UKZNDABA AFRICA GETTING COLUMN Centre honours into the The UKZN King 3 Glass House 7 Griot 8 YOUR MONTHLY CAMPUS NEWSPAPER • V O L U M E 8 • NUMBER 7 • J U LY 2 0 11 K-RITH: Building Research Capacity The KwaZulu- Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH) marked a significant milestone on July 12 with a festive groundbreaking at the site of its new laboratory building at UKZN’s Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine.

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three-day scientific from the founding organisations symposium which focused – Makgoba from UKZN and A on the scientific challenges Kurt L Schmoke Esq, Chairman posed by Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV of the HHMI Trustees and also drew distinguished researchers Dean of the Howard University and leaders from and School of Law – who shared around the world. their excitement at the progress K-RITH has made to date. A poetic welcome by world- ‘What a difference a year renowned South African makes,’ said K-RITH Director, storyteller, Ms Gcina Mhlophe Professor William Bishai, as he and entertaining musical stood next to the construction performances by ’s Native scaffolding that enclosed the Blues added to the excitement first four floors of the eight- of the ceremony. Research by floor laboratory building. K-RITH scientists is already Bishai, a world-renowned TB underway in laboratories at the scientist from the Johns Hopkins Medical School and the K-RITH University, was announced as building itself is expected to open K-RITH’s founding director in in the latter half of 2012. May 2010 and moved to Durban K-RITH aims to use basic with his family in July 2011. science research to help those ‘We are here because the A momentous occasion for UKZN Vice-Chancellor, Professor Malegapuru Makgoba; Dr Sibongile Zungu, afflicted by the epidemic of TB scientific challenges of TB and HOD KwaZulu-Natal Health; Dean Kurt L Schmoke Esq, Chairman of the Trustees of the Howard Hughes and HIV in South Africa and HIV also represent major human Medical Institute (HHMI) in the US; Dr Ben Ngubane, Chair of the SABC Board and Professor William Bishai, around the world. K-RITH was problems that touch the lives of Director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH) at the groundbreaking founded in 2009 as a partnership people in KwaZulu-Natal,’ he ceremony. between UKZN and the US- said. based Howard Hughes Medical In 2005, researchers in South therefore, an integral part of the modern history,’ said Mkhize. and every one of you on a job Institute (HHMI) to conduct out- Africa came face to face with mission of this world renowned Dr Ben Ngubane who is well done,’ he added. standing basic science research one of their deadliest fears – the institution.’ the Chairperson of the SABC Symposium delegates attended on TB and HIV, translate the emergence of a virulent strain Bishai acknowledged the Board said he was very proud a dinner after the sod turning scientific findings into new of drug-resistant Tuberculosis substantial support and long- that his alma mater ‘will enable ceremony with keynote addresses tools to control TB and HIV, that quickly killed nearly every term commitment from the us to establish cures and unique by Harvard University’s Professor and expand the educational person it infected. HHMI and noted that many methodologies to get us where we Barry Bloom and the Office of opportunities for future scientists More alarming still, the of the world’s leading scientists want to be’. the National Minister of Science in the region. outbreak surfaced in KwaZulu- have devoted their efforts to The scientific symposium and Technology, Minister Naledi ‘The Groundbreaking cere- Natal, an epicentre of the AIDS K-RITH’s programme, ‘making brought together South African Pandor. Pandor encouraged the mony is an important milestone in pandemic that had hospitals our scientific programme as dignitaries and eminent local participation of young scientists in the development of K-RITH. It is filled with people whose immune compelling and competitive as and international researchers to the K-RITH programme. a signal that by October next year systems were already decimated can be’. examine the scientific problems ‘This partnership will the Institute will be completed by HIV. As the shocking news Schmoke said he was hon- K-RITH will tackle. It featured build research capacity but it and ready for occupation, made headlines worldwide, oured to represent the HHMI talks by top researchers from also unites scientists from two opening a new chapter in cutting- Tugela Ferry, South Africa, and to have a firsthand oppor- Africa, Europe, India, Japan and completely different continents in edge research,’ said Professor became ground zero for the tunity to see K-RITH and the the United States. the fight against the devastating Malegapuru Makgoba, UKZN’s lethal convergence of HIV and Medical School. During this, his ‘As you know, Sub-Saharan illnesses of TB and HIV. So Vice-Chancellor. ‘This is really a new killer, extensively drug- first visit to Durban, Schmoke Africa continues to account for from the people of Africa, we exciting for UKZN, for science resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). met with Makgoba and also the majority of people living salute you for bringing hope to and for the scientific community. ‘It is fair to say that the world toured the McCord Hospital. with HIV and TB in the world. this continent and for partnering K-RITH will be a unique centre is on a brink of the greatest ‘With this facility, Africa In 2008, around 78 percent of with the University of KwaZulu- for excellence,’ he added. period of biological discovery is well positioned to ride this estimated HIV-positive TB cases Natal,’ said Deputy Vice- Speakers at the event in human history,’ said Mkhize next wave of technology and to were in this region, of which Chancellor and Head of the included Dr Sibongile Zungu who is also UKZN’s Chancellor, capitalise on our knowledge, skills around one quarter was living in College of Health Sciences at who represented the Premier in his prepared remarks. and assets to secure a prominent South Africa,’ said Mkhize. ‘On UKZN, Professor Tahir Pillay. of KwaZulu-Natal, Dr Zweli ‘Enriching the fabric of society lead in biotechnology – the third behalf of provincial government, Mkhize, and representatives with improved healthcare is, great technology revolution in I would like to congratulate each

