UCT NEWS alumni magazine 2007

UCT appoints Ndebele’s successoR

Alumni behind wheel for BEE BMW • Stormy days for ship’s doctor

52 UCT NEWS 2007 Reunions galore • 15 pages of classmates 12 UCT NEWS 2007 alumni magazine 16 2 Foreword 5 A year in the life of UCT 6 VC process 8 UCT doctors in the Eastern Cape 12 Green building 14 Goedgedacht outreach

18 15 A year in the life of UCT 16 Kent family rooted in UCT soil 17 UCT four in the driving seat 18 A Southern Ocean storm 20 Alumni books and plays 21 A year in the life of UCT contents 22 Wireless technology

22 makes Internet affordable Cover picture: 24 Graduate shoulders 2010 preparations Dr and Prof Njabulo S Ndebele 25 Finding the molecules of destiny 26 A year in the life of UCT PUBLISHED BY COMMUNICATION AND 27 In memory MARKETING DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF 28 A year in the life of UCT

EDITOR 29 Message from Prof Thandabantu Nhlapo MEGAN MORRIS WRITERS 35 30 Alumni reunion roundup MYOLISI GOPHE CHRIS McEVOY 32 Development and Alumni Department MEGAN MORRIS HELEN THéRON 34 Supporting our future PHOTOGRAPHER DYLAN COLHANE 35 A year in the life of UCT ADMIN SUPPORT CARMILLA PAULSE 36 Alumni in the news 39 Where are they now?

43 foreword Though this edition His achievements include leading an has no single flavour, Internal Reconciliation Commission outreach will be a and establishing a new graduate prominent theme. entry medical degree. He pioneered Read, for example, academic programmes in , about a UCT-trained bioethics, , emergency group of health medicine and biomedical sciences. He professionals who also raised over R130 million for new keep the wheels initiatives. He founded South ’s turning at Zithulele first university-owned private teaching Hospital in the hospital and the first local university Eastern Cape, one of research company. the country’s hardest- hit regions in terms UCT will be proud to have Dr Price of medical resources. as the ninth Vice-Chancellor of the in July next This will be my last year. His vision for the institution into message to you in the future is inspiring and in line with UCT News. My second the UCT values we hold dear. term of office ends at the end of June next In this edition, we’ve summarised the year. In this regard, I election process that led to Dr Price’s am pleased to inform appointment, and have also included a Dear alumni and friends you of the appointment of Dr Max statement from Dr Price. Price as the UCT Vice-Chancellor Designate. Dr Price will succeed me It has been a great honour and privilege Greetings from UCT. in July 2008. His appointment by to have served this great institution and Council follows a lengthy and thorough to have met so many of you, in person can hardly believe it’s been a year selection process led by the chair of the on my travels locally and abroad, and I since the last UCT News. This edition UCT Council, Mr Geoff Budlender. through the pages of publications such is a little later than usual. We’ve held Dr Price has been appointed for a as this one. back because there was an important term of five years. notice we wanted to go out with this UCT’s strength and future lies in edition. But more on that just now. The Selection Committee was its roots, alumni old and new, who impressed by the combination of continue to spread the university’s fine Your copy of UCT News is one of just qualities that Dr Price can offer UCT: a legacy to every corner of the globe and under 73 000 that have winged their rare consolidation of strong experience who plough back their expertise and way around the globe. That’s about and a record of delivery in senior resources to continue the lifelong gift 13 000 more than last year, testimony executive management, transformation of learning. This should ensure a long to some hard work between our imperatives, as well as an understanding and satisfying relationship between Development and Alumni Department of international higher education you and your alma mater. and our alumni, both here and abroad, challenges. Dr Price has a broad- to expand and update our database. based academic record, experience Warmest wishes in teaching, research, postgraduate Our growing alumni base also explains supervision and an inspiring leadership the bumper Alumni Roundup section style. His record of spearheading a in this year’s edition, a ‘who’s where series of transformation initiatives and what they’re up to’ glimpse of our during his tenure as dean of the Faculty alumni. We hope you enjoy catching up of Health Sciences at Wits University Njabulo S. Ndebele and spot a classmate or two. from 1996 to 2006 is impressive. Vice-Chancellor and Principal

2 UCT NEWS 2007 intshayelelo Bafundi beminyaka edlulileyo Ngumyalezo wam wokugqibela kuni lo miliyoni ngemali ayifumene kwimithom- kwi-UCT News. Ixesha ebendilimiselwe bo eyahlukileyo, esenzela amaphulo am- nezihlobo ezibekekileyo kwesi sikhundla liyaphelelwa ekupheleni atsha awasekileyo. Ukwangumseki wesi- kukaJuni walo nyaka uzayo. Kungoko bhedlele sabucala sokuqala ekufundelwa Ndiyanibulisa nonke ndikweli ziko ndinovuyo ukunazisa ngokonyulwa ku- kuso esiseseyunivesithi eMzantsi Afrika, lase-UCT. kaGqr. Max Price njengoSekela-Ntloko kwanenkampani yokuqala yophando yeYunivesithi yase-UCT owoNyuliweyo. eyiyeyeyunivesithi kweli. ndikholelwa ukuba sekephele un- UGqr. Price uza kungena kwesi sikhun- Ayaka omnye iphumile i-UCT News dla ngoJulayi 2008. Ukonyulwa kwakhe I-UCT iza kuzingca ngokubekwa kuk- yokugqibela. Olu hlelo lucothile kanc- yiKhansile kulandela inkqubo ende neve- aGqr. Price esihlalweni njengoSekela-Nt- inci kunesiqhelo. Siye salubamba kanc- lele zonke iinkalo, ebikhokelwa nguSih- loko wesithoba weYunivesithi yaseKapa inci ngenxa yokuba kukho isibhengezo lalo weKhansile ye-UCT, uMnu. Geoff ngoJulayi wonyaka ozayo. Umbono ana- esibalulekileyo ebesifuna ukuba siphume Budlender. UGqr. Price uza kuba kwesi wo wokukhokela le yunivesithi kwimin- kunye nalo. Ndiza kunaba ngeso sib- sikhundla iminyaka emihlanu. yaka ezayo uyakhuthaza kwaye uyaham- hengezo kungekudala, apha ngezantsi. belana nezithethe nemimiselo esiyixabise IKomiti yoKhetho iye yathabatheka ka- kakhulu yase-UCT. Ikopi yakho oyifumanayo ye-UCT News khulu zizinto ezahlukileyo azenzileyo yikopi enye nje kuphela kwiikopi ezi- kunye negama elihle aza nalo e-UCT Kolu hlelo, siyishwankathele inkqubo phantse zifike kuma-73 000 ezithunyel- uGqr. Price. Uza nentlanganisela en- yonyulo ekhokelele ekonyulweni ku- we ehlabathini liphela. Eli nani lonyuke gaqhelekanga yamava aphangaleleyo kaQqr. Price, kwaye siwufakile nomyal- phantse ngama-13 000 kwelo lonyaka kunye nerekhodi lokuphumeza izinto ezo ophuma kuye uGqr. Price. ophelileyo, nto leyo engqina ukuba iSebe kwinqanaba lolawulo lwabaphathi aba- lethu lezoPhuhliso nezabaFundi bemin- khulu, amava ezinto ezibalulekileyo Ndiyazingca kwaye ndiyabulela ngewon- yaka edlulileyo, libambisene kunye na- eziphathelele kwiingququ zasemse- ga lokukhonza eli ziko libalasele kanga- bafundi beli ziko bangaphambili, kweli benzini, kwakunye nokuqonda izinto ka, nangokuba ndibe ndifumene ithuba nakumazwe aphesheya, lixakekile lisen- eziyimingeni kwimfundo yamaziko em- lokudibana nabaninzi kuni, kutyelelo za konke elinako ukwandisa uvimba fundo ephakamileyo kwizizwe ngez- lwam kwimimandla yeli nakumazwe wethu weenkcukacha zabafundi. izwe. UGqr. Price unerekhodi lemfundo aphesheya, nakumaphepha oshicilelo ol- ephangaleleyo kwizifundo ezahlukileyo, ufana nesi sigidimi. Ukwanda kwenani labafundi beminyaka amava okufundisa, awophando, awokon- edlulileyo kubangele ukuba libe likhulu gamela izifundo zabafundi abenza izifun- Amandla e-UCT nekamva layo lilele icandelo i-Alumni Roundup kuhlelo do ezenziwa emva kwesidanga sokuqala kwimvelaphi yayo neengcambu zayo, lwalo nyaka, candelo eloo lisibonisa kwakunye nohlobo lobunkokeli olukh- kubafundi abatsha nabadala, aba- ukuba abafundi bethu beminyaka edlu- anyiselayo nolunenkuthazo kwabanye saqhubekayo nokusasaza ilifa legama lileyo baphi besenza ntoni na kule mih- abantu. Iyancomeka kakhulu irekhodi elihle layo kuzo zonke iimbobo zeh- la. Siyathemba ukuba niza kukonwabe- yakhe yokukhokela uthotho lweenkqubo labathi nabasebenzisa ubugcisa nezi- la ukubona ukuba baphi besenza ntoni zeenguqu ngethuba ebeyiNtloko ya- bonelelo zabo kwiindawo abakuzo ukuze abanye abantu, mhlawumbi ungabona baFundi kwiCandelo leNzululwazi kuqhutyekwe nesipho semfundo sobomi noba mnye okanye babini abantu ow- ngezeMpilo kwiYunivesithi yase-Wits, bomntu bonke. Oku kumele ukuba ku- awufunda nabo ngexesha lakho. ukususela ngo-1996 ukuya kutsho ngo- qinisekise ubudlelwane obude nobuncu- 2006. Phakathi kwezinto aziphumeleleyo, misayo phakathi kwenu kunye neyunives- Nangona olu hlelo lungenamxholo singabalula ukukhokela kwakhe iKom- ithi enanifunda kuyo. mnye ukhethekileyo, kugxiliwe kakhulu ishoni yoXolelwaniso yaNgaphakathi kumxholo wokunceda abantu ngaphan- nokumisela imfundo yesidanga esitsha Ngeminqweno emihle kakhulu. dle kulo. Umzekelo, funda ngeqela sezonyango. Uhlahle indlela yeenkqubo lamagcisa ezempilo aqeqeshwe e-UCT, zemfundo zezempilo zasemaphandleni, elinceda abantu kwisiBhedlele iZithulele eze-bioethics, ezonyango lwezemidlalo, esiseMpuma Koloni, enye yezona ndawo ezonyango lwamaxesha kaxakeka kunye Njabulo S. Ndebele zithwaxwa kanobom kukunqongophala neze-biomedical sciences. Ukwanyuse USekela-Ntloko yeYunivesithi kwezibonelelo zonyango kweli. ingxowa yemali engaphezulu kwe-R130 neNqununu

UCT NEWS 2007 3 voorwoord Geagte alumni en vriende Hierdie sal my laaste boodskap aan Afrika se eerste private akademiese u in UCT News wees. My tweede hospitaal in universiteitsbesit en die ampstermyn eindig aan die einde van eerste plaaslike universiteitsnavorsings Welkom by UCT News. Junie volgende jaar. In hierdie verband maatskappy gestig. TEk kan beswaarlik glo dat dit al is dit vir my aangenaam om u omtrent weer ’n jaar sedert die laaste uitgawe die aanstelling van dr. Max Price as Die Universiteit van Kaapstad sal trots van UCT News is. Hierdie uitgawe is die aangewese Vise-kanselier van die daarop wees om dr. Price in Julie 2008 as ietwat later as gewoonlik. Die rede UK in te lig. Dr. Price sal my in Julie sy negende Vise-Kanselier te verwelkom. hiervoor is dat daar ’n belangrike 2008 opvolg. Sy aanstelling deur die Sy toekomsvisie vir die universiteit is aankondiging is wat ons graag via Raad volg op ’n lang en deeglike besielend en in pas met die UK-waardes hierdie uitgawe wou maak. Maar keuringsproses onder aanvoering van wat ons na aan die hart lê. netnou meer hieroor. die voorsitter van die UK Raad, mnr. Geoff Budlender. Dr. Price is vir ’n In hierdie uitgawe bied ons u ’n U kopie van UCT News is een van termyn van vyf jaar aangestel. opsomming van die verkiesingsproses net minder as 73 000 wat na adresse wat tot dr. Price se aanstelling gelei oral op aarde gepos is. Dis omtrent Die Keurkomitee was beïndruk deur het. Ons sluit ook ’n verklaring deur dr. 13 000 meer as verlede jaar, en dien die variasie van eienskappe wat dr. Price self in. as klinkklare bewys van die ywer wat Price die UK kan bied. Hieronder tel sowel ons Ontwikkelings- en Alumni- ’n seldsame kombinasie van jarelange Dit was vir my ’n groot eer en voorreg departemente as ons alumni, beide ondervinding, ’n geskiedenis van om hierdie roemryke instansie te plaaslik en oorsee, aan die dag gelê suksesvolle dienslewering in senior kon dien en om so baie van u te kon het om ons databasis by te werk en uit uitvoerende bestuur, transformasie- ontmoet, sowel persoonlik op my reise te brei. imperatiewe, asook ’n begrip van die plaaslik en oorsee, as via die bladsye uitdagings wat internasionale hoër van publikasies soos hierdie. Ons groeiende alumni-basis verklaar onderrig bied. Dr. Price spog met ook die groter as gewone Alumni ’n omvattende akademiese rekord, Die Universiteit van Kaapstad se Roundup-afdeling in vanjaar se ondervinding as dosent, navorser en krag en toekoms lê in sy wortels – ons uitgawe, met interessante inligting oor nagraadse studieleier, gerugsteun deur alumni oud en nuut – wat voortgaan waar ons alumni hulle bevind en wat ’n besielende leierskapstyl. Tydens sy om die universiteit se indrukwekkende hulle alles doen. Ons hoop u geniet termyn as dekaan van die Fakulteit nalatenskap na elke uithoek van die die nuus en herontdek dalk selfs ’n ou Gesondheidswetenskappe aan Wits aarde uit te dra, en wat hul kundigheid klasmaat of twee. Universiteit van 1996 tot 2006 het hy ’n en hulpbronne terugploeg om die reeks indrukwekkende transformasie- lewenslange gawe van geleerdheid weer Alhoewel hierdie uitgawe nie aan een inisiatiewe van stapel gestuur. aan ander oor te dra. ’n Gawe wat ’n spesifieke tema gewy word nie, word Hiertydens het hy ook ’n Interne lang en bevredigende verbintenis tussen heelwat aandag wel aan uitreik-aksies Rekonsiliasiekommissie gelei en ’n nuwe u en u alma mater sal verseker. gegee. U kan byvoorbeeld ’n artikel ingangsvlak- mediese graad ingestel. lees oor ’n groep gesondheidsorgdesku Hy het baanbrekerswerk gedoen op Met beste wense vir u almal. ndiges, almal oudstudente van die UK, die gebied van akademiese programme wat aan die roer van sake by Zithulele- in landelike gesondheid, bio-etiek, hospitaal in die Oos-Kaap staan, een sportmedisyne, noodmedisyne en van die streke in ons land wat die biomediese wetenskappe. Hierbenewens swaarste gebuk onder die gebrek aan het hy meer as R130 miljoen vir nuwe Njabulo S. Ndebele mediese hulpbronne gaan. inisiatiewe ingesamel. Hy het ook Suid- Vise-kanselier en Prinsipaal

4 UCT NEWS 2007 Spread throughout this edition of UCT News is a pot-pourri of news and events, just some of the many highlights on campus between August 2006 and July this year. A year in the life of a university August 2006 September 2006

Open Day: Andreia Soares (left) and Assoc Prof Rare honour: Prof Margaret Hewett of the Department of Willem Hanekom (second from left) show VIPs Private Law earns the Orde van Oranje-Nassau (officier), a Melinda and Bill Gates (middle) and Jerry Sad- civil award for services to the Dutch State. Hewett won this off (right) their work at the TB Vaccine for her two-volume translation of Jacobus Voorda’s Dictata Initiative Laboratories at UCT’s Institute for Infectious Dis- ad Ius Hodiernum, a Latin text vital to the understanding of eases and Molecular Medicine. The Gates were in South Roman Dutch law. Africa to learn about efforts to fight TB and HIV/AIDS here. Wordsmith: Lecturer Mary Watson scoops the 2006 Caine Prize for African Writing in for her short story, Jungfrau, part of her Moss collection for her master’s in creative writing thesis.

High ground: Civil engineering graduate and former UCT Mountain & Ski Club member Sele Selamolela becomes the seventh South African to summit Mount Everest.

Lived memories: The Red Location Museum of the People’s Struggle nabs the prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects Return journey: Almost 30 years after completing Lubetkin Prize for the most outstanding work of architecture his studies at Cambridge University, Vice-Chancellor outside the UK and the European Union. Principal architect is and Principal Prof Njabulo S Ndebele returned to his UCT’s Prof Jo Noero. alma mater to receive an honorary doctorate in June. In September 2006 he also received and honorary Prize fighter: Prof Lynette Doctorate of Literature from the University College of Denny wins the 2006 London (pictured below). Distinguished Scientist Award for Contribution to the Improvement of the Quality of Life of Women from the Minister of Science and Technology, Mosibudi Mangena, for combatting cervical cancer among poor women.

Big idea: 2005 Nobel Laureate (chemistry) Prof Robert Rising star: Law graduate Andrew Brown beats out heavy- Grubbs delivers the Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture, weights like JM Coetzee and André P Brink to the 2006 Green Chemistry, Catalysis and Fundamental Chemistry. Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Coldsleep Lullaby. His breakthrough research in developing an efficient and practical catalyst for metathesis reaction opened up new In the black: Varkey George, Students’ Health and opportunities in organic chemistry. Welfare Centres Organisation (SHAWCO) director, is named runner-up in the 2006 Social Entrepreneur of the Year Top seeds: Siyoli Lusaseni and Gina Robinson, the country’s competition for turning around SHAWCO’s finances, at an best university players, are the only two women selected all-time low in 2003. He launched SHAWCO Enterprises, an for the SA squash side for the World Student Games in initiative that makes money for the organisation’s projects. Hungary. Lusaseni is named captain of the national squad.

UCT NEWS 2007 5 methodology, and undertaking major curriculum change, aimed at producing doctors who are more rounded and better VC Process equipped to serve a changed and changing South Africa. Statement by Geoff Budlender, chair of the Selection Committee and of the UCT Council Dr Price impressed members of the Selection Committee at the meetings of the various sectors of UCT. The vision t is a privilege to announce the appointment of Dr Max Price as which he has placed before us is genuinely exciting. He has a Ithe Vice-Chancellor Designate of the University of Cape Town. passion and an energy that inspires. His leadership qualities He will succeed Prof Njabulo S Ndebele on 1 July 2008. are appropriate for this stage of UCT’s life, as we seek to build on the work that has been done under the leadership The selection process attracted 27 applications, 25 from men and of Professor Ndebele, and to address the new challenges and two from women. Fifteen were international candidates and 12 opportunities that we face. were South Africans. Fourteen were people of colour. Having regard to the context of the higher education landscape in South Over a period of 30 years Dr Price has shown a sustained Africa, I believe the candidates we attracted were reasonably commitment to the principles which guide UCT. He will diverse, although we would have wished for greater diversity. promote them with vigour. We believe, in short, that he is the right person at this time. Council determined the selection criteria for the position after a process of consultation across the university. The Selection Details of the selection process Committee tested all candidates against these criteria. It was particularly mindful of the special imperative of transformation • The Selection Committee was constituted by Council in in our current context, and of the challenges of leadership March 2007. All sectors of the university were represented as the next administration builds on the significant legacy of on the committee. Professor Ndebele and his colleagues. • A thorough search process was launched including the placements of advertisements in the local and international media. The selection process was painstaking and thorough. One candidate • Applications and nominations were received by the described it as “brutal but fair”. It deeply tested the candidates and Selection Committee. In all, 27 applications were received. the committee itself. In early October, the Senate expressed its • The Selection Committee met in June 2007 to consider support for the appointment of Dr Price. The Institutional Forum the 27 applicants. then validated the process, agreeing that it had been followed • In mid-August the Selection Committee interviewed a correctly. Finally, Council agreed to appoint Dr Price as the UCT group of candidates before preparing a final shortlist. Vice-Chancellor Designate. Dr Price accepted the appointment. • The Selection Committee agreed on a final shortlist in September 2007. The Selection Committee was impressed by the combination • The Chair of Council, Geoff Budlender, announced the of qualities which Dr Price offers. He has a history of over 30 three candidates to the UCT staff and students. years of sustained and principled commitment to the values of • The three candidates were presented to various sectors of democracy. He has strong experience and a record of delivery the UCT community in late September 2007. in senior executive management, in leading transformation • Final interviews were held with the three candidates on processes, and in addressing the challenges of higher education in 29 and 30 September 2007. a democratic South Africa. Dr Price has a distinguished and multi- • The Selection Committee agreed on a final nominee on disciplinary academic record; experience in teaching, research Sunday, 30 September 2007. and postgraduate supervision; and an inspiring leadership style. • The Selection Committee presented its recommendation to Senate on Thursday, 4 October 2007, and Senate As a student he led opposition to and was detained expressed confidence in the candidate by more than the without trial. This commitment was carried through to his required two-thirds majority. professional work as a doctor and as a researcher, and in the • The Selection Committee presented a report on the selection work that he did in proposing post-apartheid health policies. process to the Institutional Forum for validation on 8 October 2007. The Institutional Forum validated the process. He has a proven record of championing transformation of a • The Selection Committee presented its recommendation fundamental kind over a decade as Dean of Health Sciences at and a full report on the selection process to Council at a Wits University. This record includes improving demographic special meeting on 10 October 2007. representation among both staff and students, addressing • Council approved the appointment of Dr Max Price as in a direct and innovative manner the faculty’s record Vice-Chancellor Designate on 10 October 2007. under apartheid, introducing major change in educational • Dr Max Price accepted the appointment on 11 October 2007.

