UCT LEGACY SOCIETY to discuss all student and worker demands and to keep talking to December 2015 Newsletter everybody until such time as an agreement could be signed about the This has been a challenging year were the headline demands that, way forward on a particular issue made for South African universities. starting with Rhodes? statue at UCT, a huge difference. Thus, apart from # rhodesmustfall; # feesmustfall; students at a widening network of one small scuffle, exams at UCT were # outsourcingmustend. These universities around the country used to written and completed without incident articulate a deeper sense of grievance by the 70% of students who had chosen and anger not only against their to write at the end of 2015. The other universities but also, in the case of fees, 30% are scheduled to write, as agreed, to challenge government with a early in the New Year. vehemence not seen amongst the Beyond that there is a serious journey student generation since the fall of ahead as the various generations (who Apartheid. meet perhaps more directly at university UCT has been one of the epi-centres of than anywhere else in society) continue this upheaval which has placed to grapple with how most effectively to enormous strain on both students and transform a society still so badly staff? wherever they found themselves disfigured by the racially biased in the raging debate about inequality of both power and wealth transformation? but the university?s generated by its colonial and apartheid willingness, led by the Vice Chancellor, history. UCT clearly has an important page 1 Newsletter | December 2015 role to play in facilitating this vital process on the long Silent Spring; the 1970s bumpy road to a just and sustainable society. It needs threat of nuclear all the support? moral, intellectual and financial? that annihilation; followed by it can get. the 1990s and fears of With 2015 speeding to a rapid end I would like to take irreversible climate this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful and change, the Golden Age deserving break over the festive season. of the profession began In the words of T S Eliot: ?For last year's words belong to tarnish. to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice.? However, we are now at Francis Wilson, President UCT Legacy Society a point where engineers and professionals of the built environment have Word From the Dean of EBE the opportunity to be Talent for the 21st Century heroes again, as (however unlikely it Photograph: Michael Hammond To be an engineer before 1950, or any time between seems now) they were in 1750 and 1950, was to be a leader; a participant in a the novels and short Dean of Engineering, Professor Alison Lewis great adventure; a hero of society. Even Walt Whitman stories of the late 1800s. With our wrote: abilities to rise to complex and undefined challenges, ?Singing my days, wicked problems, and the innovation and creativity Singing the great achievements of the present, inherent in the training and the profession, we are ideally Singing the strong light works of engineers.? placed. With 1952 and the exploding of the first H bomb; the This supplement highlights the true awesomeness of the 1960s and the sobering predictions of Rachel Carson's talent and potential held in the Faculty of Engineering &

page 2 Newsletter | December 2015 the Built Environment, from our 3 000 undergraduate ingenuity and creativity; a focus on good communication, students to 1 200 postgraduate students (of which 208 and high ethical standards and professionalism, as well are PhD students) spread across six departments; to our as the ability to be lifelong learners. In addition, one of seven SARChI Chairs and two endowed chairs (the Anglo the core aspects of our vision as a faculty is to: "develop Platinum Chair in Mineral Processing and the SANRAL outstanding graduates and scholars ... who contribute to Chair in Transport Engineering). society and address socioeconomic challenges through their work." Our 4 200 students are looked after by 232 academic and 199 PASS staff housed in nine different buildings on As the new Dean, I am very proud to be part of a faculty the Upper Campus. Our faculty hosts 51 NRF-rated that not only has the skills, the abilities and the ambition researchers and 15 URC-accredited research groupings, to tackle the challenging global problems of the 21st including the interdisciplinary signature theme African century, but is also living out its vision. Centre for Cities and the newly accredited UCT-Nedbank To find out more about the Faculty of Engineering & the Urban Real Estate Research Unit. Built Environment, visit www.ebe.uct.ac.za. The common threads in our faculty and its six Alternatively, get in touch directly on 021 650 2699, or departments of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, send an email to [email protected]. the four basic engineering disciplines (Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical) and Construction Economics Enjoy the read. and Management are their focus on the key attributes of Taken from Monday Paper, Volume 34.07 - 28 September 2015 EBE professionals: strong analytical skills; practical

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L In many ways, the names we have completely erasing the Old Fort L for buildings, places and streets Prison and its brutal and A

F reflect a particular aspect of our oppressive history, it has been

T complex history. So for us, as UCT integrated into the Constitutional I and the country in general, the Court. And what this signals is a P

issue ought not be that we just continual dialogue between the replace the names of what are present and the past. &

now considered unfashionable or Dr Neville Alexander would have S unheroic people, but [that been very uncomfortable with E renaming forms] part of an I ongoing process to transform the having a building named after him T because it would be contrary to his I institutional culture of the radical politics. So the politics of

N university and society. renaming aren?t simply a repetition

U This renaming is already under or replacement of what we?re

T way at UCT, and indications are trying to change.

R that in the wake of recent events Photograph: Michael Hammond on campus, it has gained It?s important that we address O momentum. How we do that is symbols of the past, but with a P part of the current and ongoing different politics of P Dr Maanda Mulaudzi, a UCT historian and commemoration. Leavings things member of the university?s Naming of debate. For some it might simply

O as they are is not an option either.

mean the replacing of one name

: Building?s Committee, shared his views with Monday Monthly about the politics, with another. For others it forms G part of a critical engagement with opportunities and potential pitfalls of names in How does the Naming of Buildings

