STRONGER TOGETHER supporting, giving to, and investing in Wits STRONGERTOGETHER WITSVICE-CHANCELLOR As you are aware, we are facing challenging times, when public funding for higher education is declining, while students demand no fee increases or no fees at all. Universities are caught in a financial pincer, which we have to transcend without compromising academic quality. We are increasingly reliant on your support to attract and retain talented, innovative academics and students; to offer more scholarships to disadvantaged students with academic potential; to support the research and teaching activities of our university; to update our technology and equipment; and to maintain and develop our facilities and infrastructure. Your support assists us in ensuring that Wits remains financially sustainable and at the cutting edge of higher education on the continent and globally. Your support also boosts us in our You, our donors, supporters critical role of helping to build a strong, stable, democratic, and investors, are the internationalised society in a country dealing with profound mainsail of our university. socio-political problems, unemployment and complex issues of You have consistently been decolonisation and transformation. there for us, helping to sustain We are currently required to make hard financial trade-offs that and advance our globally are not simply managerial and strategic; they are also ethical competitive university. and moral. They include being firm about keeping campus safe and functioning, while proactively addressing inequality in South African society, contributing to job creation and overcoming the capacity constraints that are limiting Africa’s economic growth. In so many ways, Wits has an inestimable role to play in shaping the future of South Africa and the continent. It matters that we engage on issues of freedom and justice. It matters that our communities are ably served by Wits-trained professionals – health professionals, teachers, entrepreneurs, artists, social workers, engineers, accountants, lawyers, IT innovators, environmental scientists, physicists and all the other graduates we produce. It matters that Wits academics contribute globally to relevant research on everything from TB and HIV to climate change, sustainable societies, and the origins of the universe. Wits matters and we need to find the resources to educate our young people and nurture the best minds on the continent by providing an outstanding education in all the disciplines that we offer. At the same time we need to provide the funding, environment and infrastructure for novel, globally relevant research. At Wits we believe these requirements are mutually inclusive and absolutely necessary in a globalised and globally competitive university environment. We are ambitious about our teaching, research and impact on a global scale, and I believe that we – our staff and students – and you – our friends, alumni, and supporters – are a powerful community, which, together, can achieve extraordinary breakthroughs and find solutions to the challenges that impact our societies, our environment and our world. TOGETHER Professor Adam Habib WE ARE STRONG Vice-Chancellor and Principal Introduction by Prof Adam Habib | 2 3 | CONTENTS 2 INTRODUCTION BY PROF ADAM HABIB 6 DONORS & SPONSORS: INFOGRAPHICS 8 MULTI-FUNDED PARTNERSHIPS Africa’s Most Important Digital Technology Hub; Public Health for SA, Public Health for Africa; Transforming Cities – Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities 13 PORTRAITS OF EXCELLENCE Outstanding postgraduates at Wits 16 PEOPLE GIVE TO PEOPLE Wits Art Museum (WAM) 18 HOPE AND MEANINGFUL CHANGE Academically deserving students in financial need 20 MODES OF GIVING Individual giving Corporate donors & sponsors Philanthropic foundations Trusts, endowment funds & bequests Public sector funding and state-owned enterprises 41 WITS LEADS THE WORLD 42 B-BEEE INVESTMENT SOLUTIONS 43 WAYS TO GIVE TO AND SUPPORT WITS 44 HOW TO GIVE 45 HONOURS BOARD OF DONORS & SPONSORS STRONGER TOGETHER | 4 5 | STRONGERTOGETHERTOTAL WITS GROUP INCOME 2015 - R5.5 BILLION WITSINFOGRAPHICS More than 1000 More than individual donors 30% of our donor donated amounts income came from SA 65% RATED ranging from R15million the United States A and the United 26 to monthly donations US 25% of R100 Kingdom UK 9% A-rated STUDENT FEES African White Indian Coloured researchers Rest 1% 52% 21% 13% 4% at Wits Asian recognised by peers internationally as global DONATION INCOME BY COUNTRY STUDENTNUMBERS 0.5% leaders in their field R222m More than More than R1.5b 2015 80 local and 20 20 000 international philanthropic students receive foundations donated some form 33 774 more than R100 million DONATION INCOME DONATION of external to deserving projects