6 UCT NEWS 2007 Statement by Dr Max Price, Vice-Chancellor Designate

It is a great honour to have been invited to lead the University of Cape Town as Vice-Chancellor from July 2008.

UCT has had only eight Vice-Chancellors over the past 178 years. Each has made a distinctive impact and contributed to the rich traditions and achievements that have seen UCT acknowledged as a leading research-led university in South Africa and indeed far beyond our borders.

Professor Njabulo S Ndebele, the current Vice-Chancellor and Principal, has, among other initiatives, ably led a significant transformation agenda. This will prove to be an important legacy, both for UCT and for higher education nationally.

I intend building on this legacy by continuing to pursue a dynamic transformation agenda, in consultation with what is an outstanding body of staff and students. I will suggest that this be done with a focus on responsiveness to local and continental needs, while simultaneously engaging with global trends. We will do this while building on our reputation for outstanding teaching, research and social responsiveness.

I am privileged to be able to join a stable and well-organised institution. This is the result of the dedication and hard work of many colleagues under the leadership of Prof Ndebele and creates the opportunity to take the university to another level.

This is essential as a powerful and inescapable global milieu of higher education propels us to action. My commitment is to build on the excellence that is evident across campus and to consolidate UCT’s status as a gateway to our continent, offering distinctive perspectives and participating in, often leading, global dialogue and knowledge networks. This will further the imperative of producing highly skilled graduates, marketable to lead in global economies.

The quality of our graduates is inextricably linked to outstanding research and I intend to build on UCT’s formidable record of scholarship. I believe it is in participating in and competing with the best the world has to offer that UCT can and will make its largest impact locally as well as internationally.

On 11 October I accepted the appointment to lead UCT for the next five years. I thank all those who have placed such trust in me, especially members of the UCT community and the UCT Council.

I feel an immense sense of responsibility. This is coupled with excitement and a deep commitment to do my utmost to ensure that UCT will go from strength to strength during my term of office.

UCT NEWS 2007 7 Doctors out

In the heart of rural Eastern Cape, about 300 km from Buffalo City and a stone’s throw from the Indian Ocean coastline, five UCT in the health science graduates are the pulse – if you’ll pardon the expression – of a 147- bed hospital servicing a catchment of about 130 000 people. sticks By Daniella Pollock Friends Drs Ben and Taryn Gaunt, Drs Karl and Sally le Roux “Here you can’t expect people to come back for treatment (all UCT MBChB graduates) and occupational therapist Kate every week.” This is why Sherry has been part of the process Sherry all echo the same reason for ending up at Zithulele to start up a nutrition project, all the while teaching mothers Hospital: a keen interest in rural medicine and the drive to to use everyday household goods for therapy at home. “Play is change its face. Something, Sherry says, that UCT instilled in her. invaluable to children,” she says.

“Our department emphasised primary health care needs,” she In the district, where over 70% of its constituents says. “We were encouraged to think critically about traditional are unemployed and most people survive on subsistence farming OT philosophies and skills in an African context.” That’s and social grants alone, HIV/AIDS and TB are rampant. The exactly what she’s doing at Zithulele. need for cheap medical assistance is paramount.

8 UCT NEWS 2007 Standing tall in the Eastern Cape: UCT graduates Dr Sally le Roux, Dr Karl le Roux, Dr Taryn Gaunt, Dr Ben Gaunt, Kate Sherry and Michelle Enslin keep Zithulele Hospital ticking.

This is where Zithulele steps up to the plate. For an out-patient Over the years Zithulele has seen staff come and go. After fee of just R20 and an in-patient charge of R30 per 30 days, the missionaries left, the hospital struggled to attract staff patients have access to 24-hour emergency services and a multi- – especially in the 1980s – and went without doctors for long disciplinary medical team. stretches. Since 1999 the hospital has benefited significantly from the government’s revitalisation programme. Other than Zithulele, there are only two private general practitioners, found in a small town about an hour’s drive away. Today Zithulele boasts a new out-patients block, a theatre, For a population of about 130 000, mostly desperately poor maternity, paediatrics and general male and female wards, and people, it’s far from sufficient. accommodation for staff. Expanded TB wards, physiotherapy and occupational therapy departments, an HIV clinic and a Dating back to 1956 as a mission of the Dutch Reformed Church new administration block are in the pipeline for later this year. in South Africa, Zithulele Clinic was opened in late 1956, filling a single hut on the church grounds. In September 1961 the first But the biggest asset has probably been the addition of four hospital was opened and later that year a separate TB wing too. invaluable doctors with a long-term plan to build up the The church handed it over to the government of the so-called hospital into a model for rural health care. Moreover, in 2006 independent homeland of the Transkei in 1976 and today Zithulele the hospital appointed its first physiotherapist, occupational Hospital falls under the Department of Health of the Eastern Cape. therapist and pharmacist. Various UCT graduates have also Nevertheless, the hospital retains some of its missionary ethos. been allocated to Zithulele for their community service years.

UCT NEWS 2007 9 This year alone there are six community service doctors Karl supervises some 13 primary health care clinics run by and allied health professionals at Zithulele, two of whom nurses in the area, and his wife Sally is the anti-retroviral – physiotherapist Lyndall Shelly and occupational therapist doctor at Zithulele. “We’ll be here for at least five years,” Michelle Enslin – are UCT graduates. All in all, this year’s Karl says. professional clinical staff numbers fourteen. Each doctor might have their own area of interest, but they From the start Ben Gaunt, chief medical officer at Zithulele are generalists practising mainly in four areas of pathology: Hospital, and his wife Taryn, the principal medical officer, HIV/AIDS, TB, maternity health and child health. They were destined for the sticks. “At our graduation dinner at also treat a range of diseases and minor trauma, which UCT I was awarded the Most Likely to End up in the sticks come up regularly. Award,” Ben laughs. Taryn, meanwhile, described her ten-year plan in her class book as “to be in the bush somewhere “It’s our calling,” Ben says. “The vision extends beyond the in Africa as part of a community”. Eight years of rotating hospital; our goal is to have a multi-disciplinary set-up, with through several medical disciplines and a stint in New Zealand emphasis on education for locals.” later, they are exactly where they dreamed of being. They have also just built a house next door, and seem to be settling in for Of late, another dream has come true. The Gaunts and Le the long haul. Rouxs, together with friends and colleagues from South Africa and abroad, have recently established a Section 21 company On the flipside, if you asked Drs Karl and Sally le Roux where called the Jabulani Rural Health Foundation, which will work they live, the response would likely be “in the maternity ward”. alongside the hospital to provide various community-based Karl is referring to a section of the new maternity ward currently health services, education and agricultural assistance. used to accommodate staff. And one baby: the Le Rouxs’ first. “It’s actually not half that bad,” says Karl. But the dream for Zithulele has its own set of hassles. Like having to wait months for basic necessities like toilet paper, The Le Rouxs joined the Gaunts at Zithulele in November last and regularly running out of medicine on the Essential Drug year. “When Ben told us about Zithulele we committed to joining List. This calls for ingenious thinking and a good contact base. them,” says Karl. “We’ve always been interested in rural medicine.” And so their link to UCT has never waned.

10 UCT NEWS 2007 Dr Ben Gaunt and a young patient (oppposite page); Dr Karl le Roux and Dr Ben Gaunt consult (above); Dr Taryn Gaunt at work (below). Ben’s dad, Professor Trevor Gaunt, head of UCT’s Department of Electrical Engineering, has found a way to help the asthmatic children at Zithulele.

“Our pharmacy needed to produce ‘spacers’ to make it easier for asthmatic patients, especially children, to use their inhalers correctly,” Ben says. “Spacers are commercially available, but expensive and difficult to obtain here.” Trevor took the problem back to the electrical engineering department and a group of students took it on as a project. They produced 20 “spacer-makers” that make custom-perfect spacers from plastic cool drink bottles in a third of the time it would take a pharmacist. The operating costs of the spacer-maker are also just half a cent per bottle.

Here at Zithulele rich and poor mean so much more.

“The people here are extremely poor, but they have an amazing dignity about them,” says Karl. “The work we do is a challenge, but what a privileged and incredibly rewarding job it is.”

A big hurdle remains transport, adds Ben. “People have to travel far to get here. The taxis are expensive and the roads are gravel.” And yet people queue outside Zithulele for help they know they’ll get three-fold: a vision, a mission and a helping hand.

And roads are being tarred later this year.

UCT NEWS 2007 11 Green construction is a wise buy by Daniella Pollock

The Green Building in the Westlake Business Park in Tokai – built from about 50% recycled materials – is not just easy on the eye, but proof that building green is cheaper, and a pretty good investment.

he building’s value ballooned by 35% in just two years. In Taddition it also scooped two prestigious awards in 2004. The first was the Cape Times Caltex Environmental Award for outstanding achievement in environmental conservation in the category for architecture and the built environment, and the second the Sustainable Building Best Practice Commendation for projects that are noteworthy examples of sustainable build- ing in Africa in the category for commercial projects.

One of the brains behind the four-year-old The Green Build- ing, the first ‘future normal’/sustainable green office build- ing in Cape Town, is Sustainable Energy Africa’s SEA Mark Borchers, UCT alumnus.

12 UCT NEWS 2007 Mark Borchers, UCT alumnus and SEA director. In 2001, Borchers co-founded SEA, a Cape Town-based non-government organisation that promotes sustainable en- ergy (energy sources that are not expected to be depleted in a timeframe relevant to the human race) approaches and prac- tices in the development of South Africa and Africa.

Working on a shoestring budget, Borchers and his partners set out to build a commercial office building worthy of being called “green”. In the end, half of the building was made up of recycled materials which saved them a whopping 30% in building costs.

Borchers calls The Green Building a touchstone for main- stream design. The landmark construction confirms that lower building costs, lower operation costs and decreased electricity usage are a viable option, while the building retains its appeal- ing aesthetic.

The only marked difficulty with this type of construction, says Borchers, is that few people – designers, constructors and providers – with experience in this field are readily available. So they often have to think on their feet.

“We collected second-hand windows and doors from demolition yards and used minimal steel in the structure,” says Borchers. “Even the bricks are made of 92% recycled materials. We paid more attention to the building process.”

To the layman, construction is a less than apparent way to cut on energy consumption. But Borchers calls construction “real low-hanging fruit” to long-term sustainability. Small changes, like building houses with more windows facing north to catch the winter sun, and providing shading to cut out the hot summer sun, could have a huge impact, he says.

UCT NEWS 2007 13

Olive path out of poverty Every day a combi crisscrosses the bumpy roads of the Riebeeksrivier valley, picking up children between the ages of three and seven from farms in the area. Back at Goedgedacht farm a breakfast awaits them as does a bright airy classroom and tables covered with puzzles and books, paper and crayons, and beads to count.

By Pauline alexander

hat this range of activities does, among other things, alternative to the alcohol abuse and boredom rife in rural areas “Wis teach these farm children that they do have a over weekends. It is in this area that another UCT alumnus, choice. Choice is something their parents never had,” says John le Roux (BCom Hons 1970), has played an important role. UCT alumnus (BA 1965) and trustee Annie Templeton. Not only has he been instrumental in raising funds to build a rugby field but last year he arranged for the Trust’s rugby team, Peter and Annie Templeton had worked as social workers in the Valley Eagles, to go on a training session at UCT with coaches urban areas for many years, and in the 1990s decided to focus Barry O’Mahony and Cecil “Doc” Moss. on rural development. “By building people you strengthen a community and in the long term you promote democracy. “After a rigorous two-hour session, Ian Healey hosted the team That’s our mission and aim,” says Annie. at a braai and then we took them to Newlands to see the final ’ game of the season,” said John. “It was great to share Goedgedacht is a success story in many ways and one that has in their excitement at actually being in the come full circle. Some of the stately old Cape Dutch buildings and to share in their enthusiasm for the game. In fact, it is this date from the early 1700s, but it was after the Malmesbury flood enthusiasm of the young people, this commitment and hard of 1824 that many of the buildings were rebuilt and the farm work that has kept me involved in UCT rugby all these years.” became a centre for the local -speaking community, with a thriving debating society and a school. Today there are The Templetons would say that it is this commitment coupled over 15 projects that provide farm workers, and particularly with the efforts of their supporters and staff that have made farm youngsters, with a range of options to help them escape Goedgedacht what it is. However, having been involved in the cycles of deprivation so common in these communities. fundraising all their lives, Peter and Annie are determined Education is the major thread running through the projects the Trust should be self-sustaining. Nearly 8 000 olive trees and the policy of “keeping children in school at all costs” is have been planted and in 2006 the olive groves, as well as beginning to pay off. the 67-bed conference centre, made a small profit.“In a few years these ventures will hopefully cover the core costs of our “There used to be a 100% drop-out rate at grade 5, but now programmes,” Annie said. children are passing matric and of the 230 children who have been in the programme since 1998, only 15 have dropped The extra virgin olive oil production, ‘the Olive Path out out of school,” says project co-ordinator Ingrid Lestrade. of Poverty’, is the flagship programme. As far as possible the “Teenage pregnancy rates have also dropped and the young processing is done by hand to maximise employment creation. women are having babies at 18 or19 and not 12 or13, as was the case in the past.” Goedgedacht Olive Farmers Association, has already introduced 43 small farmers in the area to the suitability of Farm youngsters have their school fees sponsored and are olive farming in this hot and rapidly drying region. given a hot meal every afternoon and helped with homework in a centre with access to the Internet and a library. The centre For further information visit their website at also fields teams for rugby and netball leagues, and provides an www.goedgedachttrust.org.za

14 UCT NEWS 2007 A year in the life of a university October 2006 November 2006

Sound cents: UCT wins the Excellence in Corporate Change of guard: New Dean of Commerce, Prof Melvin Ayogu, Governance Award for higher education institutions at past director of UCT’s School of Economics and formerly of the the PriceWaterhouseCoopers 2006 Higher Education University of Jos, Nigeria, succeeds retiree Prof Doug Pitt. Conference in . Good Fellows: Two new UCT Fellows are announced: (left) High praise: The University College of London confers an Prof John Moss (chemistry) and Prof Mark Solms (psychology). honorary Doctor of Literature on Professor Njabulo S Ndebele. Both have attracted international acclaim for their original and pioneering research. Clean data: (From left) Matthew Welch, Alison Siljeur and Lynn Woolfrey are part of the DataFirst team that will “clean” dozens of Statistics South Africa surveys after The Mellon Foundation awards R 2.5 million to UCT’s DataFirst statistics archive. The Southern Africa Labour All the way: PhD student Bruce Merry takes on the and Development Research world’s best young programmers in the States as Unit is collaborating with he lands a finalist spot in two major international DataFirst on the project. competitions: the Google Code Jam programming competition and the TopCoder Collegiate Challenge National orders: UCT academics win National Orders: Algorithm competition. cardiologist Emer Prof Lionel Opie receives the Order of Mapungubwe (silver) from President Thabo Mbeki and Fab four: UCT’s newest Distinguished Teacher author Prof André Brink is honoured for his contribution Award-winners are four women: Dr Becky Ackermann to literature. (archaeology), Dr Justine Burns (economics), Dr Zimitri Erasmus (sociology) and Liz Mills (drama). Restitution: UCT staffer David Wilson (geological sciences) makes history when he gets back his fami- Centenary: The Student Representative Council ly’s land in Protea Village on Heritage Day. Wilson was turns 100, an occasion celebrated in a photographic one of 86 families dispossessed of their land in the exhibition and flagship events like the Steve Biko Memorial infamous 1950 Group Areas Act. Lecture and the annual Student Leadership Awards.

Monsters of the deep: Prof Charles Griffiths (left) and Dr Pedigreed: (left) Shakespeare scholar Prof David Schalkwyk Johan Groeneveld (Marine and Coastal Management) show (English language and literature) and waste water off the new giant spiny lobster species, Palinurus barbarae, specialist Prof George Ekama (civil engineering) receive discovered off the Walters Shoals on the Madagascar Ridge. A ratings from the National Research Foundation.

UCT NEWS 2007 15 Kent family rooted in UCT soil On Wednesday 27 June, 2007, bright Eileen remembers the period as a time of austerity, following sun interrupted a bleak passage of the Great Depression. Many South African families were hard-pressed to afford tertiary education. winter weather that had turned the into blotting paper. After graduating, Jack took up a post as history teacher at Selborne College in the Eastern Cape. by Helen Théron “Rowing was important at Selborne and Jack coached their t their Pinelands home, alumni Jack (97) and Eileen (93) crew successfully,” Eileen said. A Kent saw the sunshine as an affirmation, a special token to mark their 68th wedding anniversary Teaching is a bright thread that runs – and a season of plenty. through the Kent history. Jack’s sister, Helen, was a mathematics teacher at Jack remembers his school years . (His bother, Hal, also a UCT at Bishops, taking the tram from alumnus, was a respected city architect.) Claremont to and walking to school. After matriculating, In 1952 the Cape Education and with a prestigious Rhodes department founded Pinelands High scholarship, Jack headed for Oxford School with Jack as headmaster. It’s University’s Corpus Christi College. a matter of great pride to them that today Pinelands High – with He rowed for his college and on over 900 pupils – is one of the most his return to Cape Town and his culturally diverse of all the former subsequent enrolment at UCT, he Model C schools. established the UCT Rowing Club. Eileen returned to UCT in the 1960s as an English tutor “We first started at the bottom of , where the to students from the drama department. Students are pier was, but the waves were higher than the boat and we fondly remembered, especially David Heynes (later head moved to .” of department) and renowned actor Paul Slabolepszy, who amused Eileen greatly with their dramatic reasons for Both Jack and Eileen’s (nee Lawrie) forebears have UCT links. uncompleted essays! Jack’s father, Professor Thomas “TP” Kent, born in the West Indies in 1869, came to Cape Town in 1902 to take up the post The couple’s four children are all UCT alumni. Brian qualified of Professor of Mathematics at Bishops. In 1911 he moved “up BArch (distinction) (1965); Athol graduated MBChB (1968) the hill” to teach pure mathematics at the and MPhil (1994); Linda (1969) has a BA and a Diploma in (SAC), sharing the Chair of Mathematics. The university’s Librarianship; and Rosemary (1974) a BA Hons (psychology). annals make frequent mention of TP Kent, especially in the Brian lives in Maine in the US, Athol settled in Cape Town, years 1916 to 1918, during the transformation of the SAC to Linda teaches jewellery design in Liverpool, and Rosemary is a university. Although TP Kent was a mathematician, his deep at Kent University. love was for English literature. “We have a deep affection for UCT and are proud our children Eileen’s great-grandfather was the Reverend John Pears, a studied there,” Jack said. graduate of Edinburgh University. He was to become Professor of English and Classics at the SAC. Her father, William Lawrie, Two of their grandchildren are also UCT alumni. Athol studied geology at the SAC in 1902. and Lucille’s (nee Luckhoff, BSocSci [1969]) son Steven has a BSocSci (1999) and an MPhil in social development and Jack and Eileen met at UCT in the early 1930s. With a master’s economics (2004) from UCT. Brian and Janet’s daughter, degree in history, Jack was reading for a BEd and Eileen for Genevieve Kent-Pence, returned from the United States to a Higher Diploma in Education. She laughs off the story that read for a master’s degree in conservation biology, which she he offered to carry her books (it’s one their grandchildren are received with distinctions (2001) at UCT. She married South fond of). African conservationist, Mark Botha.

16 UCT NEWS 2007 Kent family rooted in UCT soil UCT four in the driving seat When they were friends at UCT it was just for the fun of it. But the bonds between Ciko Thomas, Litha Nkombisa, Zwai Nomkonwana and Mncedisi Mayekiso became so strong that they decided, many years after graduating, to start a business together. And they did it in style.

by myolisi gophe

n 2003 the four bought Joburg City Auto, founding the first Iand, probably, the only 100% black-owned BMW franchise in South Africa. And the business is going from strength to strength. They have since bought a 51% stake in IT group Enterprise Connection, and also acquired Volkswagen Joburg City late last year. Now they employ close to 150 people and boast an annual turnover of millions of rands.

Little wonder the partners are measuring up well against many leading BMW franchises around the country.

And Thomas, the Chief Executive Officer of Joburg City Auto, puts this down to “determination, professionalism and a good plan”. That determination came the moment they quit their thriving jobs to focus on the BMW venture. Their track records stood out when they applied for the franchise and the funding.

On the road: Ciko Thomas and Litha Nkombisa, partners in the first black- After graduating from UCT in 1992, Thomas worked in owned BMW franchise in South Africa, on the floor of their BMW franchise in marketing; Nkombisa in the auto industry, Mayekiso in the . (Photo courtesy of John Hogg, Mail & Guardian.) information and communication technology sector, and Nomkonwana in corporate finance. All enjoyed enviable success. partners and Thomas says they have plans for other initiatives.

But what motivated them to choose BMW? For now, they want to grow the business into a big-listed motor group, hopefully the first with a majority black ownership. Thomas said choosing the brand came almost naturally as most of them were BMW drivers. And whenever they walked Thomas’ vocabulary does not feature the word “low”. He says into a BMW dealership, they noticed that there were few black he takes failure as an opportunity to learn and grow. Learning faces – and certainly none running the dealership. and growing are also words that characterise his attitude towards his young family. Now the sky seems to be the limit for the Eastern Cape-born businessmen. Having two leading dealerships and a majority stake “I try my best to keep a balance between being a busy busi- in an information technology group is not nearly enough for the nessman and a good dad and husband.”

UCT NEWS 2007 17 A Southern

OceanA report from the ship’s doctorstorm Joan Louwrens (MBChB 1975)

By joan louwrens

pril 2007 saw me realise a childhood dream of member, was badly bruised and battered; and all three were A traversing the Roaring Forties to journey to Marion seriously traumatised by the loss of a fourth crew member, Island. The SA Agulhas, the plucky little ice breaker of the who fell overboard. Department of Environment and Tourism, was my craft, and being the ships doctor was my function. It was then my task to nurse and counsel the injured and bed-bound skipper while we continued to plough through I loved the wind and the wildness and the sensation of massive swells and hurricane force winds, inching our way privilege of peeping into this pristine world. The medicine back to Cape Town. was minor and mundane and I made the mistake of mentioning that I felt almost guilty of not earning my Miraculously, he made it in reasonable shape to undergo salary, so great was my enjoyment. hip replacement surgery on our arrival in Cape Town and he is now safely back in his home in Perth. His yacht, which I was punished for this 24 hours later when we were hit by had been his travelling companion since 1984, lies in the the wildest of Southern Ocean storms. It was this storm cold, dark depths of the ocean in a location unknown. that crippled an Australian yacht Cowrie Dancer and sent us steaming full speed to their rescue. The drama that followed My report of the storm as written on board follows. It was well reported in the local newspapers. The skipper of has the sense of immediacy and may entice (or forever the Cowrie sustained a fracture to his right leg; one crewman discourage) those who may have thought of venturing on had a serious scalp wound; Carol, the South African crew these waters.

Storm! Joan Louwrens safely on Marion Island. The SA Agulhas, its passengers and crew have emerged, relatively unscathed, after 36 hours of the wildest of Roaring Forties storms.

The first hint of things to come was a precipitous drop on the barograph – pressure plummeted from 1 014 millibars to 979 millibars in the space of three hours. Most of us were sweetly asleep at this time – so we were rudely awakened to thumping, whistling and rocking. I had, however, had a callout in the early hours of the morning. It was with measured concentration, between rolls, that I attempted to aim carefully in my suturing of a crewman’s eyebrow.

The view from my cabin porthole, as the ship pitched wildly, was alternately just grey and white angry sea, or just

18 UCT NEWS 2007 A Southern Ocean storm

The storm hits the SA Agulhas.

grey and white brooding sky. The main deck and poop deck a rollercoaster, grimly anticipating the changing force of were promptly declared out of bounds. A visit to the bridge gravity on my body. At times I felt weightless – then my revealed all the power and wonder of this raging of the body felt heavily pressed down onto the mattress, just to elements. As far as the eye could see, there were massive slide up to weightlessness again. white crested swells, breaking in parts. As the ship’s bow descended into a trough, thumping through the water, there All the while the birds, oblivious of our suffering, utilised was a creaking and shuddering. The water would then surge the strong winds and eddies for their enjoyment. Six skywards, in a giant white plume, reaching as high as the Southern Giant Petrels appeared to be gliding in formation top of the deck crane, while the bow disappeared under as they swooped into the troughs, aim skyward, reach tons of water. Slowly, painfully, the bow eased upwards, stalling velocity and swoop down again. I did not see one and the foaming water cascaded over the decks and sides. wing beat. The larger albatrosses were in cruise mode, The howl of the wind was a deafeningly shrill. This torture seemingly enjoying the wind in their faces. The diminutive, continued as the ship made progress at a rate of five knots, delicate Storm Petrels were very busy close to the surface despite the massive engines cranking over at virtual full bore. of the swirling water, dipping, darting, diving and flapping Amazingly, the poop deck, which always seemed so high furiously. above the water level, was also intermittently immersed by crashing waves. As I write, the force of the wind is abating, the swell subsiding, and the pressure rising. I can contemplate My rather flimsy sea legs succumbed under this onslaught, venturing outside again, although the air temperature is and I had to seek a horizontal position. This was also an 4 ºC. What an experience this has been, but I cannot help interesting sensation. My bed is positioned along the long but think of, and admire hugely, the crew of Ernest axis of the ship. I was therefore see-sawed repetitively from Shackleton’s stricken Endurance, as they battled day after day, a head-down, to a head-up position, with the odd sideways through conditions like this and far worse, just to stay alive. gyrate in between. I lay there feeling as though I was on It fills me with hope for the resilience of the human spirit.

UCT NEWS 2007 19 Alumni books and plays By Rose - Peires - eglin - brown - mai - helman - sarzin

Advocate-cum-writer and UCT alumnus relationship between Beethoven’s health and creativity, showing Andrew Brown had to pay out of his own how the composer transcended physical and emotional torment pocket to see his first novel, Inyenzi: A Story of to produce enduringly powerful music. Mai worked from the Love and Genocide, into print in 2000. The book symptoms described in the medical evidence, Beethoven’s sold briskly, but until recently the author letters and those of his friends, and the reports of his . had only two copies left on his shelf. But then Brown’s Coldsleep Lullaby won the 2006 Two of the most infamous forms of human rights abuse, the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, which persuaded Holocaust and apartheid, will always be sensitive subjects. publishers Zebra Press to reprint Inyenzi. “It But when the two are mentioned in the same breath and was really gratifying to see Inyenzi reprinted – with a beautiful compared, sparks tend to fly. It’s this controversy that prompted cover and a decent edit,” says Brown. The book tells two stories Juliette Peires to tackle the topic in The Holocaust and Apartheid: – one of forbidden love, the other of the bonds of friendship – set A comparison of human rights abuses. “My intention was to analyse against the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. without emotionalising or making value judgments,” explains Peires. “The aim of the book is to promote a better understanding In Crossing the Borders of Power, The memoirs of Colin Eglin, among people with different perceptions of human rights abuse.” the famed politician – who in 1946 became UCT’s first BSc quantity surveying graduate – takes the reader through a Apart from her medical pursuits, alumnus remarkable career at the forefront of South African political Dr Dorothy Rose (MBChB, 1953) has history. Eglin’s name was synonymous with the Progressive always loved reading and writing. But the Party, the “golden thread of liberal opposition” in South Africa. difficult times she and her husband, Eddie, Eglin led the party, founded in 1959, through some turbulent experienced while missionary doctors in years, when “moral government in South Africa seemed an Thailand prompted her to take her hobby impossible dream”. He served in parliament through seven further than the more modest pursuit of prime ministers and presidents – from JG Strijdom to Thabo penning essays and articles for church Mbeki – and under five constitutions. He had so much material, magazines. The result is her evocatively says Eglin, he could have written two books. titled book, Bus from Bangkok, which captures the “great works God performed while we were there”. Rose is already at work Ida Ezekowitz has released Son of a Stranger, a novel set in on a second book. the 1950s that deals with the anonymity of sperm donors. The idea for the book Dr Cecil Helman’s memoir, Suburban Shaman: Tales from came to Ezekowitz when discussing the medicine’s frontline is the winner of the topic with her husband and his 2007 Medical Journalists Association colleague, a gynaecologist. What troubled Book Award, made at the Royal College Ezekowitz was the use of the same donor of General Practitioners on 5 July. In for many women. It’s this that bedevils the March last year it was a BBC Book of love between a young doctor and a nursing the Week and was serialised on Radio 4. sister in Son of a Stranger. The work is a view of medicine from the inside, drawing on Helman’s rich medical Alumnus Dr François Mai draws on and anthropological experience. his professional and personal interests – he’s a psychiatrist and amateur pianist – Dr Anne Sarzin finished her first play two years ago, despite the to present an intriguing book on the demands of journalism and adorable grandchildren. In March relationship between health and creativity this year, My Green Age made it to the stage. A scene from the play and how it affected one of the world’s was one of just 11 performed at the International Playwrights’ greatest composers. Diagnosing Genius: The Forum in the Jewish Museum in Vienna, part of the Congress of life and death of Beethoven, examines Ludwig the Association for Jewish Theatre. My Green Age tackles themes of van Beethoven’s extraordinary ability to ageing, nostalgia (that first love), a tendency to idealise the past, compose beautiful music while battling severe health problems, the reluctance to let go of youthful dreams, and the cathartic including deafness and depression. The book examines the acknowledgement of transgressions.

20 UCT NEWS 2007 A year in the life of a university December 2006 January 2007

Master of maths: Prof Hans-Peter Künzi is listed as Magnificent seven: UCT secures seven of the first UCT’s 24th A-rated researcher. In 2001 he was appointed 21 National System of Innovation research chairs, to head UCT’s Topology and Category Theory Research established within strategic research areas at South Group. Five of the 24 A-rated researchers hail from the African universities. This concludes the first round of the mathematics department. Department of Science and Technology’s new South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI). The candidates are Prof Daya Reddy (computational mechanics), Dr Erwin de Blok (astrophysics) (left), Dr Ernesta Meintjes (brain imaging) (right), Prof Kevin Naidoo (scientific computing), Prof Iqbal Parker (cancer biology), Prof George Philander (climatology) and Prof Clifford Shearing (security and justice).

Silverware: Prof Peter Dunsby of the mathematics department’s Cosmology and Gravity Group is awarded this year’s S2A3 British Association Medal (silver), one Coup: Big news is that UCT’s Institute of Infectious Disease of the highest awards to young scientists for original and Molecular Medicine will host the third component of the research in southern Africa. Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. There are existing components in labs at Trieste and New Delhi. Back in town: UCT science graduate Prof Julian Kinderlerer is the law faculty’s new Chair of Intellectual Property Law. He returns nearly 40 years after leaving South Africa for Cambridge on a one-way ticket to study biochemistry. Kinderlerer is a member of the prestigious European Group of Ethics in Science and New Technologies.

Sporting legend: John Donald, director of Sport and Recreation in the Department of Student Affairs, is named a Sporting Legend for his contribution to a united non-racial hockey community. The lifetime honour comes from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport of the Western Province.

UCT NEWS 2007 21 Wireless technology makes Internet affordable Internet access in South Africa is among the most expensive in the world. In fact, it is said that the average American teenager has access to more bandwidth than a medium-sized business in South Africa.

By Chris McEvoy

t’s a well known fact that Internet access in South Africa is in South Africa. Anyone with IT experience can become a Iamong the most expensive in the world. In fact, it is said that provider, set up as many hotspots as they want and earn an the average American teenager has access to more bandwidth ongoing income from it.” than a medium-sized business in South Africa. Skyrove supplies the router, which the provider sets up to connect Now Skyrove, a young technology startup founded by computer to an Internet service provider of their choice. Users can then engineering graduate Henk Kleynhans, is tackling this problem connect wirelessly to the Internet via the router after buying head-on. Realising that many South Africans want broadband credits through the Skyrove online billing system. There’s also Internet access but simply can’t afford the prohibitively no limit to the size of a hotspot. At just under R600, providers expensive charges, Kleynhans conceived of a new approach: can buy as many routers as they like, which will connect with enabling providers to install their own Wi-Fi hotspots to share each other wirelessly to cover any sized area. Internet with others. They then charge users for Internet usage per megabyte – rather than by the usual method of charging Founded in 2005, Skyrove has grown from strength to strength. users for the time they spent online. It won the Enablis Entrepreneur Challenge in 2005 and the Technology Top 100 Award in 2006. They soon attracted “The beauty is that everybody benefits,” explains Tino Mueller, management and strategic advisors Cape Venture Partners, who who joined Skyrove as Business Development Manager assist startups in funding and decision-making in the technology after graduating with an MBA from the Graduate School of sector. Meanwhile, Skyrove hotspots continue to grow. “We’re Business (GSB) in 2006. growing organically, at about three hotspots per week,” says Mueller. “And we’re about to hit the first 100 mark in South “Users get affordable Internet access and providers who set Africa. With the recent investment through Lingham Capital up hotspots earn an income from their users.” The system this growth rate will increase substantially. There will soon also operates on a simple pay-as-you-go business model. Users at be hotspots in townships and other areas of the country where a hotspot connect wirelessly to the Skyrove system and can before there was hardly any Internet access.” instantly buy credits with their credit cards or via vouchers. They can then stay online until they have used up the credits But the Skyrove team has set its sights beyond the country’s that they’ve purchased. Since payment is instant and upfront, borders. There is already one hotspot in London and in the next providers don’t have to worry about billing and chasing debtors few months there will be more in Kenya and Germany. at the end of each month. At this rate of growth, Mueller may well achieve his goal of “The Skyrove concept encourages entrepreneurship,” explains seeing Skyrove as the market leader for Wi-Fi hotspots in South Mueller, “which is the most important source of job creation Africa by the end of the year.

22 UCT NEWS 2007 UCT NEWS 2007 23 Graduate shoulders 2010 preparations Many would envy a relaxed, quiet workplace with little to do. Not Moira Tlhagale. With too little to challenge her as a senior project manager at work she decided to strike it at her own business.

By Myolisi Gophe

UCT graduate, Tlhagale started Architects and Madlanduna Corporation a division of Transnet. It was while ATMTJ Consulting, which now is one and Tlhagale is the chairperson of the working at the Waterfront in 2004 that of the four organisations in the technical technical team. The consortium controls she decided to start TMTJ with an team of the Local Organising Committee a budget of more than R8 billion. architect friend, Thembi Jacobs, also a (LOC) for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. UCT graduate. One of the technical team’s duties is Dubbed the On The Ball Consortium, to monitor the budget, an uphill task Tlhagale had always dreamed of running they are mandated to ensure that the 10 considering that prices inflate annually. a business. While studying towards a football stadiums being built or upgraded When it emerged that the costs of Diploma in Building Surveying at the comply with the requirements of the building new stadiums were over the Peninsula Technikon, she realised that she Federation International de Football figures budgeted last year, there was an would not be able to register as a quantity Association (FIFA). outrage in certain quarters, with some surveyor. She then enrolled at UCT. people questioning South Africa’s ability The other four companies are MMA to organise the world’s biggest single Her dream materialised in March 2005 Architects, Technoburo, Ruben Reddy sporting event. when she became one of the few, if not the only, black women to own a property Tlhagale, a BSc graduate development company in the white- in quantity surveying dominated industry in the Cape. She (1998), said the group had and Jacobs are consulting as a short-term dealt with those challenges. goal, but diversifying the commercial and “Managing a project of the architecture fields of their company. this magnitude has never been done before. There “It is hard to start a business but not a is no baseline for it. The train smash,” Tlhagale said. challenge is that we have to come up with ways of how She is running the Gauteng operation, to do it.” which is focused on the 2010 project, while Jacobs is operating the Cape Town The 35-year-old mother arm. of one cut her teeth on various big projects before Tlhagale admits that the 2010 project is her current post. She was a not easy. “We are constantly under stress. senior project manager for Our adrenalin is pumping as we try to the property development resolve daily challenges.” division of the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront and But that does not rob her of quality time an assistant development with her family. “It is all about proper manager for Propnet, time management.”

24 Finding the molecules of destiny

By business day

A Royal Society lecture hall in Carlton Terrace, London, provided the imposing setting for a recent lecture on the intriguingly named topic of “zinc fingers” – proteins which may hold the key to the treatment of various life- threatening diseases, from clogged arteries to immune disorders.

he lecturer was Sir Aaron Klug, Sangamo Biosciences, which bought the Collaborating with one of the Twinner of the Nobel Prize for technology from a biotech unit started discoverers of DNA, Rosalind chemistry in 1982. An alert, unbowed by Klug’s department at Cambridge Franklin, aroused a lifelong interest octogenarian, Klug spent his childhood University. in the study of viruses. Klug worked in and went on to become one out how to model viruses three- of the leading figures in the science of He regards his three most important dimensionally using X-ray diffraction genetics today. Thanks to the likes of achievements as discovering the zinc- and microscopy. Much of what we Klug and other leading bioscientists finger protein motif, now being used know today of structural biology of the modern age, the study of cell to correct genetic defects; turning – which shows the actual shape of chemistry has revealed that large two-dimensional images into 3D tiny particles – derives from this work, biological molecules are the machines reconstructions in electron microscopy; which brought him the Nobel Prize. of life – our destiny. and studying the 3D structure of virus particles, which helped to solve a Throughout his life, Klug has sought Early in May, Klug gave the Croonian problem that had puzzled biologists. to understand and clearly explain the prize lecture on engineered zinc-finger basic structure of matter. In doing so, proteins (ZFPs) for the regulation of Born in Lithuania, Klug was two when he helped to unravel the fabric of the gene expression. He outlined how he came to South Africa. His pursuit human cell. Thanks to his drive and genes can be selectively targeted and of a “deeper foundation” led him to curiosity, Klug is a leading scientist switched on or off for therapeutic chemistry, physics and maths. Today he of the second half of the 20th century purposes. Clinical trials using ZFPs pays tribute to mentors like Professor and at 81 still an active researcher to treat human peripheral arterial RW James, an X-ray crystallographer and lecturer. disease by stimulating vascular growth who brought his specialist knowledge of are under way through UK company optics to UCT. Used by Permission of Business Day

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Against the stream: Harvest time: Africa Oceanographer Dr gears up for its first trial Mathieu Rouault, of genetically modified working with Kiel maize, developed en- University’s Emeritus tirely in Africa by UCT’s Professor Gerold Sied- Profs Jennifer Thomson ler, an Alexander von and Ed Rybicki and their Humboldt Fellow at team in the Department UCT last year, has of Molecular and Cell described of the new Biology, to withstand the South Indian Ocean Countercurrent. This flows east maize streak virus. They against the predominant westerly flow, and is found worked with Pannar halfway between Madagascar and Australia. Seeds’ plant pathologist Frederik Kloppers. Vital link: A human skull found near Hofmeyr, Eastern Cape, around 1954 and only recently dated to 36 000 years, Unstoppable: Prof Bruce Hewitson (Climate Systems corroborates genetic evidence that modern humans Analysis Group) is a co-author of Climate Change 2007: The probably originated in sub-Saharan Africa and migrated at Physical Science Basis, of the Intergovernmental Panel on about this time to colonise the Old World, says UCT’s Prof Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC released the report, the Alan Morris (human biology). work of 600 authors from 40 countries, in Paris. It warned of changes in weather patterns.

Vaccine trial: UCT’s Desmond Tutu HIV Centre’s HIV Vaccine Clinical Trial site in is one of five research sites for a new HIV vaccine trial, the largest in Africa. Over the next four years 3 000 HIV-negative men and women will be followed in this, a Phase IIb “test-of-concept” vaccine trial.

By the bucketful: First-year civil engineering students (from left) Feroz Mullajee, Devlin Fortuin, Lillian Ngabirano (face obscured), Lerato Sendyose and Nokubonga Khumalo (front) measure up during a practical. The department reports the biggest first-year intake (over 100 students) in 25 years.

Fat of the land: Prof Timm Hoffman (Institute for Plant Conservation) wins the 2007 Alan Pifer Award for his research into sustainable livelihoods among poor rural communities in Namaqualand and the Augrabies Falls region.

26 UCT NEWS 2007 In Memory Actor Roger Dwyer, known as “the ultimate professional”, Dr Stowell Kessler, who lived in Brandfort in the Free passed away in Cape Town in April after a stage career State, passed away in May. He graduated with a PhD in spanning 45 years. Dwyer obtained a certificate in Speech social science and humanities from UCT in 2003 and was and Drama from UCT in 1962. Friend Nicholas Ellenbogen known for his doctoral research on black concentration camps said Dwyer was not only an “extraordinarily” successful during the Boer War. In his research he said “blacks were like actor but also the manager of two successful ensembles. With grasshoppers (during production after production filling theatres in Cape Town, the war) that had been Dwyer was also an integral part of Ellenbogen’s loft theatre used up and die at the company with NAPAC. He performed in King Lear, the end of summer”. He production that opened the first Grahamstown National Arts proposed that a national Festival. His wife, Patti, and four children survive him. monument be erected in Mafikeng, where the Acting legend Bill Flynn, who was a founder member of the war began, and where Space Theatre, passed away in July. Flynn graduated with a BA most of the prisoners degree from UCT. He starred in over 50 movies, acted in over died, “to impart some 140 plays and featured in many radio and television adverts. visibility to the invisible He won 13 Best Actor awards and toured the world extensively, victims”. He is survived acting in dramas for British, American and Australian TV. Senor by his wife, Marie. Smith was the first TV series that Flynn co-wrote and starred in. Writing and starring in a drama series was not enough for Professor Archie Mafeje, who completed his undergraduate him, because he went on to write, star in, produce and edit the studies and began his career as a scholar at UCT, passed away Curruthers Brothers. Flynn showed stamina when he got up at this year. Mafeje obtained his BA in 1962, his honours in 1963 03h00 for 18 months to do the Toasty Show, and locked himself and his master’s in 1964. He was also a pivotal figure in UCT’s up for a week in a hell-house to win Celebrity Big Brother. He was history and in the struggle against apartheid. Mafeje was at also a singer with Vinnie and the Viscounts for ten years and the centre of a furore in 1968 when he was appointed senior with the Rock Rebels, doing comedy opera singing. lecturer in social anthropology. But after pressure from the national Ministry of Education, Council withdrew its offer. Endocrinologist, medical Students protested and even staged a sit-in at Bremner, but to scientist and political no avail. (In 2003, the UCT Council agreed to offer Mafeje a activist Sir Raymond formal apology.) Instead, Mafeje built a prestigious scholarly “Bill” Hoffenberg, career outside of South Africa, a career that spanned four 84, who was banned decades and three continents. He returned to South Africa by the South African after the end of apartheid, and was appointed a research government in 1967, fellow by the National Research Foundation (NRF) working died in Oxford in April at the African Renaissance Centre at UNISA. Mafeje is this year. Hoffenberg survived by his wife and daughter. enrolled at UCT at the age of 16 and completed his MBChB degree in 1948. A banning order made it impossible for him to continue his duties at Hospital and as a senior lecturer at the medical school, positions he had held with distinction since 1959. In 1968 Hoffenberg left for England and was appointed head of the Department of Medicine at the . He was awarded a knighthood in 1984 for his contributions to British medicine. In 1993 UCT conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Science in Medicine honoris causa. He served on the board of the UCT Trust in the UK, a registered charitable trust raising funds and support for the university in the UK and Europe.

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No stone unturned: Geologists Gender milestones: Law lecturer Salim Nakhjavani is the Profs Maarten de Wit first man to become warden of a women’s residence, or the (UCT) and Harald Furnes new Graça Machel Hall. And at College House and Kilindini, (University of Bergen) are lecturer Chao Mulenga is the first woman to become warden part of an international team of a men’s residence. that finds a fragment of ancient seafloor in southwest Greenland that shows evidence the Earth’s crustal plates were shifting as far back as 3.8 billion years ago.

Island style: Maths lecturer Dr Diane Wilcox with dad, Robert Wilcox, niece Maxine and son Aidan after her 7.4-km swim from to Blouberg. Wilcox was three months old when her father was imprisoned on Robben Island. She saw him again only on his release in 1978.

Leaders: UCT tops the list for young Africans who receive 2007 Mandela Rhodes Scholarships. Eight of the 20 beneficiaries – a ninth had to abstain – of the 2007 programme are pursuing their careers here. They are Marlon Burgess, Zethu Dlamini, Rumbidzai Goredema, Aalia Ismail, Leanne Johansson, Daphney Singo, Sheetal Vallabh and Buhle Zuma.

Search light: The search begins for a new Vice-Chancellor to succeed Prof Njabulo S Ndebele, who will complete his second term of office at the end of June 2008.

Lasting legacy: A memorial service is held for Sir Raymond “Bill” Hoffenberg, who died in Oxford aged 84. He leaves a lasting legacy of principles, courage and determination in the face of a Thinking ahead: The Department of Science and banning order that changed his life. The gifted endocrinologist, Technology awards R30-million over five years to UCT’s medical scientist and political activist was banned in 1967 and Department of Chemical Engineering to establish a Catalysis prevented from practising medicine. Competence Centre, a virtual hub that will develop advanced hydrogen and fuel-cell technologies in South Africa. It’s a Astrophysics master’s joint appointment with Mintek. student Renée Hlozek, supervisor Associate Remembered: Prof Archie Professor Bruce Mafeje dies. Mafeje precipi- Bassett of UCT and tated a furore in 1968 when he Professor Martin Kunz was appointed senior lecturer of the University of in social anthropology at UCT. Geneva made head- But after pressure from the lines for their paper in ministry of national education, the journal Physical Review D, in which they outline their Council withdrew its offer. In self-designed all-purpose estimation method that makes 2003, Council agreed to offer working through a mass of cosmology data, which up until him a formal apology. now had to be done by hand, a cinch.

28 UCT NEWS 2007 May 2007 their chosen walks of life. Scintillating performances by Judith Message Sephuma, Selaelo Selota, Marcus Wyatt and Sibongile Mngoma from Deputy thrilled a packed concert theatre. So successful was the concert that we have decided to make it an annual event. We also intend Vice-Chancellor to include Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. Thandabantu The intellectual engagements have themselves been going from, Nhlapo strength to strength. A UCT Alumni Breakfast, incorporating the annual general meeting of both the Alumni Association and It is now one full year since I communicated with you, and it Convocation, enjoyed a presentation by Dr Cynthia Sikakane. gives me great pleasure to report that progress continues apace This showed how over a period of 10 years students admitted in the Development and Alumni Department (DAD). on tests of potential (because of their lower senior certificate scores), have graduated in medicine after academic development First of all, we have continued to fill our vacancies with good staff. interventions, with no discernible performance gap between themselves and their peers with higher senior certificate scores. We are fortunate to have lured Lungile Jacobs away from provincial involvements in music, culture and fundraising. Many Along the same lines, the Alumni Leadership Forums that of you who were at UCT in the past two decades will remember I wrote about last year have continued. Among these were Lungile as the founder and conductor of the UCT Choir for Dr Laurine Platzky’s talk on the FIFA World Cup 2010 and Africa, a multi prize-winning outfit during his time. In his role Cape Town (she is heading up the Province’s planning for as senior manager, alumni and individual giving, Lungile will be the big event), and Mzamo Masito’s presentation of research in charge of our efforts to get to know you better. findings on Black Diamonds, the controversial label for the new black middle class. We have also scored two huge hits in attracting Monde Mjebeza (alumni relations officer) and Zodwa Mdoda (administrative Mzamo’s talk was the first Alumni Leadership Forum to be held in assistant, alumni and individual giving). Johannesburg, a tradition we intend to maintain. Durban is next.

With the redeployment of Niven Maree from corporates and We had a pleasant windfall in the form of a two-day visit by trusts relations to his present position as individual giving Chancellor Graça Machel to UCT in August, which enabled relations officer, we feel that we now have adequate support in her to preside over a donor-recognition lunch and an alumni the office to deliver on our intentions to seek you out and to breakfast, in addition to officially opening the newly completed service your needs. women’s residence, Graça Machel Hall.

The DAD team building has been completed with the As usual, the Vice-Chancellor, with myself and Jim McNamara appointments of Wanjiku Mwagiru and Sarah Archer in the in tow, made the annual pilgrimage to North America, this time foundations relations section, Zukisa Manziya as finance to the West Coast. The hospitality we encountered in Vancouver, manager, and Melanie Jackson as corporates and trusts officer. San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Los Angeles was unbelievable. There are many of you out there and we were As I indicated last year, it is an important aspect of our mission inundated with offers from volunteers who wished to set up core and vision to strengthen our contacts with you in ways that committees in their areas. Watch this space! enable you to participate in the present and future of UCT. This is particularly important in the case of those of you who are It only remains for me to wish you well in the coming year recently graduated from UCT because it gives us access to a new and to urge you to keep in touch. When you receive my next resource that is younger and eager to grapple with life’s challenges. letter, UCT will be under the baton of a new Vice-Chancellor, and I take this opportunity, on your behalf, to say a formal In this respect, we were absolutely thrilled when the Black farewell to Professor Njabulo Ndebele who has steered this ship Alumni Association was launched at UCT on Freedom Day, magnificently over the past seven years. 27 April 2007, by black graduates of UCT who had bravely overcome any sense of ambiguity about their time at UCT Look out for the alumni portal, which will be up in the second during a period of deep polarisation in our country. half of next year, and which will significantly facilitate interactive contact with you all. Cutting across age groups, the first alumni concert on 3 May 2007 at the Baxter was simply a way of patting ourselves on the All the best! back and reminding the world of the calibre of our graduates in Professor Thandabantu Nhlapo

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San Diego, US TORONTO, CANADA NEW YORK, US An enthusiastic group of alumni and friends Professor Hugh Corder, Dean of the Faculty Also in May this year, UCT Fund Inc hosted met in San Diego in May. of Law, was hosted by the UCT Foundation a breakfast for UCT alumni and friends in for a reunion dinner in Toronto, Canada, New York, where Professor Hugh Corder, 1 in May. Dean of the Faculty of Law, spoke.

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Host Henry Blumberg, a graduate of the class of 1966, with Prof Hugh Corder, who graduated in 1977, and Les Kottler (1969), former President of Dean of Law, Prof Hugh Corder, speaks to alumni the UCT Foundation. and friends in New York.

SAN FRANCISCO, US Around 50 UCT alumni and friends met up for a guided tour of the Keiskamma Altarpiece at the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, followed by a talk on UCT’s important contribution to HIV/ AIDS research by UCT alumnus Sebastian Kevany, currently at the Centre for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). 1. Prof Thandabantu Nhlapo with graduate Nicole 1 Martin and guests Jeremy Prestholdt, Ivan Evans and Robert Horwitz. 2. Tessa Heunis and Ronnie Flax were also at the San Diego reunion. HAMBURG, GERMANY An invitation to teach at the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea in August gave Professor John Hare, director of the Shipping Law Unit in the Faculty of Law at UCT, the LOS ANGELES, US opportunity to meet with many of the 20 or so German LLM alumni who have studied shipping At the University of California, Los Angeles, law at UCT over the past decade. Prof Njabulo S Ndebele spoke on A New Day for Higher Education in South Africa

at a seminar hosted by the African Studies LONDON, UK 2 Centre and the Department of Comparative In March, 75 UK-based alumni braved the Literature. Alumni and friends had a chance freezing temperatures to watch a production to talk with UCT visitors at a reception of the Baxter Theatre’s Sizwe Banzi is Dead, following the talk. featuring original cast members John Kani and Winston Ntshona, at the Royal National Theatre on the banks on the River Thames. Many of those at the show had actually seen the play during its first run over 30 years ago. After the performance, some 45 alumni 1 attended a reception at the theatre, enjoying a glass or two of fine and chats with Kani; Mannie Manim, director of the and lighting designer for the production; and the play’s director, Aubrey Sekhabi. Frances Olsen, Professor of Law at UCLA, with Deputy-Vice-Chancellor, Prof Thandabantu Nhlapo; 1. Mannie Manim, John Kani and Angela Ross, graduate Wilma Jakobsen; South African Consul UK-UCT Trust alumni co-ordinator. General Jeanette Ndhlovu and Dr Frederick 2. Kerry Deane, Ian Caldwell, Jennifer Johnston, Byaruhanga of UCLA. Ntsiki Dinga, Paul Galatis and Robyn Evans.

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AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND The New Zealand chapter of the UCT Alumni Association held a social get-together and networking evening in Auckland in November last year. The event was hosted in the Fletcher Building Company’s board room, courtesy of alumni committee member Peter Merry, who is a senior member of staff there. Over 40 of the estimated 500 UCT alumni in New Zealand were able to attend. Anyone interested in attending future functions or making contact with the NZ chapter should contact the secretary, Linda Philips, on telephone +64 9 522 0235 or email [email protected]. Martin Putterill, Steve Grbic and Brian Brooke.

HOME, UCT HOME, UCT The MBChB classes of 1956, 1966, 1976 and The Faculty of Law hosted a reunion dinner 1981 rekindled some old friendships when in Smutshall. Among those at the event were they gathered at the Medical School and members of the class of 1986, which featured, roundabouts in November and December at the back, Anton Richman, Davout Wolhuter, Earl 2006 for the Faculty of Health Sciences’ Hunter, Justin Hardcastle & Mike Evans; and, in front, annual reunions. Ingrid Freitag, Andy Stewart, Colin Kahanovitz, Susan

1 Stelzner, Mandy Taylor, Paul Katzeff and Emeritus Professor Solly Leeman.

HOME, UCT Law Reunion Weekend As Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor 2008 Thandabantu Nhlapo put it, the UCT Alumni Medical Concert on 3 May was no time to pretend to 24 October marks the beginning of be modest. Rather, the event was a chance celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the

2 to show off just some of the talent that has teaching of law at UCT. For more information, passed through the university’s South African contact [email protected] College of Music (SACM) in recent years. That included, on the classical music side, soprano Law Reunion Weekend Sibongile Mngoma and pianist François du Toit, 12 and 13 October. Calling back the classes backed up by the UCT Symphony Orchestra of 1977, 1982, 1987 and 1997, and hoping under the baton of Alexander Fokkens. On to have a 50th anniversary for the class the jazz side of the interval, out filed the of 1957. For further information contact award-winning Marcus Wyatt on trumpet and [email protected]. flugelhorn, guitar maestro Selaelo Selota and 3 diva Judith Sephuma. The versatile Mngoma 2008 returned to the stage to do a few jazz pieces. Medical As did the symphony orchestra, which doubles Class of 1958 – 5-7 December as the UCT Symphonic Jazz Orchestra, Class of 1968 – to be announced bumped up with a few extra performers like Class of 1983 – to be announced Professor Mike Rossi on tenor sax, Dr Andrew Class of 1993 – to be announced Lilley on piano and Darryl Andrews on guitar, and conducted by Associate Professor Mike Please visit our website on www.health. 1. Members of the 1956 class check out the overhauled Medical School. Campbell. The event offered, as interest in uct.ac.za/alumni, where the dates 2. Members of the 1976 medical class take tickets showed, a rare opportunity to see some will be announced as soon as they a Sunday stroll through Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens of South Africa’s most celebrated musicians in become available. For enquires contact 3. The 1981 class sit down for a formal class photo. one concert hall. [email protected].

UCT NEWS 2007 31 Development and Alumni Department By megan morris

n an era of restricted levels of state Isupport and practical limits on tuition fee increases, UCT increasingly looks to its many alumni and friends to assist it in pursuing its mission and goals.

The Development and Alumni Depart- ment (DAD) serves to further UCT’s goal of building sustained financial stability and supports the strategic objectives and areas of primary focus as articulated by the Vice-Chancellor.

The executive portfolio for this area now rests with Deputy Vice-Chancellor Prof Thandabantu Nhlapo, working with Executive Director Dr Jim McNamara. Together with the managers and staff A highlight of the year was the establishment of an endowed chair in child and adolescent mental health after a at UCT and its affiliated overseas orga- generous donation by Sue and Andreas Struengmann. Sue is here with Chancellor Graça Machel. nisations, they assisted volunteer alumni leaders across the globe to build and grow support networks for the university. Donations totaling R120 million were These are: received during 2006 from some 1 100 The University of Cape Town Governance for fundraising at UCT organisations and individuals, 23 of which Foundation (Canada) lies with the University Development contributed more than R1 million each. The University of Cape Town Committee, which recently adopted a The list was again topped by a number of Foundation, headed by UCT law Donor’s Bill of Rights to govern UCT’s major foundations that have consistently alumnus Henry Blumberg and other interactions with and responsibilities provided major support for UCT, such as UCT alumni and friends, recognises towards its supporters. The committee Mellon, Ford, Carnegie, Atlantic, Crossley, the important role that UCT plays also accepted the Declaration of Ethics Doris Duke, Kangra, Claude Leon, and in developing the leadership and adopted by DAD staff to guide their Rockefeller. innovation necessary for South Africa work. Priority areas for fundraising to succeed in its transformation include: A highlight of the year was the towards a just and prosperous establishment of an endowed chair in society. Since its creation in 1992, the • Financial aid for needy students child and adolescent mental health after University of Cape Town Foundation • Cutting-edge research that makes a a generous donation by Sue and Andreas in Canada has principally supported difference in the lives of Africa’s people Struengmann. The chair will carry Sue’s postgraduate scholarships, with a • Major capital projects to maintain name when it is filled in 2007. focus on disadvantaged students. and enhance the campus • The Vice-Chancellor’s strategic For many years, UCT has been fortunate The foundation has supported the academic initiatives to enjoy the support of alumni chapters postgraduate studies of a number of • Annual funding for UCT’s opera- in a number of countries, and of three notable students, including Malefa tional needs to free up funds for other legally independent entities which offer Tselanyane (treatment methods for priorities and new initiatives spending. tax-beneficial ways of supporting UCT. malaria), Lara Davison (psychiatric

32 UCT NEWS 2007 treatment, rather than imprisonment, Vice-Chancellor Professor Njabulo S Gifts were aimed at capacity building for convicted young criminals), Ndebele and his team made several visits to ensure that the quality of facilities, David Fick (keeping South Africa’s to the United States in 2006, meeting teaching and research aligns with performing arts vibrant and alive), with foundations, educators, business UCT’s quest for excellence, and Yas Taherzadeh (South African and non-profit leaders, while the UCT at undergraduate bursaries and government’s inaction in finding Fund hosted alumni gatherings in New postgraduate fellowships for students treatments for HIV/AIDS) and Marc York and Washington DC. from financially and educationally Uys (master’s degree in music). disadvantaged backgrounds. Directors of the fund are UCT alumni Currently, all members of the board Trevor S Norwitz (chair), David Some notable donations made in of directors are UCT alumni. They Meachin (vice-chair), Vincent Mai 2006 were major gifts from The are: Henry Blumberg (chairman), and Kofi Appenteng. UCT graduate David & Elaine Potter Foundation Les Kottler (president), David Groll Michelle le Roux, who served on (for master’s and doctoral students), (treasurer), Dr Marcia Blumberg, the board of directors during 2006, and £500 000 from the Wolfson Stephen Jennings, Dr Richard Cohen, returned to South Africa early in 2007. Foundation for the refurbishment Karen Eaton, Dr Stanley Jonathon, Dr of laboratories in the chemistry Vivian Rakoff and Susan Savage. The University of Cape Town department. Trust (UK) The University of Cape Town During its 15 years of operation, the Other large donors included the Fund, Inc. (US) UCT Trust has raised more than £15 Ove Arup Foundation, the Gatsby During 2006 the University of Cape million (R210 million) for projects at Charitable Foundation, and The PF Town Fund, an independent not-for- UCT, with R7.2 million of that coming Charitable Trust. Notable bursary profit organisation based in New York, during 2006. The trustees are Sir Aaron support has come from CHK Charities, raised grants to UCT totalling US $ 1.1 Klug OM FRS (chair), Lord Hoffmann, Johnson Matthey, NM Rothschild, million (R7 million). Sir Franklin Berman KCMG QC, Misys Foundation, Daimler Chrysler, Professor Jeffrey Jowell QC, Nicholas Stephen Lawrence Trust, International Since the fund’s inception in 1984, its Oppenheimer, Dr Stuart Saunders, Irene Bar Association, The Stevenson directors have supported the university’s Menell, Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Family Trust, The Edward & Dorothy commitment to enhancing student and Sir Raymond Hoffenberg (recently Cadbury Trust, The Law Society and access and maintaining the university’s deceased). the PF Charitable Trust. standing as a world-class education institution. Donations support a number of endowed scholarships, including the CV Starr Scholarships and Klaus-Jurgen Bathe Scholarship in Engineering.

Donations from alumni and friends increased significantly in 2006. As in South Africa and elsewhere, the Chancellor’s Challenge (which seeks funds to improve student access to UCT through financial aid, and to enhance the university’s financial stability) was the main focus of the fund’s individual giving programme.

Led by a major gift from former UCT Fund Chairman, Vincent Mai, the fund contributed over US$ 192 000 to the Chancellor’s Challenge in 2006. Among the new grants received in 2006 were major gifts from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (US$ 570 500 over two years), and Kimberley Crowe talks to Dr Jim McNamara, Executive Director of the Development and Alumni Department, The Fetzer Institute (US$ 25 000). at a reunion in San Diego.

UCT NEWS 2007 33 Supporting My inspiration In 2003 when a number of South African legends were awarded national Orders of Mapungubwe Our Future for their exceptional achievement and excellence, Mr Hamilton Naki was among them. By megan morris The true story about Mr Naki is inspiring and motivating for many of us. When I grew up, there was no doctor in the village of thousands of people except for a doctor from a nearby Education First is a trust town who came once a week. It was very difficult to see the doctor as you may find that people that has been set up to do not have money on that day. assist students who show the potential to succeed at I was then encouraged by my father to become a doctor when I grew up. Since that moment their studies and ultimately until today I still have that dream to become a good doctor for my community. The inspiring in their careers, but due to story about Mr Naki has helped to keep the dream alive. restrictive socio-economic circumstances are at risk of The fact that Mr Naki never received a formal education but was able to gain skills by observing dropping out of their studies. others is very encouraging. I have realised that I do not need to wait until my graduation to get involved in guiding, motivating and encouraging others, but I can use what I have learnt at the university.

After my graduation I think I will be having that influential role in my community meaning that people will listen to what I say if I show respect and love to them.

It is an honour for me to be awarded the scholarship named after Mr Hamilton Naki. American Therapeutic should be thanked by me and many South Africans for ensuring that this motivating story about Mr Naki is known and his role in medicine is acknowledged.

