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MAANDELIKSE PERSONEELBLAD JAAR 16 # 5 z 26–6–2008 z YEAR 16 # 5 MONTHLY STAFF NEWSLETTER SUSPI launches Futsal Academy at University The Stellenbosch University Sport under-9 and under-11 SUSPI Aca- realise is that one soccer field is equal Performance Institute (SUSPI) demy teams already practising their to 14 futsal courts. It is cheaper to recently launched the Futsal Academy newly acquired futsal skills at the DF build and maintain futsal courts than to with the aim of co-ordinating the Malan Hall at Coetzenburg. have a huge soccer field. Futsal could training and coaching of players in the It is the first time that this sport be the way for South Africa to leave a game of futsal, and eventually will be played formally on South legacy in 2010 and even after the establishing a world-class facility for African shores. The man to head the World Cup. How can you develop and budding soccer players. coaching and teaching at the SUSPI prepare the skills of your future soccer Futsal, played in more than 120 Academy is Jose Cabral, a former players if so many schools do not offer countries worldwide, is an indoor and futsal player himself. soccer as a school sport, or simply do not have the resources for a big soccer outdoor version of association Cabral, who has been in South football, and forms part of the FIFA field? Futsal could be the answer.” Africa since last year, says he was Brazilian soccer coach Jose Cabral, a former soccer player himself, is currently organisation. The word is derived SUSPI recognises the importance quite surprised to see that futsal was in charge of coaching and teaching at the SUSPI Academy. He will also be re- from the Portuguese futebol de salão of this sport, not only in the light of not played in a single school in South sponsible for teaching futsal – an indoor and outdoor version of association and the Spanish fútbal sala/de salón. the 2010 Soccer World Cup to be Africa. “In Brazil, futsal is played in football – to young soccer players (Hennie Rudmann, SSFD) All Brazilian soccer players start off every primary school, and it forms hosted in South Africa, but also with futsal from a very young age – part of the sports curriculum. All the because of the value it adds to the pilot community project by donating The twelve schools that will take some of the ‘graduates’ of this game Brazilian players play futsal, as it not community. It is with this in mind that goalposts, players’ bibs and balls to part in the pilot project are Rieten- include well-known Brazilian soccer only develops your agility, creativity SUSPI has identified twelve schools the twelve schools. bosch Primary, Cloetesville Primary, players Ronaldinho, Robinho, Rivaldo and technique, but also what we call in the Stellenbosch area whose When asked about the safety factor Pieter Langeveldt, Idas Valley Pri- and Juninho as well as Portuguese the ‘football brain’.” teachers will attend a coaching course of futsal, Cabral responds by saying as mary, Brückner de Villiers, Kayaman- soccer star Christiano Ronaldo. The where they will be introduced to the di Primary, Lynedoch Primary, He says futsal has almost the same with any sport you cannot say a sport game differs from soccer in that rules of futsal. After this introductory Vlottenburg Primary, Weber Gedenk rules as soccer, and because it can be is 100% safe. “It’s a contact sport and instead of eleven players there are course (on 27 and 28 June) they will Primary, Stellenbosch Primary, Pniel played on a netball or tennis court it the players are more in contact with the only five on a side, and the space it is be able to introduce the game at their Primary and Groendal Primary. makes it easier for schools that do not ball due to the smaller playing surface, played in is equal to the size of a respective schools. but as in soccer we have strict rules For further details contact Mrs have the resources for a soccer field to Marita Snyman at [email protected] netball or tennis court. Cabral is very excited about this and we spend a lot of time going over introduce the game to the learners. or 021 808 4563. The Academy has already kicked prospect, and says that the University the rules so that everyone is aware of “The maintenance of a soccer field off their training programme with has already committed itself to this them.” - LIEZL SCHOLTZ is expensive, but what people don’t Roger Telemachus nou Matie-afrigter Fellowship will allow for Ná hy jare lank die wêreld as lid van “Dit is ’n eer om die Maties- maar ons is hard besig met voorberei- onder meer die Suid-Afrikaanse krieketspan af te rig – ek het my tyd as dings vir die fiksheidtoetse wat op 22 more research collaboration krieketspan deurkruis het, het Maties speler destyds baie geniet, en is ek Julie sal plaasvind.” Dr Anne Detjen, a German paediatri- Krieketklub se nuwe afrigter na sy gretig om weer by Maties-krieket be- Met sy jare lange ervaring van cian and postgraduate tuberculosis tuisdorp teruggekeer waar hy hoop om trokke te raak.” internasionale en plaaslike krieket is hy (TB) researcher currently working at sy ervaring met die Universiteit se Telemachus sê sy visie vir die span vasberade om die gewildheid van the Desmond Tutu TB Centre krieketspan te deel. is om weer die voorste posisie in die krieket by die US ’n hupstoot te gee. (DTTC), Department of Paediatrics Roger Telemachus is onlangs as die Boland-liga te beklee. “Dit is nie iets “Maties is bekend vir hul rugby, maar and Child Health, was recently nuwe krieketafrigter aangestel, en volg wat ons oornag gaan regkry nie en al nie juis vir krieket nie. Een van my awarded a prestigious Feodor Lynen in die voetspore van Omar Henry, wat wen ons nie in my eerste jaar as af- doelwitte is om die belangstelling en Research Fellowship from the ’n pos by Boland Krieket aanvaar het. rigter nie, wil ons ten minste die top- gewildheid van krieket onder toe- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Telemachus, gebore en getoë in Stel- drie of semi-finaal van die liga haal.” skouers en potensiële spelers aan te to continue her research at lenbosch, is nie onbekend aan die Met die krieketseisoen wat nog nie wakker en die Universiteit ’n sterker Stellenbosch University (SU). Maties Krieketklub nie – hy het tussen volstoom aan die gang is nie, is Tele- krieketteenwoordigheid te gee.” Feodor Lynen Research Fellow- 1993 en 1995 self vir die klub gespeel machus vir eers besig om sy voete te Telemachus, ’n self-erkende “TV- ships are awarded to postdoctoral re- en sê dis ’n “onbeskryflike gevoel” om vind en die spelers en hul vaardighede en sport-freak”, sê ná jare van rondtoer searchers from Germany to carry out as afrigter van dié span terug te keer. te leer ken. “Dit is tans die af-seisoen, is hy vir eers baie gelukkig om tyd met a long-term research project (6-24 sy gesin deur te bring en as hy kon months) in cooperation with an “heeldag op die rusbank te lê en sport academic host at a research insti- kyk”. “Ek is mal oor gholf – al die tution abroad. The host must be an sportmanne wat ek ken speel die sport. academic working abroad who has Vir eers is dit Roger- en gesinstyd.” already been sponsored by the Sy nuwe pos as afrigter van die Humboldt Foundation. Maties vir die volgende twee jaar bring The University has a longstanding sy eie stel nuwe uitdagings. history of collaboration with the “Hierdie is ’n nuwe rigting wat ek Humboldt Foundation, mainly inslaan, en dit bring nuwe uitdagings. through the faculties of Theology, My loopbaan as internasionale krieket- Arts and Social Sciences and Law. As speler is amper ten einde, maar nou is there are no so-called Humboldtians die tyd reg vir my rol as professionele in the Health Sciences Faculty, Prof afrigter. Ek wil graag eendag die af- Naas Swart of the Practical Theology rigter van die nasionale span word en and Missiology Department at the hierdie geleentheid as Maties-afrigter Theology Faculty at SU, and cur- kan dalk die eerste tree wees na hierdie rently a holder of a Von Humboldt droom. Hierdie nuwe uitdaging is iets Return Fellowship (Rückkehrstipen- wat my baie opgewonde maak. Dit is dium), will act as academic host to ’n onbekende pad wat ek volg, maar Dr Detjen. Prof Nulda Beyers, Head Hier wys Roger Telemachus, nuwe afrigter van Maties Krieketklub, die fynere ook ’n baie opwindende een.” kunsies van kolfwerk aan Wikus van Vuuren (Anton Jordaan, SSFD) – LIEZL SCHOLTZ Dr Anne Detjen (turn to page 5)

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Holiday periods always remind me of my school days, especially that last Cricket Club. Liezl Scholtz speaks to him on page 1. day before the June or December holiday officially started. That was the Also read about the Centre for Teaching and Learning’s (page 3) recent day that the clock seemed to move slower than usual and the anxiety around annual conference that focused on themes such as postgraduate teaching, e- getting your report card had less to do with your results than with the un- learning, the teaching of first-year students and classroom research. bearable excitement of wanting to burst through the classroom doors and taste freedom. The freedom to do absolutely nothing if you so desired, to On page 4 you can read about all the activities at the military academy – read and play the hours away, to sleep late and spend time with friends and one of the University’s four campuses – in Saldanha. Kampusnuus spoke to family. Prof Theo Neethling and Dr Abel Esterhuyse about a conference they attended in Moscow, which focused on Africa’s politics, economy and To be honest, the excitement levels have not subsided now that I am security, as well as a number of visits by staff and students from inter- older. As a matter of fact, I think it may even have increased! Today, when national military education institutions to the Faculty of Military Sciences. I lock up my office and mentally wave goodbye on my way to holiday, I understand why back in the day the grown-ups around me seemed a lot On 12 June a vibrant group of youngsters descended on the University to more excited about those June and especially December holidays than I celebrate Youth Day at this institution. Read (on page 4) all about the was. insightful contributions the University received from the youth who attended the Youth Day celebration entitled ‘Is the struggle continuing?’ However, when the adult me closes the door on another semester I, like the rest of the staff on this University’s four campuses, get to close that The arts section on page 7 features the usual music concert offerings for door with the knowledge that six months into the University year, we have this month and the next. On the same page you can find our Books column, managed to overcome some challenges, have embarked on new initiatives, which is back this month. Also read Oxford professor Elleke Boehmer’s extended and broadened our knowledge and have achieved small victories discussion on the international currency of cross-cultural Africa in literary along the way. This is what makes the university environment so exciting circles as well as her recently released scholarly study of Nelson Mandela and vibrant. and her novel, Nile Baby. Library staff member Marina Brink also talks about her involvement in writing a book on Audrey Blignault. Talking about exciting, SUSPI recently launched its Futsal soccer academy modelled on the likes of similar academies in Brazil that produced Make sure you pack this exciting edition in your bag or briefcase to soccer stars such as Ronaldinho, ‘Kaka’ and Ronaldo. A soccer training enjoy over the June winter break. You have earned your downtime. Enjoy programme for u/9 and u/11 soccer teams already on offer at the DF Malan it! Hall, where Brazilian soccer coach Jose Cabral from SUSPI is offering the training. Read all about this on page 1. A new addition to the Stellenbosch family is South African cricket player Roger Telemachus, who will fulfil the role of cricket coach to the Maties