N that history, and recontextualising Committee come to the decision I heritage. it and saying, ?Well, what does of naming a building after a M this mean?? How does renaming a building or place fit particular person? A into our idea of heritage in a I?m persuaded by the model In renaming buildings and spaces, N post-apartheid ? adopted on Constitution Hill in it is tempting to take the easy E Johannesburg; instead of option. We don?t want to simply R

page 4 Newsletter | December 2015 R E N do that: just name a building after version, or do we want something ideas. some hero, but if you?re not really more radical? Renaming ought not A thinking about the more important to be an event, but a process by On competing nationalisms, some M argue that renaming is merely issues, [like the] visions that these which we commit to critically engage I people represent, I?m not sure that with their ideas rather than foreclose throwing out someone?s history and N that process will necessarily replacing it with another group?s. G advance transformation. :

I suppose it?s possible to Is there a risk of deifying a think that if the politics of O person in naming a building after renaming are not rethought. P them, but not critically engaging For me, it?s a process that P with their ideas? begins to rethink Cecil John O Exactly. That?s the other thing. Rhodes, for example, and R The conventional politics of recontextualise his presence T memorialisation is canonisation. The Constitutional Court, where the old prison was among us now. His history is not U integrated into the space as a way of remembering the Done in this way, though, you just of one group, nor even of N past. Photo by Andre-Pierre from Wikimedia Commons. just one country. His statue was a effectively tame their ideas while I elevating them in some fashion. celebration of imperialism, of his T that process. ?achievements? and of the I Can we live up to their ideas? Can continued dominance of that E we critically engage with their ideas I?m not sure building monuments is legacy. That?s the narrow history of S the best way to do that, either. That and see how they fit our changing some people. & becomes a quick way to domesticate

situations? To what extent are we realising their vision? That to me is the radical politics with which they It?s not so much that you are P

are associated, but without fully replacing or re- writing other I how you truly live up to somebody?s T embracing them at the same time. people?s history. It?s telling them

name. F Imagine a Fanon monument, or look that the history that you think is Do we simply want competing at the Mandela Square monument in yours is much more complicated A nationalisms, where you replace the Sandton; that?s an appropriation than that. L previous nationalism with a new rather than an engagement with his L But it will become a case of S

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L competing nationalisms if all you do is except to the unexamined past. L replace that statue with another statue, A It?s interesting that we?ve quickly

F without thinking whether that?s the best way to commemorate the past. If you put fastened onto the word ?heritage? rather T

I Mandela where Rhodes was, you?re than history. The part I?m uncomfortable

P with is that heritage is supposedly meant

simply putting Mandela in this context that remains unchanged. to be something we agree on. I?m not & sure it is a common heritage because we agree on heritage. It is heritage S To what extent can history and heritage because it is part of our common E I be used as euphemisms for privilege that history, but how history shaped us might "It?s interesting

T we might want to maintain? be very different, and we can and I should continue to debate that heritage that we?ve N Again, it comes down to saying that and history. something can?t be changed because quickly U it?s my tradition. A black person calling T fastened onto a white man baas: that used to be ?It?s important that we address symbols R somebody?s tradition. Who wants to of the past, but with a the word O maintain that? different politics of commemoration. P ?heritage? rather

P It is important for us to know the history Leavings things as they are is not an than history." of privilege, and white privilege option either.? O

particularly, which continues to the But the way I hear heritage spoken of, : present and which some people are not it?s as if it?s something that?s beyond G even aware of. debate. N

I Think about the old South African flag. And what do we have as heritage? Braai? Again, I think we can do better M It?s important to know what it looked like than that. And some people are already

A and what it represented, but to wave it and celebrate everything it stood for ? doing so in various and important ways. N that?s not going to take us anywhere

E Story by Yusuf Omar R

page 6 Newsletter | December 2015 Mafeje was a regular visitor at Wilson?s house in ;

Y he also befriended her two sons, who were fellow students. Mafeje was a field worker in Langa for one of Wilson?s research R projects in the early 1960s. According to researcher John Sharp, ?Mafeje?s long hours in the field provided Wilson with O the detailed case studies of life in Langa that had been sorely T lacking before he came along.? Folders containing the

S interviews and notes by Archie Mafeje from this time can also

I be found in the collection.

H Mafeje was central to a very painful incident in UCT?s past. In May 1968, the UCT Council unanimously approved his appointment as a senior lecturer in social anthropology. A N month later, after pressure from the apartheid government, the

O council withdrew this appointment. The decision was met with 1968: Students protest against UCT?s withdrawal of Archie Mafeje?s appointment following pressure from the apartheid vehement protest from student leaders and some academic government. staff. In August 1968, about 600 UCT students began an S occupation of the Bremner Building which lasted for nine days,

N Monica and Godfr ey Wilson Paper s demanding that the council reconsider. Instead, the UCT Council agreed to establish an Academic

O Contained within this collection, which forms part

I of UCT?s Special Collections, is correspondence Freedom Research Award in honour of Mafeje and placed a between Monica Wilson, UCT?s first female plaque in the library recording that the government had taken T professor, and Archie Mafeje, her student. Wilson, away its right to appoint lecturers at its own discretion.

C a social anthropologist who was also the first Sources: woman to become a professor in South Africa, E met Mafeje in 1959 when he joined her class in - Archie Mafeje: The Life and Work of an African Anthropologist L social anthropology. According to Andrew Bank, by Andrew Bank

F who wrote Archie Mafeje: The Life and Work of an - Mafeje and Langa: The start of an intellectual journey by John African Anthropologist, theirs was a unique Sharp E relationship. R Compiled by Abigail Calata: Monday Monthly, September 2015

page 7 Newsletter | December 2015 R Kir by Collection E University College) in 1921 to found the Music Department. Shortly after his arrival he began travelling F around southern Africa to research indigenous musical L

practices. Kirby almost achieved his goal of acquiring E one of every indigenous instrument that was available in southern Africa, and took great care to preserve these C

instruments. When he retired from Wits in 1954, he T loaned his collection to the Africana Museum (now I

Museum Africa), where it remained even after his death. O UCT purchased the collection in the early 1980s.

