INTRODUCTION BY VICE-CHANCELLOR DR

UCT is … profiles what is excellent about the University of . It highlights our fundraising priorities and showcases why UCT is the leading university in South and the only African university to be consistently ranked amongst the world’s best universities. The projects featured embody the mission of UCT to grapple with the key challenges of our social and natural worlds, to be responsive to the needs of the communities we serve and to contribute towards the transformation of our country to a truly non-racial democracy.

These interventions position UCT at the nexus between the creation of new ideas and the harnessing of partnerships to bring about fundamental and lasting change that not only advances the frontiers of knowledge but also improves the quality of life of communities.

Not one of these projects would be able to realize its full potential without the partnership of donors which includes individuals, alumni, foundations, trusts and corporates. Over the years we have been fortunate as a university community to establish and nurture relationships with those who not only share but also invest in our mission.

This publication celebrates the work that these vital partnerships have helped to produce and also serves to introduce new potential donors to the range of development initiatives that still need funding. Our fundraising efforts are more than just appeals for research, bursaries, projects, buildings and equipment. They represent opportunities for investment – to raise 01 ADVANCING AFRICAN SCHOLARSHIP IN THE GLOBAL ARENA the highest ranked African university to new levels of excellence. We invite you to consider partnering with UCT today. 02 DEVELOPING CUTTING-EDGE CARE INTERVENTIONS 03 CULTIVATING ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE 04 PURSUING INNOVATION & ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT & TRANSFORMATION AT UCT 05 CREATING OPPORTUNITY & BUILDING LEADERSHIP A MESSAGE FROM DR RUSSELL ALLY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI DEPARTMENT 06 PROMOTING GOOD GOVERNANCE & HUMAN RIGHTS UCT is … in the midst of a far-reaching transformation process. As a university which had its origins predominantly in white privilege and black exclusion, our task is to create a university that is truly inclusive and reflects the values of our Constitution of human dignity and equity. Transformation is never an easy process. It is complex, messy and can often be conflictual. However if we are to heal the divisions of the past and create a truly nonracial and just society, then transformation is not only an historical imperative but a moral one as well.

UCT has embraced the challenges of transformation. We believe that transformation will not only enhance our standing as the leading university on the African continent, but it will also ensure that we remain relevant as a national asset. Universities are uniquely placed to contribute towards the transformation of societies. They not only produce knowledge which assists in the better understanding of these societies, but they also produce graduates who become the leaders of the future.

Accordingly then, transformation is a central thread which runs through all the development projects described in this publication. Transformation will lead to greater inclusivity; improve the quality of teaching, learning and research; create opportunity and build leadership; and entrench UCT as the top African university contributing to global knowledge production and dissemination.

01 UCT is ... FUNDING NEEDS KEY: the oldest university in . It is also the highest-ranked African university – in both the Times Higher , position 124, and the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), position 141, among world universities. Founded in SCHOLARSHIP / FELLOWSHIP 1829 as the and formally established as a university in 1918. CHAIR ENDOWMENT STAFF STUDENT POPULATION 17 18 3 UNDERGRADUATE 26322 OPERATIONAL COSTS 9 139 UCT STUDENTS CAPITAL POST GRADUATE EQUIPMENT PUBLICATIONS

STUDENTS FROM OTHER EVENTS 4200 3700 AFRICAN COUNTIRES INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS STUDENTS FROM THE 500 REST OF THE WORLD

ENGINEERING 6 COMMERCE & THE BUILT HEALTH HUMANITIES LAW SCIENCE FACULTIES ENVIRONMENT SCIENCES & GSB

The Centre for Higher Education and Development (CHED) supports all six faculties by addressing students’ teaching and learning needs

The Graduate School of Business (GSB) is our Business School that offers postgraduate programmes of study

RESEARCH UCT has produced UCT has the largest UCT has 32 of the an average of 2600 number (33) of top 154 national chairs research publications rated researchers awarded under the 5 MAX THEILER was awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing per year over the past among all South African South African Research NOBEL 1 a vaccine against yellow fever. three years. universities, recognised Chairs Initiative (SARChI). LAUREATES as international leaders RALPHE BUNCHE received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in trying to in their field. 2 resolve Arab-Israeli conflict in the 1940s. GLOBAL NETWORKS World Universities Network SIR AARON KLUG was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his 3 development of crystallographic electron microscopy, which helps us peer International Alliance of into the arrangement of atoms. Research Universities African Research Universities ALLAN MCLEOD CORMACK received the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Alliance (Founding Member) 4 together with Godfrey Hounsfield, for his work on X-ray computed tomography (the CT scanner). Association of African Universities Emeritus Professor JM COETZEE was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for literature. Global Universities 5 Leaders Forum