funding in the University 10 Philanthropic Foundations 37% Self funding 51% DST/NRF UNDERGRADUATE Centres of Corporates & Corporate 30% National Student Financial 18% Foundations Aid Scheme Male Female POSTGRADUATE Excellence Highest of all Public sector 20% Bursaries from external 24% 45% 55% SA universities Individuals 11% funders PBO/ NGO 2% University funded 7% Bequests 0.2% Ranked Public sector organisations and st in SA 2016 state owned entities invested more than 381 R300 million More than 150 South African 203 176 *NRF-rated Corporate and Corporate researchers Foundation donors and sponsors GLOBALLY GLOBALLY and 300 human resource 1 at Wits pipeline sponsors invested Centre for World Class Centre for World more than R400 million in * National Research Foundation University projects and Universities – Shanghai University Rankings student bursaries and Jiao Tong University – CWUR scholarships 5.5 billion 90% 139th of graduates find 26 2013 Global SUBSIDY employment within Employability SARChI a year of graduation rankings CHAIRS R873m * The South African band Research Chairs Initiative R1.2b 150-200 Times Higher Education 2016 37% Ranking of World Universities Range of funders 73% INCREASE US Agency for International Development 37% RESEARCHOUTPUT SA National 27% RESEARCH since 2012 EXTERNALLY FUNDED PROJECTS EXTERNALLY Research Foundation US National Institutes of Health 20% Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 10% more than Wits is the largest producer R1.2b Clinical Laboratory Services 5% of medical specialists & R2BILLIONinvested sub-specialists in South Africa Wits Clinical Research 3% in new & renovated buildings & infrastructure over the past decade Other donors/sponsors 25% HEALTH CONSORTIUM HEALTH | 6 7 | STRONGERTOGETHER MULTI-FUNDEDPARTNERSHIP “The Tshimologong Precinct will become Africa’s International networks AFRICA’S MOST most important digital technology hub,” says Wits has built strong international networks in support of the Professor Barry Dwolatzky, head of the Joburg Tshimologong project, and formal agreements have been signed Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Ryerson IMPORTANT DIGITAL which is driving the project. “It will be a 24/7 University in Canada, the Netherlands Embassy and the Bombay space for anyone wanting to acquire digital Stock Exchange Institute in India to boost growth opportunities TECHNOLOGY HUB skills – from entry level to advanced. Here, you for entrepreneurs and accelerate start-up incubation. can interact with tech developers, programmers, designers and entrepreneurs to transform ideas into Significant and impactful businesses. From digital tools that Strategic Founding Partners diagnose disease to systems that assist & Sponsors insurance companies to analyse risk, Tshimologong will develop it.” All funds contributed to Tshimologong qualify as valid contribution to several elements of the revised Tshimologong is a multi-funded B-BBEE codes. partnership between government, industry and academia that will anchor Strategic Founding Partners the rejuvenation of West Braamfontein & Sponsors include: and make a significant contribution • The City of Johannesburg to South Africa’s job creation and • Gauteng Provincial Department of eGovernment development needs by creating a skilled • IBM Research ICT workforce, encouraging enterprise • Telkom Delivering: development and enticing foreign direct • MMI Group • Microsoft South Africa • High tech skills investment. More than R60 million of the • Cisco Systems funding for this ambitious R100 million • Job creation • Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) project has come from the strategic • Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) • Enterprise development founding partners. • Teraco Data Environments • Inner city rejuvenation Tshimologong is being created out of • KMJ Services • Foreign direct investment five Wits-owned buildings that are being • DataCentrix repurposed from warehouses, retail outlets and a nightclub, into training Other important partners are: rooms, shared workspaces, events Absa/Barclays Africa, Motorola Foundation and Google areas, incubators and development South Africa. pods. The first major anchor tenant is IBM Research – the world’s largest research The emerging digital economy organisation – which has established its The Tshimologong Digital Zone is core to the University’s drive to 13th international research organisation position Wits at the cutting edge of the emerging digital economy. here as part of the expansion of IBM Other complementary initiatives include substantial investments Research Africa. into ‘big data’ analytics capacity across the university in key areas such as Health Sciences, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio