is, if not the patriarch of the movement, then perhaps the grandfather.”
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Gerwel lectures debate South Africa’s past & future
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facilitator Lynette Francis. The NDP is a policy that people can work with, she said, “and if we take it seriously it will deliver results”. Jansen was more cautious. “I have lived long enough to see how all these development plans are brought to the table,” he said, “but a plan means nothing if there are not people to make the plan work. The UWC alumnus Prof Jonathan Jansen jokes with Prof Rachel Jafta, another plan should become UWC graduate, and Phoebe Gerwel, wife of the late Prof Jakes Gerwel, at a reality in the lives this year’s Suidoosterfees. of people. One does not need resources have skills and experience do to make an to do so.” impact in the communities where we live? In Speaking about the economy, Jafta quoted this way we can change the country and that a university study that shows that the top is my encouragement ― make a difference 5% of the country’s workforce benefits more where you can.” from affirmative action. This, she said, is Botman, who is also the chairperson of “because they already had an education the board for the World Design Capital 2014 and qualifications to be appointed in Implementation Company, said bridging the management positions, while the education divide was not only about people, but also system and the quality of education made it about time. difficult for the rest of the workforce, from “It is about the old and new era,” he artisans to middle management, explained. “It is about how we secure the to get opportunities in the private new era for everybody so that it is inclusive sector”. and in which everybody feels we are building Jansen pointed to the role that an equal society, closer to each other and household economies can play, and more connected than in the past.” the difference it can make in a poor Botman said the current generation is the country. “The more first-generation “bridge” between the past and the future. students who go to university from It is they who can challenge authorities to school and who get appointed in the design the future in such a way that it will workforce, the bigger the impact on transform society. the household economy,” he said. UWC’s Rassool noted that bridging the past But what of the future? is about values, and design is no shortcut Jafta was optimistic, saying she to social transformation if it does not hopes the next 20 years will see understand the values of building a new opportunities and not challenges, Phoebe Gerwel (centre), wife of the late Prof Jakes society. and that “we will always do our best Gerwel, is flanked by UWC alumni Prof Russel Botman “We have good ideas and need to to learn and to sharpen our skills in (left) and Prof Ciraj Rassool at this year’s Suidoosterfees. understand the important role that design order to build a better economy”. needs to play,” Rassool said. “But left Jansen argued that citizens should to itself without a proper values-based take more responsibility. “This country At the first discussion, broadcast live framework, it can have unintended changed because of people who were fed by Radio Sonder Grense, Jafta was consequences of repeating and reinforcing up. We have to get back to that point. Then positive about the government’s National the divides of the past instead of healing the the question is: what can we as citizens who Development Plan (NDP) in her response to landscape.” he 20th anniversary of South Africa’s democracy has sparked robust debates and discussion, and UWC’s Jakes Gerwel Lecture Series, delivered at the Suidoosterfees early this year, was no exception. Speakers ― which included four UWC alumni ― and the audience alike dissected the good, the bad and the ugly of the Rainbow Nation since its world-acclaimed and peaceful transition from apartheid to freedom in 1994. The series, delivered in two parts over two days at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town, saw Professor Jonathan Jansen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State, and Professor Rachel Jafta, chairperson of Media24 Limited, share the stage at the discussions titled 20 Years of Democracy: The sweet and the sour. In turn, Professor Russel Botman, Rector and ViceChancellor of Stellenbosch University, and Professor Ciraj Rassool of UWC’s Department of History were the main speakers at the session titled Bridging the Divide. Part of the Suidoosterfees cultural and heritage festival for the past few years, the lecture series is designed to celebrate the life and contributions of the late Gerwel, a UWC alumnus and former Rector and ViceChancellor, who also served as chairperson of the board of the Suidoosterfees since the festival’s inception in 2003.