THE PREMIER UNIVERSITY OF AFRICAN SCHOLARSHIP ABAFUNDI ABAVAKASHILE BAKHUTHAZWE IMIKHAKHA YOCWANINGO LWEZEMPILO E-UKZN qembu labafundi elivela ezenziwa iHPP. nophinde uthe kuyajabulisa ukukhombisa e-African Leadership Academy abe nguMqondisi weHPP abafundi izinto eziphathelene I (ALA), okuyisikole saphesheya uthe: ‘Besifuna ukubazisa nesandulela ngculazi kwezilwandle esisiza ukukhulisa ngocwaningo oluvelele kwezesayensi nasemiphakathini. sisekele abaholi abancane olwenziwa iHPP, iCentre ‘Iyona indlela engcono bakusasa abavela e-Afrika yonkana for the AIDS Programme ekukhuthazeni abafundi nasemhlabeni wonke abazimisele of Research in South Africa ukuba bathathe izifundo ekubeni ingxenye ekuthuthukiseni (CAPRISA) nabanye sesayensi,’ kusho uScudder. i-Afrika, aliwuvalanga umlomo esisebenza nabo eThekwini,’ UNdung’u ukhulume emva kokuchitha izinsuku ezintathu Abafundi bakujabulele ngokubaluleka kokuba nothando ukuvakashela emtholampilo ngemisebenzi yocwaningo eHIV Pathogenesis Programme wesandulela ngculazi eVulindlela lwezempilo njengenye yezindlela (HPP) eNyuvesi yaKwaZulu-Natal Clinic engaphansi kweCAPRISA zokusiza ekuthuthukiseni (UKZN). IHPP izinze eDoris Duke okusanda kwenziwa kuyo izinga lomnotho nemiphakathi Medical Research Institute (DDMRI) ucwaningo oluvelele lwe- yonkana. ‘Nisethubeni elihle eseNelson R Mandela School of “Tenofovir Gel Microbicide” kabi ekucobeleleni ngolwazi Salisbury Island classmates who studied Pharmacy during the ‘60s Medicine. ngonyaka ophelile (2010). nibe ngabaholi endleleni and ‘70s at the 50th Anniversary Reunion. Igumbi locwaningo Lapha bathole ulwazi oluningi ethathwa intuthuko e-Africa, lakwaHPP elakhiwe endaweni nokubenze bafisa ukungenelela futhi lamathuba ningawayeki.’ engango 600m2 lugxile ekusizeni imiphakathi mhla Ukhuthaze abafundi kucwaningo ngesandulela beqala ukusebenza. ekubhekeni emkhakheni ekhona Salisbury Island Reunion ngculazi nesifo sofuba, nendawo ‘Bekukhuthaza ukuchitha eMedical School eUKZN. yokugcina izibonakaliso usuku egumbini locwaningo UMnu Mr Yehou Michel brings back memories zocwaningo oselwenziwe. lweHPP siphinde sibe yindlenye Dany Gnopo ongumfundi th USolwazi oqondene yocwaningo,’ kusho uNksz we-ALA ovela e-Ivory Coast A jubilant group of alumni gathered at the 50 nocwaningo lwesifo sengculazi Rose Mbaye we-ALA ovela uthe ubone kunezinto eziningi Anniversary Reunion Banquet of the University College nesandulela ngculazi nothanda eSenegal. ‘Ukuvakashela eziphathelene nesifo sesandulela for Indians, Salisbury Island on June 25. ukuthuthukisa abacwaningi emtholampilo kusivule kakhulu ezisadinga ukulungiswa abancane, uSolwazi Thumbi amehlo kunalokhu esikufunda njengokushoda kwemishanguzo WORDS & PHOTO: SITHEMBILE SHABANGU Ndung’u uthe loluhambo ekilasini, kusinikeza nemibono nokungafundiseki beluhlelelwe luzokwazisa yabantu makuziwa ezindabeni kwemiphakathi ngayo nokuthi lassmates, colleagues and ‘The campus cafeteria served abafundi ngezesayensi, zengculazi nesandulela isetshenziswa kanjani. friends met, some for the as the “parliament” and “nerve ezempilo nezinto ezithinta ngculazi,’ kusho uMbaye. first time after 50 years to centre” for resistance … It was in imiphakathi ngesifo sengculazi Umphathi wezesayensi See Page 4 for the English translation C remember the good and tough the cafeteria and in the corridors nesandulela ngculazi e-ALA UMnu David Scudder of this article times they had in their endeavour to of the hostels that all the secret get an education within the confines planning took place, sometimes of South Africa. under the guise of fun, laughter and frolic,’ she added. The University College for Each table at the Reunion Indians opened its doors in Banquet was given a theme that 1961 with 39 students. The first corresponded to the experiences student to be registered, Dr people had on the Island. Many Vinaychandra Bhagattjee, said made lifetime friends and some that being on the Island was a even found their spouses on the learning experience and that the Island. The men remembered bad times they experienced had the punishment they would be encouraged people to achieve. He given or be sent home if they were added that being at the Reunion not wearing a tie, and women made him feel real happiness remembered being forced to wear again, and he got to see some raincoats if they were pregnant. Abafundi besegumbini locwaningo iHPP. people he has not seen in a long Independent Newspapers time. ‘Not one student was a loser Editor, Mr Dennis Pather said on the Island,’ he added. that during those times it was Teacher mentors trained by UKZN The College was part of inculcated in students that they the plan of “Grand Apartheid” were Indian. He added that they UKZN, in partnership with the ETDP-SETA and the Department of Education held a espoused by the ruling survived all of the intentions of certification ceremony for 425 high school subject advisors at the Edgewood campus Nationalist Government which the apartheid government to on July 1. relentlessly pushed its policy Indianise them. of racial segregation. After 10 One of the students on the WORDS: LUNGA MEMELA years of turbulent existence the Island, Dr Betty Govinden from College closed down and it was the Faculty of Education at he subject advisers also empowered participants Deputy Dean for Con- re-incarnated as the University UKZN said: ‘In a strange way, completed a short course to translate these theoretical tinuing Education and Mixed of Durban-Westville in 1972. I am what I am today because T on Mentor Training offered insights into programmes of Mode Delivery in the Faculty The purpose of the Reunion, of, and in spite of, Salisbury by UKZN’s Faculty of Education. action to mentor teachers. of Education, Professor held at Sibaya, north of Durban, Island. Learning and unlearning ‘This development of subject ‘This has been very useful. Volker Wedekind and DoE was not only to celebrate the I continue to this day, to build advisors as mentors to teachers The course was a lot of hard work representative, Mr Mandla reuniting of old friends but also and break on the yesterdays I within KwaZulu-Natal will filter within a short space of time,’ said Msweli raised concern about to remember the lives of people travelled on the Island.’ through the rank and file of the Advisor for uMgungundlovu the recently released Annual who have since passed on and The night ended with school system,’ said Acting Deputy District, Mrs Linda Ngcongo. National Assessment results to reflect on the trials and dancing, meeting friends and Dean: Initial Teacher Education The course was offered in which reflected very poor reading tribulation that students endured lots of picture taking so that the block sessions of five days to and numeracy outcomes among in the Faculty, Professor Labby on the Island. memories are never lost. Maharaj three cohorts of subject advisors school-going youth. Ramrathan. In a book Reflections, produced also thanked the national and from participating districts. Five Wedekind noted that the for the Reunion, the Chairperson regional Reunion Committees ETDP-SETA – the Education, centres were used as delivery quality of interaction between of the Salisbury Island Com- for their ‘tireless contributions Training and Development sites. the teacher and the learner mittee 2011, Ms Jenny Maharaj, to the Reunion’ and Corporate Practices Sector Education and Participants appreciated in the classroom is of essence. says: ‘The divergent and Relations’ Alumni Relations Training Authority – partnered working in small classes, being He stressed the importance of enriched contradictions of the Office for helping them with key with the University and DoE given clear requirements for building a mentorship approach Island as an institution, brought logistical issues. to establish the course, which assessments, having supportive within the education system. about a strange spirit of unity On the next day, a trip on provided subject advisors facilitators who used innovative ‘Today’s ceremony is a marker and connection that permeated the ferry out to the Island was with theoretical insights into techniques, receiving a detailed for a new start and achieving the campus and spoke out organised for those that were mentoring through engagement programme and working towards these ambitious goals,’ he said. vociferously when it had to be part of the Reunion and their with recent literature. The course outcomes on a daily basis. confrontational. families.

2 U K Z N DABA BRINGING YOU NEWS FROM UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL CAMPUSES History Conference focuses on southern Africa The Historical Studies Programme on the Howard College campus hosted the Southern African Historical Society (SAHS)’s 23rd Biennial Conference from June 27-29.

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ith more than 230 should not be biased but objective. doubt ensured the conference’s ‘ delegates from across ‘It is essential that professional success,’ said Parle. W the world and 180 academic historians and col- Given the passing on of papers presented this was the leagues working in allied fields the presidency of the SAHS largest SAHS conference ever,’ said (archival and museum services; to Professor Ackson Kanduza SAHS President, and UKZN History as well as teachers, librarians, of the University of Botswana, Professor, Julie Parle. and those working in the heritage ‘the organisation is now truly sector, for instance), practice regional, which is exciting and The conference theme scholarly rigour and integrity, important for the Society,’ “The Past and its Possibilities: which are critical, in both senses of said Parle. The 24th Biennial Perspectives of Southern the word, to a healthy democracy, Conference will be held at the Africa” attracted papers and added Parle. University of Gaborone in 2013. panels on a wide variety of The three panel discussions ‘We hope that the momentum in themes – including histories of on Gender and Feminism and the the profession is maintained and health and the environment, African Social Sciences; Ancestral that that conference will draw as biography, the military, and Stories; and the State of the many if not even larger numbers economic history. The papers Archive were well-conceptualised of delegates,’ Parle added. Professor Marie-Louise Newell greets His Majesty, King Goodwill drew on studies conducted in and were approached with Kanduza congratulated Parle, Zwelithini. Botswana, Zimbabwe, Angola, analytical and explorative rigour, and the History Department’s Mozambique, and South Africa. leaving no stone unturned in line Dr Thembisa Waetjen, on an History enthusiasts along with with this year’s conference theme. exhilarating conference and fellow social scientists and an im- ‘Historians are not the invited delegates to the 2013 Africa Centre honours pressive number of postgraduate keepers of “truth”, but it is their conference well in advance. ‘In students enjoyed two stimulating duty to point out manipulations a political climate where media King Goodwill Zwelithini keynote addresses: the first by in- and distortions of the past. This is and academic freedoms are ternationally renowned scholar of no less true today than it was 10, being challenged by proposals for UKZN’s Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, imperialism and trans-national 50 or 100 years ago. Historians media tribunals and information which is based at Mtubatuba in northern KwaZulu- studies as well as of archives and of the future will continue to play bills, historians must once gender, Guggenheim Fellow, Pro- such a role,’ explained Parle. The again become advocates for the Natal, honoured His Majesty, King Goodwill Zwelithini fessor Antoinette Burton; and the numerous biographical papers open flow of information,’ said as its first Patron on July 8. second by award winning author, presented at the conference were Waetjen. newspaper columnist and PhD also a highlight, especially among Performances by renowned WORDS & PHOTO: LUNGA MEMELA candidate, Mr Jacob Dlamini young scholars. poet, Gcina Mhlope and The who both set the tone for pro- ‘Back in 2009, the EXCO of Fanatics Jazz/Pop Trio were an frica Centre Director, ability to achieve some of the vocative topical discussions, de- the SAHS decided to make the additional artistic treat at the Professor Marie-Louise Millennium Goals by 2014. He bate and exploring possibilities encouragement and support of conference. A Newell, bestowed the said that poverty, unemployment for southern African in relation upcoming scholars its priority ‘The conference has been honour on His Majesty and took and universal treatment for to the global picture. and set about this by making truly outstanding in terms of the opportunity to brief him on the HIV/AIDS are only some of the Speaking at the plenary open- the conference as accessible and the quality of the papers and Centre’s planned Youth Programme. goals at risk but ‘I encourage this ing session of the conference, affordable as possible for young discussions that were held,’ said The King’s has a passion for approach [the campaign slogan] Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Re- academics. Not only did they some of the attendees. Parle community upliftment, with a to improve the social fabric of search at UKZN, Professor present world class papers, their saluted everybody who was special focus on youth and health/ our country.’ Nelson Ijumba said it is enthusiasm – and especially in involved in what she said were life-orientated issues. One of the Centre’s ongoing important to cultivate a culture the case of UKZN students, ‘three very packed, very thrilling community-based clinical prac- of intellectuality so that people back-of-stage support – without days’. ‘His unwavering support tices is male circumcision which for the Annual Reed Dance, a is encouraged by His Majesty. ceremony for the young maidens ‘Not a single boy has died from which celebrates their virginity our clinical male circumcision and abstinence emphasises since its inception. By encour- the King’s dedication to aging male circumcision I was mentoring the youth in their announcing cleanliness to our daily lifestyles. The Annual First young boys and to do away with Fruit Ceremony which is held in unprotected sex in the process. I December is the male version of was also not saying they should the reed dance which celebrates then go out and rape,’ he said. the nation coming together for a The King raised his concern prayer for the incoming year. His about HIV positive patients Majesty revived the circumcision who are not open about their project three years ago and has status and hide behind other been a driving force in ensuring diseases such as Tuberculosis. its success,’ noted a media He encouraged a culture of statement from the Centre. honesty coupled with acceptance In his acceptance speech, as all South Africans are either the King stressed that: ‘It infected or affected by HIV. is important that each and ‘We hope that as the Centre’s every one of us should become patron, the King will champion champions of HIV and AIDS... our work, especially our work The young ones must … start with young people and the to be told how important it is to prevention of HIV infection in behave themselves!’ this age group, recognising that Quoting the HIV testing the youth are the future of the campaign slogan “I am Zulu Nation,’ said Newell. responsible, we are responsible, As a token of appreciation, Seen at the Conference were Professor Leslie Witz from the University of the Western Cape’s History South Africa is taking res- His Majesty was presented with Department; keynote presenters, Mr Jacob Dlamini and Professor Antoinette Burton; and Dr Sifiso ponsibility”, His Majesty raised a small statue and a cow. Ndlovu from the South African Democracy Education Trust. concerns about South Africa’s