Curator Michael Nixon, a senior lecturer in N ethnomusicology at UCT, says, ?This historic collection?s potential for understanding the history and complexity of S

A Venda man blows on a traditional wind instrument Southern Africa?s music ? and indeed, the world?s music known as aphalaphala, made from a gemsbok horn. ? is inestimable. Our work is to care for the instruments O as best we can, and to make them accessible to all.? N Through the Humanitec project the Kirby Collection, a To see and learn more about this unique collection go to www.digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/humanitec/kirby. musical treasure, is now also available online. The Kirby H Collection is made up of rare musical instruments that pre-date urbanisation. Most of these 600 instruments I were used in southern Africa before 1934. The physical S collection is housed on the ground floor of the South T

African College of Music, but through meticulous O documenting of every instrument, people all over the

world now have access to this unique collection. R

Scotsman Percival Robson Kirby arrived at Wits (then Y Source | http://goo.gl/etYBLR Compiled by Abigail Calata: Monday Monthly, September 2015 page 8 Newsletter | December 2015 My name is Aditi Hunma. People call me Aditi, which is a Sanskrit name that means ?Mother Earth, mother of the gods?. ?Aditi? also means ?free?. Being a Sanskrit name referring to a Hindu goddess, it reflects my Indian heritage. Names give us a sense of belonging to a particular family, clan and region. This said, today ?cultural? boundaries are much more fluid, and names are seen to transcend these boundaries. I like my name ? it inspires me to emulate the

E virtues of this personality. It is also short, which makes it easy to use, especially when filling out forms! M Names are interesting as they not only define who we are, but also carry A aspirational values. Individuals are named after prophets, apostles, saints, stars, in the hope that their existence will be as fulfilling as the exceptional figures after N

whom they?re named.

A My name is Salvatore Mancuso.

My full name is Salvatore means ?The person who Jennifer Caroline van saves?, which comes from Jesus Christ, N Wyk, but people call I the one who saves. My surname me Jenny. I love my reflects my roots in that it?s a Sicilian name. It means ?The

S dialectal version of the Italian word fair one?. My name ' ?mancino?, meaning ?left-handed?. I doesn?t reflect my

T wouldn?t change my name ? though it heritage. When I was did cause some problems a few years A born, my parents ago, as I share a name with a hadn?t yet chosen a H Colombian paramilitary leader. Once name ? and they I flew to Colombia via Bogotà airport named me after the for a friend?s wedding. I expected W name on my baby problems, but the official who checked blanket: Jenny. my passport smiled and waved me through. The other Salvatore Mancuso had just been jailed!

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page 9 Newsletter | December 2015 My name is Asonzeh Ukah. I have never met or My name is Steffne Elizabeth Hughes and heard of anyone else bearing the name. I hope my nickname is Steff. My name means I meet someone in future. I don?t have a ?Crowned in victory?. It doesn?t really nickname, but some of my siblings sometimes reflect my heritage, but came as the result call me ?Aso? or ?Nzeh?. ?Nzeh?, in Igbo (from of a book my mother loved as a child. The W eastern Nigeria), means a title-holder, such as character was a princess with a golden a chief or king. ?Asonzeh? is the middle form of voice. My mom loved the character and a longer, 15-letter name. ?Asonzeh? is Igbo; it the name, but didn?t like the way it was H means ?Do not fear a king?. (The fuller, longer spelled; so she changed it from Stephanie A name is still a mystery I would rather leave as

to Steffne. I love my name, even though it T such!) Most West Africans who have read means that I have to spell it out for Chinua Achebe?s '

people. I am forever grateful too that my parents chose not to use S Things Fall Apart family names for us. My maternal grandmother was Mona could easily identify Wilhelmina! I?ve often wondered whether people ?live up to? their I

my names as names, either consciously or subconsciously. If you?re named after a N Igbo-Nigerian. It?s family member or a famous person, do you take on aspects of their deeply a core personality? Do you deliberately avoid any similarities? aspect of my A heritage and my My name is Anwarul Haq Suleman Mall. I identity. While many prefer people to call me Anwar. Anwarul Haq N would not have met means ?The Light of Truth? (?Haq? means or seen anyone ?truth?). ?Suleman? is the Arabic version of the A bearing the name Hebrew ?Solomon?, ?The Wise?. Solomon was M ?Asonzeh?, it is easy to understand that ?Nze(h)? a king of Israel, the son of David, renowned relates to the titled nobility in Igboland. I?m for his wisdom. Its roots are from the Hebrew E proud of my name and wouldn?t change it to ?shalom?, meaning ?peace? ? from the any other name. It has become a strong part Hebrew name ???? (Shelomoh) which of my symbolic DNA, as anyone who Googles was derived from Hebrew ???? (shalom), ?Asonzeh? will find that every hit is associated or ?peace?. ?Mall? in Urdu means ?goods? or directly or indirectly with me! ?possessions?. So the surname has Indian/Pakistani roots. Monday Monthly, September 2015 page 10 Newsletter | December 2015 My full name is Ntobeko Ayanda NOW & THEN Bubele Ntusi. Strangely, I have managed to get to adulthood without E ever having had a nickname! People M always use my first

A name to address me. I always sign my emails N

with the letter ?N?, the initial for my first A name, and some of my friends have recently taken to referring to me as ?N?. ?Ntobeko? means UCT Sports Field

N ?humility?. Clearly my parents had high expectations

I of me from a tender age! It is a big ask to expect a child to always be humble. I am proudly Xhosa.