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Education is the way to feed the world, says scholar
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There are other hurdles utch scientist Professor ahead. Like climate change, Louise Fresco holds some which will have a big impact strong views on sustainable on food production. As development and food. temperatures rise, fungi She is well known for her defence will grow on certain crops, of ‘Big Food’ (mass-produced food), and pests will increase, for her stand on food sovereignty, instance. and her insightful thinking on “The challenge in the the future of food. Fresco, based future is to make agriculture at the University of Amsterdam, more resilient,” Fresco said. wasn’t afraid to share some of her The first answer to solving thoughts when she presented a the problem of the world’s seminar, titled Changing Patterns of food problems is education, Food Production and Consumption she argued. “Educating in the World and in Africa, at people, and most importantly UWC’s Institute for Poverty Land school, is vital to this. We and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) as a Prof Louise Fresco says education is the first step to addressing the world’s need to teach people how distinguished visiting scholar of the growing food problems. to grow their own fruit and Academy of Science of South Africa. vegetables.” Increased urbanisation and income Africa, Fresco pointed out. There are many She also had a few words of advice for levels will lead to a higher demand for factors that contribute to Africa not being South Africa in particular. animal-derived foods and greater dietary able to produce enough food for its people, “The way forward for South Africa is for diversity, said Fresco. With that will come a such as political and economic barriers. farmers to have entrepreneurship skills, and greater reliance on fast foods. “The political difference between Africa more collaborations between government But that presents the world with an and Asia is that Africa only irrigates 4% of its and farmers should take place,” she said. interesting question. “With a continuallywater resources, while Asia irrigates 40% of growing population in an increasingly its water resources,” she continued. urbanised world, what will be on our plates By 2050, the world’s population will stand tomorrow and in the future,” she asked. at nine billion people. Nine billion people Food availability per capita is stagnating in who will have to be fed.
Economics department urges learners to stand out
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armen Christian Lopes took a roundabout way into the study of economics, which probably made her story that much more fascinating for the more than 800 high school girls she recently spoke to. Christian Lopes, a lecturer in economics at UWC, was addressing a youth development programme facilitated by the Western Cape‘s Department of Social Development at Sarepta High School in Belhar on 28 February. She was there specifically to speak as part of the Stand Out campaign, an initiative by UWC’s Department of Economics to inform learners of the benefits of studying economics. Christian Lopes started off with a few words of inspiration. “Having a good education is key to having a good future for you and your family,” she told the learners. She then recounted her story. About how she was born in Retreat, did a BSc
good education is good for your future.” in physiotherapy at UWC, and went into Her words struck a chord with the likes practice in both the public and private of 17-year-old Deidre Collins, who plans to health sectors. And about how, when she come to UWC next year. moved into the pharmaceutical industry, she started work on her honours degree in economics, which she completed, cum laude, in 2010. The subject of her honours thesis, on national health insurance in South Africa, sparked her current interest in public health, she explained. It is also the subject of her master’s thesis, which she is now working on. Christian Lopes then spoke on the subject requirements for economic studies, and of the importance of high-school maths and science. In addition, she had advice for the girls, “Hard work always pays off. It is not an easy journey to Deidre Collins (left) is one of many learners who were achieving your goals. Having a inspired by UWC lecturer Carmen Christian Lopes (right).
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ou’re probably no stranger to ICS. You might know them as UWC’s Information and Communication Services, those folks who run the Helpdesk or fix your computer when it breaks down. Yes, they do that, but there’s a lot more to ICS than that. The ICS team is not small, with five departments and 15 sub-units working together to provide IT services to the whole campus and the extended UWC community. ICS engages and links students, staff and others to enable a stronger IT environment for all the university’s activities. ICS Director Mervyn Christoffels was
appointed in 2012, and with the help of his team has already begun to transform the campus in line with the ICS vision: “a digital campus where emerging, strategic and innovative technologies are leveraged to advance teaching, learning and research capabilities to maximise UWC’s impact at regional, national and international levels”. “We’re doing all we can to modernise this campus, to update processes and technologies, to ensure that when students leave us they are ready to join our knowledge-based society, and that they are ready to participate in an economy strongly influenced by technology,” says Christoffels.
The mission of ICS is: to attract, develop and retain talented and dynamic staff; to create an environment that is inspirational, engaging and empowering for ICS staff; to deliver operational excellence, and to support UWC’s strategic initiatives for community engagement.
“That’s why we are trying to develop an environment that will help us improve access to education and quality of education at UWC ― and make it the model of a twenty-first century institution of higher learning.”