EDGEWOOD • HOWARD COLLEGE • MEDICAL SCHOOL • PIETERMARITZBERG • WESTVILLE UKZ N DABA 3 International Students visit HPP UKZN collaborates with WORDS: LUNGA MEMELA municipality on urban group of students from the AIDS by the HPP. ‘In particu- combination of the scientific and African Leadership Academy lar, we wanted to provide them social aspects of the HIV. ‘This policymaking A(ALA), an international with exposure to some cutting- is the best possible way to inspire UKZN’s Dr Rosemary Awuorh-Hayangah was one of the high school which develops and edge research taking place at the students to pursue professions in supports young leaders from HIV Pathogenesis Programme, science,’ he added. panellists at the Inaugural Built Environment Seminar across Africa and around the world CAPRISA and other partners in Ndung’u stressed the impor- hosted by UKZN and the eThekwini Municipality’s who desire to play a role in Africa’s Durban,’ he said. tance of being passionate about Municipal Institute of Learning (MILE) on June 22. transformation, were left enthused The students enjoyed visits health research professions as one after spending three days at UKZN’s to local HIV clinics and to the way to make a positive contribu- WORDS & PHOTO: PHUMELELE MAVANENI HIV Pathogenesis Programme (HPP). Centre for the AIDS Programme tion to Africa’s socio-economic of Research in South Africa development and to society at The HPP is situated in the Doris (CAPRISA)’s Vulindlela Clinic, large. ‘You … have an amaz- Duke Medical Research Institute which was the research site for ing opportunity to contribute to (DDMRI) at the Nelson R Mandela the groundbreaking Tenofovir knowledge and to be key players School of Medicine. gel microbicide study in 2010. in the direction that this conti- The HPP Laboratory covers Here, they gained insight into the nent takes and should take ad- approximately 600m2 of space study and said that they were in- vantage of it.’ He encouraged the and serves as both a facility for spired to actively engage in com- students to consider the range of exploratory pathogenesis and munity relations once they enter study opportunities available at translational research into HIV the professional world. the Medical School. and TB, as well as a sample re- ‘It was equally inspiring to ALA student, Mr Yehou Michel pository for all HPP study sam- spend a day in the HPP Lab and Dany Gnopo who hails from the ples. be hands-on,’ reported ALA’s Ivory Coast said he identified a lot Associate Professor in HIV/ Ms Rose Mbaye who hails from of HIV-related issues that still need AIDS Research and Director of Senegal. ‘The clinic visit was very to be addressed in the country, such Back (l-r): UKZN Head of School of Community Development and the HPP who is passionate about different from class work and as the lack of medical treatment Social Work, Professor Thokozani Xaba with Mr Brooks from the ‘developing young researchers’, gives a human aspect to the issues and inadequate education on Office of the Premier, and Professor Turok from HSRC; Front Row (l-r): Professor Thumbi Ndung’u said of HIV/AIDS,’ she added. treatment and its usage. Dr Awuorh Hayangah with Ms Soobs Moonsammy, the eThekwini the visit was arranged to expose ALA’s Head of Science, Mr Municipality Head of Department Planning and Management. the students to scientific, medical David Scudder said it was excit- This is an English translation of the and social issues related to HIV/ ing to expose the students to a article in isiZulu on Page 2. wuorh-Hayangah is the townships, and suburbs into Acting Head of the School urban areas. A of Architecture, Planning ‘Our cities have the lowest and Housing and senior lecturer population densities, but are in Urban and Regional Planning in highly uneven. Townships are “Be a Scientist for a Week” the School. MILE is in partnership concentrated and can be isolated with UKZN for knowledge sharing from the places of economic and collaboration which will build activity. A third of wages of people attracts top learners living in townships are used up A group of approximately 60 high school learners spent a week on UKZN’s partnerships between academics and practicing professionals within by transport to economically active areas, further increasing and Westville campuses finding out if they have what it takes to be the eThekwini Municipality. poverty,’ Turok said. He added a scientist. The aim of the seminar was to that government policy has reflect on the various discussions WORDS & PHOTO: VICKY CROOKES been following a “spatially blind and debates on fostering urban approach” and needs to now steer he learners were all integration under the theme and direct infrastructure and participating in the Faculty of “Reshaping Cities”. Central to investment to areas of need and TScience and Agriculture’s “Be this theme are perspectives drawn to make provision for successful a Scientist for a Week” Programme. from academia as well as local development. If businesses build government practitioners. their firms and factories in or near Designed to provide learners Professor Ivan Turok, Deputy townships, where the bulk of their with a hands-on experience Executive Director of the Human workforce come from, they would of science, the Programme Sciences Research Council be more productive and make was attended by top Grade (HSRC), was the main speaker more profit. 11 and 12 maths and science for the day. He presented a paper Awuorh-Hayangah spoke of learners from a selection of the on “Reshaping Cities. What more need for academia to introduce University’s key feeder schools. can be done?” evidence research-based policy They were all selected for their The spatial form of South to meet the goals of spatial academic prowess and because African cities is more fragmented, integration. ‘There needs to of their desire to broaden their and the population distribution be more research on land and perspective and find out what more imbalanced than other redistribution. We (academia) can really happens beyond the countries. The 2011 State of the create theories, and modelling classroom. as being able to ‘go to your made many learners realise that Cities Report notes that Govern- techniques for government to put Nine of the Faculty’s Schools future and check it out’. Another there is a lot more to agriculture ment has acknowledged that little into place,’ she said. She posed hosted the learners for three budding scientist said at school than just farming. or no progress has been made a question to the audience: ‘As hours at a time, exposing them they often hear about different Overall co-ordinator of in transforming the geographic more of the poor enter into urban to the nuances of their disciplines science disciplines and areas of the “Be a Scientist for a Week” patterns inherited from the places in the next 30 years, how via experiments, laboratory work, work but don’t really know what programme, Dean’s Assistant for apartheid regime and to promote would we welcome them without data collection, programming they entail. This Programme Recruitment, Dr Naven Chetty, urban integration. President placing them in the periphery, and and other practical challenges. helps to ‘put something behind said it is important for learners Jacob Zuma noted in his Freedom further reproduce dislocations The learners also spent time at the words’, she said. to be exposed to the different Day speech on April 27 that, and inequalities?’ the Electron Microscope Unit The Programme catered science disciplines and career ‘Many still live in areas once Mr Frikkie Brooks, Head and received career guidance for all interests ranging from options. This was the first year designated for Black people, away of the Secretariat to the KZN and advice from Schools Liaison maths and computer science to that the event has been held on from economic opportunities and Provincial Planning Commission and Student Counseling. bioresources engineering, genetics both the Pietermaritzburg and civic services’. Turok pointed out in the Office of the Premier, When questioned about and environmental sciences. Westville campuses; last year that South Africa does not have concurred with Awuorh- giving up some of their holiday Programming robots in a pilot programme was run on a set urban agenda to counter Hayangah and added that an time to attend the “Be a Scientist computer science was a popular the Pietermaritzburg campus. the effects of apartheid on accurate understanding of the for a Week” programme, the choice and time spent learning Chetty hopes to make this population fragmentation and fragmentation and structuring of learners said it was a small about genetics was an eye- an annual event with a view segregation. He added that the populations and where they are sacrifice to make for what could opening experience. A visit to increasing the number of former regional inequalities have situated is not apparent in South change or direct their future. One to Ukulinga, the University’s participants next year. translated into urban inequalities Africa. learner described the experience research and training farm, with Bantustans turning into