02 03 UCT is ... ADVANCING AFRICAN SCHOLARSHIP MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

IN THE GLOBAL ARENA The value of marine life and its associated ecosystems has become a key global concern in the light of volatile climatic conditions. Understanding this immense source of life and energy is therefore essential in our global movement towards WELLY QWABE joined UCT’s Marine Research Institute (MaRe) in 2011 to pursue a Master’s sustainable livelihoods. UCT’s Marine Research Institute (Ma-Re) is an interdisciplinary research centre championing a degree with support from the Canon Collins Trust, the National Research Foundation, the Carnegie wide range of marine research across various departments at the university. Our position at the southernmost tip of Africa Corporation, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. He was then awarded a GreenMatter Fellowship ensures the best exposure to diverse marine ecosystems: the Indian, South Atlantic and Southern Oceans, with cool and to undertake a PhD in Biological Sciences at UCT. “These scholarships have significantly helped me warm currents juxtaposed. The Marine Research Institute builds on the existing skills and resources in various marine- realise my dream and acquire fundamental skills. I believe that such holistic support empowers me relevant disciplines, integrating and developing these further so as to establish the university as a hub of excellence and and provides opportunities for leadership in my professional area. For example, the GreenMatter the premier education facility for multi-disciplinary marine research, teaching and training in Africa and the southern fellowship doesn’t merely support me financially but also supports professional development opportunities through a series hemisphere. The Institute focuses on capacity building and skills development with a strong emphasis of workshops on mentoring, networking, peer coaching, skills building and self-awareness.” Welly grew up and attended on postgraduate students, many of whom are supported by bursaries raised by the Institute. school in the small rural town of Kosi Bay in the northern part of Kwa-Zulu/Natal. FUNDING NEEDS >

01 With the goal of being an Afropolitan university, UCT aims to become an intellectual meeting point and sought-after destination for international scholars who have an interest in Africa’s place in the world.

AFRICAN CLIMATE & DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE CENTRE FOR AFRICAN STUDIES GALLERY

The problems of responding to the challenge of climate change and of achieving sustainable forms of development are While African art and photography have in recent years become part of a global dialogue, African representation is highly high priority on the global development agenda. These problems are particularly difficult to manage on the African and problematically skewed in terms of the view of the outsider as opposed to the insider. The Centre for African Studies, continent, with its high vulnerability to climate change impacts, its developmental challenges and its growing population whose mission is to promote African Studies at UCT and beyond, is ideally placed and primed to play a pivotal role in numbers. Despite the aforementioned challenges and threats, the community of professionals and body of research on conducting research and teaching that is Africa focused. The Gallery, housed within the Centre, is primed to play a far climate change is small throughout Africa. The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) is a response to this reaching role in presenting art and expressions of visuality not only of South Africa but of the continent as a whole. This need. It was established in 2011, within the context of a strategic initiative of the , as a key response would be in the form of art and photographic exhibitions, music, film showings and mini festivals, among others. Critical to to Africa’s development challenges. ACDI’s vision is to help build our region into one that has transitioned the sustainability of this vision for the Centre for African Studies Gallery, as an intellectual hub, is supplementary funding to a low-carbon economy and is resilient to the adverse impacts of climate change. With increased from donors. Such funding would allow the Gallery to extend its work beyond exhibition into an donor support, we aim to create an endowment for a Chair in Climate and Development. academic hub that stimulates and collects new perspectives of African heritage.

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04 05 UCT is.. DEVELOPING CUTTING-EDGE CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE

INTERVENTIONS The field of clinical neurosciences at the University of Cape Town comprises neurosurgery, neurology, neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry, together with various allied specialties such as neuroradiology and neuropathology. A recent initiative, MASHIKO SETSHEDI is a gastroenterologist by training but also completed a basic the Clinical Neurosciences Institute, has been convened with the goal of bringing together neurosurgeons, neurologists sciences PhD in Hepatitis B Virus Infection and Hepatocellular Cancer. She is currently based at and neuro-psychologists that collaborate in the treatment of a number of major causes of brain injury, including stroke, UCT’s Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine. In 2011 she was awarded the Hasso central nervous system infection and trauma, as well as emerging areas such as functional neurosurgery. Our aim is to Plattner Early Career Fellowship, which afforded her protected time from clinical duties to focus on foster greater collaboration through relocating the academic activities of these disciplines to the same building. A number her current research interests which include elucidating the clinical and molecular epidemiology of of individual donors have already pledged capital grants that will initiate the renovation and refurbishment of J-Block at drug induced liver injury. “The Hasso Plattner Fellowship was a timely blessing to me as an early . The Institute will function as an integrated and co-ordinated unit to manage career researcher. It opened doors for me and gave me a privileged opportunity to improve my skills the throughput of state patients who have neurological diseases requiring multi-disciplinary input. and grow as a researcher.” FUNDING NEEDS >

UCT’s Health Sciences projects have built a 02 reputation for distinction in teaching, training and cutting-edge research. They have kept pace with global approaches to academic health sciences, accelerating efforts to improve health on our continent and contributing to building research capacity in Africa.

INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE & MOLECULAR MEDICINE EDEN DISTRICT HEALTH SCIENCES PLATFORM

South Africa currently faces the highest burden of HIV-associated Tuberculosis in the world, with 6.4 million of the population Increasing the number of health sciences students and expanding the exposure that senior students receive in their training HIV-infected and half a million people developing Tuberculosis annually. It is estimated that 30% of the world’s cases of HIV- are two objectives of the Eden District Health Sciences Platform. The project involves a placement teaching and service associated Tuberculosis are diagnosed in South Africa, with Tuberculosis being the leading cause of death in the country. facility at the George and Oudtshoorn hospitals in the Eden District where final year students join the clinical teams at This is one of the tragic health conditions that gave rise to the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM) these hospitals and contribute to service delivery while learning hands-on. The benefit is therefore twofold since at the University of Cape Town. The IDM is distinguished by the ability to drive world-class research at the laboratory- students are exposed to a wide range of health challenges in a more rural setting, while these -community interface by engaging a wide range of scientific and clinical disciplines. This combination of high-quality, medical institutions benefit from the added expertise that accompanies the transition of a non- translational research with community engagement and investment in future research leaders uniquely positions the Institute academic hospital to an academic hospital. With the movement and accommodation of senior students away to continue driving science in service of the people of Africa. The Institute now seeks support for its critical work from the Health Sciences Faculty base in Observatory, Cape Town, space is then available for the faculty to admit a of strengthening clinical and translational research capacity, through the establishment of a Chair larger cohort of students in the first year and ultimately increase the number of health care practitioners that the university in Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine. produces. FUNDING NEEDS > FUNDING NEEDS >

06 07 UCT is.. CULTIVATING ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE

The University of Cape Town Baxter Theatre Centre caters for diverse audiences by presenting an artistic programme which PRETTY YENDE’S passion for opera grew from a television advert that featured Léo includes a range of music, dance and theatre productions. In addition, community development projects, arts festivals Delibes’ Flower Duet from his opera Lakme. As a teenager living in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, she did and workshops seek to educate and develop artists and provide them with a platform to present their work. The Baxter not know at the time that what she heard was opera. All she wanted was to be a part of that world. further promotes access to the theatre by providing transport for approximately 3000 patrons and keeping rental costs Supported by school teachers and her family, she began opera studies at UCT’s Opera School as low as possible to accommodate small production companies, burgeoning artists and community organisations that in 2003 and during her student career went on to win numerous accolades for her extraordinary cannot afford expensive rental rates. In this way the Centre addresses many of the historical inequalities that still persist in talent. She graduated cum laude in both her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the UCT the performing arts, due to economic disadvantages. The Zabalaza Theatre Festival provides community theatre groups Opera School. Pretty was one of the student recipients of the Andrew Mellon Foundation bursary and has now established from Cape Town with theatre training and a 3-week festival platform to exhibit their work, as well professional audition a flourishing international opera career. Today Pretty lives in Milan and is based at the prestigious La Scala opera house. opportunities, mini-festivals in target communities and full length showcases of their work. Programmes such as these rely on donor funding to achieve its outcomes and benefit communities that have lacked exposure to the performing arts. FUNDING NEEDS >

Our tradition of artistic and cultural development is well expressed through the projects in this cluster. They explore historical roots of traditional oeuvres, while also creating new work and evolving genres. In traversing physical boundaries, the arts at UCT help foster a strong creative economy and a greater emotional quotient in society.

OPERA SCHOOL IRMA STERN MUSEUM RESTORATION

Our Opera School has created a highly acclaimed presence on the international opera stage through its intensive work of Over forty years, the University of Cape Town has housed the Irma Stern art collection at the museum on Cecil Road, training locally talented singers. The School prides itself on discovering vocal talent amidst impoverished Lower Campus. Irma Stern, one of South Africa’s most highly regarded fine artists, made this place her home for over communities that are rich in musical culture, turning the fragile dreams of young singers into real four decades until she died in 1966. While her work is now owned by a trust, for the benefit of the public, UCT bears opportunities. While UCT aims to support every qualifying student in need of financial assistance, the vast number responsibility for the maintenance of the museum. Presently the layout of the museum belies the value of of candidates outweighs our support capacity. The opera programme at UCT is extremely rigorous and one of the most the work it contains since visitors enter through the backyard and are cut off from the spectacular Zanzibar door expensive courses of study due to the need for students to appear in professional productions and receive individual voice entrance, created by Irma Stern, which leads off to the elegant circular driveway. Apart from restoration work on parts of coaching as part of their training. This is why the UCT Opera School is grateful for the generous support it has received the building that have worn with time, the plan is to create a new entrance which would bring visitors directly into a long from donors, both nationally and abroad. Among these donors is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation who have sustained gallery entrance. This would lead into the circular driveway, through protective double glass covering, to the Zanzibar much of the School’s work with medium term grants over the past twelve years. As our funding partnership with the Mellon doors and into the house. The upgraded reception area would also be able to accommodate a bookshop and museum Foundation reaches a close, the Foundation has offered a closing grant to the value of $ 500 000 / ZAR 5 000 000 with coffee shop. The improved environment will add greatly to the experience of the house and venue hire possibilities will be a condition that UCT raises matching funds. All funds raised between December 2014 and December 2017 will be counted increased due to improved facilities. FUNDING NEEDS > towards the matching grant challenge. FUNDING NEEDS >

08 09 UCT is.. PURSUING INNOVATION & ENTERPRISE MBA CHALLENGE FUND The University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) is founded on the principle of ‘full colour thinking’, KELLY CHIBALE is the founder and director of H3D, UCT’s Drug and Discovery Centre that training business leaders and entrepreneurs within the paradigm of the emerging economy. The Master of Business develops innovative medicines for unmet medical needs on the African continent and beyond. This Administration or MBA programme is the only MBA programme in Africa listed in the Financial Times Top 100 Global MBA ranking and offers a curriculum that pushes students to their limits while empowering them to reach their best, has so far resulted in H3D leading an international team that discovered the first ever malaria clinical personally and professionally. The MBA Challenge Fund is an initiative to create more opportunities for candidate to come out of Africa. This would not have happened without the physical infrastructure of emerging entrepreneurs from disadvantaged backgrounds to access the programme. While many H3D laboratories, made possible through donor funding. The innovative initiative has demonstrated emerging business leaders would greatly benefit from an MBA experience of advancing their skill and networking with like- that science can provide solutions, create jobs, build capacity, attract foreign direct investment, and minded entrepreneurs, the financial challenges often blur such opportunities. Through the growth of the MBA Challenge contribute to reversing the brain drain. “My personal motivation and drive comes from the desire to Fund, we aim to actualise the business opportunities for more of our talented individuals who will ultimately help pioneer our economic development. confront afro-pessimism and debunk the myth that Africa is not, and cannot be, a source of health FUNDING NEEDS > innovation to discover new medicines.”

The projects in this theme capture UCT’s vision of generating relevant research that creates new and innovative solutions. In this way our pioneering researchers bring new ideas and 04 inventions that build on previous efforts, while pushing forward the frontiers of our natural and social worlds.

AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS EVERGREEN SEED FUND & RISK MANAGEMENT UCT has a strong history of achievement in the field of innovation. This legacy continues at our university, but many UCT The demand for specialist mathematical, quantitative and investment expertise far exceeds the current supply within our innovations with huge social and commercial promise never get off the ground because they struggle to fund product region. These skills are indispensable, specifically in Investment Banking and Asset Management, but are also required in prototypes and broader experimental data. The Evergreen Seed Fund aims to overcome these obstacles by being a self- other sub-sectors. The African Institute for Financial Markets and Risk Management (AIFMRM) was established in 2014 sustaining fund that supports projects along the innovation path. At present the fund is limited in the number of projects it as a postgraduate institute within the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Cape Town, with the aim of becoming can support, therefore its growth is vital to enable the development of promising technologies, moving them to licensing a benchmark for academic financial market and risk management entities across the African continent.The Institute or spin-out stage and positioning them to receive external support. In doing so, this fund will provide opportunities to take adopts a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary approach to building greater capacity and is especially commercialisation at UCT to the next level. This is an opportunity to lend support and stand together with in need of support for fellowships in grooming the most promising talent. Using a foundation of innovative the inspiring people who are creating new technologies for a better world. Donor funding would assist and continent-focused research and scholarship, AIFMRM has undertaken to create the next generation of African finance in processing a larger number of concept projects per year towards commercialisation, while also growing the overall academics dedicated to rigorous scholarship. Evergreen Seed Fund. FUNDING NEEDS > FUNDING NEEDS >

10 11 STRATEGIC INITIATIVES One of the university’s 2 SAFETY & VIOLENCE INITIATIVE (SaVI) key goals is to expand and Of particular concern to South Africans is a persistent high rate of crime and violence. This has had, and is having, a significant negative impact on South Africa’s capacity for development, with multiple and interrelated factors that contribute enhance our contribution to to these high levels of insecurity. SaVI comprises a core group of researchers with a mandate to focus on understanding and intervening in the promotion of safety and the reduction of violence, in particular criminal violence, in South Africa. The the development challenges mission of the Safety and Violence Initiative is to establish a research collaboration that will contribute to promoting safety, reducing violence and to raising awareness about these issues. Most of the current research is conducted by researchers of our region. To this end working on specific questions, in dialogue across academic disciplines, and in conversation with relevant policy-makers or implementers. Pro Vice-Chancellor, Prof Murray Liebbrandt is appointed to raise the profile for SaVI. the Vice-Chancellor has 3 SCHOOLS IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVE (SII) identified four institution- The SII is a direct response to the education crisis in South Africa which not only has negative implications for the country as a wide initiatives that address whole but poses serious challenges for tertiary education. The underachievement of learners, particularly in township schools critical social challenges around Cape Town, has resulted in relatively small numbers of black students from these disadva taged areas qualifying for entrance to and thereby guide the UCT. The SII was formed to harness the university’s broader resources to foster meaningful partnerships with education-related groupings, vision of our projects. both within and outside of UCT. At the outset, it was decided that the SII would focus on as a distinct geographic area. However, the intention is to expand the initiative to create partnerships involving a broad range of groups, organisations, institutions and individuals to assist government in improving the quality of education in South Africa. The flagship projects in this initiative are 100-up and iKwezi. 1 POVERTY & INEQUALITY INITIATIVE (PII) The Poverty and Inequality Initiative has its origins in UCT’s long tradition of research, teaching and social responsiveness, 4 AFRICAN CLIMATE & DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (ACDI) linked to the goals of political, economic and social transformation in South Africa. In keeping with the mission of the South Africa, with the rest of the African continent, has an imperative to improve human wellbeing, but within the constraints university, the PII is a multi-disciplinary strategic initiative aimed at increasing the institution’s collective contribution to of the need for low-carbon development and mounting impacts of climate variability and change. The ACDI has been tackling major development challenges facing South Africa. At the heart of this initiative is the concern around the unequal formed to engage with these challenges through interdisciplinary, innovative research and teaching that draws on the distribution of wealth: why, in a country of rich resources, poverty is persisting and, in the case of inequality, deepening? intellectual capital across a wide range of disciplines at UCT. Our vision is an interdisciplinary research hub that brings The initiative has now grown into a national venture with the aim of drawing in serious research and ideas from universities together academics with NGOs, business and government in a knowledge factory that co-produces and tests new insights, around the country. It also engages with other relevant institutions, including different levels of government and NGOs with evidence and innovations that will help to solve Africa’s climate and development challenges. A Pro Vice Chancellor, solid experience in the field. Prof Mark New, has been appointed to strengthen and raise the profile of this initiative.

12 13 UCT is.. CREATING OPPORTUNITY & 100-UP

BUILDING LEADERSHIP Many learners who attend schools in disadvantaged communities perform poorly in the matric examinations, with relatively few of them qualifying for tertiary studies at institutions such as the University of Cape Town. 100-Up is a project that aims to grew up in the Eastern Cape and then moved to Khayelitsha, MZUKISI MAGWAZA address the problem of under-representation by targeting school learners from disadvantaged backgrounds and coaching where his promising school results enabled him to join the 100-Up programme. “I committed to work them for access to university. The University of Cape Town launched 100-Up in 2010, with five Grade 10 learners selected hard and to stay in the programme that runs for three years between Grade 10 and Grade 12. The from each of the twenty schools in Khayelithsa. Apart from the 100 learners who benefitted from the program over three 100-UP project exposed us to UCT. Living in Khayelitsha, we don’t think further than the township. years (Grades 10-12), an extended intervention (known as the Gill Net) was initiated. The intention was to make contact When I arrived at UCT on the first project visit, I knew that I wanted to be here. We participated with all other Grade 12 learners in the township who could be eligible for study at UCT. All 184 learners in the extended in various workshops and tuition classes that all helped to develop us, and I have definitely grown group passed Matric, with 93 of the 100-UP and 80 of the 84 Gill Net learners obtaining B-degree (university acceptance stronger, and less afraid to speak up for myself. These made us more competitive and forced us to up our standards. I am level) passes; the remaining 11 learners obtained Diploma level passes. These results reflect that enrolment rates now in my second year at UCT, studying towards a Bachelor of Science degree and can proudly say that if I was not part of students from Khayelitsha have now doubled since the 100-Up Project reached maturity. 100-Up of the 100-UP project, I would probably not have been where I am today.” is a flagship project of our Schools Improvement Initiative, as seen on Page 13.

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Addressing transformation at UCT takes place on various levels, from increasing accessing to learners from poorly resourced communities, to enhancing student support on campus, to strengthening diverse academic leadership. These projects express what 05 we value about being an inclusive and representative university community.

FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE RESEARCHER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

For most students in their first year of study at any university, making the transition from secondary school to tertiary As a research-led university, UCT accepts the responsibility of being one of the core sites in Africa that works to make the study can be a daunting experience. Shortcomings in first-year students’ development of conceptual knowledge, critical country competitive in the global knowledge economy and to educate its future leaders. The Researcher Development engagement, academic reading and writing, and learning approaches are likely to have a cumulative effect that leads to Programme offers fellowships to academic staff to help consolidate their academic careers and to build their research poor performance or failure in later years. UCT’s First Year Experience is more than a service or a centre but rather a shared productivity. While many academic staff struggle to focus on their own research, due to teaching and administrative value system which prioritises the all-round wellbeing of first year students. It is a collective effort which aims to provide a responsibilities, the fellowships allow candidates to lessen their teaching load and devote more time, with extra resources, to sense of belonging, helping students adapt to the university, while offering academic and emotional support. Apart from pursuing their research and publication goals. The impact of the programme will be, on the individual level, a demonstrable the initial orientation programme, the Early Assessment allows faculties to monitor students’ academic progress. It is based improvement in leadership ability and academic status through a focus on research, writing and management skills. At on the grades students receive from the mid-semester tests and assignments, and acts as a prompt for students to engage the collective level, the impact will be to elevate a cohort of academics who will be ready to take up from those UCT staff with faculty before problems grow too large to resolve. While the programme’s core activities are funded by who will be retiring. In this way UCT will ensure its contribution to the growing base of knowledge the university, supplementary funding is sought from donors in order for the programme to reach production and strengthen socially responsive research, developing theory that is appropriate to a growing number of students in need of support to achieve success in their first year of study. South Africa’s location on the continent. FUNDING NEEDS > FUNDING NEEDS >