This is what ICS looks like:
Dirtector : Mervyn Christoffels Sub units · IT Finance · ICS Office Co-ordination · Marketing Units · IT Strategy & Planning · IT Procurement & Vendor Management · IT Applications Development & Support · IT Operations & Services · IT Communications
Head of IT Strategy & Planning: Errol van Staden · Enterprise Architecture · IT Governance, Risk & Compliance · IT Information Security · Project Management Office
Manager of IT Procurement & Vendor Management: Roger Fester · IT Vendor Management · IT Procurement Management · Shared Services
Manager of IT Applications Development & Support: Ridwaan Mallum
Manager of IT Operations & Services: Anver Natha · Service Desk · Data Center · Networking
Manager of IT Communications: Graham Julies · Telephony · Student Technology Support · Audio Visual Services
ICS Director Mervyn Christoffels is just one of the UWC staff members who took part in the 2014 Argus Cycle Tour, the annual ― and world’s largest ― individually timed cycle race over more than 100km. Team UWC consisted of: Nathan Alfred, Shameeg Allie, Barry Andrews, Christoffels, Andre Daniels, Lionel Daniels, Edgar de Koker, Aneeq Kamiedien, Daniel Leenderts, Jade Leon, Abdul-Aziz Mosoval, Douglas Petersen, Shervaan Rajie, and SANBI’s Profs Alan Christoffels and Simon Travers.
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UWC team strike oil at petroleum geology event
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epresenting South Africa, A UWC team has swept aside the rest of the competition to take top honours in the 2014 Africa Region leg of the American Association of Petroleum Geologist (AAPG) Imperial Barrel Awards. UWC, one of 23 teams from Africa taking part, was represented by four MSc students: Leilah Gharbaharan, Marvel Makhubele, Christopher Robert Mclean and Ondela Mvunyiswa. The team was funded by Sasol, the company that sponsors the structured master’s programme in petroleum geology at UWC. “The win is a victory for UWC, South Africa and Southern Africa universities,” says Dr Mimonitu Opuwari, Lecturer of Applied Geology at UWC, who served as faculty advisor and mentor to the team. “Winning was great,” adds Makhube. “We had fun, and learned a lot in the process.” For the competition, each team received an exploration database from the AAPG, containing data on an area’s geology, geophysics, land, production infrastructure
and other relevant details. Over eight weeks, they then had to analyse the geological and geophysical content of the database and present their findings ― basically, explain whether or not a particular region would be viable for oil prospecting. They then presented their findings to a panel of industry experts. “We had to act as a group from a real company, and that was interesting,” reports Gharbaran. “We created a name (SAFARI) and had to work as one would in a real working environment.” The team attributes their win to the excellent preparation provided by a strong Master’s programme, a strong team dynamic, and members being willing to go the extra mile. It wasn’t always easy, though. “Trying to balance our thesis work with the competition was a real challenge,” admits McLean. “We were doing both at the same time, and still had tests and exams. It was worth it, though.” The winning UWC team will represent
Africa in Houston, US, for the final, global round of the competition in April. “UWC is now carrying the Africa flag for the first time to the international finals,” says Opuwari. “The team is focused on bringing the trophy to Africa – and the glory to UWC.” The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) is the world’s largest professional geological society. The organisation exists to foster research and promote technology in the field, to advance the science of geology, and to inspire high professional conduct. The AAPG has six international regions, including AAPG Africa. In the international Imperial Barrel Award (IBA) programme, university teams have the chance to use state of the art technology on a real dataset, receive feedback from an industry panel, impress potential employers in the audience, and win cash awards for their school. The judges select the winning team on the basis of the technical quality, clarity and originality of the presentations.
The UWC team that emerged victorious at the 2014 International Barrel Awards for the Africa Region.
Science Voices: Get writing. Get published. Get famous.
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very day, science uncovers something new, discovers that something we think we know just isn’t so, or changes the way we view the world. Postgraduate students are a key part of that amazing process of discovery, and every day UWC postgrads are making dramatic contributions. They deserve some credit for that work. That’s why the Mail & Guardian is giving UWC’s postgraduate science students the chance to tell the world all about their work. If you’re a master’s or PhD student at UWC, and you think your research is
something the public would like to hear about, here’s your chance. From astrophysics to geography, from psychology to zoology, the M&G wants it all for their Science Voices 2014 project ― a chance to feature some of the most fascinating research done university students. All they need is an 800-1,000-word popular article on any topic related to your research, to be submitted anytime before midnight on Sunday 1 June 2014. If your story’s interesting enough, it could appear on the Mail & Guardian website ― and if it’s really interesting, it could be included in an upcoming collection of South Africa’s very best postgrad science writing. Successful applicants will be informed by the end of June. Now there’s always the chance you don’t have a popular write-up of your research
handy. But it’s no problem: M&G science writer Sarah Wild will mentor aspiring science writers. Interested? Want to know more? Want some help getting started? Just contact the UWC Media Office, and we’ll be happy to help you craft an article that does your work justice. Send an email to ia@uwc.ac.za and let us know what you’re doing, and you could be on your way to fame. But after that, who knows? Having a bit of trouble getting your thoughts in order? Don’t know how to begin writing about your research? Not to worry ― the Mail & Guardian website is running a series of vodcasts on the basics of science writing. Follow the link from http://sciencevoices.mg.co.za.
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Hanekom explained. The programme has “It is a strategy of developing research ne could see that close ties and instead promoted fruitful, mutually-beneficial capacity ― not in the abstract, by simply friendships had been formed interactions. building skills sets ― but rather by cultivating between UWC academics and their “We face global challenges, so why not face capacity through applied practice. By selecting Belgian counterparts when they them together? We also face our own specific a handful of real-life challenges, research recently came together to drop the curtain on challenges, but they are rarely unique. Surely capacity is developed and applied in a socially a productive decade-long partnership. there is much we can learn from one The scholars had gathered at UWC to another, especially when we work celebrate the many successes of the collaboratively.” Dynamics of Building a Better Society The support of the VLIR has (DBBS) programme, a partnership with contributed to the emergence of the UWC initiated by Belgian’s Flemish InterUniversity of the Western Cape as one University Council-University Development of South Africa’s finest institutions of Cooperation (VLIR-UOS). The initiative ran higher learning and research, Hanekom from 2003 to 2013. further said. The DBBS was in part designed to As part of the programme, awardstrengthen research at UWC. It set out winning Dutch playwright and actor to build research capacity, develop Tom Lanoye performed a part of his institutional capacity, provide essential play, The Human Zoo, set against library material and set up betterthe backdrop of the Truth and equipped postgraduate computer Reconciliation Commission. The play laboratories. It also assisted in the was performed daily and was followed conceptual shift from a ‘deficit model’ (From left to right): Prof Freddy Mortier (Vice-Rector, Ghent by a discussion. to a holistic approach to student University, Belgium), Prof Brian O’Connell (Rector & ViceAnother highlight on the programme development and support. Chancellor, UWC), Kristien Verbruggen (director of the Flemish was the launch of the book, Dynamics The funding allowed a number of staff Inter-university Council, Belgium), and Prof Faustin Kamuzora of Building a Better Society. In this members to complete their PhDs, and (Vice-Rector, Mzumbe University, Tanzania) debate the role volume, researchers in the programme opened new research opportunities for of universities in development at the 20 Years of Democracy highlighted the key challenges facing postdoctoral research fellows. It also conference. South Africa and concerns about laid the groundwork for the formation capacity development and interof five research centres in a number of university partnerships. meaningful way. The idea that knowledgetargeted areas ― citizenship and democracy; Other events included a roundtable hosted creation should be socially meaningful is very sports sciences and development; research in close to the heart of the Department of Science by talk radio presenter Africa Melane, and HIV and AIDS; sustainable water resources, and a discussion by the funding agency and and Technology.” multilingualism and diversities research. university rectors from Belgium, South Africa, The partnership began at a time when UWC The February celebrations saw Mozambique and Tanzania on the role of “was not the robust institution it is today”, representatives from four Flemish universities universities in development cooperation. The Hanekom noted. “Like other historically black ― Ghent University, KU Leuven, the University central message of the discussion was that institutions of higher education, it faced many of Antwerp and the Free University of Brussels universities should do more than produce challenges.” ― and university leaders from Mozambique, knowledge ― they should also share information He added that Belgium and Flanders (the Tanzania, Zimbabwe and local South African to the advantage of the community, and the Dutch-speaking northern parts of Belgium) universities attending. world. have long played a meaningful role in the As part of the celebration programme, Another theme of the discussions was development of South Africa. In recent years, Minister of Science and Technology, Derek universities’ quest for innovative solutions to for example, the Belgian government has Hanekom, delivered the keynote address, titled local and global challenges ― a quest felt to be allocated €25 million as official development Science and Knowledge Challenges and the assistance to South Africa, supporting initiatives not just a social responsibility, but also a moral Importance of Inter-university Cooperation. in health, education and public sector capacity- duty. He also thanked the Flemish Inter-University “Here at UWC, when we know things, we give building, he pointed out. Council and its partners for their part in the them away,” said Professor Brian O’Connell, “South Africa and Flanders enjoy a privileged DBBS. science and technology partnership which dates UWC’s Rector and Vice-Chancellor. “We’re “We are certainly not declaring an end to the faced with dramatic challenges, and parting back to 1996, with over 200 projects funded partnership,” Hanekom said. “The partnership with knowledge is how a university can to date,” Hanekom said. “The partnership programme has created a stronger university, contribute to its people.” programme with UWC epitomises what can be new research centres, new PhD graduates, and A gala dinner and a series of consultative accomplished when we put our minds to it.” new knowledge.” workshops, field trips and discussions also But the DBBS had, according to the VLIR, The DBBS has been a truly productive formed part of the programme. not merely been a one-way initiative, partnership, he added.
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Mellon Mays students visit campus
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American educator, statesman, minister of three South African universities in the group of American students, and former president of Morehouse College. programme, alongside the University of received a whirlwind introduction Mays was also a mentor to Dr Martin Luther Cape Town and Wits University. to the campus and South Africa King Jr. The MMUF is named in honour of Dr when they visited UWC in January Welcoming the fellows to UWC, Deputy Benjamin E Mays, the noted Africanas part of the US-based Mellon Mays Vice-Chancellor: Academic, Undergraduate Fellowship Professor Ramesh Bharuthram, (MMUF) Programme. sketched a brief history of UWC and The MMUF programme its founding and evolution. “Today is described as “the UWC is spoken of as a metaphor for centrepiece” of the Andrew W South Africa,” said Bharuthram. Mellon Foundation’s initiatives Vice-chancellor and Rector, to increase diversity in the Professor Brian O’Connell, spoke faculty ranks of institutions about collaboration and helping one of higher learning. It does so another. “There is no independent by supporting students from existence; we are connected,” he ‘underrepresented minority said. “We must understand why we groups’ in the US, encouraging have to support one another and be them to take up doctoral mindful of that fact.” studies. The fellows also paid a visit to the The visit to UWC forms part UWC Mayibuye Centre, which holds of the fellowship programme; historical documents and images UWC became a member related to apartheid and the antiinstitution in 2008, and the 2014 Mellon Mays Fellows, mentors and programme coordinators come apartheid struggle, social life and first MMUF cohort visited the together at UWC. culture. campus in 2009. UWC is one
The digital student is not so straightforward
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e need to problematise Life, an online virtual world where users the language around the interact through avatars ― Wood noted ‘digital native’. There that not only do differently abled people is no such homogeneous require different approaches, but people group ― we’re actually talking about an incredibly diverse student body, all different, all unique. We need to take that variety into account when designing and using learning environments.” That view was expressed by Professor Denise Wood, headlining a seminar on More Than Just Access: Designing tech-enhanced learning environments Extraordinary Professor Denise Wood fields questions about 3D hosted by UWC’s Directorate virtual learning and student variety. of Teaching and Learning in February. The seminar brought together academics from UWC and with similar capabilities often have Stellenbosch University, who tackled the different views as well. Some with muscular topic from a range of perspectives. dystrophy or other disorders might choose to Wood, associate head of teaching use avatars that reflect their disability, for and learning at the University of South example, while others might choose to have Australia and Extraordinary Professor in their avatars dancing and running and the the Faculty of Education at UWC, discussed like, she explained. the pedagogical considerations of Web Discussant Leslie Swartz, Professor of 2.0, particularly as applied to a physically Psychology at the University of Stellenbosch, diverse and neurodiverse world. talked about the way apartheid policies had Drawing on her research on 3D virtual influenced South Africans’ understanding of learning environments ― especially Second and social policies about disability. She also
spoke of the link between social models of human beings and medical models. “The medical model just sees the body, and the social model doesn’t see it at all,” she said. “We need to use a synthesis of both models if we are to understand and aid student learning.” The seminar was followed by a lively question-and-answer session, in which academics explored how student diversity plays out in their own teaching. They also discussed how lecturers can cope with both engaging and channeling students. (A lecturer, it was said, is like a cross between a traffic officer and a clown, and it’s a fine line to walk). In the end, the consensus was that further investigation was needed. “As I’ve tried to demonstrate briefly, there’s a need ― and an opportunity ― for fuller research and a more holistic view on diversity in universities,” Wood concluded.
UWC is no stranger to using technology to promote learning. For a glimpse of some of the most innovative e-teaching techniques employed by adventurous UWC lecturers, or to find out how to share your own stories of innovative educational techniques, visit http://eteaching.uwc.ac.za.
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Robertson gets students to think seriously about entrepreneurship
Businessman Fred Robertson inspires UWC first-year students.
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red Robertson describes himself as a lifelong entrepreneur. Robertson, executive chairperson of the black-owned investment company Brimstone Investment Corporation Limited, had a lot to share when he recently addressed students from UWC’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences on the subject of entrepreneurship. To inspire and motivate students, Robertson went the extra mile, speaking to 800 students on four different occasions early in March. Robertson began each session by telling students that true success starts at university. “Throughout my life I have been an entrepreneur and I have always strived for success,” Robertson said. He told how,
when as young as ten, he started selling newspapers and fruit and vegetables. After matric he went into teaching as an unqualified teacher, training while on the job. After five years, he left to become an insurance representative for Old Mutual. Robertson would stay at Old Mutual for 10 years, first as a salesman and then as a branch manager. It was then that he became an entrepreneur again, in 1990 forming his own insurance broking house, which branched out into other financial services. In 1995 he started Brimstone with business partner, Mustaq Brey. Today the company is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and is worth R4 billion. Former Rector and Vice-Chancellor of
UWC, Professor Jakes Gerwel, had a huge impact on his life and success, Robertson told students. “The late Professor Gerwel and the people I have worked with, such as Mustaq Brey, were influential in what I achieved.” He concluded his presentation by giving the students advice for the future. “Be prepared to be a leader of your generation. Knocks will come in life, but use them as stepping stones and motivation to become successful. “You have to invest in yourself; keep reading and learning from people, and always keep good company. Doing the right thing is always important; you have to contribute to society after you become successful. This is key.”
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Massive facelift for Uwc stadium
An aerial view of the upgrades planned for the Sport Stadium.
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6 and 7. These address holistic student he UWC stadium is getting a multidevelopment, the generation of thirdmillion rand makeover. stream income, raising the university’s Work has begun on a major profile, and the development of campus upgrade to the stadium, which surroundings. is being converted into a state-of-the“This is further supported with the art Multi-Purpose Sport Centre, a giant development of a Master Plan that includes leap forward for UWC’s vision to be a sport facilities maintenance, the upgrading globally competitive university. Among of existing facilities, and the addition of the world-class facilities to be included in new facilities,” Groenewald explains. the revamped facility will be a Health and The Sport Centre will have an enormous Fitness Centre, a multi-purpose sports hall, impact on student life on campus, and will additional offices, a boardroom, upgraded advance: changing rooms and medical facilities. • the management and coordination of A restaurant, special events venues sport activities; and parking will also be included in the • sport code management and the development. services provided to 20+ sport codes, The renovation, which started in February both competitive and recreational. and is set to be completed later this year, The University identified five priority marks the next step in a process that began sport codes, namely athletics, cricket, more than five years ago, according to Ilhaam Groenewald, Director of UWC Sport Administration. It was then that the Sport Administration Department, under the auspices of Student Development & Support, placed an emphasis on the importance to maintain, re-develop and build new facilities, Groenewald explains that the initiative is aligned to the University’s Institutional Operating Plan’s (IOP) View of the Sports Stadium once upgrades have been completed. strategic goals 1, 5,
football, rugby and swimming, with a focus on improving their performances that would make these clubs competitive at university, national and international levels. Recreation codes and activities will be advanced with a specific reference to their accommodation on the ground level; • strategic initiatives in partnership with sport federations, government, community and corporate, with respect to the hosting of a range of events and functions, profiling the university as a positive contributor to both academic and sport performance; and • sport development, because sport is seen as part of the general education of students, and a way of enabling them to engage productively with the wider community. The development of UWC students, most of whom come from significantly disadvantaged backgrounds, is related to the development of the communities they come from. Groenewald adds that UWC has been particularly successful in drawing athletes and coaches from communities whose history of marginalisation still tends to hold them back. “A key objective in this approach is for the University to partner with aspiring athletes to instil in them the confidence to attain the highest levels of achievement,” she says. “Similarly, being able to be associated with an institution of great stature has significant impact on the development of young people from outside the University who participate in partnership and outreach programmes based at UWC.”
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Sport-based conflict transformation key to UWC’s new partnership
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Erick Mariga is one of the first two beneficiaries of the partnership between UWC and the Generations for Peace Institute.
port for peace. That’s the line of research that doctoral researchers will be able to follow thanks to a new partnership between UWC’s Interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence for Sport Science and Development (ICESSD) and the international Generations For Peace (GFP) Institute, based in Amman, Jordan. The agreement comes with generous scholarships for PhD candidates to conduct research on sport for peace and development. The research will focus on sport-based approaches to conflict resolution, addressing local issues of conflict and violence. Two UWC candidates will head for Jordan over the next few months. Ben Sanders and Erick Mariga are the first UWC candidates to be selected as recipients of the partnership. The ICESSD strives to contribute to the understanding and advancement of sport as a tool for development and peace in South Africa and Africa. It does so through highquality research, teaching, community engagement and new technologies. “We are excited to partner with Generations For
Peace to promote research, teaching and community engagement in the crucial area of sport for peace and development to empower our students and to foster social change, and to live up as much as we can and wherever we are to Nelson Mandela’s legacy,” says ICESSD director, Professor Marion Keim, of the partnership. “Young people taking action to improve the life of the nation are a significant part of our history,” observes UWC Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian O’Connell. “This makes us particularly excited to be partnered with Generations for Peace to continue the South African journey of building a better nation and world.” The GFP was equally excited about the new partnership, says Institute chairperson, Prince Feisal Al Hussein. “Learning and education are at the heart of our organisation, and we are confident that the scholarship holders will be a great asset in our efforts to support positive change in local communities facing conflict and violence.” The Institute’s co-Founder and president, Princess Sarah Kabbani AlFeisal, also highlights the benefits of the new agreement. “The partnership is an important step in the Institute’s development and engagement in conflict transformation,” she says. “Significant research of this kind will reinforce the impact of our programmes in Africa
Prof Marion Keim congratulates Ben Sanders on his scholarship, which will allow him to do his PhD under the UWC/Generations for Peace Institute partnership.
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t was a dream come true for two talented UWC footballers when they were selected to pursue both their football and academic careers in the United States. In February, prolific striker Jermaine Seoposenwe began her four-year scholarship at Samford University in Alabama, where she will continue her undergraduate business studies. Seoposenwe will also play football (or soccer, as they know it in the US) for the Samford Bulldogs in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Also in the US for a long stay is goalkeeper Kaylin Swart, who in March started her own four-year scholarship at the American Institute of Business (AIB) College in Des Moines, working on a degree in sport and event management. Both students are members of the South African national women’s team, Banyana Banyana, and were pivotal in the UWC Ladies Football Club’s successful 2013
season, when the team won two titles. Before leaving for the US, Swart told On Campus that 2013 had been a tough year, as she had to balance football with studies. But this has prepared her well for what lies ahead. “I’m very excited about the move to the US. It will be a new challenge and I hope everything works out for me,” she said from her Port Elizabeth home. Seoposenwe‘s father, Jeffrey Seoposenwe, expressed his family’s excitement about their daughter’s move. “I would like to wish her well and hope she becomes an inspiration to other players. Let me also take this opportunity to thank SAFA for giving her the chance to play in the national team, thus giving her exposure to the world.” The two footballers join three more Banyana Banyana players in the US. Roxanne UWC students Kaylin Swart and Jermaine Seoposenwe have been awarded scholarships Barker, Kylie-Ann Louw and Robyn Moodaly to pursue their studies and football careers in already play for different clubs there. the US.