4 U K Z N DABA BRINGING YOU NEWS FROM UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL CAMPUSES Law Professor co-authors two books Senior Research Associate and Acting Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at UKZN, Professor David McQuoid-Mason, has co-authored two medical books this year.

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he first bookEthics, Human from time to time, with an ethical Rights and Health Law: dilemma.’ T Principles and Practice, The second book A-Z of co-authored with Professor Ames Medical Law is co-authored with Dhai, was published in January. Dr Mahomed Dada and was Dhai is the Director of the published at the end of May. Centre for Bioethics at the University Dada is the former Head of the From left: Ms Liandra Bertolli, Ms Anel Geer and Ms Kate Strachan out in the field conducting research as of the Witwatersrand. McQuoid- Department of Forensic Medicine part of their Masters of Science degrees. Mason is an external examiner at the Nelson R Mandela School for two Master’s programmes at of Medicine. He has collaborated with McQuoid-Mason on five the Centre and he teaches and books and manuals on different provides practicals for one of its aspects of forensic and health Masters courses. Dhai was McQouid- law. McQuoid-Mason notes ‘I Masons’s Law and Medical Practice Young scientists first collaborated with Dada in student in early 2000 at the former medico-legal journal articles University of Natal and obtained a and books when he was Head thrive in the outdoors distinction for her research paper. of Forensic Medicine at the The book provides healthcare Medical School … People should In today’s techno-age, when all sorts of activities can be accomplished sitting at a and legal practitioners with the look out for the second edition of desk and at the touch of a button, it’s refreshing to find young people who will do theory and practical application the popular A-Z of Nursing Law in necessary to understand and August 2011’. anything to be outdoors, getting their hands dirty. apply bioethics, human rights The A-Z of Medical Law and health law to their present is designed to help medical WORDS: VICKY CROOKES PHOTO: SUPPLIED and future work. The main practitioners handle legal issues challenges practitioners face they face in daily practice, and his is the mind-set of three located in the Natal Midlands. sect in the salt marsh, Strachan relate to ethical and human rights covers topics from abandonment This highly responsive ecosys- Masters students studying will analyse the live and fossil- aspects of patient confidentiality of patients to Zulu law. The tem, comprising indigenous for- T Environmental Science on ised foraminifera found at different and informed consent, book is also a useful resource est and Natal mistbelt grasslands, UKZN’s Pietermaritzburg campus. elevations in order to reconstruct particularly regarding children, for lawyers and undergraduate provides an ideal location for pal- past sea-level change in the area termination of pregnancy, end and post-graduate medical and Ms Anel Geer, Ms Kate aeoenvironmental studies. during the late Holocene period of life decisions and HIV/AIDS law students. Each of the 650 Strachan and Ms Liandra Bertolli Geer has extracted a sedi- (the last 10 000 years). and the law. Doctors and other topics in the book includes a all thrive on being outside where mentary core from the Dartmoor Bertolli, who migrated from health care professionals need definition, the applicable law, they can interact with nature and Vlei which will be analysed for the biological sciences (in which guidance regarding ethical issues implications for doctors, cautions the environment. It’s therefore pollen, charcoal and stable light she completed her Honours), is and the law. The book is designed and other relevant law. ‘We no surprise that their Masters’ isotopes. By analysing the pollen working on water quality. She to give them some principles chose the topics by considering research involves a considerable from the core, Geer will be able is looking at diatoms, which and practical solutions to assist the types of questions that have amount of field work in some of to detect changes in the composi- are unicellular algae encased in them in dealing with the issues arisen at Continuing Professional South Africa’s most spectacular tion of the vegetation. Charcoal silica. They are highly sensitive that they confront in day-to-day Development seminars that and pristine areas. It is also not analysis will provide insight into to environmental changes which practice. I have conducted for doctors surprising that their research past fire history. Radiocarbon make them an effective tool for The book was reviewed in as well as by considering the topics focus on preserving and dating, which was conducted in monitoring past and present the South African Medical Journal types of topics to be found in improving the environment for Miami, Florida, has established environmental conditions, as where the reviewer stated: ‘My standard medical law texts’ said the future generation. that the core is 12 000 years old well as water quality. recommendation would be McQuoid-Mason. Geer and Strachan are and will therefore provide insight Bertolli will analyse and that all practitioners hold this The books are available conducting research in the into environmental changes for compare diatoms from two excellent book in their personal at Juta & Co. Ltd. and other broad area of Paleoecology, this period. different areas: a pristine wetland libraries for easy reference academic book stores. which is defined as, ‘The study Strachan’s research involves in Cathedral Peak and impacted whenever faced, as we all are of the interactions of organisms reconstructing sea-level change wetlands in Underberg which are with one another and with the using salt marsh single-celled sites of dairy farms, frequented physical environment in the organisms called foraminifera, by humans and cattle. According geologic past.’ When questioned from the Kariega Estuary in the to Bertolli, ‘These species are about the significance of their Eastern Cape. ‘Foraminifera live accurate indicators of poor or work in the grand scheme of in all marine environments and good water quality.’ They will things, Geer explained that the their shells remain in the sediment enable her to devise a water- key to understanding the future as a fossil once the organism has quality index, which hopefully is knowing what happened in the died,’ said Strachan. The vertical can be adapted for use in other past. The acceleration of climate distribution of foraminiferal areas of the country. change obliges one to ask, “Why species across salt marshes is All working under the expert is all this change happening?” controlled by flooding frequency eye of their supervisor, Professor Both researchers feel strongly and the salinity of the water, and Trevor Hill, the three students that if we don’t know what to as a result, elevation in relation cannot seem to get enough of expect, we cannot even begin to tidal heights. Therefore, field work. They claim that this to tell what may happen in the foraminifera are useful indicators is the ‘fun part’ and that the lab years to come. for reconstructing sea-level work, although interesting at Funded by the Palaeonto- changes from coastal sediments. first, quickly loses its attraction. logical Scientific Trust (PAST) Very little research has been They credit their co-supervisor, and the South African National conducted in South Africa using Environmental Sciences Lectur- Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) these organisms as sea-level er, Dr Jemma Finch, as having Grasslands Programme, Geer is indicators, so Strachan’s work sparked their interest in this type investigating the vegetation his- will be breaking new ground. of research. tory to identify environmental Employing an extensive pro- change in the Karkloof area, gramme of coring along a tran- Professor David McQuoid-Mason.