14 15 UCT is.. PROMOTING GOOD GOVERNANCE & HUMAN RIGHTS

LESLEY RICHARDSON of the FlowerValley Conservation Trust made contact with UCT’s CHILDREN’S INSTITUTE Knowledge Co-Op for assistance with generating research that informs their work. As a key project Children and the issues that threaten their well-being are of primary concern for every society and in South Africa, within this theme the Knowledge Co-Op builds the capacity of community-based organisations through the challenges we face in protecting the rights of our children are still critical. One in five children remains chronically research and skills development. “With an initial meeting in October 2013 we embarked on this malnourished and children younger than five account for over 80% of all child deaths. Over one in three children do journey together. A list of burning study topics was drawn up into which many and varied Masters not have access to basic services such as housing and sanitation. This is the kind of information that reminds us of our and Phd students could sink their teeth. First came Naomi Cresswell with her Masters in Environmental responsibility to protect the most vulnerable in our society. The Children’s Institute has, over the past 10 years, and Geographical Sciences. She’s interviewed 40 landowners who spoke frankly of their understanding and practices served as the ‘hands and feet’ of child policy and advocacy work in South Africa, identifying the in conservation and sustainability - invaluable information to shape partnerships with landowners and government. Next needs of children and giving them a voice. The most visible project of the Children’s Institute, the South African came Brenda Daly doing her post-graduate diploma in Library and Information Science. She’s collated the literature on Child Gauge, is an annual publication that monitors the situation of our children. biodiversity research undertaken in the Overberg for the past 30 years, meeting a long-standing need to make research FUNDING NEEDS > findings accessible. Our growing partnership with UCT’s Knowledge Co-op helps meet our objective of using data to plan and monitor, while it brings in young talent to make a real difference.”

With a focus on critical social justice issues, these projects express UCT’s commitment to harnessing our expertise to bring about change. Such efforts are based on strategic partnerships that engage with communities, that advocate for improved policy, and that prepare students as socially responsive citizens.

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DEVELOPMENT POLICY & PRACTICE CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE LAW IN AFRICA

Improvements in governance and accountability, economic policy, and international economic circumstances have led to Africa’s vast diversity of cultures and systems of government present a particular challenge to the goal of applying a more consistent growth in the current period than at any previous time in modern African history. In order to sustain and uniform concept of the rule of law. A strict commitment to such a rule is critical for development to flourish but this cannot expand on this growth, we must address the urgent and ongoing need to train highly skilled individuals to serve as senior be achieved if different ways of thinking are in conflict with one another. The work of UCT’s Centre for Comparative

officials in government and government agencies. The Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice rises to this Law in Africa is to research these paradigms and work towards establishing a common African response to these issues

challenge in the area of strategic leadership in government. Its core mission is to train senior officials in government service through dedicated comparative research. Its research focus is also directed at various families of law including civil law, in Africa and other African countries, as well as to train top graduates for public sector leadership. The School offers an Islamic law and common law, among others. The Centre received a generous donation from the Danjuma Foundation MPhil in Development Policy and Practice, and a programme of executive short courses that provides training for senior to fund scholarships for postgraduate study and research projects that will now extend the work of the Centre. We are officials and elected office bearers. Your investment in the work carried out by the GSDPP will contribute currently seeking assistance for the establishment of a Chair in Comparative Law. Through your investment in the towards the implementation of Africa’s key development goals, through the nurturing of highly innovative work of the CCLA, we can help bring about policies that maximise our continent’s skilled leaders. FUNDING NEEDS > development potential. FUNDING NEEDS >

16 17 PROJECTS & FUNDING NEEDS COMPREHENSIVE LISTING SCHOLARSHIP / FELLOWSHIPS CHAIR ENDOWMENT STAFF COSTS OPERATIONAL CAPITAL EQUIPMENT PUBLICATIONS EVENTS SCHOLARSHIP / FELLOWSHIPS CHAIR ENDOWMENT STAFF COSTS OPERATIONAL CAPITAL EQUIPMENT PUBLICATIONS EVENTS