Onderrig: stiefkind van hoër onderwys? Tradisioneel is navorsing en onderrig opleiding van die volgende geslag nings). Kriteria word ook tans ont- Afrika ’n Higher Education Aca- as die twee kerntake van ’n universi- navorsers. Navorsing en onderrig wikkel waarvolgens goeie onderrig demy (soos die Verenigde Konin- teit beskou. Meer onlangs het ge- werk dus kruisbestuiwend op mekaar beoordeel kan word, terwyl verdere kryk) of ’n Learning and Teaching meenskapsinteraksie se rol ook toe- in, en dit lei tot beter gehalte in albei strategiese bestuursaanwysers wat op Council (soos Australië) kry nie? nemend belangriker begin word, funksies. onderrig en leer betrekking het, ook Hierdie instansies ondersteun op sodat Suid-Afrikaanse universiteite Wat hier bo beskryf word, is die binnekort beskikbaar sal wees. nasionale vlak die professionele ont- Kampusnuus wil hulleself vandag in terme van veral ideaal. In die praktyk het navorsing Die rol wat onderriguitnemend- wikkeling van dosente, en bevorder graag ’n platform drie kernfunksies beskryf: navorsing, egter steeds aan die meeste universi- heid in aanstellings, bevorderings en goeie praktyk deur onder andere die skep vir ge- onderrig en gemeenskapsdiens. Aan teite wêreldwyd ’n hoër prestige- die toekenning van prestasiebonusse bevordering van navorsing en evalu- sprekvoering op ’n navorsingsintensiewe universiteit waarde, en word dit beter beloon as speel, is egter in die meeste fakul- ering van onderrig, erkenning vir die kampus. soos die Universiteit Stellenbosch onderriguitnemendheid. Die vraag is: teite gering. Professionele ontwikke- onderriguitnemendheid, en die ver- Menings in (US) is daar voortgaande debatte oor Word onderrig as minderwaardig ling van akademici as dosente hoging van die status van onderrig. artikels, briewe en die relatiewe status van die drie gesien aan die US, of kan dit op die- (onderriggewers) geld ook nie as ’n Dit is verblydend dat HESA (Higher Kampusklets kernfunksies, en veral oor die hoër selfde status as navorsing aanspraak vereiste by aanstellings of bevorde- Education South Africa) met die oppie Rooiplein status van navorsing teenoor onder- maak? rings nie. Raad op Hoër Onderwys en die De- is dié van die rig. Sulke debatte is egter nie baie partement van Onderwys in gesprek betrokke indiwidu Na aanleiding van ’n aanbeveling Op nasionale vlak is voorbeelde nuttig nie, omdat hulle onderrig en wil tree oor ’n program vir die ont- en nie van die Hoër Onderwys Gehalte- van goeie praktyk vir onderrig en navorsing teenoor mekaar stel, en wikkeling van institusionele kapasi- noodwendig komitee se institusionele ouditver- leer ontwikkel (HEQC, 2004), maar nie genoeg klem lê op die belangrike teit met betrekking tot onderrig en die standpunt van slag is daar ’n projek vir die bevor- dit het nog nie sistemies ’n invloed knooppunte en interaksie tussen leer, pedagogie, kurrikulum en asses- die Kampusnuus- dering van die statuur van onderrig gehad op die verbetering van die hierdie aktiwiteite nie. sering. redaksie of die aan die US van stapel gestuur, en gehalte van onderrig by universiteite Universiteit Universiteite is primêr kennis- goeie vordering is met verskillende nie. Buiten verenigings soos Aan die US bly ’n institusionele Stellenbosch nie. organisasies wat kennis ontgin, oor- inisiatiewe in hierdie verband ge- HELTASA (Higher Education Learn- debat nodig oor wat in ons konteks dra en toepas, en hierdie aktiwiteite maak. Dit sluit in die beskikbaar- ing and Teaching Association of as goeie onderrig en leer beskou kan behoort mekaar te versterk. Goeie stelling van finansiering vir navor- South Africa) en SAVNOHO (Suid- word, hoe ons dit kan bevorder, onderrig word deur die aktiewe be- singsprojekte oor onderrig en leer, Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Navorsing ondersteun en beloon, en hoe die trokkenheid van die dosent by navor- geleenthede vir die disseminering en Ontwikkeling in Hoër Onderwys) akademikus sy/haar take van onder- sing en kennisontginning in sy/haar van navorsingsresultate (soos die bestaan daar nie op nasionale vlak ’n rig, navorsing en gemeenskapsinter- vakdissipline onderlê. Die goeie na- onlangse Konferensie oor die Aka- liggaam wat op sistematiese en ge- aksie kan versoen. vorser dissemineer navorsingsresul- demieskap van Onderrig en Leer), struktureerde wyse die verbetering tate onder andere deur onderrig aan sowel as erkenning vir uitnemende van onderriggehalte bevorder nie. – Prof Magda Fourie studente, en dra so ook by tot die onderrig (soos die Rektorstoeken- Het dit nie tyd geword dat Suid- Viserektor: Onderrig

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die hele bord weg te dra. welkome gesig vir menige Kaapse student, en ouers het Tekens word nou teikens Ek wonder net wat gebeur met studente wat betrap ook die gemoedsrus dat daar aan minimumvereistes Ek begin nou bekommerd raak oor die intellektuele ver- word en of daardie studente se vonnisse nie bekend ge- rakende veiligheid, spoed, ensovoorts voldoen word. moë van ons studente, want die enigste persone wat ek maak kan word nie om as afskrikmiddel vir studente te Kan ons nie dalk ’n AKKER-busstelsel of so iets op ken wat nog mure en dies meer met ’n pen of potlood dien wat laatnag en in die vroeë oggendure met hierdie Stellenbosch instel nie? Dalk aan die begin net vanaf die teiken is driejariges wat onskuldig hulle ‘kreatiwiteit’ op kattekwaad besig is. Is daar enigeen by die Universiteit stasie kampus toe en terug, en dit mettertyd uitbrei na ma en pa se nuutgeverfde mure beoefen. Soos ’n mens wat hierdie vraag kan beantwoord? En hoe en waar rap- Somerset-Wes (vanaf Somerset Mall), Bellville (vanaf die ouer word, word dit duidelik dat mure nie vir teken is nie porteer ’n mens sulke vandalisme? Tygervallei-inkopiesentrum) en dalk Brackenfell en Paarl? – dit is nou as jou tekeninge nie as goeie graffiti geklassi- – Red die tekens asseblief! Openbare vervoer in Suid-Afrika moet nog baie by die fiseer kan word nie en nog minder vir estetiese doeleindes res van die wêreld leer – hoekom sal ons nie ’n oplossing aangevra word – maar wel vir die kunsstuk wat ma of pa probeer vind nie? Dit blyk nie of ons studentevervoer deel teen die muur wil hang. Wat van ’n Akkerbus? uitmaak van die 2010-sokkerbeplanning nie! Hier in Matieland doen ons dinge natuurlik anders. Petrolpryse styg nou so skerp, en studente en personeel sal Stellenbosch se parkeerplekke raak al hoe minder – Ons verkies om soos driejariges op die borde wat as rig- seker een van die dae moet begin stap Stellenbosch toe. selfs teen die rivier is daar deesdae verfraaiing en pale wat tingaanwysers dien, die snaaksste dinge te doen. As ’n Of is daar ’n alternatief? ingeslaan word om voetpaaie te verseker. letter nie afgekrap word nie, besluit een van ons slim Die Universiteit van Kaapstad het die “Jammie Bus” Wat dink julle? studente om ’n letter of twee by te voeg of om sommer wat studente klas toe karwei. Die blou busse is ’n - Akkerbussie

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Thirty-nine academics presented papers dealing with various themes, ranging from postgraduate teaching to e-learning, the Here are the three academics who won a grant to participate in any overseas conference on teaching and learning. They are from the left, Mr Len teaching of first-year students and classroom research. Steenkamp, Mr Roelof Baard and Prof Razeen Davids According to Dr Brenda Leibowitz, debated educational issues, networked impact of the scholarship of teaching, followed by more parallel sessions and and Prof David Holgate. Director of the CTL, one of the main and were exposed to new and practical assessment and learning within and a panel discussion with Prof Yusuf “The judges were spoilt for choice reasons for this kind of conference is to ideas for teaching innovation and across disciplines. Waghid, (Dean of the Faculty of Edu- and, in the end, decided to award two “celebrate teaching and to give research. The keynote address was followed cation), Prof Sandy Liebenberg (Public grants. The winners were Prof Razeen teaching its pride of place on campus”. The conference started with a key- by three parallel sessions of innovative, Law), Prof Magda Fourie, (Vice- Davids from Internal Medicine and Mr She goes on to explain: “We want to note address by Prof Roger Moni from creative and scholarly presentations by Rector: Teaching) and Dr Nokwanda Len Steenkamp and Mr Roelof Baard encourage the sharing of ideas about the University of Queensland in SU academics, concluding with a panel Makunga (Botany and Zoology) on from Accounting,” said Dr Leibowitz. teaching and learning and look at Australia. Prof Moni’s talk, Reinven- discussion. The discussion, entitled The meaning of a pedagogy of hope for The conference ended with two scholarly approaches to these two ting undergraduate education through Transdisciplinarity in teaching and teaching and learning at SU. post-conference workshops. The first, fields by encouraging people to start a focus on inquiry learning, focused on learning, was chaired by Dr Leibowitz During the course of the two days, facilitated by Dr Karen Moni, also theorising around that which they are his own perspective of how under- and led by Prof Usuf Chikte three judges – Prof Moni, Prof Jan from the University of Queensland, doing. Teaching is a private affair and graduate curricula across all disciplines (Interdisciplinary Health), Prof Wikus Botha (Senior Director of Institutional and Dr Hanelie Adendorff from the this is also one way to share what we could benefit from a focus on inquiry van Niekerk (Mechanical Engineering), Research and Planning) and Dr Lu- CTL, focused on assessment. The do in the classroom and open it up to learning both as a process and as an Mr John van Breda (School for Public dolph Botha (Senior Director of second, facilitated by Dr Francois critique and debate.” outcome. He emphasised four main Management and Planning) and Prof Academic Support) – attended the Cilliers from the CTL, focused on Guest speakers invited to the con- points that could contribute to the Karen Esler (Conservation Ecology short-listed sessions to determine the educational research. ference, says Dr Leibowitz, are inter- scholarship of teaching: the need for and Entomology). winner of a grant to participate in an In just a couple of years, SU’s own national or national experts with some- proactive educational reinvention; the On the second day, Prof Albert van overseas conference on teaching and conference on the Scholarship of thing valuable to share. “We invite need for a better understanding of how Jaarsveld – former Dean of the Faculty learning. The short-listed presenters Teaching and Learning has earned its figures who have something useful to inquiry learning, teaching, assessment of Science at SU and now with the were Prof Dana Niehaus, Dr Johan place on the University calendar – share about teaching and learning and and disciplinary research could be National Research Foundation – Dempers, Prof Razeen Davids, Prof and is continuing to grow. The con- who will bring new ideas into the linked effectively; case studies from chaired a discussion on Transdisci- Mariana Visser, Prof Hendrik Bosman, ference organisers are already looking institution,” she says. the biomedical sciences; and the value plinarity, postgraduate training and the Mr Len Steenkamp and Mr Roelof forward to welcoming all SU academic During the conference, academics of broadening the definition of the power of transferable skills. This was Baard, Ms Samantha Prigge-Pienaar staff again at this special event in 2009. Institusionele Navorsing en Beplanning gerig op kundige diens In die Hoër Onderwys Gehaltekomitee tende bestuursinligtingstelsel en strate- Universiteitsgemeenskap te bevorder. navorsingsprojekte oor die US; produ- kaanse universiteite (HESA); en se ouditverslag is die Universiteit giese bestuursaanwysers wat gebruik Volgens prof Botha word die term seer inligtingsverslae, byvoorbeeld die verteenwoordig die US op verskillende Stellenbosch (US) gelukgewens met word in die beplanning, monitering en ‘bestuursinligting’ doelbewus nie meer feiteboeke en beplanningsinligting, en forums van die Cape Higher Education “die effektiewe wyse waarop die besluitnemingsprosesse op verskillende aan slegs een spesifieke afdeling gekop- verskaf deurlopend inligting oor die US Consortium (CHEC). Universiteit gebruik maak van stra- vlakke binne die Universiteit”. Hierdie pel nie. “Bestuursinligting bestaan aan die bestuur, departemente, steun- Dr Gert Steyn dien as Direkteur: tegiese institusionele data deur die ont- funksies aan die US is verder versterk immers uit ’n wye verskeidenheid dienste, studente en ander belangheb- Institusionele Navorsing, en mnr Neil wikkeling van ’n toeganklike en omvat- toe die Afdeling Institusionele Navor- inligting wat binne verskillende omge- bendes,” verduidelik prof Botha. Grobbelaar is die hoof van die HEMIS- sing en Beplanning (INB) aan die begin wings aan die US in stand gehou en Die Afdeling hanteer ook die Uni- kantoor in die Afdeling INB. Met die van 2008 tot stand gekom het deur die benut word, byvoorbeeld finansiële versiteit se HEMIS-indienings op grond vestiging van die INB is twee vakante samevoeging van die voormalige inligting, personeelinligting, navor- waarvan die US se staatsfinansiering poste gevul toe me Junay Adams as Afdeling Akademiese Beplanning en singsinligting en studente-inligting.” bepaal word; koördineer die Universi- hoof van die Gehalteversekerings- Gehalteversekering, en die voormalige Die Afdeling INB se verantwoor- teit se inskrywingsbeplanning en -be- kantoor, en mnr Leon Eygelaar as Afdeling Institusionele Beplanning (wat delikhede sluit ’n hele aantal sake in. stuur; koördineer die US se ge- assistenthoof van die HEMIS-kantoor nóg vroeër as die Afdeling “Dit bied advies aan die US-bestuur halteversekeringstelsel ten opsigte van aangestel is. In die Gehalteverseke- Bestuursinligting bekend gestaan het). ten opsigte van hoëronderwys-beleids- akademiese sowel as nie-akademiese ringskantoor word me Adams deur mnr Die Afdeling INB staan onder lei- aangeleenthede; koördineer die US se omgewings, wat die periodieke institu- André Müller bygestaan. Me Adri ding van prof Jan Botha, en rapporteer akademiese beplanning, met ander sionele gehalte-oudits insluit; tree op as Becker hanteer die skakeling met die aan die Viserektor: Onderrig, prof Mag- woorde die sake wat met akademiese kantoor vir die US se skakeling met die eksterne liggame. da Fourie. Die doel van die samevoe- beleid, organisasie-eenhede en -struk- Departement Onderwys, die Raad op Personeel en studente is welkom om ging van hierdie afdelings is om opti- ture, kwalifikasies, programme en Hoër Onderwys, statutêre liggame, die oor bogenoemde sake met die Afdeling Mnr Leon Eygelaar (Anton Jordaan, SSFD) male en kundige dienslewering aan die akkreditasie verband hou; onderneem vereniging van rektore van Suid-Afri- te skakel. Research Development increases focus on University’s FP7 activities Dr Geoff Meese joins the Division of Research Development (DRD) to share his expertise on framework programmes With the onset of the seventh frame- benefiting from Dr Meese’s 2013 and has a total funding of €50 “Proposals are consortium-driven, work programme (FP7) of the endeavours,” says Prof Piet Steyn, billion. and coordinated and submitted by EU European Union (EU), the DRD has Acting Senior Director of Research Through the framework pro- partners. They’re submitted in response greatly increased its focus on sup- (Natural Sciences). grammes, international partnerships to narrowly defined project calls porting the University in its FP7 acti- In order to support the University in with countries outside the EU (so-called promoted within each theme and vities. It has therefore appointed Dr its FP7 activities, according to Dr Third Countries) are encouraged and all typically appear once or twice a year. Meese, who has had more than 10 Meese, it has become especially im- these international partners – including Framework programme projects are years’ experience in framework pro- portant to ensure that Stellenbosch uses South Africa – are eligible for funding. usually three to four years long and grammes during his time at the Council a consistent approach in developing its South Africa, along with China and offer tremendous opportunities,” for Scientific and Industrial Research. proposals specifically with regard to Russia, has become one of the most explains Dr Meese. He was one of the first South Afri- costs, the financial model used and successful of the Third Countries, with These opportunities include the can/EU national contact points (NCPs) even the legal address. more than 120 projects in the FP6. This development of expertise bases, the Dr Geoff Meese (Anton Jordaan, SSFD) and is an EU expert evaluator. “Researchers are also encouraged to has been due particularly to the support increase and strengthening of human Following Dr Meese’s appointment, become EU evaluators, thus serving on of the DST and its creation of a system resource development and the estab- the gradual development of projects. a service was established that alerts re- evaluation panels reviewing FP7 appli- of NCPs that act as FP information lishment of valuable networks. Suc- “Since the start of the FP7 and since searchers to upcoming FP7 calls, that cations from around the world. This is providers. The NCP concept was de- cessful projects are about 60% funded Dr Meese’s appointment, Stellenbosch advises on partner-search mechanisms one of the most effective ways of learn- veloped by the EU and South Africa by the EU, while the DST contributes University has experienced a sharp rise and budgetary structures and that assists ing how the EU process operates and was one of the first of the Third about 50% of the resultant shortfall in in FP7 applications, and researchers are in securing support from the Department the key elements that make project pro- Countries to emulate the concept. the South African partner’s budget. enthusiastic about the possibility of of Science and Technology (DST). posals successful,” explains Dr Meese. The FP7 collaborative research arm Other smaller FP7 programmes, participating in the programme,” says “When it became known that Dr The EU is the biggest public funder focuses on 10 themes: health, food, such as Marie Curie, support activities Ms Riana Coetsee, Coordinator for Meese was moving to the Western of research in the world, with its frame- agriculture and biotechnology, infor- like researcher mobility. This pro- International Research Funds. Cape to retire, we grabbed the oppor- work programmes being the main mation and communication technolo- gramme includes support for the move- Dr Meese works at the office of tunity to benefit from his expertise in instruments supporting science and gies, nanosciences, nanotechnologies, ment of research fellows between the International Research Funds, DRD, the EU’s framework programme and technology in the EU’s 27 member materials and new production tech- EU and countries such as South Africa, which is headed by Ms Coetsee, and is the successes that he previously had countries. Its first framework pro- nologies, energy, the environment (in- and a recently introduced action to usually at Stellenbosch University on with getting researchers involved in FP gramme began in 1984. South Africa cluding climate change), transport encourage co-operation between Euro- Wednesdays and Thursdays. He can be collaborative programmes, which led to joined the programmes in their fourth (including aeronautics), socio-econo- pean institutions and institutions in contacted at [email protected]. In urgent cases, he can be contacted at any time enhanced international collaboration. cycle, that is, with the onset of the FP4. mic sciences and the humanities, space