S Since antiquity, Xhosa names have always had a ' meaning. That is part of the beauty. The Xhosas

T have always believed that each one of us is brought

A into this world for a purpose. The name, in part, encapsulates part of what we are meant to aspire H towards. So my name truly reflects my Xhosa heritage. I love my name; it?s a central aspect of my

W identity. I often fear that I do not live up to it. Names and personal identity carry such significance, in every culture. Our names not only identify us as being separate from others; they often Jan Smuts Courtyard resonate with the different roles we play in life.

page 11 Newsletter | December 2015 Alan Woolf: The Jour ney

A 40 year architectural afternoon. "Take the 6:00 architectural offices. career has come and gone. pm flight to Vancouver," the Unknown to me in the It commenced in Toronto caller said. "We will meet at moment, I was about to be during the early 70's. When your hotel in the morning." ushered into the Sanctum "high rise" and "developer" This was a response to Sanctorum of an were dark words in the many resumes sent out employment agency's lexicon of young grads West. So with dirty finger interviewing centre. It universally; when nails and all, I picked up turned out to be quite

F placement in architectural flight tickets and a hotel small. No larger than 10 offices was fraught with voucher at the airport and by 15 Feet. Behind the L obstacles; when the flew west. desk, a dark glass Gardiner Expressway was a bespectacled man, his O parking lot most of the Another unforgettable windowless room. Holes on event while still in Toronto: I

O time. the soles of his shoes had walked the icy streets glowering at me from the Today, Toronto's downtown of the city in search of the desk top. "We understand W urban built form is holy grail of employment. that people like you do not stratospheric by any An architect called late at choose to be here" he Canadian standards. The night and directed me to

N began. He concluded with fate of the Gardiner an address at which I "remember, if after a few A Expressway enters its 3rd would be expected the weeks you cannot stand

L decade of debate. following morning. I the work, I personally will presented myself at the IMA

A place you in an 37 years has lapsed since I office in a timely manner. moved to Vancouver, a architectural office of your Waiting in the reception choice". most memorable event area, and looking all precipitated this. A around, I noticed not a Thus began a daily 3 hour telephone call from solitary photograph nor commute along a Vancouver interrupted illustration of a building: seemingly stationary gardening late one the usual hallmark of highway. My first job!

page 12 Newsletter | December 2015 While waiting action on the agent's with WZMH. But ambition clouded my promise, and seeing none, I started my vision and I moved to Vancouver after a own search for a more appropriate few years. position. It was on the first of a ten-day canoe trip in Algonquin park that a letter I am now retired. My 40 something year was delivered to my mail box. " Should career ended on a high note. I was this opportunity still be of interest to you, invited to join the Eng and Wright firm kindly call the writer immediately on and became a partner soon thereafter. A The firm was established at about the receipt, to arrange an interview." I called L right away. "Oh hello. We had given up time of my entering UCT. In the mid 90's on hearing from you. But listen, it is the founding partners retired. The A "I had walked 4:20. You live practice underwent a few structural N only 2 blocks from changes and then merged the icy streets with Jim Hancock's office.

our office. Come W of the city in over right away". I Subsequently, after several explained my ten years of wonderful search of the day state. "Tell projects, another merger O Helen at the front took place, this time with

holy grail of O desk that you a Toronto giant, IBI. employment." are...Joe the The images are somw of plumber and that I our work, first as HBEW L am expecting you. and then as HB/IBI. I F Be here in 10 need to emphasize that I minutes." At the did not design any of the end of the projects. My role in all of interview I was them was as partner in hired. I started charge during what ought to construction document have been a long production and of term relationship construction itself. page 13 Newsletter | December 2015 Much, even most of the work carried retirement. I commenced I recall too, names of my professors out myself was buoyed I believe, in oil-painting fifteen years ago, and and lecturers: Revel (Fox), Dennis, part thanks to my Alma Mater, continue to take courses, some as Roelof, Tony, Adelle, Dean, Udo, where among other, I learned the art far afield as in Santa Fe, New Hugh, Jack, Gawie, Senior, of perseverance. (During my early Mexico. My latest painting, inspired professor Pryce-Lewis, Roman, Pius. Vancouver years, working nights and by a local news paper travel section And Mr Parsons who lectured on the weekends, I teamed with a photo, is an aerial view of Signal attributes of timely project delivery. mechanical engineer, entering a Hill and Lion's Head rising up to the So what does it all F nation-wide architectural design Table competition for a hypothetical mean: To migrate to

L Mountain. low-energy building design. For me, "How can I ever forget the a new country when this was perhaps THE thesis to How can I I was neither a O sight of the mountain compensate for the gargantuan ever forget refugee nor an the sight of receding from view as the activist? Did the

O struggle experienced on starting my finals at the School of Architecture. the mountain ship sailed northward from South African nation We won an award for our work). receding turn around at the W from view as the Cape?" brink because of, or How can I ever forget the long hours the ship in spite of, so much of studio work in the Centlivre sailed emigration? N Building, the Pig and Whistle, the northward from the Cape? And my I for one, will never know the A Evergreen to supplement the colleagues from the School- Don, answer. But what I do know is that

L College House flat meat diet, the Lester, Irwin, Johann, Warren, infamous College house invention Collin, Chris, Mike, Trevor, Ed, Ken, Canada has proven to be a A of streaking, Newlands? The John, Cyril, Isaac, Bruce, Leslie, wonderful country in which to have Toubador in , so callously Linda, Sue...I reel these names from resided, worked and yes, in which to raised to the ground, the Delmonico memory and hope I am forgiven if have been engaged in so much and its sister, pirate's-nest of vipers. memory has faded. And hope to outstanding wilderness canoeing, Clifton beach, Llandudno and have my Bannister Fletcher History camping, hiking, skiing and beyond, and ? of Architecture returned before the road-tripping. In all four seasons of the years. I am now well positioned for end of the century.

page 14 Newsletter | December 2015 Lynne Ginsburg: Keeping UCT in the family

school in 1933. They both decided to go on to post-graduate work in London, England, where they again met. They resumed their friendship and in 1936 they married in London

G and may well have continued to live there for some time had the War not R intervened. In 1940 Sylvia was

U evacuated on a ship filled with 2000 pregnant women. They sailed - via B South America to avoid German

S U-boats and torpedoes - to South Africa where she went from Cape N Town to Pretoria to live with her I parents where I was born later in

G 1940. Jack joined the SA medical corps in E London and served for 6 years fighting and performing surgery in N North Africa and the Middle East.