EDGEWOOD • HOWARD COLLEGE • MEDICAL SCHOOL • PIETERMARITZBERG • WESTVILLE UKZ N DABA 5 Commemorating Women’s Month Women’s Month is an opportunity to commemorate the immense contribution made by women to our democratic South Africa. As UKZN, it is also an opportunity to highlight the richness of the research that seeks to address the problems women still face and to outline some of the challenges women academics are confronted with.

WORDS: PHUMELELE MAVANENI & GQWESA NYIKANA

UKZN’s Women in Research Academy, initiated by U the University Dean of Research, Professor Cheryl Potgieter, aims to empower women academics to develop their research potential. One of the research mentors for the academy is Dr Betty C Mubangizi, a Senior Lecturer, in the School of Public Administration and Development Management and Assistant to the Dean of Research. Mubangizi joined the Uni- versity in 2001. A late entrant PHOTO: PHUMELELE MAVANENI into academia without a PhD, PHOTO: PHUMELELE MAVANENI she felt isolated and unfamiliar Dr Betty C Mubangizi . Dr Motshedisi Sebitloane. in the research environment of the University. ‘Back then, there were no programmes to support specific target groups of academics or those with specific needs. Thankfully, there are now several initiatives in the University which offer support to novice researchers and women in particular’, she said. Mubangizi notes that women’s inability to publish is not only related to a lack of skills but to issues of self-assurance and the micro-politics within academia. Having a mentor helps one PHOTO: SUPPLIED navigate through such barriers. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Novice researchers need a support Mrs Rozena Maart . Mrs Munirah Osman-Hyder. system of established researchers and a supportive institutional School of Medicine, Dr Motshedisi makes them more vulnerable to Women’s rights Gender inequality environment that recognises Sebitloane describes her research HIV infection. and rewards them – the current as “women-centred”. She singles Miss Philisiwe Nhlangano, ‘The 1994 elections were South African feminist and dispensation at UKZN has made out Cervical Cancer in older a Masters student at the Centre filled with promises ... a promise award-winning author, Mrs great strides in this regard and it’s women, and HIV infection, and for Communication, Media and for better education, a promise Rozena Maart is an Associate up to women to take advantage of deaths related to child birth in the Society is focusing her research for better housing ... equality Professor in the Gender Studies these opportunities. reproductive age group as major on female students living in for all ... The sad reality is that Department on the Howard Col- Of women academics, health factors affecting women. University residences. Nhlangano these promises have not been lege campus. She is passionate Mubangizi says, ‘Our tendency The Department seeks not only is passionate about young women kept for the vast majority and a about addressing gender in- to bring the “motherly” instinct to conduct research on these taking a stand. ‘They know about large percentage of these people equalities. into our work environment issues, but also taps into women’s the facts of the virus and infection, are women,’ said Lecturer in ‘I believe that all people are probably slows us down in knowledge and perspectives but they can’t keep to the rules of the Faculty of Law, Mrs Munira concerned about equal rights and our pursuit for excellence. We on medical interventions and prevention. A woman needs to be Osman-Hyder want this achieved in their lives, tend to be more empathetic procedures. ‘This assists us to … selfish about her body and health, ‘It is for these women that, but people should not criticise towards students than our male improve our care,’ she said. she must request for, and provide I continue to be involved in the process to achieve this goal counterparts probably are. Our Sebitloane stresses women’s protection for herself’, she said. community outreach programmes, if they are not participating in it. role as female academics takes right to life: ‘Many of the actions Researchers at UKZN’s Cen- forums, conferences and workshops We need to understand that all on such dimensions as mother women take jeopardise their health tre for the AIDS Programme that focus on educating people to women address gender inequality and mentor and this necessitates and eventually their life. We as of Research in South Africa treat women with respect and the in different ways. It’s an everyday spending many hours counselling health workers need to safeguard (CAPRISA) have achieved an dignity they deserve,’ she added. phenomenon and all women feel and supporting students (and patients’ rights to have access to important scientific breakthrough Osman-Hyder is an executive its effects,’ said Maart. colleagues!) in aspects of their quality care, and ensure their in the fight against HIV and member of the Association of Some of the postgraduate lives that are peripheral to the right to freedom from medical genital herpes with a vaginal Muslim Accountants and Lawyers research in the department focuses academic process.’ torture.’ She advises women not gel that significantly reduces a and is also one of the co-founders of on; women in development; the Mubangizi now has a to compromise their health and woman’s risk of being infected with the Coalition of Muslim Women image of women in the media; Doctorate, has 15 SAPSE- protect themselves from HIV and these viruses. The CAPRISA 004 (MWC) which is working closely the media and the portrayal of accredited publications to her unplanned pregnancies, which she trial of tenofovir gel was found to with the SA Justice Ministry in athlete, Caster Simenye; and name and has made several calls ‘the greatest plagues of this be 39 percent effective in reducing the consultation process of the disabled women in intimate presentations at local and inter- generation’. a woman’s risk of becoming Muslim Marriages Bill (MMB). partner relationships, amongst national conferences. In addition infected with HIV during sex and ‘This Bill is a legislative others. she frequently publishes in local Regaining women power 51 percent effective in preventing framework for the recognition and Gender Studies is embarking media on matters of academic genital herpes infections in the regulation of Muslim marriages on a campus-based project that and public interest. Young woman are most women participating in the to deal with gender inequality focuses on violence and homo- vulnerable to the HIV pandemic trial. Should other studies of and women’s rights within phobia called “Campus Safety Women and health as they are the most easily and tenofovir gel confirm these results, marriages ... This legislation will Project”. The Project will reach rapidly infected group in South widespread use of the gel, at this not be forced on any member of out to Residence Assistants, Risk Chief Specialist in Obstetric Africa. Research shows that level of protection, could prevent the Islamic community,’ she said. Management Services, Coun- Outreach and Senior Lecturer women find it difficult to negotiate over half a million new HIV in- The Bill has raised heated selling and Support Service in Obstetrics and Gynaecology for consistent condom usage with fections in South Africa alone over debate within the Muslim com- Officers, and students. (O+G) at the Nelson R Mandela their long-term partners, and this the next decade. munity.