countries outside the EU in broadly on 082 461 6752. I’m delighted that we’re already The current FP7 runs from 2007 to and security. defined areas of expertise that allow 4 NUUS/NEWS KAMPUSNUUS Krygskunde help oorsese instansies om kennis te verbreed Lede van die Militêre Akademie het ’n oorsese konferensie bygewoon om hulle kennis oor die politiek, ekonomie en veiligheid van Afrika te deel Die Fakulteit Krygskunde sit dalk om referate aan te hoor en samespre- energiesektor; Afrika en die internasio- ders gemaak het, sê prof Neethling, is Heinecken het ’n aanbieding oor daar doer aan die Weskus, maar dit kings te voer oor ’n verskeidenheid nale oliemark; internasionale investe- dat hy en dr Vreÿ met hulle aankoms transformasie in die Suid-Afrikaanse lyk asof dit behoorlik gons van akti- aspekte rakende die politiek, ekono- ring in Afrika; Afrika se integrasie by op die lughawe deur senior studente Nasionale Weermag gedoen, terwyl witeit daar by die see. Drie lede van mie en veiligheid van Afrika. “Die die globale ekonomie; die Russiese aan die Russiese Staatsuniversiteit vir prof Neethling, wat ook by hierdie die Fakulteit Krygskunde se Skool vir oorgrote meerderheid konferensie- Federasie en natuurlike hulpbronne in Geesteswetenskappe ontmoet is wat geleentheid betrokke was, oor Afrika Veiligheid- en Afrikastudie, prof Theo Afrika; indrukke van Afrika in die oë gangers was navorsers aan die Insti- Afrikaans en Swahili as universiteits- se politieke ekonomie en die soektog Neethling, dr (lt kol) Francois Vreÿ, tuut vir Afrikastudie, elkeen ’n analis van jong Russe; die beeld van Afrika vakke neem. Dié jongmense het hulle na vrede en ontwikkeling gepraat en dr (kdr) Thean Potgieter, het on- in eie reg met ’n tydens hulle besoek het. langs deelgeneem aan ’n driedaagse aktiewe belang- deurgaans bygestaan “Die besoeke van hierdie groepe is konferensie van die Instituut vir Afri- stelling in die “Die besoeke van hierdie groepe is van besondere om oor die stad heen kastudie aan die Russiese Akademie van besondere belang as dit teen die geskiedenis, hede belang as dit teen die agtergrond van die groot hulle pad na vir Wetenskap in Moskou. en toekoms van bestemmings te vind agtergrond van die groot moondhede Kort voor die Moskou-besoek het Afrika en sy mense. moondhede se hernieude militêre strategiese belange – alles in Afrikaans! se hernieude militêre strategiese be- lange in Afrika-veiligheid beskou twee groepe wat uit fakulteitslede en Daar was ook groot in Afrika-veiligheid beskou word.” Die besoek deur studente van verskeie buitelandse belangstelling om fakulteitslede en word. Dit het spesifiek te make met – Dr Abel Esterhuyse militêre opvoedkundige instansies meer van ons, as studente van verskeie die hernieude belangstelling van bestaan, ook die Universiteit Stellen- mense van Afrika, buitelandse militêre China en die VSA. Die Verenigde bosch (US) besoek. Die groepe het te leer oor gebeure opvoedkundige State het ook onlangs die sogenaamde aan werksessies deelgeneem wat gesa- op die kontinent. Ons het dan ook in die hedendaagse openbare media; instansies aan die US het afgeskop US Africa Command (AFRICOM) strategiese risiko’s en bedreigings in mentlik deur die Departement elkeeen referate oor belangwekkende met die aanbieding van ’n werksessie gestig. Dit het tot ’n hele nuwe reeks Afrika; die Russiese Federasie en Sosiologie, die Instituut vir Toekoms- veiligheidkwessies in Afrika gelewer,” op 7 Mei aan ’n groep van die VSA, vrae oor die belang en toekomsrol van Suid-Afrika: gister, vandag en môre; die US Industrial College of the navorsing en die Skool vir Veiligheid- verduidelik hy. Afrika vanuit ’n geo-strategiese pers- en die probleme van Afrikastudente in Armed Forces (ICAF). Die werksessie en Afrikastudie in die Fakulteit “Meer as driehonderd referate is pektief gelei. Daar kan verwag word oor ’n verskeidenheid interessante Russiese instellings van hoër onder- het spesifiek op die privatisering van Krygskunde aangebied is. dat hierdie hernieude belangstelling onderwerpe gelewer, waaronder Afrika wys,” sê prof Neethling. veiligheid gefokus. ICAF vorm deel Volgens prof Neethling was die van die Verenigde State as die toon- hoofdoel van die Moskou-konferensie en die veranderende internasionale Wat die besoek egter heel beson- van die National Defence University in Washington DC. aangewende lid van NAVO tot ’n Prof Lindy Heinecken van die De- groeiende militêre belangstelling in partement Sosiologie het ’n aanbie- Afrika deur al die ander lede van ding oor die effek van privaat veilig- NAVO sal lei,” het dr Abel Esterhuyse heids- en militêre maatskappye op die van die Skool vir Veiligheid- en organisatoriese en professionele aard Afrikastudies gesê. van weermagte in die algemeen, en Albei groepe was geïnteresseerd in Suid-Afrika in die besonder gedoen, Suid-Afrika se rol in Afrika, en veral terwyl dr Vreÿ oor die privatisering in die bydrae van die Suid-Afrikaanse van veiligheid deur oliemaatskappye Nasionale Weermag tot die uitbou van in die Golf van Guinee gepraat het. vrede op die vasteland. Dr Esterhuyse Op die foto is agter van links lt kol Mike Meijburg, die Neder- Op 14 Mei het ’n groep senior het ’n aanbieding aan albei groepe ge- landse Verdedigingsattaché in Suid-Afrika, en dr Abel Esterhuyse offisiere van die Nederlandse Ko- doen oor Suid-Afrikaanse verdedi- van die Skool vir Veiligheid- en Afrikastudie in die Departement ninklike Weermag se Leergang gings- en strategiese denke sedert Militêre Strategie in die Fakulteit Krygskunde. Voor van links is Topmanagement Defensie ook die 1994. Prof André Roux het ook oor prof Ian van der Waag, die voorsitter van die Skool vir Veilig- Op die foto is van links prof Theo Neethling, me Alena Fakulteit besoek. Lede van hierdie verdedigingsbesteding in Suid-Afrika, heid- en Afrikastudie, prof Lindy Heinecken van die Departe- Cheskis (student in Afrikaans en Swahili aan die groep word deur die Nederlandse De- ment Sosiologie, lt gen (aft) D. Starink, programdirekteur van Russiese Staatsuniversiteit vir Geesteswetenskappe), dr fensie Academie voorberei vir be- en veral oor die impak van die soge- die Gevorderde Verdedigingstudiesprogram van die Neder- (kdr) Thean Potgieter, en dr (lt kol) Francois Vreÿ. Op vordering tot generaal- en vlagrang in naamde vredesdividend op die Suid- landse Koninklike Weermag, en die Dekaan van die Neder- die agtergrond is die Moskourivier met die Kremlin die Koninklike Weermag. Prof Afrikaanse en streeksekonomieë landse Instituut vir Internasionale Betrekkinge in Clingendael aan die linkerkant gesels. Youth Day celebration focuses on new and old challenges faced by youngsters Youth Day, 16 June, has become synonymous with Hector Peterson, the 13-year-old boy who was gunned down in the prime of his life while protesting against the use of Afrikaans as an enforced medium of instruction in black schools. Although the Soweto uprising of 1976 is but a memory to- day, the youth in South Africa is still engaging with issues both new and old in a bid to become right- ful, equal citizens in a country where the focus is on this generation to become agents of change. Learners have their say at Youth Day celebration. On the photo are, at the In line with a decision taken in 2006 bosch, as well as various University cinemas in Cradock. Mr MacMaster back, from the left, Mr Jerome Slamat, Senior Director: Unit for Community by the University to celebrate pre-deter- staff, deans and members of manage- said that while he was always aware of Interaction; Mr Llewellyn MacMaster, Dean of Students; Prof Julian Smith, Vice- ment attended the event. The Youth Day the injustices happening around him, mined public holidays through various Rector: Community Interaction and Staff; and the SR-member for Unity and events and activities on campus, a celebration was organised by the Unit 1976 was the “beginning of (his) National Affairs, Mr Rich de Almeida. In the front, from the left, are Sherlin Youth Day event focusing on the theme for Community Interaction. political awakening”. Barends of Lückhoff High School; Ezethu Saleze of Kayamandi High School; and “Is the struggle continuing?” was held The learners who attended the event “This was not only a struggle against Naomi Bruwer of Hoërskool Stellenbosch (Anton Jordaan, SSFD) in the Fismer Hall on 12 June. were unanimous in their belief that the oppression and suppression, against A framework for the celebration of struggle for true freedom and justice for exploitation and dehumanisation, and violence. A lot of people are frustrated say that yes, the struggle does indeed public holidays was made public by all is still a very pertinent topic in post- everything that prevented black people about things like the price of petrol, the continue as long as the majority of Prof Julian Smith, Vice-Rector: Com- Apartheid South Africa. While the from becoming what God intended Eskom fiasco, crime and violence, South Africans are still living in poverty munity Interaction and Staff in 2006. In challenges that the youth face today them to be, but it was also a struggle for corruption in government and the Jacob and are unemployed,” she said. that same year, the first institutional may differ from the ones that sparked the ideals of a democratic, non-racial, Zuma debacle. These are all valid According to Ezethu, the struggle celebration of a public holiday was held the 1976 Soweto uprisings, new non-sexist and just South Africa. It complaints.” encompassed a much wider scope today on 14 June to celebrate Youth Day. A challenges such as However, he and included, among others, “class year programme, indicating the number teenage pregnancies, “I am thankful that before my time someone was warned that the youth struggles, socio-economic struggles, the of days as well as which days will be drug abuse, severe should not look to struggle for resources, food struggles, celebrated officially, is compiled and poverty and broken willing to make the ultimate sacrifice and to struggle government and lea- health care struggles, education then approved by the Rector’s Manage- families are major for the freedom of all South Africans.” ders of the day to struggles, as well as struggles for access ment Team each preceding year. factors that under- provide the answers to higher education,” and the effects of – Naomi Bruwer, Hoërskool Stellenbosch. According to Prof Smith, the mine the youth to to these questions HIV/Aids on society. University tries to create opportunities reach their full poten- and to solve these Naomi, a matric learner, said that through these events to promote nation tial, the three youth leaders said. The