N After the war, in 1945, he returned In January 1927 many young teenage men and women to SA and they moved to Durban and ultimately to Cape Y lined up in alphabetical order on the campus of UCT to Town where Jack established himself as a surgeon in L register for the classes they would be taking in the first private practice and where he also worked at Groote semester of their first year at the University. Amongst Schuur and several surrounding local hospitals. Sylvia, these were Sylvia Gavron with the G?s and Jack Heselson after having two more children (my brother, Neil, and my with the H?s. As they stood beside each other for some sister, Joan) also worked at and was associated with UCT hours they began to chat and this led in time to a firm and Groote Schuur. friendship. The two soon became study partners. This continued until their graduation from UCT medical My mother worked as the Director of the Child Guidance

page 15 Newsletter | December 2015 Clinic and taught several practicing physicians in the United We have 3 children, a son, Neale, generations of medical students in States. born in in 1965 and small group sessions at the clinic. delivered by Dr. Cecil Craig at My father, too, was associated with Immediately after my graduation in , and two teaching - surgery to 5th and final 1963, I married David Ginsburg of daughters, Daryl and Alison, born year students. Sylvia retired when the medical class of 1960. His in Boston, USA and Kingston, L she lost her sight in her early 60?s parents, too, had met as young Canada, respectively. Y and Jack continued to teach medical students at UCT. They were N anatomy to 2nd year students after Miriam Weinstein and Morris When our son was a final year he retired from surgery, quite Ginsburg and they married in medical student at the University of N Queenstown SA in 1936. They had Toronto, he came to Cape Town literally until the day he collapsed E from a stroke. He died shortly 3 children, all of whom graduated and in 1989, lived with my father from UCT medical school: David, for 6 weeks. He worked as a thereafter at the age of 83 . G his sister, Margaret (Grunebaum), student clerk on the wards at My brother, Neil Heselson, from the class of 1969, a practicing Groote Schuur, so he too had a I

graduated from UCT medical family physician in Toronto and his small connection with the University N school 3 years after I did (class of brother, Jonathan, from the class of of Cape Town and the medical

1966) and married Betty Jewel, a 1972, who is an internist in school. This year brings the S nursing graduate from Groote Grimsby, Ontario. association of our family with this Schuur?s nursing school. He worked school to 88 years! B as a radiologist at Groote Schuur David and I emigrated from South U until his retirement in the 1980s. Africa in 1966 and lived briefly in I feel very honoured to have been Scotland and Boston, USA. We invited to submit this piece for the R My sister, Joan Bub, graduated in have lived in Kingston, Ontario legacy newsletter. 1971 and also worked as a since 1970. Here at Queens G radiologist. She married Ben Bub, University, I studied and worked as It was originally part of a speech who became a neurosurgeon and a geriatric psychiatrist and David as delivered at a regraduation an anaesthetist, from the medical an oncologist, ultimately becoming ceremony at the 50th reunion of my class of 1959. The older two of the Head of the Department of medical school class, in December their 3 children (Lawrence, Oncology and Director of the 2013, conceived and arranged by Michelle (Cassera) and Steven) are Kingston Regional Cancer Center. Dr. Ashley Robins.

page 16 Newsletter | December 2015 Alan Magid: A close encounter w ith Madiba appearing with my learned friend and Mr. Mandela at Pollsmoor, that a Junior, the late, very much lamented prison official would be entitled to Pius Langa (later C.J.) for 13 young observe but not overhear our ANC/MK activists who had been interview, that I was not to hand to or charged with a number of serious receive anything from Mr. Mandela, political offences, of whom 10 had by or take notes while the interview was now been convicted. They instructed taking place, but that, in fine us to call Nelson Mandela to explain, disregard of the Hearsay Rule and the

D in mitigation, why the ANC had requirement that a witness be sworn, I

I departed from its long-held policy of would in the course of argument in non-violence in order to support MK's mitigation of sentence, inform the G conduct. As Mandela was in prison at Court what Mr Mandela had told me

A the time, it was necessary to obtain and what I told the Court would be the leave of the Court to issue a accepted by both the Prosecution and

M subpoena for his production at Court. the Court as the evidence he would It is, I suppose understandable that have given had he been called as a witness.

N apart from any other consideration, On a sunny Autumn morning in the then Government could not A April 1987 I flew from Durban to tolerate the notion of producing our I mention in passing that Pius and I L Cape Town to interview in witness at the very old College Road regarded the proposal that I alone Court in Pietermaritzburg at the time. should represent the defence as a