6 U K Z N DABA BRINGING YOU NEWS FROM UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL CAMPUSES Getting into the Glass House On the eve of Women’s Month, Deanne Collins asked University Dean of Research, Professor Cheryl Potgieter to share her views on the barriers facing women in Higher Education.

Q. Much has been written on she will have to be the head of and to lobby for change? the “triple burden” South department as well. Is she ready Could you outline specific African women labour for this? Has she got management areas of research that are under. How does this affect and administrative interests needed? access to Higher Education or experience? Let’s ask her to A. “Enough” is a difficult term and the position of women apply for the post which does not to engage with! Research must academics? have such huge administrative have a purpose. As women, we responsibilities”. Often women need to identify the main societal A. In relation to the triple are not even getting into the challenges and how these affect burden which has also recently glass house let alone being able our research. Take, for example, been questioned I often make to break the glass ceiling. Often climate change. Women from the link between the personal, women are not intentionally across the disciplines at UKZN the political and the professional excluded but the argument can contribute towards shaping in relation to women academics. for suitability of appointment, both the African and global Essentially how you navigate and for example is voiced from a agenda on climate change. challenge the divide between the patriarchal paradigm or world While we need to increase personal and the professional is a view. This does not mean that I the number of women in science, “political” act. In South Africa, do not believe in hard work, focus engineering and technology, we the majority of undergraduate and commitment. Anybody who must avoid a technicist approach students are women and they works with me know that I will where we increase numbers but also have higher success rates never compromise on the latter are producing academics who are than men. However, there is a and I do expect excellence. not necessarily critical thinkers. “leaky pipeline” at Honours, As women we are often asked: Masters and PhD levels, where Q. What measures are need- “so what are you doing in relation the number of women dwindles. ed to overcome the barriers to communities?” We cannot This is not only due to financial to women’s empowerment be everything to everybody. As constraints. At this stage of their at Higher Education Insti- academics our primary role is to lives women are expected to do tutions? teach and research and for the what society expects – marry, research and teaching to impact reproduce, and look after the kids A. The first thing that is needed on communities. However, I and the household – so they often is commitment at the highest do support engagement with do not continue with advanced level. Ring fenced funding communities and I think we postgraduate studies. At the should be provided to support could focus on a couple of key same stage of their lives men are women academics. No institution community projects. I would settling into jobs, moving up the is homogeneous. While one for example like the Women in career ladder, and often studying department may be supportive, Research Academy to partner further all with the support of a another may be a nightmare! A with schools in one or two areas wife or partner. Once children focused capacity development in KwaZulu-Natal and support are grown women return to Professor Cheryl Potgieter. programme which is regularly and mentor female scholars Higher Education or those who evaluated; talent and potential who hopefully will register as have been academics but have “not achieving”. In recent years space I was conscious of the fact spotting; a doctoral programme university scholars. struggled to complete PhDs or I find myself turning often to that I was not only a woman but a which incorporates leadership publish during their 20s and 30s the thinking of obviously femi- black woman. Change is evident development; clear career Q. Professor Potgieter, any are very productive during their nist scholars but also the work of in the form of increasing financial trajectories. I also think that concluding thoughts? 40s. This is the gendered context Frantz Fanon and Steve Biko as support for change initiatives we need to have the discussion which one has to take into somehow in all our interventions from bodies like the National on different paths in academia. A. I do believe that we have account when one writes policies. we have often not addressed is- Research Foundation (NRF) and Should all good scholars become much to be comfortable and For example, do not have 35 as sues of liberating the mind. individual institutions, but the deans and DVCs which is often proud of in terms of women and a cut off age for funding for a pace of change is not as rapid as the case? Or how do we merge Higher Education. Obviously, PhD if the intention is to increase Q. How well-represented we would like. the two? starting with our policy frame- the number of women who have are women at different lev- Where are all the missing work which is always the doctoral degrees. Obviously els in Higher Education in women? And just as importantly, Q. In your opinion, should necessary starting point. I am these issues are both raced and South Africa (eg as lectur- do those women who are at the women at Higher Education often reminded of the words of classed. ers, professors, in executive top represent the interests of Institutions form their own Professor Salim Badat the Vice- How do we break this cycle? management positions)? women, or have they simply learnt organisation to represent Chancellor of Rhodes University In universities gender-friendly to engage with a masculinist their interests? If so, in his inaugural address policies are a starting point. Then A. The higher up you go, the system? I often struggle with the what form could such an when he stated that in Higher budgets to support women need fewer women, particularly Black notion if one can be a feminist organisation take? Education we ‘face enormous to possibly be ring fenced. There women you find. Ten to 12 years in senior management positions challenges of pursuing economic also needs to be commitment ago, there were possibly more in institutions. Or do we merely A. I think that women at growth and social equity and from the most senior level of women Deputy Vice-Chancellors become femocrats? different institutions should doing this within a democratic university management and I also and Vice-Chancellors than make the decision. However, frame-work in a manner which believe in a particular portfolio there are today. Women Q. Does a “glass ceiling” experience has shown that often is environmentally sustainable or champion to drive the change. move from lecturer to senior exist in Higher Education women have reported very good is a huge challenge.’ In addition Women are most definitely lecturer. However it is difficult Institutions? experiences in terms of their he points out that this will all not only victims – the issue of to move from senior lecturer careers as a result of women have to be done simultaneously. agency is important – we need to associate professor and even A. I think the glass ceiling is only organisations. However, This is no different from the to challenge the institutional and more challenging to move to opaque! It’s not that one can’t these organisations should work agenda we have spoken about personal structures responsible full professor. Women need to move it, but when, for example, closely with general initiatives. I as women’s participation in for this set-up. talk and strategise about these we talk about merit and have also been part of women’s Higher Education is part of the Women need a space like the issues. I, for example, when at the standards, what do we mean? studies groups which have not broader agenda. We often will Women in Research Academy University of Pretoria waited a Often women are excluded at necessarily excluded men. be forced to “think outside of which I am driving where they number of years before I applied the interview level. I have heard the box” and engage with bold are supported to be good scholars for the position of full professor as comments on committees, not Q. Do you feel that South and imaginative strategies and and intellectuals and most im- I wanted to ensure that I met more necessarily here at UKZN where African universities are policies which will bring us a bit portantly where they are exposed than the minimum requirements statements are made like: “yes she doing enough to promote closer to our overall goals. to the theoretical underpinnings for full professor. I know how has published and has a PhD but research to address gender which are contributing to them committees operate and in that if we appoint her to this position inequality in society at large