served as our dream, our vision for the problems. “It is up to us to tackle these while the youth of today, who were too building and communication between old challenges of unemployment, ine- kind of South African society we issues, to fight for what is ours. It is our young to remember Apartheid, difference races in South Africa. quality and the lack of access to basic wanted to see, where we wanted to live country after all, we are the ones who struggled with fully grasping the effect Speaking at the event on 12 June resources such as health care, food and and where we wanted to raise our are going to live here, work here, raise that this system of governance had on were three youth leaders – Naomi housing were also discussed. children,” Mr MacMaster continued. our families here and make our fortunes certain groups in society, she did Bruwer from Hoërskool Stellenbosch, Mr MacMaster, who was the first to Mr MacMaster was followed by Mr here.” believe that it remained uppermost in Sherlin Barends from Lückhoff High speak, shared his personal experiences De Almeida, who said that while many “Our struggle is to safeguard demo- the minds of young South Africans up School and Ezethu Saleze from Kaya- of Apartheid as a young boy and stu- things have changed in South Africa cracy, to look after our freedom, to to today. This meant the struggle for mandi High School – as well as the dent. He told of how he and other farm since 1994, the struggle to have basic make sure that the ideals that the stu- true freedom for all was still important Dean of Students, Mr Llewellyn children who lived on a farm in the needs provided for still continues for dents of 1976 fought for were not in to the youth. MacMaster, who was involved in the Eastern Cape, a farm where his own many South Africans. “Half of our vain and are not lost. Our struggle is to “If we are struggling for something, 1976 protest actions in the Western mother grew up, were chased by dogs population still lives in immense po- live up to that legacy.” it means we still feel something and it Cape, and Mr Rich de Almeida, SR that the farmer’s son let loose on them verty,” he said. “But not enough is Mr De Almeida’s sentiments were means that we care enough to want to member for Unity and National Affairs. for his own amusement. He also spoke being done to relief the plight of these echoed by Ezethu, who shared some of make things better. This is why I do not Sixty-five learners and twelve teach- about his memories of separate entran- people. And this frustration is starting to the reasons why she believed that the believe that we should ever stop ers from nine schools across Stellen- ces and separate seating areas in show itself in the form of xenophobic struggle still continued. “Allow me to struggling.” KAMPUSNUUS NUUS/NEWS 5 Protea-kaptein vertrek na die land van die Wallabies Bronwyn Bock-Jonathan, die eerste movement competence, self-esteem dit was ook die eerste keer dat ek tyd werksetiek en ek geniet my werk met persoon van kleur om Suid-Afrika op and resiliency of adolescent girls. met persone van verskeie agtergronde studente. Dit is ook wat my gedryf het nasionale vlak in netbal te verteen- Sy vertel dat sy veral die studente, deurgebring het,” verduidelik sy. om aansoek te doen vir die pos as woordig, sal vanaf Julie 2008 haar die diversiteit in mense by die Univer- “Maar,” voeg sy by, “ek was van koshuishoof van Nemesia-vroue- tuiste hier op Stellenbosch – in haar siteit, die mooi Stellenbosch-omge- die begin af eerlik oor my vermoëns koshuis.” hoedanigheid as oudstudent, dosent en wing en die winter gaan mis. “Ek gaan en bekwaamhede in daardie stadium.” Oor die jare heen het Bronwyn op koshuishoof van Nemesia – vir Aus- definitief die winter mis. Daardie Alhoewel die kwotastelsel Bron- én af van die netbalbaan ontwikkel. Sy tralië verruil. Die 32-jarige Protea-net- lekker stormagtige en reënerige dae.” wyn ’n geleentheid gebied het om op sien die pos by die Netball ACT balspeler sal vir die volgende vier jaar Maar vir eers gaan sy en haar man, nasionale vlak mee te ding, bieg sy dat Academy as net nog ’n geleentheid as voltydse afrigter by die Netball Marvin, ’n nasionale bofbalspeler, en dit harde werk en opofferings geverg om haar loopbaan as afrigter en ACT Academy en vir Canberra Darters hulle tweejarige seuntjie Jordan Doer het om tot op internasionale vlak te sportwetenskaplike te ontwikkel. in Canberra werk waar sy veral op Onder aanpak. vorder. “Ek dink netbal was maar net een afrigting en die ontwikkeling van As jy luister na hoe Bronwyn oor “Die jaar 1994 was ’n moeilike tyd van die sportsoorte wat bedoel is om netbalspelers sal konsentreer. haar jare as jong netbalspeler praat, is vir my in terme van my akademiese in my lewe te gebeur. Dit was altyd Vra jy vir Bronwyn hoekom sy juis dit duidelik dat hierdie Suid-Afrikaner loopbaan, die geleentheid om op die maar die konnektiewe weefsel in my nóú Suid-Afrika vir die Aussies ver- weet hoe om ’n uitdaging op ’n rea- hoogste vlak netbal te speel, maar met lewe vanaf skoolvlak,” vertel sy met ruil, lag sy en sê dat dit seker maar tyd listiese manier aan te pak. Sy sal die die wete dat ek nog nie gereed is nie, ’n breë glimlag. “Dit is ook een van is – in totaal is sy al 14 jaar aan die eerste wees om prontuit te sê dat al- en die ‘crash course’ in netbaloplei- daardie sportsoorte wat oor die hele Universiteit Stellenbosch (US) hoewel die kwotastelsel en haar talent ding wat ek aangepak het. Dit was ’n Suid-Afrika heen gespeel word, vanaf verbonde. Sy is al sedert 1994 by die haar ’n plek in die o/21-Suid-Afri- moeilike tyd in my lewe en ek het my die informele nedersettings tot in US toe sy as eerstejaar haar BA-graad kaanse netbalspan in 1994 verseker ma elke dag in trane gebel, maar aan Constantia.” in Sportwetenskap en Sielkunde begin het, sy nie glo haar kundigheid genoeg die einde van die dag het ek geleer om En gaan sy nou vir altyd die land het. Nadat sy dié graad voltooi het, het ontwikkel was om op daardie stadium te oorleef. Binne ses tot agt maande van die Springbokke vir die Wallabies sy ’n honneurs in Sportwetenskap op nasionale vlak mee te ding nie. was ek gereed om op nasionale vlak te verruil? “Niks in die lewe is perma- voltooi en daarna ’n meestersgraad in “Ek was genooi om aan proewe speel en om ’n beduidende bydrae te nent nie,” antwoord sy. “Vir eers wil Sportwetenskap behaal. In Desember deel te neem omdat ek een van die maak.” ek daarop konsentreer om die skuif so 2004 het sy vir nog ’n honneursgraad nasionale spelers by die Netball Asso- Dit is hierdie deursettingsvermoë glad as moontlik te laat verloop, en geregistreer, hierdie keer in Sielkunde, ciation of South Africa (NASA) was. wat sy tot vandag toe in haar lewe toe- daarna op die pos wat ek moet vul.” en dit met ’n PhD-graad in Sport- Dit was die begin van ’n aantal eerstes pas. Wat wel duidelik is, is dat die besluit wetenskap opgevolg. Haar doktors- vir my – dit was my eerste keer op ’n “Alles wat ek doen, doen ek na die om Suid-Afrika vir eers te verlaat een tesis was getiteld The effects of parti- vliegtuig, my eerste keer in Bloem- beste van my vermoë,” sê sy. “So ook van hierdie Bok se moeilikstes tot Dr Bronwyn Bock-Jonathan cipation in movement programs on the fontein en ’n groot kultuurskok, want in my werk as dosent. Ek het ’n goeie dusver was. (Hennie Rudman, SSFD) Ingenieurs help leerders op praktiese manier Suid-Afrika het ’n groot tekort aan dek onderwerpe soos kultuur en teg- gehoor het van die ondersteuning wat ingenieurs. Nie alleen kies te min nologie, ingenieurswese in ’n multi- gaan kom, dadelik van Wiskundige studente ingenieurswese as loopbaan kulturele samelewing, waardestelsels Geletterdheid na Wiskunde oorgeskakel. nie, maar baie leerders en onderwysers en etiek, die funksionering van die En wat sê die studente van hierdie informele sektor en nasionale, maat- is nie bewus van die belang van nuwe onderneming waaraan hulle so ’n skaplike en ekonomiese uitdagings reuse-aandeel het? Een wat baie Wiskunde en Fisiese Wetenskappe vir soos armoede en MIV/vigs. Die positief is, is Louise van Zyl. “Ek is ingenieurstudie nie. Boonop behaal praktiese sy van die module behels dat absoluut mal daaroor! Ek het my hele leerders nie altyd goeie slaagpunte in studente in die eerste semester een skoolloopbaan aan gemeenskaps- maal per week in die middag tutoriale hierdie vakke wat noodsaaklik vir projekte deelgeneem en vind dit baie in Wiskunde of Fisiese Wetenskappe toelating tot ingenieurswese is nie. Die nuttig. Die leerders was met die eerste Finalejaar-Matie-ingenieurstudent, Dewald Terblanche, (regs) tree op as aan graad 10-, 11- en 12-leerders by Fakulteit Ingenieurswese het in die les baie stil. In die tweede week het twee nabygeleë skole, Lückhoff Sekon- Wiskunde-tutor vir graad 10-leerders van Lückhoff Sekondêre Skool soeke na ’n oplossing hierdie dilemma hulle heeltemal ontdooi. Nou lewer dêre Skool en Hector Peterson hierdie soort intervensie behoort reeds leerders bewus te maak van op ’n vindingryke manier getakel. Hoërskool, aanbied. hulle meer kommentaar, vra meer vrae Sedert die begin van 2008 bied die en is meer interaktief. Een groot strui- in graad 4 te begin.” ingenieurswese as beroep, hulle ook te Die uitreikprogram het sommer nog Fakulteit ’n module getiteld Same- kelblok is egter dat baie leerders ’n In die eerste semester het 32 stu- help om goeie slaagpunte in Wiskunde voor die afskop reeds vrugte afgewerp. lewing in Perspektief vir finalejaar- dente as tutors vir 300 leerders en Fisiese Wetenskappe te behaal, en Hester Jacobs, Wiskunde-onderwyser by leemte het wat die vaslegging van studente in Chemiese Ingenieurswese opgetree. Die Fakulteit Ingenieurswese om op lang termyn meer ingenieurs vir Lückhoff, sê party leerders het, toe hulle wiskundige beginsels betref. Ek reken aan. Die teoretiese sy van die module hoop om met hierdie ondersteuning die land te werf. German-South African research collaboration in health sciences (from page 1) Back in Germany, Dr Detjen works veloping in HIV-infected children is at return to South Africa in the future. research cooperation. It enables least eight-fold higher than in immune- of the Desmond Tutu TB Centre, is Dr at the Department of Paediatric Pneu- Prof Beyers said the Centre had a highly qualified scholars not competent children. However, the Detjen’s mentor. mology and Immunology at the strong research team who would sup- resident in Germany to spend Charité University Hospital of the diagnosis of TB in children is extended periods of research in “This double mentoring offers an port Dr Detjen in her endeavours. Humboldt University