THEMES PROJECTS FUNDRAISING NEEDS THEMES PROJECTS FUNDRAISING NEEDS Centre for African Studies Gallery • • • Bursaries • 01 African Climate and Development Initiative • • 100-Up • • ADVANCING • First Year Experience • AFRICAN 100-Up Plus • SCHOLARSHIP Marine Research Institute • • IN THE GLOBAL Global Citizenship Programme African Research Universities Alliance • • • • • ARENA Beyond School • Universities Science, Humanities, Law, 05 • and Engineering Partnerships in Africa CREATING Humanities Education Development Initiative • OPPORTUNITY Clinical Neurosciences Institute • • • & BUILDING UCT Maths Competition • Eden District Health Sciences Platform • • LEADERSHIP Upper Campus Satellite Clinic • Institute for Infectious Disease and Disability Service • • Molecular Medicine • • Residences • 02 Centre for Public Mental Health • • DEVELOPING Global Three Way PhD Partnerships • CUTTING-EDGE Centre for Substance Abuse and • • Researcher Development Programme • HEALTH CARE Addiction Studies INTERVENTIONS African Paediatric Fellowship Programme • EBE Education Development Unit • Graduate School of Development Forensic Pathology Institute • • Policy and Practice • • Perinatal Mental Health Project • Afrobarometer • Pesticides Risk Management • Centre for Comparative Law in Africa • Opera School • • • Children’s Institute • • • Baxter Theatre Centre • • • Knowledge Co-Op • • 03 Irma Stern Museum Restoration • Neville Alexander Archive • • CULTIVATING 06 African Music • • Facilitating Innovation in Rural Schools Through ARTISTIC PROMOTING • • GOOD Technology (FIRST) EXCELLENCE Institute for Creative Arts • • GOVERNANCE Gender Health and Justice Research Unit • & HUMAN The Little Theatre • RIGHTS iKwezi • • Ernest Cole Photography Award • The Rule of Law in Africa Initiative • African Institute for Financial Markets UCT Law Clinic and Risk Management • • • • 04 SHAWCO • PURSUING MBA Challenge Fund • INNOVATION Poverty and Inequality Initiative • & ENTERPRISE Science Learning Centre • Stella Clark Teacher Award • Evergreen Seed Fund • The AIDS Archive •

18 19 WHY WE GIVE TO UCT? TEAM CONTACTS

Deidre Adams Jasmine Erasmus Christoph Schmocker AFRISAM a leading supplier of construction materials, recently committed to partnering with the 100-Up project National Fundraising Individual Giving European Corporates & Foundations [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] over the next three years. Tsholo Diale, Head of Corporate Social Investments at AfriSam, explains that they do not just see +27216504142 +27216503749 +27216503786 themselves as writing a cheque: “We want to be actively involved with the project, exposing learners for instance v v v

to the ways that chemistry and engineering work in the industrial environment, and we look forward to doing

that with the learners of the 100-Up project. Going forward, we will be looking at the outcomes produced by this

and other similar projects, to identify aspects that can be scaled up and translated into effective broad-based

education interventions that produce results.” Because the 100-Up project represents a successful intervention model,

in line with the government’s imperatives on Mathematics and Science education, it is an ideal project for collaboration Sarah Archer René Nolte Sidney van Heerden with corporate partners and individuals. International Foundations & Trusts Legacy Office Leadership Gifts [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] +27216504446 +27216504106 +27216505458

KLAUS-JÜRGEN BATHE is both an alumnus of UCT and a world-renowned professor of mechanical INTERNATIONAL OFFICES

engineering at the Massachusetts Institution of Technology. He holds the firm belief that Africa’s future prosperity would

be secure if enough was invested in educating and nurturing a critical mass of young people to become excellent leaders.

The Klaus-Jürgen Bathe Leadership Programme was inaugurated in March 2014 to fund undergraduate students at UCT.

Unlike most bursary programmes, this one does not consider financial need as a critical factor. Academic achievement

and leadership potential are the primary selection criteria, as Prof Bathe explains “the main focus will be on educating UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES CANADA and nurturing promising UCT students to become future leaders in South Africa and on the African continent, to Angela Edwards OF AMERICA Lenore Plummer & Ruth Thornton Diane Stafford Johanna Fausto produce graduates with excellent leadership qualities and with a strong sense of social justice, who will go on [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.ucttrust.org.uk [email protected] +61416034971 www.uctcanada.ca to play leading roles in government, society, business and industry.” +441372465502 www.uctfund.org +14166485801 +16465227343

20 21 UCT’S DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI DEPARTMENT (DAD) IS… responsible for raising funding from donors and managing relations with alumni on behalf of the university. Donations received are processed by DAD and managed in accordance with the university’s governance structures and procedures. Tax certificates are issued in accordance with country and international specific regulations. The Joint Investment Committee, made up of Council members and Trustees of the UCT Foundation, works closely with actuarial consultants and other financial experts to provide oversight over donations granted for long-term investments and endowments. Donor contributions may be received through the following banking facility:

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