First-year medical student Moses Matlhadisa received the first, full-cost Hamilton Naki-MESAB-United Therapeutics Scholarship in the Faculty of Health Sciences.

he principles of the fund stem In turn, students commit, without legal For the top students, funding is more Tfrom the fund originator, Jonathan obligation, to contribute a portion of readily available, but much more Musikanth’s personal experiences their income, once they have qualified, limited for the students who are solid, in fighting to achieve professional back in to the fund to assist other if not spectacular, performers. These qualification and subsequently students. In essence, Education First not “par performers” are often restricted experiencing the generosity and only provides support to needy students, in terms of study time because they are goodwill of people both in South Africa but also provides a vehicle through frequently spending time working long and abroad. These experiences have which these future professionals are able hours to support themselves and their been blended together in a programme to provide support to future generations. families while studying. that will assist some of South Africa’s less fortunate youth, chosen without A gentleman once told me of a young boy Education First aims to support these any form of discrimination, to reach who was given a fully paid scholarship future professionals through the their personal goals. to a tertiary education facility in Cape tumultuous tertiary education process Town. After a week the student stopped while assisting in developing an As a result of the above, Education First attending classes. Understandably, the environment where students can take provides suitable candidates with the sponsors were extremely frustrated and responsibility for their own futures and opportunity to complete their studies upon further investigation, discovered assist others to do the same. Ultimately, by easing students’ financial burden, that the student was unable to get to the students’ successes will strengthen while creating a continuing stream of classes. He lived in a shack with his entire the chance of South Africa’s long income to fund other people in similar family, but had no means of transport to term prosperity. situations. The trust provides financial travel the 25km to class. He also had no support, but also assists in the students’ light to study in the evening. For further information, please socio-economic environment by contact Jonathan Musikanth at mentoring, networking and facilitating Unfortunately stories such as these are joncilla@.co.za or thorough the career opportunities. not uncommon in our country. UCT funding office.

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Research themes: UCT adds three new Signature Themes Among giants: George Ellis, Emer Dist Prof of Complex to its repertoire – work to boost research capacity in areas Systems, is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the of need. The themes are Minerals to Metals, Cities in ’s national academy of sciences and the Africa and Drug Development. The existing themes are the world’s oldest national scientific society. Founded in 1660, Brain-Behaviour Initiative (BBI) and the Marine Research the society’s early members included Sir Christopher Wren Institute (MA-RE). and Sir Isaac Newton.

Pretty pollinators: The Avian Demography Unit joins a new Top trio: Prof Doug Butterworth, Dr Heidi Segal and Prof project to map the distribution of butterfly species across Pragasen Pillay win National Science and Technology southern Africa, spotlighting conservation challenges. The Forum awards. Butterworth (mathematics and applied ADU has helped produce bird, frog and reptile atlases. This mathematics) netted the category-A award for contributions four-year project is being run under the umbrella of the over a lifetime, UCT’s fourth successive win in this category. Southern African Butterfly Conservation Assessment. Pillay (electrical engineering) got the TW Kambule Award for senior black researchers over the past five to 10 years, and Segal (medical microbiology) won the TW Kambule Award for distinguished young black researchers over the past two to five years.

Trial run: Botanist Dr Adam West erects temporary, trial rainout shelters in the Cape’s renowned Silvermine Nature Heritage at home: UCT announces plans to commemorate Reserve. The shelters will keep an historic slave burial ground on middle campus, the final rain off sections of fynbos, resting place of hundreds of slaves brought from other colonies manipulating the climate over of the Dutch East India Company or born into servitude in the two-and-a-half years to provide Cape, who worked the farms along the Liesbeeck River in the data on how climate change 17th and 18th centuries. will affect the Western Cape’s unique floral heritage. Stellar contribution: Pravin Gordhan, Commissioner of the Super hero: South African South African Revenue Service, researchers have oodles of super- receives a Doctor of Laws (LLD, computing power at their fingertips, honoris causa) at the mid-year thanks to the newly launched graduation on 15 June. Pravin is Centre for High Performance the fifth successive recipient of an Computing. With a cluster of 160 honorary law degree from UCT. computer nodes made up of 640 processors, the centre is the first Heritage at home: History’s Prof Bill Nasson bags his second of its kind in South Africa. The UCT Book Award (2007) for Britannia’s Empire – Making a CHPC’s flagship projects include British World. Nasson, who describes himself as a writer of UCT’s work on climate change history, not a historian who writes, won the UCT Book Award under Profs Bruce Hewitson and in 1993 for Abraham Esau’s War: A Black South African War in Frank Shillington. the Cape 1899-1902.

UCT NEWS 2007 35 alumni in the news alumni in the news alumni in the news UCT Alumni in the news 2007 A Cape Town artist and fine arts master’s student,Stuart Bird, Sunu Gonera is directing turned a sweetly satirical eye on ANC Deputy President Jacob movies in Hollywood. His latest Zuma at the exhibition Come held at the Michaelis School movie, Pride, was released earlier of Fine Art earlier this year. His work, entitled Zuma Biscuits, this year and stars the likes comprised four sculptures in the same bright colours and of Academy Award nominee shapes as Iced Zoo Terrence Howard, Bernie Mac biscuits and depicted and Kimberly Elise. a short skirt, a shower, a Zulu shield and an AK-47. Bird said Zimbabwe-born Paul Hanratty was appointed the idea came to him Managing Director of Old Mutual Africa in July 2006. during Zuma’s rape Hanratty holds a BSc honours degree from UCT. He trial last year in which started off at Old Mutual in 1984 and has worked in various Zuma was acquitted. capacities in the company since.

David Brown has been appointed CEO of Impala Platinum. Los Angeles lawyer Eric Hershler is smiling all the way to the bank after pocketing R18.3-million in a marathon Since July l, Yolanda Cuba has been the CEO of game of poker in March. Hershler has both Mvelaphanda Holdings and the Mvelaphanda Group. been playing the game for 32 years, since At only 29, she has set a new benchmark in her rise up the his student days at the UCT. Hershler was corporate ladder. She holds a BCom in statistics from UCT the only amateur at a table of six when and a BCom Honours from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, he won the World Poker Tour in the US and is a qualified lawyer who sits on several other boards. at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles.

Fatima Darries won this year’s LIASA/Sabinet Online Professor Quinton Johnson, director of the South Librarian of the Year title. Darries was one of 10 Library African Herbal Sciences and Medicine Institute, delivered and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) branch his inaugural lecture at the University of the Western Cape. winners who became eligible for the national award. The Johnson, who completed a BSc and HDE at UCT, focuses Cape Peninsula University of Technology librarian was his attentions on medical biotechnology to investigate named Western Cape Branch Librarian of the year at the the mechanisms that plant medicines and nutrients use LIASA Western Cape annual general meeting earlier this year. to influence molecules and cells. Johnson established South Africa’s only herbal sciences teaching and research programme and is providing leadership in unchartered areas A groundbreaking on-site training programme equipping in the field. nurses to diagnose and manage respiratory diseases and HIV/ AIDS in resource-poor settings, piloted in the Free State in 2003, will blanket Western Cape primary health care clinics Sport scientist and coach Gerrit Kempeneers runs by the end of this year. This is the prediction of both Dr a private practice in Sint-Truiden (B), 50km to the east of Keith Cloete, director of the Brussels. He dedicates his time to the ‘holistic’ training of top TB/HIV/AIDS programme Belgian and international sportspeople, and high-powered in the Western Cape and business executives. His clients Dr Lara Fairall, head of the include a rising soccer star from Knowledge Translation Unit at Cape Town, Asanda Sishuba, the University of Cape Town’s who plays for Sint-Truiden Lung Institute. The programme, in the Belgian first division. a world first in applying a World Kempeneers was also part of Health Organisation concept, the team that saw SA-born Greg is the brainchild of Fairall’s Albertijn to his three world unique unit. motocross championships.

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Architect David Killa created quite a stir in the United Professor Sue Milton was one of three finalists in the science Arab Emirates earlier this year when he integrated wind and technology category of the Shoprite Checkers SABC 2 turbines into the design of the mighty 50-floor (boasting 240- Woman of the Year Award 2007. She was nominated for her metre towers) Bahrain World Trade Centre. Three giant wind research and teaching in the field of conservation ecology, arid turbines, to provide the building with a minimum of 15% of zone vegetation dynamics and restoration, as well as for her its energy needs, would be mounted on cross bridges linking contribution to outreach programmes. the towers. The wind blowing off the Arabian Gulf is part of the building’s energy solution in a design first. Around the world, turbines are single-mast mounted, and so far nobody In 1999, Dr Laurine Platzky moved to provincial has attempted to position them – as Killa has done – halfway government to become deputy director-general, where she up a skyscraper, suspended on a bridge. Killa understands was responsible for economic development and tourism. She the race for alternative energy sources and is a proponent of then became Acting head of the Western Cape Housing sustainable architecture. He is currently designing several other Department, and then acting head of Culture and Sport. low-emission projects within the region. And he was asked to Now based in the Premier’s Office, she is responsible for head up expansion plans by the London and Dubai consortium co-ordinating policy and its implementation, as well as the spearheading development of Cape Town’s Victoria & Alfred Western Cape’s 2010 World Cup programme. Waterfront. For 2010, there’s a planned link from the airport to the V&A Waterfront via train.

Michaelis graduate and now New-York-based artist Vivienne Koorland exhibited at the Freud Museum in London, UK. The exhibition, titled Reisemalheurs (“travel woes”) covered a broad sweep of European history, factual and imagined. The paintings “evoked personal journeys and social displacements that resonate uniquely” with the house that became Sigmund Freud’s last home.

Tshediso Matona was appointed as the director- general of the Department of Trade & Industry (dti) in July 2006. He began with the dti in 1995. He was made chief director of trade negotiations in 2000. In 2002 he was appointed deputy Director-General for International trade and economic development for the dti. Matona was involved in the early negotiations for a free trade agreement London-based lawyer Lewis Gordon Pugh became that South Africa initiated with the European Union. the first person to swim at the North Pole in July, when he Matona has worked in Geneva, Switzerland, as the head completed a one-kilometre swim in 18 minutes and 50 seconds of South Africa’s Permanent Trade Mission to the World – in temperatures of -1.8 ºC – in a bid to highlight climate Trade Organisation and United Nations economic agencies. change. It’s “a tragedy that it’s possible to swim at the North In February 2004, Matona was also appointed to a World Pole”, he told the BBC. “I hope that my swim will inspire Health Organisation Commission on Intellectual Property world leaders to take climate change seriously.” Pugh studied Rights, Innovation and Public Health. law at the University of Cape Town and the University of Cambridge, and then went on to work as a maritime lawyer in London. Professor Tim Noakes of UCT and UCT alumnus Consulting engineer and project manager Ian David Becker were part of the 12-man team that went to the McKechnie has been appointed President of the South North Pole to complete the Investec North Pole Challenge. African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE). He is Pugh was also the first to complete a long-distance swim in all the Managing Director of specialist consulting engineers five oceans (Atlantic, Arctic, Southern, Indian and Pacific) of INNOPRO, and of project consulting, management the world, and the first to complete a long-distance swim in and engineering company Global Africa Projects. He is both the frozen waters of the Arctic and the Antarctic. Pugh also an honorary Research Associate at the University is able to do this by increasing his core body temperature (he of the Witwatersrand, in the School of Electrical and superheats his body to about 38.4 ºC) in anticipation of icy Information Engineering. water. This has earned him the name “The Polar Bear”.

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Fashion designer Gavin Rajah has a law degree, would Kathryn Smith was named you believe? Rajah, the pioneering Cape Town designer who as the winner of the prestigious is introducing the French catwalks to SA design, is not all 2007 Occupational Therapist of about haute couture though. He launched a ready-to-wear the Year Award from the Stannah range, Preta-Vivre, in mid-2006, which he describes as “an Stairlifts/ College of Occupational accessible collection to build a wardrobe around”. Therapists. Smith, a consultant OT at Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust in the UK, was singled out for her work on the Be SMaRTtm Cart, a machine used to create a calming environment for those in mental stress that she co-invented with husband Jeremy.

UCT will confer an honorary law degree on Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi in December. Because of her house arrest, she would not be able to travel to Jill Richards, South Africa to receive the award. Instead it would be received described as South on her behalf by fellow Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Africa’s foremost per- Emeritus Desmond Tutu. former of new piano music, was included on the Steinway Inter- Entrepreneur Fiona Williams-Freeman designs Cape national Artist Roster, Town route maps using three-dimensional (3-D) imagery becoming just the – via satellite transmission – from home. Ugandan-born third South African – Hinds immigrated to South Africa, where she completed her and also the first South BSocSci, majoring in geography, at UCT. But Hinds’ passion African woman – to be is designing. “I am an imaginer of things,” Hinds said. so honoured. Richards joins fellow South Africans Abdullah Three young business science graduates – Rapelang Ibrahim and Bheki Rabana, Wilter du Toit and Lungisa Matshoba Mseleku on the roster. – have founded a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service company called Yeigo Communications. Described as “Skype” for cellphones, Yeigo employs a method of taking audio signals Michael Giles, – such as those heard when talking on the phone – and converting Alex Runciman them into digital data that can be transmitted via the Internet. All and Ken Venn three were Dean’s List students during their tenure at UCT and UCT alumni, all graduated with honour’s degrees in 2005. were among the crew aboard South Africa’s Shosholoza vessel that caused quite a few upsets in the America’s Cup this year. Despite being newcomers to the America’s Cup, Shosholoza showed great character in their matches with the established teams. During the Louis Vuittone second round robin regatta, Shosholoza took four victories out of a possible 10.

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Class of 2005 George Foster (BMus) is the acting working on offshore drilling rigs in the head of brass department at Hugo North Sea. Rory Alexander (BsocSci) did a Lambrechts. He was a Fulbrighter Alexandra Trengove-Jones (BSocSci) postgraduate diploma in advertising at the University of North Texas and is pursuing international employment and marketing communication Bowling Green State in 2006. and study in the US. management at Red and Yellow. He Katrina Gantana (BSocSc, Hons) is Lauren van Biljon (BBusSci) recently is working in a small agency in Cape providing practical guidance to UCT completed her MSc in economics at Town, specialising in below-the-line social work students. Edinburgh University in Scotland. and design. Eric Gxubane (MSocSc) has been Marianne van der Toorn (BSc) is Stuart Bateman (BBusSci), started a a lecturer in the department of social travelling the world and working in fertilizer company in January 2006. He development since 2005. New Zealand. was a co-owner of a waste manage- Louise Jenner-Clarke (BSocSci) ment company in September 2006. had photographs published in SA Class of 2003 Sunet Buys (BA, Hons) recently Gardening in November 2006. worked as a production co-ordinator on Marc Jury (BBusSci) is currently Zukiswa Acquah (BSc, chem eng) the SA film Faith like Potatoes. working in London. joined the National Energy Regulator Lauren Ernstzen (BsocSci) was Jessica Lehr (BSc) was originally of South Africa as an engineer in the accepted to the Old Mutual’s graduate hired as a show presenter for the Free- Licensing and Infrastructure-Planning accelerated programme. She is Flighted Bird Show at the Montecasino Department. currently in the human resources. Bird Gardens. She was promoted to Claire Addison (BSocSci) graduated Farhana Hassan (BsocSci) is doing assistant curator in May 2006. with a BA honours degree in journalism honours in psychology at the University Dr Florence Miya (PhD) is head of and media studies from Wits University of the Western Cape. the continuing education programme in 2005. Sebastian Kevany (MA) is working in at Daystar University. She is also the Ondria Curtin (BA) is working in Geneva as a consultant to the World executive secretary of the Association senior level executive research with Health Organization, focusing on the of Music Educators in East Africa. Odgers Ray & Berndtson. administration of international clinical Tapiwa Munezvenyu (BSc) is Benedicte de Puydt-Kusendila trials in public health. pursuing an MSc in environmental (MPhil) is a member on the directors Geoffrey Noble (BBusSci) joined science (water quality management) board of Instituut voor Levende Talen, corporate finance at Deloitte in Sydney in Delft, Netherlands. Catholic University Leuven, Huis in February 2005. Attorney Nchunga (LLB) is registrar van het Nederlands Brussels and a Iris Pilane (BBusSci) is working as a of deeds in Botswana. member of general assembly of Huis credit rating analyst. Dr Angel Ndhlovu (MBChB) is van het Nederlands Brussels. Wendy Rodd (BBusSci) is working finishing community service at Kabumbwe Hansingo (MSc) is doing in London at an asset management Witbank Hospital after which he will be a PhD. company. a Medical Officer in the Department of Ariella Kuper (MBA) recently Envor Valensky (BSocSci) lives in Anaesthesia. assumed the position as head of sales New Zealand. Christopher Needham (BA) after and marketing for the Aucor Africa’s Pauline Watt (BSc) is working for a doing a postgraduate diploma in Auction Authority. professor of metabolic medicine in business administration, is working as Douglas Lepar (BSc) is a consultant the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. She will a commodity trader in Dubai. at Accenture in communications and be starting an MSc in cardiovascular Mbuyiselo Ngonzi has received high tech. biochemistry. a bursary from the Department of Dr Nomthandazo Mazibuko (MBChB) Beth Yeats (BSocSci) is doing an Science and Technology towards is doing a graduate diploma in honours degree in industrial, organisa- the Sumbandila Satellite Science the clinical management of HIV/ tional and labour studies at the application, due to be launched next AIDS. University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. year through a Russian submarine. Thulaganyo Mbulawa (BEd, Marc Prins (BSc) is responsible for honours) has been the principal of a Class of 2004 valuing one of Old Mutual’s property junior secondary school in Mmadimare, portfolios. Botswana, since May 2005. Clare Anderson (BA) worked for Gerard Ralphs (BSocSci) is currently Loganaden Muneesamy (MBA), Idol Pictures as a researcher and completing his MPhil thesis in the has been a marketing manager for logger and is now interning for a film Centre for African Studies. over three years, organising two director. Amisha Ranchod (BA) is completing international trade fairs in Mauritius. Amy Benbow-Hebbert (BA) is a master’s degree in media and He has also participated in SME living and working in the UK. communications at Nelson Mandela development seminars in China, Mwelwa Chibesakunda (MSc) is Metropolitan University. South Africa and India, and lectured working as a customer services and Theo Roussos (PGD, Dip Man) will in organisational and strategic software engineer for a national power be moving to Cyprus. management at universities in company. Ian Sweeney (BSc, mech eng) is Mauritius.

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Class of 2005 George Foster (BMus) is the acting working on offshore drilling rigs in the head of brass department at Hugo North Sea. Rory Alexander (BsocSci) did a Lambrechts. He was a Fulbrighter Alexandra Trengove-Jones postgraduate diploma in advertising at the University of North Texas and (BSocSci) is pursuing international and marketing communication Bowling Green State in 2006. employment and study in the US. management at the Red and Yellow. Katrina Gantana (BSocSc, honours) Lauren van Biljon (BBusSci) recently He is working in a small agency in is providing practical guidance to UCT completed her MSc in economics at Cape Town, specialising in below the social work students. Edinburgh University in Scotland. line and design. Eric Gxubane (MSocSc) has been Marianne van der Toorn (BSc) is Stuart Bateman (BBusSci), started a a lecturer in the department of social travelling the world and working in fertilizer company in January 2006. He development since 2005. New Zealand. was a co-owner of a waste manage- Louise Jenner-Clarke (BSocSci) ment company in September 2006. had photographs published in SA Class of 2003 Sunet Buys (BA, honours) recently Gardening in November 2006. worked as a production co-ordinator on Marc Jury (BBusSci) is currently Zukiswa Acquah (BSc, chem eng) the SA film Faith like Potatoes. working in London. joined the National Energy Regulator Lauren Ernstzen (BsocSci) was Jessica Lehr (BSc) was originally of South Africa as an engineer in the accepted to the Old Mutual’s graduate hired as a show presenter for the Free- licensing and Infrastructure-Planning accelerated programme. She is Flighted Bird Show at the Montecasino Department. currently in the human resources. Bird Gardens. She was promoted to Claire Addison (BSocSci) graduated Farhana Hassan (BsocSci) is doing assistant curator in May 2006. with a BA honours degree in journalism honours in psychology at the University Dr Florence Miya (PhD) is head of and media studies from Wits University of the Western Cape. the continuing education programme in 2005. Sebastian Kevany (MA) is working in at Daystar University. She is also the Ondria Curtin (BA) is working in Geneva as a consultant to the World executive secretary of the Association senior level executive research with Health Organization, focusing on the of Music Educators in East Africa. Odgers Ray & Berndtson. administration of international clinical Tapiwa Munezvenyu (BSc) is Benedicte de Puydt-Kusendila trials in public health. pursuing an MSc in environmental (MPhil) is a member on the directors Geoffrey Noble (BBusSci) joined science (water quality management) board of Instituut voor Levende Talen, corporate finance at Deloitte in Sydney in Delft, Netherlands. Catholic University Leuven, Huis in February 2005. Attorney Nchunga (LLB) is registrar van het Nederlands Brussels and a Iris Pilane (BBusSci) is working as a of deeds in Botswana. member of general assembly of Huis credit rating analyst. Dr Angel Ndhlovu (MBChB) is van het Nederlands Brussels. Wendy Rodd (BBusSci) is working finishing community service at Kabumbwe Hansingo (MSc) is doing in London at an asset management Witbank Hospital after which he will be a PhD. company. a Medical Officer in the Department of Ariella Kuper (MBA) recently Envor Valensky (BSocSci) lives in anaesthesia. assumed the position as head of sales New Zealand. Christopher Needham (BA) after and marketing for the Aucor Africa’s Pauline Watt (BSc) is working for a doing a postgraduate diploma in Auction Authority. professor of metabolic medicine in business administration, he works as Douglas Lepar (BSc) is a consultant the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. She will a commodity trader in Dubai. at Accenture in communications and be starting an MSc in cardiovascular Mbuyiselo Ngonzi has received high tech. biochemistry. a bursary from the Department of Dr Nomthandazo Mazibuko Beth Yeats (BSocSci) is doing an Science and Technology towards (MBChB) is doing a graduate diploma honours degree in industrial, organisa- the Sumbandila Satellite Science in the clinical management of HIV/ tional and labour studies at the application, due to be launched next AIDS. University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. year through a Russian submarine. Thulaganyo Mbulawa (BEd, Marc Prins (BSc) is responsible for honours) has been the principal of a Class of 2004 valuing one of Old Mutual’s property junior secondary school in Mmadimare, portfolios. Botswana, since May 2005. Clare Anderson (BA) worked for Gerard Ralphs (BSocSci) is currently Loganaden Muneesamy (MBA), Idol Pictures as a researcher and completing his MPhil thesis in the has been a marketing manager for logger and is now interning for a film Centre for African Studies. over three years, organising two director. Amisha Ranchod (BA) is completing international trade fairs in Mauritius. Amy Benbow-Hebbert (BA) is a master’s degree in media and He has also participated in SME living and working in the UK. communications at Nelson Mandela development seminars in China, Mwelwa Chibesakunda (MSc) is Metropolitan University. South Africa and India, and lectured working as a customer services and Theo Roussos (PGD, Dip Man) will in organisational and strategic software engineer for a national power be moving to Cyprus. management at universities in company. Ian Sweeney (BSc, mech eng) is Mauritius.