in Berlin. “While particularly difficult and the IGRAs Germany and promotes the ensuing opportunity to add new faculties to the “During her few months’ stay in South Germany is a country with a low (interferon-gamma release assays) that network. Upon her return to Germany, Africa, Dr Detjen has proved herself academic contacts. Individual incidence of TB, it lacks experts in the I focus on may offer a more sensitive Dr Detjen can become a mentor for as a dedicated, hardworking re- sponsorship during periods spent in field, especially with regard to child- and specific diagnostic tool. Data on future Humboldt Fellows herself,” searcher. I am confident that she will Germany and longstanding follow- hood TB,” said Dr Detjen. the use of IGRAs in children in areas Prof Swart explained. highly endemic for TB and HIV is add valuable, much-needed data on up contacts have been hallmarks of Dr Detjen came to the Centre in the foundation's work since 1953. “Through these endeavours, Dr extremely scarce, especially in this childhood TB to the scientific commu- January 2007 to broaden her ex- Detjen and I aim to enhance the colla- vulnerable high-risk population,” ex- nity through this study,” Prof Beyers Feodor Lynen (1911-1979), a borative network that already exists perience in the management of child- plained Dr Detjen. concluded. chemist from Munich, Germany, hood TB and HIV and do research on between the SU Faculty of Theology The Fellowship will allow her to won the Nobel Prize in 1964 for his childhood TB. and the Faculty of Theology at the establish a network in her field of ·The Alexander von Humboldt work on fatty acid biosynthesis. He University of Berlin,” Prof Swart said. “Children, especially young chil- research and to build an ongoing Foundation is a non-profit later became the president of the In addition, they wish to strengthen a dren (under 1 year) have an extremely collaboration between her institution in foundation established by the Alexander von Humboldt Foun- health care focus in the programmes high risk of developing tuberculosis Germany and SU. With the help of the Federal Republic of Germany for dation as well as the vice-president that are jointly offered. after infection. The risk of TB de- Foundation she will also be able to the promotion of international of the Max Plank Society. 6 NUUS/NEWS KAMPUSNUUS Internasionale leksikografiekongres op 1 Julie Program help jong Prof Russel Botman, Rektor en Vise- Hanks van die Masaryk-universiteit in Ongeveer ’n honderd kongres- kanselier van die Universiteit Stellen- die Tsjeggiese Republiek, Ngo Kabuta gangers word verwag. Hulle sal bene- bosch (US), sal op 1 Julie die bywoners van die Universiteit van Gent in België, wens die daaglikse dosis referate ook navorsers om te floreer van AFRILEX se 13th International en Piet van Sterkenburg, voormalige ’n dinee in Die Stal op Coetzenburg Die onlangse navorsingskapasiteitsbou- antwoordelikheid en ’n plig om te rea- Congress on Lexicography op Stellen- Direkteur van die Instituut voor Neder- bywoon en ’n besoek aan die Taal- werksessie wat deur die Afdeling Na- geer, om ’n bydrae te maak om die rea- bosch welkom heet. Die kongrestema is landse Lexikografie in Nederland. monument en die KWV in die Paarl vorsingsontwikkeling (ANO) vir liteite van armoede, haweloosheid, sosio-ekonomiese uitsluiting en wan- ‘Printed and electronic dictionaries and Die kongres word voorafgegaan bring. Die Woordeboek van die nuutaangestelde navorsers op die kam- pus aangebied is, het wye belangstelling hoop in Suid-Afrika aan te pak. Aan die the future’, en sal vanaf 1 tot 3 Julie in deur ’n werksessie op 30 Junie met die Afrikaanse Taal organiseer die kongres, gelok oor hoe navorsers ’n navorsings- ander kant moet die navorsingsuitsette die Letteregebou van die US plaasvind. tema ‘Practical Lexical Analysis using en navrae kan aan dr Willem Botha by loopbaan hier kan ontwikkel. ook dien om die industrie meer inter- Meer as 40 referate sal gelewer word. Corpus Tools’, aangebied deur prof telefoonnommer 021 887 3113/3549 Hierdie werksessies word jaarliks nasionaal mededingend te maak.” Die hoofsprekers is proff Patrick Hanks. gerig word. aangebied om jong navorsers – navor- Hy het aan die navorsers gesê dat sers wat vir die eerste keer met navor- hulle ook bevoorreg is om ’n “labora- Gesondheidswetenskappe vereer uitblinkers sing begin of wat nuut tot navorsing in torium in hulle agterplaas” te hê. Hier- die universiteitsomgewing is – ’n breë mee het prof Van Zyl verwys na die unieke plante, rotse, diere en oseane wat Die Fakulteit Gesondheidsweten- oorsig van navorsing aan die Universiteit in en om Suid-Afrika bestaan en die skappe het onlangs met hulle jaarlikse Stellenbosch (US) te gee, asook om die verskeie kulture en tale wat in die land prestasie-aand die Tygerbergkampus se dienste van die ANO en ander universi- figureer. Uitdagings soos die breë voor- kampioene vereer deur op verskillende teitsnavorsingstrukture aan hulle bekend koms van Fetale Alkoholsindroom, MIV gebiede aan uitnemende akademiese te stel. en vigs asook tuberkulose bied ook groot personeel sowel as studente erkenning “Omdat navorsing ’n eensame taak navorsingsgeleenthede. Verder is Suid- te gee. Vir die eerste maal in die ge- kan wees, is hierdie werksessies ook ’n Afrika histories ideaal geleë as ’n deur- skiedenis kom al drie die studente- geleentheid vir navorsers om netwerke te voerroete van die Weste na die Ooste, pryswenners uit die Aanvullende vorm en om vrae te vra oor navorsing by maar ook vandag as ’n deurvoerroete Gesondheidswetenskappe in die die Universiteit. Hierdie dag is ook deel van die Noorde na die Suide. Fakulteit. van die jaarlikse navorsingskapasiteits- bouprogram vir personeellede,” het me “Ons moet verseker dat die akti- Die beste voorgraadse student in witeite van die Universiteit sodanig 2007 was me Carine Gagiano van die Fran Ritchie van ANO verduidelik. “’n Verskeidenheid werksessies word saamgesnoer is dat ons kan fokus op Afdeling Verpleegkunde. Sy het die hierdie uitdagings en ’n verskil kan graad BCur cum laude geslaag met ’n regdeur die jaar aangebied – meestal gratis – om navorsingskwessies te be- maak,” het hy gesê. Hy het bygevoeg dat geweegde gemiddelde persentasie van Op die foto is me Lisanne du Plessis, prof Peter Hesseling, prof Wynand van der dit ook van kardinale belang is dat na- 87,9%, en het sonder uitsondering elke spreek en om geleenthede te skep om Merwe (Dekaan), dr Jo Barnes, me Carine Gagiano, prof Anton Doubell, prof navorsingsvaardighede, byvoorbeeld die vorsingsuitsette invloei op die onder- vak in die graadprogram met onder- Arnold van Zyl (Viserektor: Navorsing) en me Yolande Brink rigkurrikulum vir studente. skeiding geslaag. skryf van artikels, die skryf van navor- singsbefondsingsvoorstelle, nagraadse Prof Jane Bennett, Direkteur van die Die beste nagraadse student met ’n Fakulteit Ingenieurswese gelei en maak nemendheid in Onderrig is aan prof studieleiding en aanbiedingsvaardighede Sentrum vir Genderstudies aan die Uni- gestruktureerde magisterkwalifikasie is deel uit van ’n ooreenkoms met die Doubell, Hoof van die Afdeling Kar- by konferensies, in te skerp,” het sy versiteit van Kaapstad, was die hoof- aan me Lisanne du Plessis, dosent in Wes-Kaapse Onderwysdepartement diologie, toegeken, na aanleiding van gesê. spreker by die geleentheid en het in haar die Afdeling Menslike Voeding, toe- (WKOD) wat behels dat US-navorsers volgehoue puik eweknie- en studente- Prof Arnold van Zyl, Viserektor: aanbieding gefokus op hoe jong akade- geken vir die M in Voeding cum laude. as konsultante optree in skole waar evaluerings vir voorgraadse en na- Navorsing, het die groep toegespreek mici navorsing kan begin doen wat nie Sy het reeds drie publikasies in ge- rekenaartoerusting in gebruik is. graadse onderrig asook kliniese op- oor hoe hulle deur middel van hul eie net relevant is tot Suid-Afrika en Afrika akkrediteerde vaktydskrifte gepubliseer Die Fakulteit het tydens die geleent- leiding. navorsing ’n bydrae kan maak tot die nie, maar ook kennis kan genereer wat en verskeie voordragte by kongresse heid ook erkenning aan drie van die Dr Anneke Hesseling, navorser by Universiteit se uitnemendheid. Hy het in Afrika ontwikkel is. Dit, het sy gesê, gelewer. Sy het die Rektorstoekenning beste akademici verleen met die toe- die Desmond Tutu TB Sentrum, het die ook verduidelik hoe hulle hul navor- beteken dat navorsers in Suid-Afrika ook vir Voortreflike Onderrig in 2005 kenning van die jaarlikse fakulteit- Fakulteitstoekenning vir Navorsing singswerk relevant kan maak tot die nouer met ander navorsers in Afrika ontvang en is die jongste president nog spryse. ontvang. Dr Hesseling is tans in die Pedagogie van Hoop en die instelling se moet saamwerk om kennis te ontwikkel. van die Vereniging vir Dieetkunde in buiteland met ’n navorsingstoekenning Sy het gesê dat die groter poel akade- Dr Jo Barnes van die Afdeling Visie 2012. Suid-Afrika. wat sy van die National Institutes of mici wat om ’n kleiner poel navor- Gemeenskapsgesondheid het die “Die idee is om kritiese denke te be- Me Yolande Brink het die prys vir Health ontvang het. Haar navorsings- singsgelde meeding dit nou noodsaaklik Fakulteitstoekenning vir Gemeen- vorder en om vanuit verskillende dissi- die beste nagraadse student met ’n na- data het tot die Wêreldgesondheids- maak dat navorsers innoverend begin skapsinteraksie ontvang. Dr Barnes plines met mekaar in gesprek te tree. ’n vorsingskwalifikasie ontvang vir haar organisasie se hersiening van aan- dink en as entrepreneurs te werk gaan. het onlangs verskeie toekennings vir Pedagogie van Hoop beteken dus dat die MSc in Fisioterapie cum laude. Sy het bevelings rakende die gebruik van haar navorsing oor die besoedeling van kennis wat hier gegenereer word, ’n by- Vir navrae en inligting oor die werk- al internasionaal gepubliseer en waterbronne, onder meer die riviere in BCG-vaksien teen tuberkulose by drae kan lewer om die wyer gemeenskap sessies, skakel met me Fran Ritchie by verskeie voordragte gelewer. Haar en om Stellenbosch, ontvang. 