A "that Commie terrorist" or "the world's most Imagine the riot! racist condition which was famous political prisoner" unacceptable unless our clients gave depending on your point of view. To cut a very long story short, our us express instructions to accept it. And it was all happening with the application (in which the Ministers and They did. consent of the Ministers of Justice the A-G were Respondents) was and Prisons and the Attorney- settled on the basis that I (and not my When I arrived at Pollsmoor, I was General of the Province of Natal. Junior, or either of our instructing shown into an office to be greeted by attorneys, who were an Indian and an an affable-looking African man whose Since November 1986,I had been African respectively) would interview first words were to express thanks to

page 17 Newsletter | December 2015 the members of the South African Bar who were mind, firstly, that we had been discussing the history of defending MK cadres facing serious criminal charges in the refusal by successive South African Governments to South African Courts. This was the acknowledged leader respond to approaches by the ANC to discuss the of millions of Black South Africans (and to most White treatment of the country's Black population, and South Africans at the time the embodiment of "Swart secondly, that he had by then been incarcerated for some Gevaar") thanking mainly White advocates for assisting 23 years for offences of which, as a lawyer, he must have "his" people when in trouble. known he was guilty, but as he must have believed

everything he had done was in the interests of all South A Our interview lasted nearly three hours with, in Africans, how accordance with the settlement, nobody else present. A could he not be L

prison warder, seated outside the office door on what bitter? A looked like a bar stool, could see what occurred between But he did not us through a small window set in the door. The cynic in appear so to me. N

me suspected that the office was "bugged",

notwithstanding the term of the settlement that the If I had then known M interview was to take place in the sight but not the the word, I might hearing of a prisons official. have told those A

who asked "what G My visit to Mr Mandela attracted a huge amount of local Mandela was like",

and international media interest. While I was in Cape that I now knew I Town my wife, at home, had to handle telephone calls what "Ubuntu" D from a number of South African newspapers, not to meant; certainly I mention a call from her uncle who had read about my mentioned that visit in the "Sydney Morning Herald". there was an aura of leadership about When I returned home I was inundated with questions him. Not to put too asking me my views about Mr Mandela. I told friends and fine a point on it, I colleagues that I had found him very easy to talk to but simply liked the that what I had found most impressive was that he man I had met. displayed no feelings of bitterness to anyone. Bearing in

page 18 Newsletter | December 2015 BRIAN B. GRIPPER My husband graduated from citizenship back and our family UCT with a BA Music degree (of were able to come here to live in I was a very average student at which German was the other 1993, our son then being 10. school and had a very talented W component) in 1962. Our son, also called Henry, went

BSC Engineering father who agreed U to my wish to follow him in He was classified coloured in on to academic success and those days and lived in achieved a B.Bus Science (Hons) Electrical Engineering. I arrived at O Smuts Hall in 1947 and my father Claremont before the Group in 2007 and Bachelor of Laws in wished me well, but warned me S Areas Act removed coloured 2009. He is now an Associate people from what is now at ENS specializing in Labour that he would not accept any supps S in 1948 so I had better work hard. Harfield Village. Law.

He, I think, understood that I would O He subsequently taught Music My husband died on 4th April be better with my hands rather than R and German at Livingstone High 2010 having suffered from Early my brain! School, his alma mater, where Onser Alzheimer's for the

I failed pure maths and left UCT to L he developed a flourishing and previous nine years. famous orchestra and choir. do an apprenticeship at Port Submitted by Carole Rossouw Elizabeth Technical College while O He was deprived of citizenship

working for Aberdare Cables as R by the then National Party and I, their first ?pupil engineer?. I worked

R who am English, met him at an hard and the chairman of Inner London High School where Aberdare, Sir George Usher, chose E we were both teaching. me as a suitable candidate for 3

years training in the UK with Y Because Henry was stateless we International Combustion, a could only marry by special subsidiary of Aberdare. R licence, which we did in 1979.

I will never forget my basic year at N Once the ANC and other

UCT and I eventually retired at 70 E political parties were unbanned and left over 15 people employed. and then later, Mandela H released, my husband got his

page 19 Newsletter | December 2015 War w ick Johnson: High adventur es in Chemistr y There were Chemistry took a very short lunch-break Practicals, which were also and started for the fourth time. more challenging than the It went well, and I?d at last got previous year, and the subject past the dicey stage and was

N really began to deserve the on the final lap which involved schoolboy sobriquet ?stinks?. filtering the liquor from the

O We used hydrogen sulphide, muddy residue, after which the the classic ?bad-egg? gas, and liquid had to be carefully S synthesised carbon disulphide, evaporated to dryness to

N which was rather worse, if obtain the final product. I set anything, but neither was as up my filtration system, then

H asphyxiatingly choking as left it collecting into a beaker benzoyl chloride and thionyl and went into the balance O chloride. All these compounds room to weigh out the

J were supposed to be confined ingredients for the next to fume cupboards, but in the case involving several stages, one of synthesis. I was involved in this of thionyl and benzoyl chloride it when Jake sauntered into the K which had to be very carefully didn?t take a very large leak to heated while reacting, or it would balance room. ?Hi?, he said, ?your C render the lab pretty uninhabitable suddenly ?go wildfire? and foam beaker was getting a bit full so I I for a while. There was an inorganic over onto the bench, which meant emptied it for you.? ?You ...what? synthesis we had to carry out, and you had to start all over again. It Ha ha, you?re kidding me, right??