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Tumai Murombo (LLM) is lecturing in LLB student at the University of the joined Allan Gray in February 2002 as the department of private law at the Western Cape, having completed a trainee equity analyst. University of Zimbabwe. He is also a articles in 2001. Jonathan Shaw (BBusSc) is at Oxford founder member and current director Bhavik Merchant (BSc) just University doing his master’s in law. of administration of the Zimbabwe completed his master’s in Australia Russell Shaw (BBusSc) spent three Environmental Law Association and is planning to stay on and work years completing accounting articles (ZELA). there. in Johannesburg. He moved to Japan Itumeleng Pitiri (BSc, electro-mech Mfanelo Mogai (BA) was a on a two-year contract that began in eng) is working in the petrochemical co - presenter of the Colgate March 2006. industry. Schools Roadshow in 2003 Manja Proemmel (LLM) is working as and now works as cabin crew Class of 2000 legal counsel for Munich Reinsurance for the South African Airways. Company (Asia, Australasia, Africa Emelda Mwamanga (BSocSc) is a Tumelo Baleni (PGD Dip health Claims Risk & Legal Unit). CEO of Relm Entertainment Ltd. man) is a director for the Department Dirk Schneider (LLM) is in Thandiwe Nkatlo (BSc chem eng) of Health in the Free State. Frankfurt and specialises in insolvency is a process engineer with Sasol Oil. Michael de Bliquy (BCom) has law, real estate law and company law. Harold Peters (PGD, Dip Law) worked in the tax and legal department Russell Terry (BCom) is working for completed his MBA at the GSB of professional accountancy firms as JP Morgan in London. in 2006 and is currently Human a tax consultant. He has also worked Anneke van den Bosch (BSc), is in Resources Manager with the City of in a niche financial services company, her fifth year of study for veterinary Cape Town. designing investment products for science at Onderstepoort. Samuel Ravengai (MA) is a large corporate clients. Amy Veenendaal (BSocSc), did lecturer in the theatre arts department Suzanne du Preez (BA) is currently honours at the University of the at the University of Zimbabwe as studying for her master’s in fine art at Western Cape and is currently part of the outreach programme. He the University of Johannesburg. She studying for her master’s in clinical is directing Zimbabwe’s prime time is a part-time lecturer and is involved psychology. soap opera called Studio 263. in community development projects. Matthew Wilson (BSocSc) is studying Jeffrey Rohland (BSc) is doing his Sarah Kitching (BSc, logopaedics) law in the UK. master’s in molecular and cellular lives in London and works as an biology. audiologist for the NHS. Class of 2002 Dr Anthony Sang (PhD) is a Maqhawe Matshazi (BSocSc) has lecturer in the department of been with ABSA since 2003, first Nina Briskorn (LLB) moved to curriculum, instruction and education as a trainee banker, and then as a Hamburg in 2006 and works as an management at Egerton University. business analyst for SMEs. He is in-house lawyer. Janine Veaudry (BSc physics) now a portfolio manager. Douglas Bryant (BBusSc) spent earned South African colours for hip Dr Dira Montoedi (MBChB) is a 2003 and 2004 at Cambridge hop dancing in 2006. She is also senior registrar in the department University. He is currently working as modelling for Island Style. of anaesthesia at Johannesburg a consultant in London. Hospital. Louise Cheetham (BAS) is busy Class of 2001 Meagan Moodaly (BA) became a completing landscape architecture copywriter, then deputy editor and (postgraduate) at the University Ismail Dockrat (MBA) has been is currently managing editor for the of . appointed CEO of Denel’s Kempton Woolworths Magazine. Aubrey Dali (BCom) is a founder Park-based aircraft maintenance and Thamsanqa Ndlovu (BCom) has and director of Damora Logistics, a repair company. worked in the petrochemical industry valuation assistant of KPMG Canada Fernanda Mausse (BA Hons) is a for a number of years. and National Vice President of social development consultant with a Thamsanqa Ndlovu (PGD, Dip AIESEC SA. Danish agency, having done an MA in Acc) holds a BSc honours from the Justine Geffen (BA) is a commu- development studies at Leeds in 2004. University of Natal. He has worked nications officer at MWEB’s operations Marie Meny-Gibert (BSocSc) is in the petrochemical industry for a department, dealing with the internal working in publishing in London, number of years. and company newsletters. where she has been for the past five Dr Nolubabalo Nqebelele (MBChB) Nuraan Kariem (BSc), is an ABAP years. is a doctor for the Department of developer in the South African Police Duncan Pieterse (BBusSc) worked Health in Umtata. Service, and also does systems as a senior public sector economist at Tumelo Qhali (BA) is doing his analysis, business consulting, and Afrec until March 2006. He then joined master’s in entrepreneurship and leads junior developers. international consulting firm Kaiser business development at the Simon Kelly (BSc elec eng) is Associates Economic Development University of Pretoria while working working for Cell Life. Practice as a senior consultant. at the Youth Development Trust in Cwayita Kosi (BA) is a final-year Simon Raubenheimer (BCom, Hons) Johannesburg.

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Madhu Singh (BBusSc) is currently Class of 1998 Britt Youens (BSocSc) works as a working as an audit manager in the political researcher for the Association financial services sector of KPMG in Dr Jean Alexander (MBChB) of Democratic Alliance Councillors. Dublin. obtained a diploma in mental health Tamara Smythe (BCom) qualified as from the College of Medicine. She is Class of 1997 a solicitor in the UK. currrently registered to do MFam Med through University. Claire Dickinson (BA) has worked in Class of 1999 Anne Barrable (BSc Hons) graduated retail since graduating. She heads up with PhD EGS in 2006. the training department for a tourism Nicola Alexander (BSc) has Stefan Bernsdorf (MSc Eng) company. travelled around the world. She completed his PhD in 2006 at ETH Dr Silke Dyer (MMed) is the director lived and worked in the US and the Zurich. Man Turbo currently employs of infertility services at Groote Schuur UK, working as an environmental him as project manager. Hospital. consultant. Dr Nicole Burger (MBChB) moved Deana Haldenby (BSocSc/LLB) is Sadieka Hoosain (BA) has taken to UK in 2001 and became a general a member of the Cape Bar and an up the position of legal compliance practitioner. advocate of the High Court of South officer at Rand Merchant Private Professor Michael Demuth (LLM) Africa. Bank. works as a lawyer in Hamburg. Yasmin Masithela (BA/LLB) is a Thabang Lenono (BSc elec eng) Kate Francis (BSocSc) moved back consultant in corporate finance and works for Vodacom in Lesotho as an to Cape Town in 2004 after working runs her own law firm. engineer. with a small computer training Ivan Missankov (BBusSc) is a Mputle Matabane-Dikobe (BSocSc) company for three years. manager of the private equity fund of works as a research executive for the Clive Hildering (BAS) has been the the Funds Momentum Group. Johannesburg Tourism Company. project manager for several building Miriam Ndlela (BSocSc) has done Gilbert Mkhabela (BSc chem eng) schemes. a postgraduate diploma in business is plant superintendent of one of the Vanessa Inggs (BA) is studying for administration. five mining plants at Richards Bay an MA in cultural and critical studies Percy Raditladi (BSocSc) is an Minerals. at Birbeck College University of executive director of Kgalagadi Tembinkosi Mkonko (BA) worked in London. Breweries and founder of Botswana South Korea as an English teacher Nicole Krull (BA) worked in London Private FM Radio Station. from 2001 to 2002. He is writing as a production editor after obtaining Anthony Swemmer (BSc) is planning a book on moral philosophy and her master’s in publishing at Plymouth. to graduate with a PhD in ecology conspiracy theory. She moved with her partner to Spain. from Colorado State University in Steven Nakana (PGD Dip African Wisani Marhanele (BSc) is a managing 2007. studies) works as a researcher for director of two consulting companies Sibongile Tito (BA) has built his the Centre for Conflict Resolution. dealing with quantity surveyor profile through handling high profile Mogamat Ryklief (PGD Dip Law) is consulting, architectural consulting criminal cases and local government a trade union official for the National and property development. related matters. Union of Metalworkers of South Michelle Meinesz (BSocSc) did Oliver Youens (BSc civil eng) is a Africa. honours in 2001 and is currently civil engineer for JNM Construction. Timothy Stones (BA) did the the administrator for Childline in postgraduate diploma in journalism Gauteng. Class of 1996 at Rhodes in 2006 and freelances for Loganathan Padayachee (MBA) is Grocott’s Mail. the managing director for Azapac. Mike Brown (BSc) has a PhD Nqabakazi Tetyana (BSc) was a Dr Mohamed Pandie (MBChB) in biomedical sciences from the mine geologist for almost six years completed a paediatric qualification in University of Edinburgh. and moved to project finance at the Australia. He is working as a paediatric Jonathan Bourdillon (BSc civil Industrial Development Corporation. consultant and doing a sub-speciality eng) left Zimbabwe in 2000. He has Anique van Vught (BSocSc) spent in emergency paediatric medicine. been working on various transport five years in London working for Jerome September (BA) is a infrastructure projects, consulting Porsche UK and is now co-owner of manager of student governance and to the London Underground and DNA Cars in Bryanston. leadership at UCT. Transport for London. Gregory Winn (BMus) is studying Prof Christo Vosloo (MArch) is the Cheree Dyers (BBusSc) is a director chinese medicine (acupuncture and head of department for architecture of finance and risk management. herbal medicine) at the University of and interior design at Port Elizabeth Suzanne Hall (MCPUD) is Western Cape, having taught music Technikon. currently registered as an MPhil/PhD for five years. Bianca Woolley (BBusSc) worked at student in the cities programme at Niklas Zimmer (BA) is currently Beiersdorf on Nivea as senior brand the London School of Economics. teaching art at the German School in manager before moving back to Dr Antonieta Jerardino (PhD) is Cape Town. Durban. an honorary research associate in

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the archaeology department and a Gregory Jansen (BBusSc) is directly of Gender Mainstreaming, Youth senior heritage officer archaeologist responsible for field operations, Development and Integrated National with Heritage Western Cape (HWC). including logistics, environmental Disability Strategy. Fabrice Koenig (BCom) is the management and safety policy for Michelle Thomsen (BSc) received internal audit assistant manager of both Mineral Services and Adventure an MSc at the University of the Food & Allied Group. Services Africa. Witwatersrand, then she worked Tiesetso Malise (BSocSc) is Helen Inglis (BSc mech eng) is in Cape Town in laboratory quality currently a human resources doing the final stages of her PhD control. Following this she worked manager at Nampak. at the University of Illinois in the in the UK at the Institute of Human Siyabonga Mbanjwa (BSc) is a US. Her research is focused on Genetics and is currently a full time director in an emerging property numerical simulation of crack mother of two in Perth. development business in Gauteng. initiation in closely packed Dr Stephen Wimbush (MBChB) is Nadeen Moolla (MED) is currently composite systems. She married working as an anaesthetist in Bristol employed at UWC in the Faculty of Ross Musselman, an American. in the UK. Education where she is involved in Geneswari Naidoo (MA) is an teacher training at pre-service and industrial psychologist, and has Class of 1994 in-service programmes. She is worked in human resources for 15 also involved in training educational years. She re-joined the Foschini Anna Aldridge (BSocSc) is psychologists and learning support Group recently from Gauteng. running a construction company in teachers. Rosemary October (BSc chem eng) Cape Town having done NGO and Kabelo Olifant (BSocSc) is currently is working for Shell in the Nether- Developmental Work, focusing on pursuing an MA in development lands as a gasification hydrogen job and skills creation through craft. studies. technologist. Dr Kerrin Begg (MBChB) is super- Joshua Ranger (BA Hons) returned Saskia Ortelee (BSocSc) did a intendent at Hospital. to the US and pursued a career in Higher Diploma in Interior Design Helen Broekmann (BMus) has library science at the University of and is self-employed, working worked as legal secretary for the Wisconsin. on residential and commercial Gilbert & Sullivan Society for the projects in the Cape. past 14 years. Zareena Parker (BA) is currently Richard Fullalove (MSc eng) after Class of 1995 working for UCT in the Department seven years spent in SA as signal of Psychiatry and Mental Health. manager and engineering consultant, Mushahida Adhikari (BSocSc) Dr Deborah Peter (MBChB) is is working on railway signalling received the Leadership & Advocacy working as a general practioner in upgrade projects for Atkins Rail in for Women in Africa Fellowship from Gloucestershire, UK. the UK. Georgetown University to complete Spero Phocas (BSc elec eng) studied Mandy Knoös (BCom) is the CEO an LLM international legal studies, for an MSc at Leeds University. He of four companies in the USA. graduating with distinction in 2006. is currently working for Glovnav Inc, Kim Kirsten (BBusSc) started a Craig Coltman (BCom Hons) is a company specialising in global career in marketing research, brand a finance manager for De Beers positioning systems. management and digital media Consolidated Mines. Richard Potash (BBusSc) joined marketing. She completed her Sarah Davies (BCom) did articles Massmart as divisional chief MBA (cum laude) at Stellenbosch at KPMG, and then went to London executive in 2005 from Afgri where he Business School in 2001. with KPMG. She returned to Cape was a director of Afgri Operations. Nkosohlanga Matshoba (PDS&D) Town in February 2006. Bridget Ringdahl (BSc Hons) was awarded the Premier’s Arts & Zoe Ellender (BBusSc) and her cycled through India, South West Culture Award in 2001. spouse founded Sugar Bay Resorts China, Vietam and Tibet in 2000, Mignon Steyn (BSocSc) is currently five years ago. Sugar Bay is the first 2002 and 2003, and completed an training for her private pilot’s license; luxury children’s holiday resort in the international masters in environment she runs a wine club and teaches country. Recently it’s been awarded science at Lund University in cello and piano privately. the business of the year award for Sweden. In 2004 she cycyled Robyn Theck (BBusSc) qualified as SMMEs in South Africa. 13 110km through South America. chartered accountant in 1998. Simon Flax (BSc elec eng) is an Kerry Rogers (Dip ballet) is working Mark Willcox (BA/LLB) is a director associate at Booz Allen Hamilton at Cosmopolitan; she published of Mvela Resources & Northam working in the World Commercial Women’s Bodies: User’s Manual Platinum; he did a Dip Tax, also at UCT. Business department. (Struik - Two Dogs). Farzaad Gaibie (BA) did his master’s Nicolette Ryder (BSc, logopaedics) in legal studies at the University works as a speech and hearing of St Gallen, Switzerland, having therapist for Gauteng Health. successfully completed the German Gift Silingile (BSocSc) works at University entry-level exam. developing policies for the Department

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Class of 1993 Filipe Hammond (BSc civil eng) is Royal Navy and is working on the 3rd working as a consultant for a US IT edition of his textbook Introduction to Christopher Bowley (BSc) a solutions provider, specialising in Ergonomics. technical specialist at Fish & Microsoft infrastructure solutions and Paula Cardoso (MSc geochemistry), Richardson for the past five years, server infrastructure virtualisation. joined the UCT Environmental is an associate in the Patent He’s been in Canada since 2002. Evaluation Unit (EEU) to be part of Prosecution Group. Wahida Ismail (BPharm) works the research programme that focuses Duncan Coombe (BSoc Sc) obtained for the provincial administration of on the socio-economic profiles of an MBA from IMD Lausanne in 2002, the Western Cape as a principal artisanal fishers. and is currently studying towards a pharmacist. PhD in organisational behaviour at Janet Keet (BSc) specialises in sport Class of 1990 Weatherhead School of Management physiotherapy. in Cleveland, US. Hilton Lazarus (BSc civil eng) is Catherine Bailey (BBusSc) is Nicholas Ellender (BSc mech eng) completing a master’s in development involved in high-value business is a co-founding director of Sugar finance at Stellenbosch University. cases. She works within a number Bay Resorts. of jurisdictions tracing assets and Puleng Koaho (BSocSc) was Dr Linda Lombard (MBChB) is obtaining world-wide freezing orders. recently promoted to head of small working part-time in Sydney, Australia, She leads her firm’s pro-bono business marketing. as a general practitioner specialising in initiatives. Dr Roderick Ross (BSc mech eng) travel medicine and drug dependence Dr Judith Bentley (BSc) is a is CEO of an IT start-up company in issues. psychiatrist at Valkenberg Psychiatric Johannesburg. Stephen Mildenhall (BCom) has Hospital in Cape Town. Jacques Rousseau (BA) is a been a director since 1999 and a chief Linda Borcherds (LLB) was a lecturer in philosophy and ethics, investment officer since 2001 with judge’s registrar in 1993 and a state management studies, in the Allan Gray. prosecutor from 1993-2001. She was Department of Commerce at UCT. Johannes Namiseb (BA) is currently admitted as an attorney in 2002. Samantha Saevitzon (Dip working for the Ministry of Justice Wendy Crompton (BCom) lectures Ballet) was appointed as PR officer in Namibia as chief of law reform. in the accounting department of the at the SABC in Johannesburg in After he graduated, he completed University of Fort Hare on the Thuthuka September 2006. his articles with the Legal Assistance programme. After completing her CA Dr Joanna Schlesinger (MBChB) is Centre, Windhoek. SA she worked as a financial director working for Dr Saville Furman as a Grant Pattison (BSc elec eng) for a textile company. general practitioner. was appointed group commercial Akeela Gaibie-Dawood (BA) was a Neil Taylor (BSocSc) has been executive of Massmart. copy editor at Oprah Magazine (SA), in London since 1999. He passed Dr Martin Suckling (BSc mech and is now a researcher at Deal conversion exams and qualified eng) is now known as Martin Stirling Magazine. as solicitor in the UK. Currently (changed from Suckling in 2006) Dr Simone Malan (MBChB) moved to employed as in-house counsel at and has lived in Australia since Brisbane, Australia, and specialises Aspect Capital Limited, a hedge 2003. He completed his MBA at in anaesthetics. fund that operates in the managed the University of New South Wales Andrea Townsend (BA/LLB) left futures sector. in 2004 and has been working practice to work as a corporate Lynne Varhol (BAS) left SA in 1998 for Hilti as a product manager. legal advisor and later as company to work in London, Cambridge and Xoliswa Tini (BSocSc) runs her secretary. She moved from Namibia Manchester, UK, before moving to own real estate company in the to Johannesburg in 2003. Vancouver, Canada, in 2000. Eastern Cape. Sara Fraser-Mackenzie (BSc Randall van Voore (BA/LLB) is chem eng) immigrated to New Class of 1992 combining practice with part-time Zealand from Zimbabwe in 2002. lecturing at the UCT Law Faculty. Gregory Fury (BA) is the chief Glynnis Bredekamp (BSc operating officer at Allan Gray. Logopaedics) completed an MA in Class of 1991 Jean Labadie (MBA) established his general linguistics at Stellenbosch own company in 2002. University in 1997. Bev Bird (LLB), is a litigation attorney Selema Mashiane (BSocSc) holds a Linda Diedericks (BA) did a and is presently the director of the master’s in mental health (therapy) master’s level certificate course in UCT Law Clinic. from UNISA. cross-sector partnerships with the Laurel Bowden (BSc elec eng), is Susan Maude (BCom) published Cambridge Programme for Industry currently a partner at a leading venture a coffee table book The Life of in the UK in 2005, and works in capital fund where she has worked for Llandudno. that field. six years. Marianne Nolte-Crimp (BA) obtained Robert Eliott (BBusSc) is practising in Robert Bridger (PhD), is head of the an Australian LLB degree from the Johannesburg as a company director. human factors department with the University of Queensland in 2001.

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Suzanne O’Neill-Berest (BSocSc) Reginald Bamford (BCom) is CEO of Angela Rebelo (BBusSc) moved has spent 14 years in the UK. She 1st Contact Group. to the UK in 2003 after a career in studied for a diploma in food and wine Rev Andrew Cox (BA) did his Bachelor advertising and fashion retailing at Leith’s School of Food and Wine. of Sacred Theology at the Pontifical in South Africa. She is now a self- She works as a pastry chef and runs a Urban University, Rome, in 1992. employed Internet trader and business wedding cake business. David Green (BA) studied to become consultant and lives in Wales. Albert Raath (PG Dip Tax Law) was a stock broker, compliance officer and Alexandra Soffe (BA) is head of IT appointed CEO of Innofin in 2005. securities trader. He is now both a CFA communications at Barclays Capital He has extensive experience in the and MBA and is a head of Research & in London. investment world. Investment Management. Margo Sugarman (BA) has lived in Michael Thiel (BA) was head of St Anthony Hansen (BCom) is involved Israel since 1989. After her master’s Patricks, Kimberley, and now heads in conservation, especially fynbos. He in journalism and communications, up a new independent school, Clifton works closely with wine farmers in the she worked at The Jerusalem College, in Durban. Western Cape. Report Magazine from 1991 – 2000 Deon Hubner (BA/LLB) had to re- covering business and technology. Class of 1989 qualify as an attorney in order to Currently she is a project manager practice in Old English Law as is in the internal communications Janine Barnard (BA) worked in the used in Australia. He is head of ‘legal’ department of Amdocs, a global restaurant and hotel industry and is for Australasia and Pacific Rim for provider of software solutions. now doing a PGCE after which she British Telecom. Dr Iqbal Surve (MBChB) is a medical wants to teach maths. Natalie Hutton (BBusSc) is a doctor, philanthropist and social Trevor Clark (BSc mech eng) is back partner at Deloitte Consulting in the entrepreneur from Cape Town. in Cape Town after nine years in US in human capital practice. Paul Walker (BBusSc) obtained a London, working as SAP consultant. Kathleen Idensohn (BA), a former PhD in economics at Nottingham Dr Peter Cole (MMed) is a chemical UCT law staff member, is lecturing at University. He worked as research pathologist with Lancet Laboratories Gloucester University in the UK. assistant at the House of Commons in Johannesburg. Roger Jardine (Grad Dip Acc) was and then at the UN. He is now CEO Prof John Daubenton (MD) appointed chairman of Kagiso Media of an economics consultancy which specialises in paediatrics and after eight years serving as CEO. focuses on metals markets and paediatric oncology. He spent 24 years Sandra Lunney (BA) is with Rand mining. in the Department of Paediatrics in Merchant Bank in Johannesberg. Cape Town and then moved to Hobart Class of 1986 in 2005. Class of 1987 Elia Kaiyamo (BA) is Vice President Dr Kim Goldstein (MBChB) works in of the Forum for Parliamentarians on Malcolm Alexander (BSc) is an a new unit at the Lung Institute Centre Education in SADC, and Chairperson actuary at Metropolitan Odyssey. for TB Research Innovations. of the Library Council of Namibia. Arend De Waal (BSc) is studying an Carl Handley (LLB) is employed with Linda Kantor (BA) is a psychologist MBA through the University of New Albany Investments Ltd. in private practice and co-ordinator of England in Australia. William Lithgow (BSc elec eng) spent Cape Town’s Stress Reduction Clinic. Gillian Forrest (BSocSc) worked time with Sappi and Siemens, and is Andrew Matseke (BSc elec eng) is for Save the Children (UK) and as now consulting in global information the executive of business solutions HIV/AIDS co-ordinator for Care systems in Europe. and design for a telecommunications International in Southern Africa. She Michael Louw (BPharm) has been company. now works in Scotland in a child working in the UK on a contractual Colin Meyer (MBA) is the owner health team. basis since 1999. and managing director of Tosca Michael Humby (BSc civil eng) Investments (Pty) Ltd. works as a consulting engineer for Class of 1985 Amanda Voss (BBusSc) is based Blanckenberg Humby Associates. in the UK and runs a software Grant Macintosh (BSc civil eng) is Suzanne Ackerman-Berman (BA) consultancy company with her the group managing director of Emanti works for Pick ‘n Pay in the public husband. Management Group. relations department for the Western Mutle Mogase (BCom) is the executive Cape. Class of 1988 chairman of a fund management Avril Adams (BA) teaches geography company. and Afrikaans. Dr Anthony Absalom (MBChB) Assoc Prof Grant Parker (BA) is Murray Alexander (LLB) was works as a consultant neuro- revising his dissertation on Roman admitted as an attorney in 1988. He is anaesthetist and neuro-intensivist at representations of India. He has a partner in the firm he works for and Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. meanwhile published a book The specialises in labour related matters. He is also a senior research associate Agony of Azar: A thesis on slavery by the Paolo Avondo (BSc chem eng) at the University of Cambridge. former slave, J E J Capitein, 1717-47. owns a company that manufactures

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chemical and disinfectant solutions for Richard Burton (BCom) is the Ivor Jones (BSc elec eng) is a the meat, fish and poultry industries. managing director of Eco Time regional sales director for Siemens Dr Peter Chadwick (BCom) is a Technology, part of the Maynards AG. chartered accountant in Zimbabwe. Office Technology Group. Herbert Maier (BCom) has been Bruce Cleaver (BSc) is partner in Ian Clark (MSc) is a senior lecturer a shareholder and the CEO of a the corporate department at Webber at Port Elizabeth Technikon. specialist financial services group Wentzel Bowens in South Africa. Vimalrai Dajee (BA) completed an since 2003. Assoc Prof Virginia de la Hunt LLM (Tax) in 2006. He practices in Prof Paul Nugent (BA Hons) is a (BA/LLB) is on special leave from the Cape Town. professor of comparative African law faculty to work as legal advisor to Dr Andre Gouws (BPharm) is the history. He is also director of the the Minister of Home Affairs. director of pharmacy, South Texas Centre of African Studies at Edinburgh Andrew Feinstein (BA Hons) was Regional Medical Centre. University. an ANC MP serving on the Finance Merete Hipp (BSc) is the co-ordinator Paul Pryor (BSc mech eng) is the Committee of national Parliament. of the Regional Satellite Dialysis Unit director for Alexander Forbes Risk He now lives in the UK and works at Rotorua Hospital in New Zealand. Securities. for Investec Bank and writes about Susan Joubert (BA) has been a Owen Rogers (BA Hons) is the chair South African politics. freelance publisher for the past ten of the Cape Bar Association. Michael Flax (BCom) is the executive years. Zdenek Vajdak (BA) did an MPhil director of Madison Property Fund Hans Krop (BSocSc) is a senior at the University of Michigan and is Managers. consultant for Psyselect. working on his PhD via St Augustine Andre Kriel (BSocSc) is the Adrian Morris (BSc) is the CEO of College in Johannesburg. deputy general secretary of ICG, part of the Educor Group. Markus van Alphen (BSc elec eng) the Southern African Clothing Craig Opperman (BSc civil eng) is a obtained a BSc in clinical psychology and Textile Workers Union. partner in a 1 400+ attorney firm. He at the University of Amsterdam. Richard Marcus (LLB) is at Cliffe specialises in intellectual property Ivan Watermeyer (BSc elec eng) is a Dekker in Cape Town. protection and strategies for high- full-time MBA student at the Graduate Anthony Normand (BBusSc) has tech companies. School of Business at UCT. been in the UK for 19 years. He lives Debora Patta (BSocSc) is the news in Oxshott, Surrey, and works in the managing editor at eTV’s news Class of 1982 city. bureau in Johannesburg. Timothy Rideout (MA geography) Hermanus Steyn (BBusSc) has Anthony Benson (BSc chem eng) moved to Scotland in 1984. He is been involved in the investment is working in the telecommunications founding director of XYZ Digital management industry since 1985, industry and has lived in Auckland, Map Company which exhibited having held senior management New Zealand, since 1994. at the Cape Town International positions in several established Jeremy Blakey (MCom) is lecturing Book Fair in 2006. He is a fellow asset management companies. in the Department of Information of the Royal Geographical Society. Dr Dalene Swanson (BSc) Systems at Massey University in Sabine Ritson (BSc) moved from completed her PhD at the University Palmerston North, New Zealand. British Columbia to Alberta in of British Columbia in Vancouver, Martin Cahnbley (BCom) has lived Canada. Canada, with a dissertation in in New Zealand for eight years, after Andrew Robinson (LLB) went on mathematics education set in spending six years in Australia. He to do his LLM in 1987. He is based post-apartheid South Africa. imports wine and is a marketing in Durban, in the admiralty trade Sharon Taylor (BSc) is studying manager for a New Zealand wine and transport department of Deneys natural therapies. company. Reitz. Guy Toms (BBusSc) has held Susan Delport (BSc) moved to Mark Westcott (LLB) is with Equicap, executive management positions in the UK in 1992 and is lecturing at a private equity and investment the investment industry since 1986. Cardiff University while completing banking firm. He specialises in bond and derivative her MSc. Selwyn Zackon (BProc) is a partner management. Dr Malcolm King (MBChB) moved to at Ashersons in Cape Town. Australia in 1990. He works for Sports Class of 1983 Medicine as a private practitioner Class of 1984 with amateur and professional Dr Angela Boik (MBChB) is a sporting groups. He is a fellow of the David Brown (BCom) was appointed general practitioner and clinical Royal Australia College of General CEO of Impala Platinum Holdings director of sexual health at Rotorua Practitioners and the Australasian Limited in 2006. Hospital, New Zealand. College of Sports Physicians. Thomas Burgess (BA) moved to Peter Chadwick (BSc) is a Assoc Prof Robert McCully the UK in 1986. He works as an IT registered scientist with SACNASP (MBChB) specialised in cardio- engineer for Hampshire County and and fellow of the Society of vascular diseases at the Mayo Coin Council. Economic Geologists. in Rochester, Minnesota, US.

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Class of 1981 as a radiation oncologist and Class of 1979 is now working as a clinical Dr Martin Brossy (MBChB) is an oncology consultant at Norfolk & Paul Abbott (BA) taught English in anaesthetist. Norwich University Hospital, UK. Japan and South Korea and is currently Gavin Evans (BA) is lecturing in film Andre van der Spuy (BSc) worked a social work student in the UK. & media studies at Brickbeck College for Rhone Poulenc in France for 12 Martin John Botha (BSc eng) spent (University of London) and at the years. He is currently running an five years in engineering surveying, London School of Journalism. His fifth agency for SE Asia, and is based in and the last 22 years in banking. He is book, Kings of the Ring, was published Auckland, New Zealand. the regional head of Eastern Europe, recently. Stephen Viljoen (BSc chem eng) Middle East and Central Asia for Robert Francis (BCom) returned to worked for Rössing Uranium, Standard Bank. Cape Town this year after almost eight Swakopmund, Namibia. He is now Ronald Bowker (BCom) moved to years in London. the general manager for the southern the UK in 1994 after working for Ernst Dr Catherine Fraser (MBChB) region at Afrox. & Young in Johannesburg and Cape specialises in psychotherapy in Town. He is a senior partner with Ernst Sydney, Australia. A keen musician, Class of 1980 & Young in Birmingham. she is a founder and the president of Dr Abdul Cariem (MBChB) is a the Australian Doctors’ Orchestra. Dr Nils Bergman (MBChB) is a gastroenterologist in Cape Town. Linda Fuller (DSE) is a grade one consulting public health practitioner Wayne Elliott (BSc) is the head of con- teacher at Kenridge Primary School. and international promoter of servation at Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife. Reginald Fuller (BSc elec eng) was Kangaroo Mother Care. Dr Gary Gibbon (MBChB) works in appointed managing director for De Mark Carrington (LLB) did an allergy, immunology and pulmonary as Villiers & Moore Consulting Engineers. MBA at the University of the a private practitioner. He is an assistant Patrick Furlong (BA) obtained a PhD Witwatersrand in 1987 and is now professor at UCLA in Santa Monica, US. in African history at the University of running his own management June Hare (MSocSci) received her California in 1987. He is a professor of consulting business in Australia after PhD at age 64. She is directing art history at Alma College, Michigan, US. a career in management consulting therapies in an MA social work project Dr Rodney Gilbert (MBChB) is a that spanned three continents. at the Ben-Gurion University. Her consultant paediatric nephrologist. He Richard Cheeseman (BA/LLB) is a husband, Paul Hare, was professor of worked at Red Cross War Memorial director of Fairbridges Attorneys in sociology at UCT, he is now in his 70s Children’s Hospital from 1993 to Cape Town. but still writes and teaches. 1998, and is now at the Southampton Phillip Fish (BArch) runs an Caroline Holland (BSc) retired to University Hospitals Trust. architecture business from home. pursue interests in the arts, mostly Dr Paul Jennings (MBChB) Nigel Ipp (BEd) is a teacher at the photography. recently opened a PET imaging Montessori Riverlands School. Blum Khan (CTA) is the managing centre at Morningside Medi Clinic in Paul Kennedy (BSocSc) completed director of Metropolitan Life’s Health Johannesburg. the IR Programme at USB in 1993 and Group in South Africa and a member Michael O’Malley (BArch) is a did a counselling diploma via Vista of the Board of Health Care Funders managing director of a property University in 2001. of South Africa. development company in Dr Edward Lee Pan (MBChB) is a David McLennan (BA) owns Select Nigeria. He lives in Abuja and neurology consultant at Groote Schuur Books. commutes between Nigeria and Hospital in Cape Town. South Africa on a monthly basis. Hershel Mayers (BSc) joined Class of 1978 Dr Suzanne Painting (BSc) works for Discovery in 1999 to set up and the Centre for Environment, Fishers launch its life assurance arm, Leanne-Jane Barlow (BA/LLB) and Aquaculture Science in the UK Discovery Life. He was also a worked at the Master’s office in Cape doing research on food webs and the director of Millennium, Guardbank, Town from 1986 to 1992. These days impact of environmental variability on Oracle and Liberty Health Care. she does part-time work for private the ecosystem. Dr Rory Moore (BSc) is considered clients. Prof Nicola Peart (LLM) was to be one of the world’s experts in Jonathan Caldow (LLB) moved to promoted to professor in 2006. diamond-indicator mineral chemistry. Durban in 1983 to open the Deneys Dr Eleanor Potter (MBChB) is a Dr Barry Rossouw (MBChB) is a Reitz. He specialises in insurance family physician in part-time practice specialist gynaecologist in private litigation. in Toronto, Canada. practice in , Cape Town. Dr Wayne Crewe-Brown (MBChB) is Dr Julian Robey (PhD) is based in Paul Stelling (BProc) has practised as the resident surgeon at the Bluewater Kimberley but much of his work is in an attorney, notary and conveyancer Clinic and an associate at the Rosen Johannesburg, Botswana, Angola, the in his firm’s property department. Eye Clinic. DRC and Canada. Cornelis Wolters (BSc mech Juan Delport (HDE) is the head of Dr Helen Stubbings (MBChB) eng) is involved in physical asset psychological therapies for North worked at management. Glamorgan NHS Trust.

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Dr Craig Eriksen (MBChB) is a Class of 1977 David Couper (BSc) works in the colorectal surgeon at Perth Royal department of biostatics at the Infirmary and is an honorary senior Dr Hasmukh Gajjar (MBChB) is the University of North Carolina, US. clinical teacher in the department of executive director and deputy CEO of Patricia Eddy (BSocSc) works as surgery and molecular oncology at Faritec. He is responsible for driving a project facilitator for Communi- Dundee University, UK. business development and black care. Spilios Fassois (BA) lives in Greece economic empowerment. Ronald Flax (BProc) lives in San and is involved in shipping. Maxine Jaffa (BSocSc) worked at the Diego, US. He and his brother Dr Robin Friedlander (MBChB) is Anna Freud Centre at the Wellington John (UCT-trained physician) run a a clinical associate professor at the Hospital after graduating. business in medical research. University of British Columbia. Kevin Knox-Davies (BSc civil eng) is Theo Frank (LLB) is a practising silk Pamela Glyn (BA) did her honours retired. at the Windhoek Bar. and master’s in psychology at UDW Andrew Robinson (BEd) retired in Dr Janet Hodgson (MA) was a before moving to New Zealand. She 2004 as a senior teacher at Paul Roos mission advisor for the United is a clinical psychologist in private Gymnasium. Society for the Propagation of the practice. Duncan Saville (BCom) is a principal Gospel in Oxford and St Albans Robert Goldman (BA) is currently of a funds management business, before becoming an advisor in local doing his master’s in social science an experienced non-executive mission in the Durham diocese. through the University of KwaZulu- director, and has advised on utility Peter Hofmeyr (BSc civil eng) is a Natal. privatisations. property developer in low-to-middle Gavin Gracie (BCom) recently moved Gerhard Sippel (BSocSc) is the income residential markets. to Wiltshire, UK, where he runs a director of the Urban Division, GTZ, Alan Holloway (BSc elec eng) consultancy specialising in corporate in China having been transferred from is managing director of Ansys recovery and turnaround. Indonesia in 2006. Integrated Systems. Faieda Jacobs (BA/LLB) has, Dr Michael Trevett (BSc) qualified as Kenneth Jenkin (BBusSc) has been since 2003, managed properties an orthopaedic surgeon in 1993. in the UK since 1998 and works as for Allan Gray in Cape Town. She a consultant, following stints in South is responsible for commercial and Class of 1976 Africa and Germany. industrial portfolios. Hamied Mazema (BSc chem eng) Dr John Maasch (MBChB) is working Ronal Armist (BBusSc) moved to is the CEO of a chemical process in the field of brain injury rehabilitation London, UK, in 1983, after qualifying engineering company. in younger patients. as a chartered accountant in South Paul Seftel (BBusSc) moved to the Michael Radomsky (BProc) is a direc- Africa. UK in 1975, and is the managing tor for Mallinicks Inc in Cape Town. Philip Boyd (P Cert Ballet) was director of Bendicks, a confectionery Dr Caryl Richmond (MBChB) retired a principal dancer for Capab from manufacturer. from formal medical employment in 1979-2000. He is the founder and Marjorie Smith (PDS&D) lives in 2005 in order to pursue her passion for artistic director of Dance for All. Central Texas and is very involved sustainable living, building and farming. Cheryl Hill (BSc) has worked for with Bible Fellowship Studies and the Yvonne Shapiro (BSc) runs the IBM in the UK for the past 23 years Gospel Café in Waco. National Learners Records Database in the field of software development. Brigid Tiernan (BEd) retired in with the SA Qualifications Authority. Ashley Sharp (LLB) was admitted 2006 as CEO of Reginald Osmond Ronald Sinclair (BSc civil eng) is the to the New Zealand Bar in 1980. He Counselling Services. managing director of Trimpley (Pty) specialises in civil and employment Ltd. dispute resolution. Class of 1974 Dr Stephen Townsend (BArch) Barbara Todes (BA) is the manager graduated in architecture at UCT, of library and community services for Nigel Jones (BA/LLB) is the senior completed a diploma in conservation Randwick City Council in Sydney, maintenance prosecutor for the studies at the University of Rome Australia. Western Cape. and, recently, a PhD at UCT. Brenda Kaye (BA) worked in theatre Dr Nolan Wengrowe (MBChB) Class of 1975 as a technician and manager in South worked at Groote Schuur Hospital Africa. She moved to London, UK, in after graduating before moving to Jonathan Bloch (BA/LLB) is the 1994, where she works in performing London in 1980. She spent five years managing director of Exchange Data arts and commerce. in paediatrics, and then switched International Limited. He is also Judith Krummeck (PDS&D) to general practice in Hampstead a Liberal Democrat councillor for emigrated to the US in 1997. She is Garden Suburb. Muswell Hill in London, UK, and chair the evening host for a classical music Carolyn Winter (BSocSc) is an of Canon Collins Trust. radio station in Balmour. economist with the World Bank where Dr Pieter Bothma (MBChB) is involved John Sargeant (BA) is currently she is working on development issues in a department of 36 anaesthetists upgrading public Rights of Way in in the African region. from around the world. Cambridgeshire, UK.