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The deadline for advertisements is the preceding Thursday. Advertisements: Conita Henry, tel.: (021) 808-4633 or [email protected] KAMPUSNUUS KUNSTE/ARTS 7 Oxford professor and writer, Elleke Boehmer, visits Stellenbosch University of Oxford Professor in English and writer Elleke Boehmer recently visited the English Department at Stellenbosch University (SU). While here, she shared her thoughts on the international currency of cross-cultural Africa in literary circles. She also discussed her new novel, Nile Baby and the published scholary study, Nelson Mandela: A very short introduction. According to Prof Boehmer, who is more openly acknowledged and more always been part of the discourse of also an Professor Extraordinaire at the self-reflexively and energetically Europe, and of the black and red English Department at SU, Africa has performed. Africa, it is now more Atlantic and the global.” often been represented as that “which widely recognised, is neither all locale Prof Boehmer’s discussion of the is outside history, outside rational un- and region, a space confined to area Mandela book also touched on how derstanding” and sometimes even studies; nor is Africa purely the blank Mandela’s humanist vision became Oxford Professor and Professor Extraordinaire in the English Departement at “outside received language itself” in darkness of Western representation.” embodied in his person through lived SU, Prof Elleke Boehmer, discusses her scholarly study on Nelson Mandela and the discourse of the West. She argues, Prof Boehmer says that discourses experience. “Certain kinds of know- her new novel, Nile Baby, with the Head of the Department, Prof Dirk Klopper, however, that Africa is “at the same on Africa have emerged between the ledge,” she argues, “need to be felt on left, and English lecturer, Dr Meg Samuelson (middle) (Anton Jordaan, SSFD) time, through and through, a construc- local and the global and that they the body.” Mandela’s humanist tion of the West, a Western product”. involve more African commentators ideologies became the embodied know- the postcolonical redefinition of the such as conversation and listening. “Recently, however, since 1990, and participants “who themselves ledge – that which is felt on the body – human proclaimed by Fanon” – in The “To the new humanism, he added, certain developments have unfolded circulate transnationally between the of a redemptive political leader. wretched of the earth, Fanon speaks of first, the idea that the colonised remake that have begun to re-inflect and fray local and the global”. This embodiment, says Prof Boeh- how the Third World is to re-humanise themselves through forms and energies that epistemology of African alterity During her talk, Prof Boehmer mer, is further seen in the feminisation the masses of mankind and rewrite other than – or at least in addition to – [‘otherness’] in interesting ways. These related her discussion on the topic of of Mandela’s way of interaction with history – “yet at the same time pulled it those involved in death. In other developments include the at-once the international currency of cross- others, especially in the way he sought in a different direction”. words, he disposed of Fanon’s ‘irre- national and international configuration cultural Africa to her recently released dialogue with everyone around him, Mandela, instead, placed Africa pressible violence’ as a means of mak- of the reputation and representation of novel, Nile Baby and, specifically, his interest in likeness rather than diffe- within a range of categories, such as ing history and, instead, championed Nelson Mandela,” explains Prof Nelson Mandela: A very short intro- rence, the way he championed the art rationality, morality and justice, cate- conversation, trust and listening.” Boehmer. duction. “The two books are linked of listening and his acceptance of the gories from which it had previously “The African was at the centre of “A situation has now developed through their varying recognitions not unpredictable and complex nature of been excluded. In changing the space his concept of the human, and not the where, I would contend, the transna- only of how transcultural represen- humans. that Africa occupied within discourses margin or outside against which the tional formation of our understanding tations of Africa have international His dialogic practices in prison and of humanity, he also embodied tradi- human was understood, as was more of Africa, though not fully revised, is currency but also of how Africa has beyond also “contributed forcefully to tional feminine modes of interaction, conventional,” says Prof Boehmer. Audrey Blignault se lewe vasgevang in haar briewe ’n Blywende vreugde: Briewe van Audrey Blignault saamgestel deur Lynne Fourie en Marina Brink het pas verskyn. Kampusnuus het met die twee gesels om meer oor hierdie nuwe publikasie uit te vind. Besoek jy die Dokumentesentrum skrywersloopbaan waarvan Hennie die aanbod aanvaar, hoofsaaklik omdat presies die persoon wat Audrey van die JS Gericke-biblioteek hier by Aucamp jare later in die inleiding van die SAUK-ateljees naby Die Huisvrou Blignaut was,” sê Brink en Fourie. die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US) sal Die eindelose avontuur sou sê: “As se kantoor was. Hier was sy ook “Dit was vir my belangrik dat die jy Audrey Blignault se dokumente saam Langenhoven sy mense aan die lees aanvanklik alleen verantwoordelik vir briewe ’n beeld sal bou van die mens met dié van baie ander skrywers, gekry het, het Audrey Blignault gesorg die program Vrouerubriek. Audrey, van die soort vriendin wat sy kunstenaars en politici vind. Onder dat hulle aan die lees bly, maar meer In 1950 het sy ook begin met die vir ’n ewemens was (’n woord van hierdie dokumente is ook al haar nog: sy het haar lesers ’n sin vir rubriek ‘Uit die dagboek van ’n vrou’ M.E.R. wat sy graag en reg gebruik korrespondensie. proporsie en skaal probeer bybring deur vir die Sarie Marais, waarmee sy het), van die dinge wat haar aange- “Nie net die briewe wat sy ontvang die wêreldletterkunde na hulle te bring uiteindelik 22 jaar lank volgehou het. gryp het, van haar erkentlikheid teen- het nie, maar die meeste wat sy self – in Afrikaans.” Hierdie essays is deur die jare in oor goeie gewers, haar hartstog vir geskryf het ook. Tydens die opstel van Kort ná Audrey en haar eerste man, versamelbundels soos Met ligter tred, die juiste woord en veral natuurlik vir die Audrey Blignault-katalogus is besef Andries Blignault, se troue in 1941, het Die rooi granaat en Die blye dae die funksie van die woord-as-litera- dat dié juweel – haar briewe geskryf Andries besluit om verder te studeer. gepubliseer. Audrey het deur die jare tuur. Daarmee saam gaan ’n litera- sonder oog op publikasie – gepubliseer Hy wou mediese dokter word en dan in verskeie letterkundige pryse vir hierdie tuurbeskouing wat sentreer in die moet word sodat meer mense dit kan psigiatrie spesialiseer. “Audrey het toe essays ontvang. Die US self het vir onvergelyklike waarde wat die lite- geniet en waardeer. Buitendien, uit besluit om haar werk as onderwyseres Audrey in 1990 met ’n eredoktorsgraad ratuur vir haar het, wat keer op keer hoeveel mense se korrespondensie kan te laat vaar en ’n lonender pos te kry in die Lettere vereer. getuig van hoe sy ten diepste omgee bykans ’n hele lewensloop agterhaal waarmee sy alleen die pot aan die kook Een van die persone met wie vir die letterkunde en hoedat sy in word?” vertel Brink. kon hou en so Andries in staat kon stel Audrey, ’n ywerige briefskrywer, literêre werke, in toepaslike aanha- Op elfjarige ouderdom, vertel Brink, om voltyds verder te studeer.” gereeld gekorrespondeer het, was prof lings verwoording vind vir lewens- ervaring,” het prof Botha geskryf. het die talentvolle Audrey ’n gedig oor Sy is aangestel as redaktrise van die Elize Botha, voormalige Kanselier van Vir die omslag is gebruik gemaak van haar grootworddorp, Bredasdorp, ge- weekblad Die Huisvrou en het self die die US wat einde 2007 oorlede is. Ná die dood van haar eerste man, ’n foto van een van Audrey se gelief- skryf. Haar onderwyseres, Miss Gladys tydskrif sonder enige ervaring bestuur. Hierdie briewe is ook deur die same- Andries, in ’n motorongeluk by Foch- Huxham, reël toe sonder Audrey se Hierdie pos het sy elf jaar lank gevul. stellers vir die Dokumentesentrum ville in 1967 het Audrey in 1970 met koosde rooi baadjies wat Andries, medewete dat dit in die plaaslike koe- In 1947 is Audrey genader om ’n bekom. “’n Gedeelte uit prof Botha se Attie de Villiers getrou en woon tans in haar eerste man, in Japan vir haar ge- rant verskyn. Dit was die begin van ’n radioprogram vir vroue te begin. Sy het dekbrief by dié skenking verwoord Berghof aan die voet van Tafelberg. koop het BOEKE / BOOKS Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival THE PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS BEGINSELS VAN NARKOSE VIR DIE will excite the senses Land-Sea Interactions in a Changing Ecosystem VOORGRAADSE STUDENT The annual Stellenbosch International Steven L Chown & Pierre W Froneman (eds.) Saamgestel deur André Coetzee Chamber Music Festival will take place from 4 to 13 July 2008. This book provides a modern, synthetic overview of what is known about the structure, functioning and Beginsels van narkose vir die voorgraadse student is The festival faculty boasts celebrated interactions of marine and terrestrial systems at the Prince Edward Islands. Building on more than 50 saamgestel deur die Departement Anestesiologie en Kritieke Sorg local and international musicians, including years of biological, geological, meteorological and oceano- Daniel Rowland (violin), Eugene Osadchy van die Uni- graphic research, it demonstrates not only how inextricably (cello), Leon Bosch (double bass), Nina linked marine and terrestrial systems at the islands are, but versiteit. Die Schumann and Malcolm Nay (piano), and also how global environmental challenges such as climate boek stel die Lecolion Washington (bassoon). change, biological invasions and over-exploitation are voorgraadse Apart from daily lunch-hour concerts, playing out at the regional and local levels in the Southern student in there will be six faculty concerts from Ocean. narkose be- 5 July, featuring works by, among others, It is against a postcolonial backdrop that this collection of kend aan die Messiaen, Dohnanyi, Strauss, Stravinski essays aims to make a contribution to understanding the beginsels van and Mozart. The faculty concerts will be realities of urban centres that feature less frequently in the narkose wat performed by the Festival Symphony and academic press. The research reported in this collection sal dien as ’n Festival Concert Orchestras, comprising echoes and highlights many of the themes found in both the teoretiese the festival participants with Jonas Alber urban theory derived from the realities of many ‘world cities’, grondslag vir and Peter-Louis van Dijk as guest con- and in the challenges remarked upon in the development ductors. The orchestral concert on 12 July die praktiese theory found in much of the work focused on South Africa’s will