EDGEWOOD • HOWARD COLLEGE • MEDICAL SCHOOL • PIETERMARITZBERG • WESTVILLE UKZ N DABA 7 The UKZN Griot Of Posties and Toasties As sociology student at Wits in the late 1960s the only theories to which we were exposed were functionalism and normative theory. According to this paradigm the world was a stable place.

WORDS: Keyan G Tomaselli

arxism assumed a formance indicators to prescribe all so dizzy. The posties forget With information now being existed, that we were working at different kind of positivist outputs to validate promotion. that the anti-posties are the ones virtual, and degradable steel it, and that our budget and leave M normativity. Since the Hey man, we can either restructure who are still in control. and concrete used for building, requirements would not stretch advent of the Information Age we or do research. It’s difficult to The Humanities and Social the aliens will find only the hard to extra days on site while we now know that nothing is stable. deliver both simultaneously. What Sciences are always the bugbear messages left in rock engravings waited for the sun to cool. Here The global economy, bedeviled by will that irritating female voice on in these kinds of negotiations. carved by our ancestors. was very sensible indigenous recurring cycles and crises, has been our telephone system tell those on This is because we study ideology. Now to my point. In April knowledge at work which we stretched to its limits by the sheer hold when our productivity units We nitpick over detail and turn I spent ten days with students all elevate to something special greed of top bankers everywhere. decline because we are mucking detail into PhDs. PhDs bring and colleagues documenting in these postie post-apartheid The fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, about in the bureaucratic trenches in the SAPSE bucks and the engravings carved a thousand times, but which is depreciated instead of polishing our KPAs? SAPSE bucks create their own years ago in a remote poort in the and then apartheid, was just an by an instrumentalist system of We all know that the cur- micro-economies based on who is Northern Cape. The downpours budgeting that cannot afford it indicator of things to come: 2011 in rent structure was always un- producing the most publications and wind trammeled us by night, and monitoring mechanisms that North Africa and the Middle East workable. That’s what happens and graduates. Like bankers, we and the sun toasted us by day. cannot accommodate it. Maybe totally puncture the idea of political when restructuring is based on lose sight of the broader scheme of Roads were washed away. At we do need to go back to basics? homeostasis. political rather than educational things while we selfishly nurture night we desperately clung onto Why can’t we just work when it For academics these are foundations. Guess we had no our personal cost centres. our tents on the edge of the rapidly feels right? exciting times, the intellectual choice given the mess that faced Whereto from here? Maybe it rising Orange River. During the Ironically, what we were doing challenges exponential. For the planners after 1994. So now won’t matter if the Mayan calendar, day we worked with members of is post-modern media archaeology. bankers, well, the plundering we’ve been told to fix it again. Nostradamus, and Hollywood’s the ≠Khomani who shared with The text is not studied for its own continues. For me, I often feel that Humanities staffers spent an blockbuster, 2012, are correct. They us their interpretations of the sake, but additionally from the the world is coming apart. I read afternoon at a largely disused all predict, as is confirmed by The engravings while they entered interpretations stemming from the newspapers. The confirmation station hotel discussing School History Channel, that the world GPS co-ordinates. Few think readings by our ≠Khomani inter- is there for all to see: climate reconfigurations. Some quick will end in 2012. Maybe this will be that the descendants of the First locutors and wider team. What change, earthquakes, tsunamis, gambling, a rush of blood, some the ultimate relief? Academics can People have opinions on such art. I have learned from our studies revolutions, nuclear melt-downs, speed dating, some adulterous take a break. Man oh man, do we Paradigms are fought out between of indigeneity is that nothing is oil spills, piracy, crime, political disciplinary affairs, some spurned need one. scholars. The Gods were speaking normative, nothing can be taken stupidity and, according to my partners, and viola, a new set Will the managers notice that to us, insisted the ≠Khomani, for granted, and that science is British colleagues, the very death of disciplinary families found the end is approaching? Will both via the engravings and the always up for grabs. Now, that’s of the university. Maybe, like themselves cohabiting uneasily. KPAs survive the cataclysm to weather and in our interactions. indigenous knowledge at work. most media students, I’ll just stop The quick-fix was found between come? What will the new alien They despaired at the pro- reading the papers or watching lunch and tea. This was very colonisers make of modernity’s fessional researchers slaving Keyan G Tomaselli is Director of TV. different to 2004 when the long- bizarre worship of spreadsheets? away under the relentless sun, The Centre for Communication, Media What’s UKZN response negotiated merger resulted in The residues of modernity will when it was better to sit under a and Society. He admits to being a to these crises? Yet more re- problems that had now come disappear much sooner than the shady tree or rock at mid-day. We History Channel fan. structuring while simultaneously home to roost. Come to think of it, premodern Mayan and Egyptian explained that research auditors demanding from its now utterly ever since I’ve been at UKZN, we structures of old. This was the require evidence of output; they Disclaimer: The views ex- exhausted and bewildered aca- have been in a cycle of perpetual main message of The History were coming from Pretoria on pressed in this column are demics a new battery of per- restructuring. No wonder we are Channel’s Life After People series. our last day to check that the site the author’s own. Sudoku Short Story Day at CALS 3 6 5 The Centre for African Literary Studies (CALS) on the Pietermaritzburg campus celebrated Short Story Day on June 21 by inviting staff and students to a vibrant 7 8 3 display of literature at the centre. 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