W though I doubt I shall ever forget it, really was temperamental, and ?No,? he said, quite seriously, ?it the details have faded into looked like it would have

R unfortunately this stage was obscurity, perhaps due to the same reached only toward the end of the overflowed soon.? ?Where did you A mechanism by which we forget experiment. Both Jake and I (who empty it?? I asked, and he said, traumatic events. This was the occupied adjacent workspaces in ?Down the sink, of course, where

W preparation of Potassium Iodide. I the Lab) had had three failures and else?? A surreal, numb sensation think it had been included in the were getting seriously behind in the overtook me as I went back to my syllabus out of sheer vindictiveness. programme, so to try to catch up I bench, and verified that indeed It was a convoluted preparation he?d done just as he said. ?You

page 20 Newsletter | December 2015 stupid idiot?, I almost sobbed, ?that was his legs wouldn?t support him anymore, he the bit we were supposed to keep!? just rolled around the floor gasping for Jake, who had not read the instructions breath. It was at about this point that I beyond the stage at which he was began to see the funny side of it all, and W working, saw a funny side to this and before long I too was rolling around on the started chuckling. I didn?t, but the more floor. The other students in the lab must A

I railed at him the more he laughed, till have thought we were about one nut short R he was fairly gasping for breath. The of a fruitcake, but we were beyond help or numbness persisted as I watched him caring for about ten minutes. Once we?d "There was an W start to set up for his fourth attempt. He returned to normal, Jake said, ?Look, we Inorganic took out a beaker from really ought to get smart. I his locker and in his Jake said, "Look, There?s Potassium Iodide on synthesis we C residual mirth slapped the reagent shelves. Let?s just it down on the bench. we really ought to fake it.? It sounded a good had to carry K

It shattered. Serve you get smart..." idea, so we checked the out... I think it bloody well right, I Potassium Iodide bottles. They J thought. He cleared up the broken were all empty. It seemed some other had been O glass, then more carefully, took out a students had got smart rather earlier than included in the second beaker, still chuckling, and we had, or more likely the demonstrators, H measured the reagents into it before having no doubt passed this way before. syllabus out of setting it on a wire gauze over a Then we thought Potassium Bromide might sheer N

Bunsen burner. The wire gauze, it do the trick, as long as the demonstrators S turned out, had a hole in the middle, didn?t check too carefully. But then it vindictiveness." which allowed the naked Bunsen flame seemed rather more students than we?d O to impact directly onto the bottom of initially assumed had beaten us to the the beaker. There was a loud, dull smarts, because the Potassium Bromide N crack, as the beaker disintegrated, bottles were also empty. I don?t know what depositing the contents not only all we eventually settled on, but fortunately the over the bench but down the nozzle of demonstrators didn?t check, so we got the the Bunsen as well. That did it for Jake, marks. My god, we?d earned them.

page 21 Newsletter | December 2015 The UCT Legacy Society has been notified during 2015 of the passing of

M the following Alumni. A I R

O Adam, Zaida (Ms) Blacking, Paula (Mrs) Conway-Cragg, John (Mr)

M Alexander, Agnes (Mrs) Bottger, Walter Alfred (Mr) Crompton, Allan (Jake) John (Mr) E Allchin, Bridget (Dr) Bowker, Ronald John (Mr) De Villiers, Abraham Benjamin (Dr)

M Arbuckle, Derek Dennis (Prof) Bramwell, Stewart (Mr) Dell, Murray John (The Rev Dr)

Armist, Ronald (Mr) Brice, Trevor Edmund (Mr) Fitzgerald, Lynette Ann (Ms) N

I Bailie, John Bruce (Dr) Briscoe, John (Prof) Fourie, Melvin Johnith (Mr) Bain, Shelah May Sinclair (Mrs) Brown, Denis Robert Christopher (Dr) Furman, Geoffrey (Mr) Balchin, Keith John (Mr) Burger, Bernardus Antonius (Mr) Geldenhuys, Dirk Willem Hendrik (Mr) Baron, Geoffrey Stephen (Dr) Burman, Sandra Beatrice (Em Prof) Gilinsky, Isaac (Mr) Behardien, Yasmin (Ms) Chute, Robert Bryan (Dr) Godlonton, John D'Urban (Dr) Benjamin, Arthur David (Mr) Cole, Jonathan Hugh (Mr) Graham, Kenneth William Turner (Dr)

page 22 Newsletter | December 2015 Grant, Neil Hartington (Mr) Lindhorst, Mark William (Mr) Paulse, Lucille Denise (Ms) Gunter, Petrus Albertus (Dr) Macata, Abednego (Mr) Poole, Conrad Henry (Mr) Hansen, Denys Arthur (Dr) Mandelbrote, Bertram Maurice (Dr) Prisman, Cyril Bernard (Mr) Hoffman, Kate Eugenie (Ms) Marais, Gerrit Van Rooyen (Em Prof) Rabie, Monty (Mr) Hopkins, Ernest Beven (Mr) Marks, Charles (Dr) Reid, Darryl Adrian (Mr)

M Hunt, Matthew Thomas Wiltshire (Mr) Maxwell, Juliet Lesley (Mrs) Rennie, Stuart Howard (Mr) A

I Israel, Hasday (Mr) Mazwai, Konke (Mr) Rosenberg, Raymond Henry (Dr)

R Jeffery, Peter Colin (Dr) Mc Cumisky, Lorna Ann (Ms) Russell, David Patrick Hamilton (Bishop) Kahn, Stanley Bernard (Mr) McKenzie, Herbert Simon (Mr) Schmitt, Paul Waldemar (Mr) O King, Edwin Leslie (The Hon Mr Meltzer, Bertha (Mrs) Shell, Robert Carl Heinz (Prof)

M Justice) Meyer, Genevieve Jocelyne (Ms) Silberstein, Leonard Milton (Dr) E Kirby, Richard Conyers (Mr) Meyer, Hedwig Alwine Henriette (Dr) Sinclair, David Stuart (Mr)