There can be few better ways to entice first-year students to participate in sport than hosting a Sports Day ― so UWC did just that. Part of the Orientation Programme at the beginning of the year, the event at the UWC swimming pool saw hundreds of students regaled and inspired by sporting activities. This including swimming and the introduction of the UWC rugby team for the Varsity Shield, as well as talks by the UWC Sports Council, the Students’ Representative Council and the Sport Administration Department.
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Living the dream
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ising UWC cricket star Aviwe Mgijima is living his dream again. In 2012, a slump in form cost Mgijima his place in the Western Province first-class team. Last year he was offered a lifeline when he came to study at UWC through the University’s Sport Skills for Life Skills programme, which offers full bursaries to promising cricketers. “All you need to do is to play cricket and pass your studies,” says Mgijima of the programme. The opportunity proved to be a turning point as Mgijima’s cricket career was resurrected under the guidance of Britishborn Andy Moles, former New Zealand coach and head coach of the UWC Cricket team. Mgijima has blossomed, and he was recently signed by the Cape Cobras, one of six franchise teams in the country. “Making the Cobras is a high moment for me,” comments the all-rounder, who is doing a BA degree at UWC, majoring in industrial psychology and language & communication. Mgijima featured prominently in the Cobras side that made it to the finals of the recent Ram Slam T20 Challenge, the premier twenty20 cricket competition in South Africa. (They unfortunately lost to the Dolphins.) It was in that competition that he rubbed shoulders with several members of the senior national team who had represented the star-studded Cobras, including Graham Smith, Hashim Amla, Vernon Philander and JP Duminy.
“It was so nice being in the same change rooms with those top-class cricketers,” Mgijima remembers. Born in the Sheshegu village in Alice near King Williams Town in the Eastern Cape, Mgijima grew up in a cricket- and rugbyloving family. His uncles ran an amateur cricket club. Inspired by the likes of top cricketers Fanie De Villiers and the late Hansie Cronje, whom UWC’s Sport Skills for Life Skills programme helped Aviwe Mgijima he often watched on turn around his cricket career. television, cricket soon took first preference in ahead.” the talented Mgijima’s sporting career. Mgijima’s ultimate dream is to make the His skills didn’t go unnoticed, and Proteas team. But as long as he is playing he was selected to play for the Border professional cricket and doing well, he is provincial and the South African Colts happy, he says. Under-19 squads before he joined Western Any advice to young hopefuls? Province in 2011, where he was named Club “If you have a dream, work hard for Cricketer of the Month in November 2012. it, especially in cricket. It is a difficult Now he plays for the Cobras, Western sport. You often need to motivate yourself Province and UWC, with the most senior because chances are that you will not teams obviously taking priority. Add to perform well all the time. The nice thing the mix his busy academic schedule, and is that you can play well into your late Mgijima has a lot to juggle. 30s and eventually, if you stick to it, you “I’ll have to manage studies and sport the will get a chance to make it to the higher right way,” he says. “I have a tough year level.”
UWC swimmers triumph
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WC swimming club has many reasons to celebrate, now that three more athletes from the club have excelled in different competitions around the country. Long-distance swimmer Rudolf Visser finished second in the 10km category at the 2014 Swimming South African National Open Water Championships, hosted by KwaZulu-Natal Aquatics at Midmar Dam in early February. That swim was good enough to secure Visser a place at the World Junior Open Water Championships in Israel later this year. At the same event, first-year sport, recreation and exercise science student Shannon Austin won bronze in the women’s 10km race. She went two positions better a few weeks later, taking gold at the Western Province Aquatics 10km Championships in Grabouw. BA psychology student Joshua
Finch won the 100-metre breaststroke event at the national champs. Visser was “happy and excited” to qualify for the world championships, he said, and attributed his rise in swimming to the “good coaches and best facilities” provided by the University. Finch explained how proud he was to represent Swimmers Joshua Finch and Rudolf Visser have won medals at UWC and encouraged more students to take up different championships over the past months. swimming. It’s not just a are amazing.” sport, he said, but also a These successes augur well for the club, life skill (it can save lives), and can offer says sports administrator Glen Bentley. opportunities to win bursaries and represent “The medal-winning performances by our South Africa at international events. swimmers is a clear indication that we are “Besides being competitive, the friends you on the right track with our goals.” make and the doors swimming opens for you
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