include Van Dijk's Musicians of toepassing main metropolitan regions. However, the exploration of these Bremen with inimitable funny man Casper van narkose- issues on a different scale and in a different locational context de Vries as festival celebrity and narrator. also features different perspectives on South Africa’s tegnieke. Festival passes for admission to all changing urban society, its problems and its challenges. concerts cost R600. See http://academic.sun.ac.za/chambermusic festival/ for detailed programme. All tickets www.africansunmedia.co.za www.sun-e-shop.co.za These titles are available from African SUN MeDIA Pty (Ltd.) can be booked at Computicket on 083 915 [email protected] ℡ (021) 808 2401 (021) 808 2626 8000 http://www.computicket.com 8 NUUS/NEWS KAMPUSNUUS Plantsiektebestuur se toekoms by simposium bespreek Die eerste simposium van die Wes- bygewoon. patologiese navorsing en plantsiekte- Kaapse tak van die Suider-Afrikaanse “Die doel van die simposium was bestuur gepraat. Sy boodskap was dat Vereniging vir Plantpatologie (SAVP), om beter interaksie tussen die bedryf akademiese studies by universiteite waarvan dr Karin Jacobs van die Uni- en die onderskeie navorsingsinstansies dikwels die voorloper van tegnologieë versiteit Stellenbosch (US) as president te bewerkstellig,” vertel dr Jacobs. is wat later in die veld aangewend kan dien, is onlangs by die Infruitec- Dr Jacobs, wat aan die Departement word om plante teen siektes te be- kampus van die Landbounavorsings- Mikrobiologie verbonde is, het die skerm. Hy het ook benadruk dat dit raad (LNR) Infruitec-Nietvoorbij in simposium met ’n kort toespraak oor belangrik is dat nuwe, vindingryke Stellenbosch gehou. Volgens dr Jacobs die geskiedenis en rol van die SAVP maniere van plantsiektebeheer voort- het 23 sprekers by dié simposium praat- geopen. “Hierdie vereniging moet as ’n durend ondersoek word. jies oor die toekoms van swamdoders gespreksforum vir lede dien. Geleent- Daar was veral belangstelling in die en alternatiewe metodes van hede soos hierdie is ook belangrik vir sessie oor die toekoms van swam- plantsiektebeheer, patogeen-identifi- die oordrag van kennis,” het dr Jacobs doderbeheer. Mnr Petrie de Kock van Geleentheidsprekers van die dag was onder andere dr Karin Jacobs (links) van kasie en -opsporing, plantverbetering, gesê. “Dit is belangrik om interaksie Bayer CropScience het die belang en die Departement Mikrobiologie aan die US en ook president van die SAVP, en die bestuur van na-oessiektes om die tussen die akademie en die die omvang van gewasproduksie in die en prof Bill Fry (middel) van Cornell-universiteit wat tans met sabbatsverlof by bederf van geoeste gewasse te voorkom verskillende bedrywe in die on- Wes-Kaap beklemtoon. Tans word daar die US is. Dr Lizel Mostert (regs) van die Departement Plantpatologie aan die aangebied. middellike omgewing te bewerk- jaarliks R179-miljoen aan swamdoders US en voorsitter van die Wes-Kaapse tak van die SAVP het saam met ’n Die dag is deur 124 deelnemers stellig.” vir graangewasse, aartappels, steen- komitee die simposium georganiseer vanuit verskillende sektore, onder Die hoofspreker, prof Bill Fry van vrugte, kernvrugte en druiwe in die andere universiteite in die Wes-Kaap, Cornell University in die VSA, wat Wes-Kaap bestee. Dr Paul Fourie van singsresultate op wingerd het oor die blaaroppervlaktes verskaf en dus beter die LNR, die Departement van Land- tans met sabbatsverlof by die Departe- Sitrus Navorsing Internasionaal algemeen getoon dat swamdoder- plantsiektebeheer bied. Tot soveel as bou, swamdodermaatskappye, plant- ment Plantpatologie van die US is, het (gesekondeer aan die Departement van toedienings by laer volumes en hoër 25% kan op meganisasiekoste bespaar verbeteringsbedrywe en produsente oor Die skakel tussen basiese plant- Plantpatologie by die US) se navor- konsentrasies beter bedekking van die word, het hy gesê. Kennis is die nuwe rykdom, sê internasionale spreker by USB Kennis het die nuwe welvaart van houbare ontwikkeling en die stappe wat Luidens die Indeks van Ekonomiese kan gebruik,” het hy gesê. mnr Cordeiro gesê. nasies geword. Daarby neem die nou nodig is om die wêreld te transfor- Vryheid gaan ekonomiese vryheid hand Hy het genoem dat elke generasie “Hoe vinniger ons vorder, hoe waarde van kennis as ’n hulpbron nie af meer. Hy sê dat opleiding, die ekologie aan hand met toenemende groei. Mnr van energie minder koolstofdioksied verder moet ons vooruit kan sien. Ek oor tyd soos ander hulpbronne nie. en energie-alternatiewe die grootste Cordeiro het statistiek aangehaal wat vrystel soos ons van hout en steenkool glo toekomsstudies, waar ons gesa- Inteendeel, dit groei wanneer dit gedeel uitdagings vir ontwikkeling is. groei in vryemarkekonomieë met groei na olie en gas beweeg. Die energie van mentlike versiendheid gebruik om die word. Só sê José Luis Cordeiro, ’n Volgens mnr Cordeiro moet mense in kommunistiese lande tussen 1950 en die toekoms, soos son- en waterstof- toekoms te skep, net so belangrik soos onafhanklike konsultant en navorser ook kollektiewe intelligensie begin be- 1990 vergelyk. Vryemarklande soos energie, sal dus baie meer omgewings- geskiedenis moet wees.” van die Instituut vir Opkomende Eko- nut en dat ensiklopedieë soos Wikipedia Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Suid-Korea, Wes- vriendelik wees. Mnr Cordeiro het die eerste formele nomieë in Japan, wat onlangs ’n die begin van die semantiese web is. Duitsland, Oostenryk en Kenia het ge- “Een van die belangrikste maniere kursusse in Toekomsstudies by die Aus- Leader’s Angle-gehoor by die Univer- “Tweeduisend jaar gelede het mense durende hierdie tyd beduidend beter om ’n beter toekoms te skep lê in die trian School of Economics in Venezuela siteit van Stellenbosch Bestuurskool geglo die wêreld is plat en nou is teg- gevaar as kommunistiese lande soos krag van netwerke of gesamentlike ontwerp. Hy is ook die stigter van die (USB) toegespreek het. nologie besig om die wêreld in ’n glo- Kuba, Sjina, Noord-Korea, Oos-Duits- pogings. Jou ingesteldheid teenoor die Venezuela-tak van die World Future Mnr Cordeiro het gepraat oor vol- bale stad plat te druk.” land, Hongarye en Tanzanië. Volgens toekoms is net so belangrik. Jy sal in Society. hom is politieke stelsels dus deurslag- die toekoms swaarkry as jy passief is Leader’s Angle- Die USB se Leader’s Angle-aanbie- gewend vir ekonomiese groei. en jou kop soos ’n volstruis in die sand dings oor alle aspekte van leierskap is spreker José Luis Mnr Cordeiro was van mening dat druk. Jy kan ook reaktief wees en op ’n uitvloeisel van die skool se sterk Cordeiro, ’n navorser die toekoms van die wêreld in Asië situasies reageer of ‘pre-aktief’ wees en klem op leierskapontwikkeling in van die Instituut vir geskryf word terwyl die VSA teen ’n vir die toekoms voorberei, maar die sy MBA en bestuursontwikkelingspro- Opkomende Ekono- gemiddelde spoed aanbeweeg en beste is om proaktief te wees en die gramme, en in sy leierskapnavorsing. mieë in Japan, saam Europa besig is om te stagneer. toekoms te skep. Daar sal nie in die Om die USB se gratis Leader’s met Ria Moothilal “Energie is die grootste bedryf in toekoms ’n verskoning vir armoede Angle-aanbiedings by te woon, kontak van Eighty20 en die wêreld. Ons het 10 000 keer meer wees nie omdat ons weet wat werk. Annemarie Olivier by Francois Loedolff sonkrag as wat ons kan verbruik. Al Ons misluk nie omdat ons nie beleid [email protected] of www.usb.ac.za van Distell wat kort is die tegnologie om die son se kan opstel nie. Ons misluk omdat ons energie te omskep in energie wat ons dit nie in werking kan stel nie,” het

UNIVERSITEIT VEREER NNS- GEËVALUEERDE NAVORSERS Die Universiteit het 77 navorsers van subkomitee A (Geestes- en Sosiale Wetenskappe) en sub- komitee B (Natuurwetenskappe) aan wie die Nasionale Navorsingstigting (NNS) in 2008 ’n evalueringsgradering toegeken het, tydens ’n on- langse geleentheid vereer. Hier is die navorsers van die Fakulteit Natuurwetenskappe saam met prof Arnold van Zyl, Viserektor: Navorsing (derde van links). Van links verskyn proff Hubertus von Berg- mann en Doug Rawlings, die Viserektor (Navor- sing), prof Conrad Matthee, dr Theresa Wossler, prof Waldo Smith, drs Leanne Dreyer, Lynette van Zijl en Heinrich Volschenk en proff Erick Strauss en Helgard Raubenheimer. (SSFD)

PROF BASSON INVOLVED IN DAM’S HYDRAULIC STRUCTURE COMPONENTS Earlier this month the outlet works and emer- gency gate of the Berg River Dam near Fransch- hoek were tested as part of commissioning tests. Prof Gerrit Basson, Director of the Insti- tute for Water and Environmental Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering of Stellenbosch University (SU), was involved in the design of all the hydraulic structure com- ponents of the scheme, such as the dam spillway and outlet works. The hydraulic structures were also tested and optimised in scale models at the Hydraulics Laboratory of SU prior to construction in the field. On the photograph is Prof Basson (left) with Mr Dawid Keyser, the project engineer of Trans-Caledon Tunnel SU SPEARHEADS RESEARCH INTO GREEN ELECTRIC VEHICLE Authority (TCTA), that financed the project of The Electrical Machines Laboratory (EMLab) at the Department of Electrical R1,5 billion. Water was released at 200 000 and Electronic Engineering at the University has been conducting research and WIE, WAT EN WAAR? litres per second during testing. development on various electrical machine drive systems for electric trans- Die volgende uitgawe van Kampusnuus verskyn portation systems over the past decade. Recently EMLab has initiated a project op 31 Julie 2008 financed by the South African National Energy Research Institute (SANERI) to Redakteur: Lynne Rippenaar investigate the innovative and highly reliable electric machine drives for Elec- Bladontwerp: Heloïse Davis Drukwerk: SunPrint tric Vehicle (EV) applications. This project is now receiving further support Advertensies: Conita Henry, from General Motors South Africa who granted an Opel Corsa Lite to EMLab tel: 808 4632, e-pos: [email protected] for EV research. In this research and development project, the Opel Corsa Redaksionele bydraes Lite will be converted to a pure battery-powered Corsa Lite, called the aan: Die Redakteur, Admin B-gebou, E-Corsa Lite. The keys to the car were handed over to Prof Arnold van Zyl, tel: 808 4851, Vice-Rector: Research, by Mr Peter Brink (middle), Fleet Account Manager, faks: 808 3800, General Motors South Africa. Left is Prof Maarten Kamper from the Depart- e-pos: [email protected] ment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. (Anton Jordaan, SSFD)