M Korck, Ivor Melvin (Mr) Meyer, Raymond Henri (Mr) Sleggs, Timothy Arthur (Mr) Lambrechts, Mathiam Stefanus N Johannes (Mr) Minter, Pamela Enid (Mrs) Smith, Mervyn Meyer (Mr) I Latimer, Valerie Ellen (Mrs) Molloy, Robert (Mr) Smith, Philip Christopher (Mr) Le Roux, Desmond Raubenheimer (Dr) Mossop, Raymond Thomas (Dr) Spreckley, Christopher Stanley (Mr) Leask, Bruce Colmer (Mr) Mpambukeli, Manelisi Jonson (Mr) Stephen, Alistair Matthew (Em Prof) Li Green, Jeffery (Dr) Newman, Raymond Carl (Dr) Sussman, Harold Leonard (Dr) Lidovho, Mardocai Nange (Dr) Nichol, John Robert (Mr) Tasker, Timothy Patrick Beaumont (Dr) Norton, David Alan (Mr) Taylor, Jeremy Guy (Mr)

page 23 Newsletter | December 2015 Thomas, Edmund James Mclachlan (Mr) Thukwana, Agnes Jabulile (Mrs) Toogood, Tony Humphrey (Mr) Tyers, Trevor John (Rev) Tyfield, Michael Jeremy Lewis (Mr) M van den Ende, Joan Herold (Mrs) A

I van Lennep, Bryony Hilda (Mrs)

R van Ryneveld, Elizabeth Ann (Mrs) van Wageningen, Gerhard (Dr) O Volkwyn, Michael Theodore (Mr) M Wadsworth, Wendy Alison (Mrs) E Wenzelburger, Reinhard Klaus (Mr) M

West, Martin Elgar (Em Prof)

N Wilkinson, David Robert Mcintyre (Prof) I Willis, Ireton Zeeman (Mr) Withers, Michael John (Mr) Wolman, Ellie Meyer (Dr) Wyner, Lesley Ann (Ms) Our most sincere condolences to all family and friends.

page 24 Newsletter | December 2015 20 15 & UCT Legacy Events Despite all the commotion at UCT we still had an incredibly productive year. At the end of 2015 we have set ourselves a target to increase our UCT Legacy

5 Membership from 218 to 250 and have actually

1 surpassed that mark by 4 members.

0 The Legacy office was joined by Lwando (Lu) Nteya as

2 Assistant Legacy Officer and so far he has already shown I Live to Sing (Ndiphillela Ukucula) his worth by suggesting a variety of ?younger? ideas to : keep us in line with the fast development of communication around us. GSB Launch JBN & CTN W The Society was quite active during 2015 and we did a E variety of events around the country which included Since 2011 until 2015 the number members of the UCT I amongst others the following: LS has grown from 22 to 252. Even though we are extremely excited about this, we feel there is a lot more V I Live to Sing (Ndiphilela Ukucula) ? A potential for growth should we take a more targeted R documentary made following the daily routines of three approach in recruiting members.

E of our UCT Opera students as they prepare for a full scale productions of Offenbach?s Tales of Hoffmann. The During 2015 we therefore decided to try a new approach V production received a Grammy for best foreign by launching Legacy Societies for the different faculties. documentary in 2014 and is a massive feather in the cap UCT GSB was first on the list with very successful launch O of our UCT Opera School that keep on producing events in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We hope to extraordinary young vocal talent. This past year alone continue the trend in 2016 with new societies for UCT Opera Students have won critical acclaim at several Faculties of Law and Health Sciences international singing competitions globally. There were Donizetti?s Maria Stuarda was definitely the opera two fully booked screenings of the documentary in Cape highlight of this past year with a partially staged Town attended by some members of the UCT legacy production at the ArtsCape Opera during October. Our Society.

page 25 Newsletter | December 2015 Law ALF: PJ Schwikard teamed up with four acclaimed Farewell Lunch writers to create powerful and innovative, half hour works that Over lunch at the Balalaika Hotel in telling contemporary African stories Sandton PJ Schwikard addressed in imaginative new ways. some Law Alumni about her tenure O as dean of law that comes to an end The orchestra was conducted by in December 2015. It was inspiring Kamal Khan with directors Geoffrey V Hyland and Marcus Tebogo

to see so many of the ?older? alum E there. The atmosphere was rather Desando looking after the staging animated with quite a lot of the and the award winning team of set R

discussion going on around the past designer Michael Mitchell and V year at UCT and other South African costume designer Leigh Bishop completing the artistic team. I

universities. E

Legacy members flocked to the The has Prior to the event UCT Legacy W opening night were we were all appointed Professor Penelope (Penny) Members and friends attended a treated with a quality of singing good Andrews as the new Dean of the cocktail event where UCY Legacy : enough for any opera house in the Faculty of Law. She will take up her Society President Francis Wilson gave world. The Cape Philharmonic post in January 2016. a very enlightening talk about the 2

Orchestra under the baton of Kamal Society and its future as well as an 0 Khan lead a bevy of UCT Opera FOUR:30 (Made in South overview of 2015 on UCT Campus.

Graduates that had the audience on Africa) 1 5 their feet at the end of the UCT Opera School, in performance. Quoting Christine collaboration with CTO and Crouse of : ?the funded by the National Lottery UCT Opera School is indeed Distribution Trust Fund, presented capable to hold it?s own against any an evening composed of four other opera school in the world?. new home-grown operas. Four notable South African composers

page 26 Newsletter | December 2015 IN CONCLUSION We had great fun in compiling this final edition for 2015 and trust that you enjoyed reading it. Special thanks to Ruth Pietersen who helped with the overall look and lay-out. 2016 is around the corner and we are looking forward to an extremely productive year. Francis and René will visit the UK during April to attend a variety of UCT Legacy Society and Alumni events in London, Oxford and Edinburgh. On the local scene we have planned a year full of events and developments and we are excited about the prospect of acceleration the growth in UCT Legacy Society Membership. Should you already have included the University of Cape Town in you Will, please let us know in order for us to register you as a UCT Legacy Society member.

Please free to contact us: René N olte Legacy Manager [email protected] + 27 21 650 4106

Lu N teya Assistant Legacy Officer [email protected] + 27 21 650 3759

Newsletter | December 2015