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Vivienne Ward (BSocSc) is doing Monica Engelbrecht (BSocSc) retired Alide Dasnois (BA) has been a postgraduate degree in social in February 1994 from Groote Schuur appointed deputy editor of the Cape anthropology. Hospital. Times. Kevin Hay (BSc chem eng) is a John Dyason (Dip Law) did a Class of 1973 metallurgical consultant for Lonmin postgraduate diploma in maritime law Platinum South Africa. and is a past president of the Maritime Owen Binedell (MURP) held various Eduard Horn (BSc chem eng) is the Law Association of South Africa. He senior town planning positions with the Deputy General Manager for Gulf practices in Cape Town. erstwhile Port Elizabeth City Council Petrochemical Industries Company in Elizabeth Eitelman (BSc) is semi- and in March 2006 retired from the Bahrain. retired and was a finalist for the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Glynnis Koch (P Dip Ballet) is editing US National Association of School as assistant manager in Land Use Chemical Technology, aimed at Psychologists in 2003. Management. chemical engineers. Previously she David Ellis (BCom) moved from Cape Jane Bourdillon (BA) is the librarian taught ballet while she was studying Town to Perth in 1974 and is currently at the Dominican Convent High School for a BA in English and communication, running his own business. in Zimbabwe. after which she moved into magazine/ Julian Glyn (BSc chem eng) works Ian Dawson (BA) lives and works in journal publishing, editing and for Harrison Grierson Consultants in Central Texas, US, and keeps in touch designing a variety of publications. Auckland and is into some serious with Philip Manidis, Sydney, Australia, Sarah McNair (Perf Dip Speech bridge-playing. and Pieter Hamman, San Francisco, US. & Drama) had various acting roles Dr John Haigh (PhD) is the Hilton Gluck (BA) is the founder and during the 1970s, mostly in feminist professor and head of the Division CEO of Apparel, a men’s and women’s theatre. She is currently director of a of Pharmaceuticare Chemistry in golf apparel design and distribution literary agency for dramatists and was the Faculty of Pharmacy at Rhodes company. made a fellow of the Royal Society of University. Athanasios Gratjios (BA/LLB) is a Arts in 2004. Dr Robin Kirk (MBChB) left clinical practising attorney in Cape Town. Michael Rubin (BSc) is involved medicine for administration when he Ian Haddow (BA) has lived in Calgary, in private equity management and turned 65. Canada, since 1982. He works as a property development. Leon Price (BCom) has been the landman for one of North America’s John Simke (BCom) retired after executive director of Macsteel largest natural gas producers. 22 years as a partner at Pricewater- International Holdings BV since 1996. Keith Hendry (BA/LLB) worked for houseCoopers. He started and Dr Morris Sloman (BSc elec eng) Clifford Chance in . He has leads an independent think tank is Professor of Distributed Systems returned to South Africa and now on globalisation and outsourcing in Management at Imperial College. consults to Bowman Gilfilian. 2005. Dr Graham White (MBChB) moved Terence Hime (MBA) is a managing The Hon Justice Christopher to Canada in 2002 and now works in director of Schindler Lifts, South Steytler (BA/LLB) was recently rural Manitoba. Africa, and is in charge of the group’s appointed as the first president of the Dr John Bradford (MBChB) is a operations throughout sub-Saharan newly created Court of Appeal of the professor and the head of the Division Africa. Western Australian Supreme Court. of Forensic Psychiatry at the University Victoria Palte (BCom) is an office Bruce Winterbach (BSc civil eng) is a of Ottawa. manager for Drs Lazarus, Gluckman practising engineer. Dr Robert Gaitskell (BSc eng) worked & De Villiers. as a chartered engineer in the UK Samsoodien Pather (BBusSc) has Class of 1971 before turning to law and studying for more than 27 years experience in a PhD at King’s College in London. He investment management; including Elizabeth Ludlow (BA) recently is now a QC in London, specialising in bonds, equity research, portfolio completed her master’s in education international engineering arbitrations, management, and managing and at Wits. and is a part-time judge. leading asset management teams. Verity Mundy (BSocSc) has lived in Dr David Stern (MBChB) specialises Zimbabwe since graduating and has Class of 1969 in internal medicine and cardiology. largely worked in the NGO sector - Dirk Uijs (BA/LLB) was admitted as legal aid, biodiversity, and databasing. Dr Michael Ellman (BSc chem eng) is advocate in 1974. He prosecuted in Dr Keith Watt (MBChB) owns his own a consultant in the energy sector and various capacities until 1980 when he company, Keith Watt Incorporated. involved in energy efficiency projects. joined the Cape Bar. Dr Deborah Gaitskell (BA) is a Class of 1970 history researcher and writes as an Class of 1972 independent scholar. She just ended Tony Ashford (BSc civil eng) is a five-year stint as an editor of The Dr Arthur Bird (MBChB) has worked currently working on the Vaal Pipeline Journal of Southern African Studies. as a medical director and CEO for the Project in Gauteng/Mpumalanga as a Prof Keith Gottschalk (BA) was the past 17 years. contracts engineer. chair of the Astronomical Society of

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Southern Africa in Cape Town before his DIC (Imperial College) and MBA Class of 1966 joining the University of the Western (London Business School). Cape as department head of political John Whiteing (BSc) is the Dr Gerald Rosenthal (BSc civil eng) studies. former director for Deloitte Touche spent 12 years as a university lecturer Prof Antony Miles (BSc eng) moved Tohmatsu. He has been living in and 20 years as a consulting civil to Bath in 1986 and is currently Australia since 1990 and now has engineer. professor of biomechanics and four grandsons. Dr Jacques Rossouw (MBChB) is director of the Centre for Orthopaedic Dr David Woods (MBChB) is the a project officer with the Women’s Biomechanics in the Department editor of the Perinatal Education Health Initiative (WHI) and was one of of Mechanical Engineering at Bath Programme. Time magazine’s 100 personalities of University. Dr John Zaaijman (MBChB) is a semi- the year in 2006. Barbara Paulo (STD) has been a part- retired gynaecologist from Middelburg Dr William Siebert Stan (BA, econ) time teacher at St Anne’s College in in the Cape. is currently professor of labour Hilton for 27 years. She is involved in economics at Birmingham University. the Social Responsibility Department Class of 1967 Peter Withers (BA/LLB) and Ann (nee at the college. Cox, BA 1969) moved four years ago David Schroenn (MBA) was a Thomas Addison (BSc) has been from Vancouver to the Okanagan in former company group chairman lecturing in information systems since British Columbia. for the southern African region of 1992 at Wits University. Dr John Wootton (MBChB) a surgeon the Morganite Group. He is also Anne Clarke (BA) did her master’s in in Pietermaritzburg. an honorary member and a former education management, University of chairman of the St Stithians College Greenwich, in 2001. Class of 1965 Council in Randburg. John Crowhurst (Dip Law) specialises in estate planning. Dr Marcia Blumberg (BSc) teaches Class of 1968 Winston Floquet (MBA) is chairman at Glendon College, York University, of Flagship Private Asset Management Toronto. She is a leading authority on David Apthorp (BCom) has been (Pty) Limited. contemporary South African theatre running his own world-wide event Dr Cecil Helman (MBChB) is a and is the editor of Theatre As/And management company since 1988 professor of medical anthropology, Intervention, the proceedings of a and managing a residential housing Faculty of Social Sciences & Law, major conference on South African portfolio. Brunel University, London and a senior theatre. John Blaine (BSc) is a professional lecturer, Department of Primary Care Howard Boyd (BCom) is a former geologist and consulting geologist. & Population Sciences, Royal Free CEO of (Pty) Ltd. He Martin Goldswain (BArch) has & University College Medical School, retired in 2004. retired from architectural practice and London. Prof Brian Buch (STD) is head of the entered tourism. Dr Colin Reardon (MBChB) was a diagnostics and radiology department Raphael Kaplinsky (BA) is currently a diagnostic radiologist in Durban before at the University of Pretoria. professor of international development retirement in 2006. Carol Cassidy (BSc) is a retired at Open University. Patricia Riley (BArch) has been teacher and counsellor but is still Verna Nel (BA, Hons) was a senior practising in Hermanus for 13 years. active in community work. lecturer/clinical psychologist at UCT & Recently, she retired because of Dr Premanand (MBChB) is currently Groote Schuur Hospital after her MSC failing eyesight. employed full time as principal specialist (clinical psychology). She retired in Penelope Sandler (BSocSc) obtained (orthopaedics) at RK Khan Hospital. 1993. her master’s in social work from UCT Peter Davies (BA/LLB) joined the Adrian Rogers (BA) was a district in 2004. Her daughter, Stephanie, South African diplomatic service and administrator for 15 years with the completed at the Athens Olympics then was involved in AgriBusiness. He Rhodesian/Zimbabwe government, 2004 in rhythmic gymnastics. did his articles in 1972 and practised then worked for 23 years with Anglo Louis Serrurier SC (BA/LLB) was from 1982 in Pretoria, Johannesburg American Zimbabwe, where he admitted as an attorney and joined the and Jersey. became pensions manager. He is now Johannesburg Bar in 1970 where he Eberhard Hofmann (BA) continues retired. is still practising. He took silk in 1987. as deputy editor-in-chief and as a full Paul Schoeman (Dip Law) practices Bryan Stone (BA) recently retired member of the editorial team of the in Darling in the Cape. as a head of modern languages at oldest daily newspaper of Namibia. Mary Simons (BA) is a senior lecturer Woodhouse Grove School, Bradford. Prof Julian Kinderlerer (BSc) studied in the political studies department at He and Celia (also an Ikey) are starting for a PhD at Cambridge after which UCT. Before joining UCT she also a new business. he became a lecturer at Sheffield worked at Mediation Joan Sutton (BA) is a former librarian University. He is currently a professor Service of South Africa (IMSSA) with of the CSIR in Pretoria and was a city of biotechnology law and a member Professor Clive Thompson. councillor in Cape Town from 1972 of the European Group on Ethics in Michael Strelitz (BSc) has completed to 1993. Science and New Technologies.

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Robert Rothschild (BA) is a professor the Eastern Cape Department of Class of 1961 of economics and the director of the Education. doctoral programmes at the Lancaster Michael Hodgson (BA/LLB) spent Dr Cedric Alston (MBChB) is active in University Management School. a year travelling in Israel and Europe general practice in Vryheid, KwaZulu- in between his 25 years in practice in Natal and is also a part-time farmer. Class of 1964 London and Johannesburg. Dr Kenneth Boughton (MBChB) Patricia Klosser (BA) was a deputy retired from paediatrics initially and William Houston (BSc) is the regional headmistress of Roedean Junior later from the pharmaceutical industry. director for Africa for the Overseas School. Michael Chubb (BA) retired from family Council International and a consultant Elisabeth Lombard (BA) works attorney practice in 2005 and lives on to 30 theological colleges in sub- part-time at the Nelson Mandela the south coast of KwaZulu- Natal. Saharan Africa. Metropolitan University after retiring Prof Andrew Colman (BSc) spent Campbell MacRae (BSc elec eng) from teaching. some years lecturing in South Africa, is retired after 33 years in electricity Diana Millington (neé McCallum) (BA) then moved to the University of supply in Papua New Guinea and traveled extensively with her diplomat Leicester. He is still an active researcher Australia, followed by two years in husband, and recently built a library and full professor. hospital development. He was a part- in a Buddhist monastery school for Rev. Richard Hall (BSc civil eng) is retired time lecturer at Central Queenland impoverished students in Burma. from Anglican church parish work. University for five years. Ian Simpson (BSc elec eng) is working Colin Hoffman (BA/LLB) is still Dr John McConnell (MBChB) is a as a grounding (earthing) specialist in mainly in the field of corporate and consultant ophthalmic surgeon in electrical engineering. intellectual property law, where he has South East Kent. He has recently concentrated on brand acquisitions in been involved in promoting a Class of 1962 medical products. nutritional supplement for prevention Harry Parolis (BSc civil eng) is of degenerative disease. Dominee Jacobus Alberts (BSc involved in the family businesses, Prof Arthur Money (BSc) is professor mech eng) is running unregistered ranging from real estate to importing of management, director of research companies in engineering and general and distribution. development and director of School of enterprises. His wife manages their Dr George Strathfold (MBChB) is a Projects, Processes and Systems at hospitality enterprise, Panhandle general practioner. Henley Management College. Place. Gerald Saltman (BCom) retired in Dr Gilbert Barbezat (MBChB) is Class of 1960 2006 after 15 years as CEO of the professor of medicine and director of Hunter Douglas Group in Australia. He the Medical Teaching Support Unit at Mervyn Bennun (BA) returned to now lives in London to do consulting the University of Otago in Dunedin, South Africa in 2000 after retiring work in Europe. New Zealand. from Exeter University. Ronald Scheurenberg (BSc civil Willem Diepeveen (BEd) retired Brian Brown (BA/LLB) retired from the eng) is officially retired since June as a professor of environment Zimbabwe public service in 2005 and 2006, but is still works as a specialist science at the New Jersey School of still lives in Harare. geotechnical engineering consultant. Conservation in US. Jacob Ginsberg (Dip Law) received Jeremy Wood (BSc civil eng) is living Peter Horwitz (Dip Law) served the Law Society prize in 1960 for the in Perth, Australia. on the executive committee of highest marks in the final examinations the Johannesburg City Council and was senior partner of a Claremont Class of 1963 and subsequently in the Gauteng firm when he retired. legislature. He returned to full time Philipp Gutsche (BCom) is the Carol Clark (BSocSc) lived for attorney’s practice in 2004. non-executive chairman of Coca- a year in London, six years in Dr Peter Kai (MBChB) is doing Cola Sabco (Pty) Ltd. Outside the Toronto, and 30 years in New anaesthesia training in Liverpool, UK. work arena, he has been active in York. Carol and her husband, Ian He became a consultant in the Liverpool community affairs. Clark, have retired to Brisbane. region and joined the armed forces by William Powell (BSc elec eng) is a local William Crews (BSc) worked serving in Riyadh/King Faisel Specialist government councillor and a leader of a in South Africa, London and the Hospital & Research Centre. group of four Liberal Democrats on North US as an engineer and research Martin Liebenberg (BSc elec eng) Warwickshire Borough Council in the UK. assistant before gaining an MBA from became an SAA pilot. Neil Scher (Dip Law) retired in February Harvard and then working in various Prof Raymond Parker (BA) is currently 2003 after 40 years in practice. managerial and consulting roles. He a senior research fellow at the Institute retired in 2005. of English Studies at the University of Class of 1959 John Potgieter (BA) retired after London. eleven years as a school principal Frederick Sexsmith (BCom) is Louis de Waal (BSc civil eng) is a in Port Elizabeth and nine years in employed with Downstream Oil retired civil engineer and is now running the regional and district offices of Advisors Ltd. an NGO.

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Christopher Driver (BArch) is an Cape Education Department. He Prof Philip Lanzkowsky (MBChB) architect with the firm Driver & Webber, is extensively engaged in church is a professor of paediatrics at the in East London. activities and is a member of the local Albert Einstein College of Medicine Dr Armin Kessler (BSc chem eng) museum management board. in New York. He is also chief of staff has held several senior positions at Hendrik Redelinghuys (BSc eng) and executive director of Schneider Hoffman-La Roche, including head of retired from the army and became an Children’s Hospital in New Hyde Park, the diagnostics and pharmaceutical estate agent. New York. divisions of the organisation. He serves Gillian Vernon (BA) is currently studying Gwyneth Lawton (BSc) taught on the board of neotherapeutics and for a PhD at Fort Hare University. secondary school maths in New The Medicines Company. Errol Wolhuter (BA/LLB) practised as Zealand for 18 years and retired from Marcus Landale (BArch) has been an attorney in Zimbabwe. teaching in 1997. the principal of Afriplan Associates Dr George Pillay (MBChB) is a retired Architects since inception in 1964. Class of 1957 radiologist but does part-time work. Dr Michael McMillan (BSc) established Christopher Watermeyer (BSc civil his own business in 1969 as a consulting Colin Bryan (CTA) is retired and now eng) is involved in dam engineering. geologist in Cape Town. He explored lives on an historic eighteenth century the western regions of Southern Africa coastal farm in Hoogekraal near Class of 1953 including Namibia. George. Richard Rosenthal (Dip Law) is an Dr Julia Hadar (BSc) is chairperson of Dr Edward Allen (MBChB) is retired attorney in private practice, specialising the South African Alumni Association from the University of British Columbia in public benefit and human rights in Jerusalem. and is enjoying his emeritus status. law. He presently serves as a trustee Fiona Watson (BSc) was a Dr Margaret Elsworth (MBChB) of the Legal Resources Trust, and headmistress at Sans Souci Girls High is from Newlands, Cape Town, and was founding director of the Legal School until 1997, when she retired. began a support scheme for high Resources Centre in Cape Town. school children, the African Scholars’ Class of 1956 Fund, in 1970. Class of 1958 Gerhard Max Keuck (BSc civil eng) Prof Jacobus Heydenrych (MBChB) worked for 40 years with Ninham Barbara Bernander (BA) is living is professor of paediatric surgery at Shand consulting engineers. in Sweden, with a summer home in Hospital. With Professor Dr Leon Movsowitz (BSc) was a Greece. She is married to Bernt, who DF du Toit, he performed the first general practitioner in Upington from is retired but was assistant secretary pancreas transplant in South Africa at 1959 to 1973, and has been a specialist general of the UNDP. . paediatrician at Wynberg Hospital Rev Canon Graeme Deas (BSc civil Norman Lowenthal (BA) was since 1979. eng) worked 28 years in the civil chairman stockbroker in the JSE from Christopher Orpen (BSc chem eng) engineering industry and has been 1997 to 2000. He was also a member married Shirley Esselen (BSc, 1952) a full-time priest for 41 years. He of the Securities Regulation Panel. in 1954 (deceased 2002). He married continues to work for the diocese of Em Prof Peter Neame (MBChB) was BE Pickering in 2006. He worked in Grahamstown as honorary director of a haematologist and was a professor Trinidad from 1954 to 1960, in the UK the Department of Spirituality. of pathology at McMaster University in from 1960 to 1971 and in South Africa John Douglas (BSc civil eng) retired Hamilton, Canada. from 1971 to 1990. He is now retired. to George in 2002 and works part time Barry Zackon (BSc chemistry) has Dr Dorothy Rose (MBChB) worked as for Illiso Consulting. lived in the UK since 1958. He has a GP anaesthetist in Oudtshoorn and Dr Barbara Farbey (BSc) is retired, spent most of his working life with a George. She went to Thailand with the but is also a visiting senior research chemical company in Surrey, working Overseas Missionary Fellowship to fellow at University College London on specialist coatings for use in the work as a missionary anaesthetist. (computer science). cartographic and printing industry. He Dr Gerald Shapiro (MBChB) is the Meyer Hodes (BA/LLB) took silk in retired in 2001. head of the Department of Radiology 1984 and practises at the Johannes- at the Hasharon Hospital in Petach burg Bar. Class of 1954 Tikvah, Israel. Dr Ronald Joshua (MBChB) retired in 1997, after doing locum work as a Jan Marthinus Cronje (BSc civil eng) Class of 1952 surgeon. is a retired clergyman DRC after retiring Dr Eric Lawton (MBChB) was an as town engineer of Malmesbury. Israel Aaron QC (BA/LLB) practices ophthalmologist in New Zealand Dr Daniel Danilewitz (MBChB) is as a barrister in Vancouver, Canada, before retiring. He spent three years from Green Point, Cape Town, specialising in family law. He was made in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and was medical director of Roche QC in 1997. doing cataract surgery. Pharmaceuticals before retiring. He Paula Blacking (BA) had a cooking Samuel Muller (BA) retired in 1998 is currently doing part-time volunteer school and was a cooking editor for as area manager of the Southern work. several magazines from 1980 to 1990.

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Paula is currently updating cooking Class of 1949 Herbert McKenzie (BSc civil eng) class recipes for a manuscript. started his degree in 1939, which Prof Robert Frater (MBChB) is a Norman Abbott (BA) retired in 1993 was interrupted from 1940 to 1945. medical director at St Jude Medical Inc, after 12 years as founder director After lecturing in engineering at UCT, president of Glycar Inc and professor general of the British Video Association. he switched to law and received his in the departments of cardiothoracic Dr Hymie Davis (BSc) is a clinical LLB in 1952. He was an advocate surgery and paeidatrics at the Albert assistant professor in the Department at the Cape Bar until retirement in Einstein College of Medicine. of Psychiatry at the University of British 1996. Prof Neville Woolf (MBChB) worked Columbia and a psychiatrist in private as a professor of histopathology at the practice in Vancouver. Class of 1946 Middlesex Hospital Medical School Dr Ingrid Edington (MBChB) is sole before becoming a professor at UCL. director of Ethandune Investments Brian Banks (Dip QS) is a retired He was vice-dean of the UCL Faculty (Pty) Ltd in Durban. structural engineer. of Clinical Sciences until his retirement Muriel Howell (BSocSc) retired from Joan Dichmont (BA) retired from City in 2004. her work with Catholic Welfare and Libraries in 1992 and more recently Development in 2003. from active work in the Black Sash. Class of 1951 Dr Shirley Lewis (MBChB) was on academic staff of the University of Class of 1945 Grace Yon (BSc) taught secondary London Royal Postgraduate Medical science in the former Rhodesia and School. She is currently senior research Joan Allderman (BA) is retired in in Zambia from 1953 to 1968, and she fellow at Imperial College Faculty of Walmer, PE after teaching for 20 raised four children. Medicine. years. Robert Yon (BSc) taught secondary Dr Edith Waldmann (MBChB) worked Dr Liselotte Asch (MBChB) is retired science in the former Rhodesia in Zimbabwe, the Jane F Hospital in and has been studying through and in Zambia from 1953 to 1968. the former Transvaal, the University of UNISA since 1992 with majors in After completing several post- Hong Kong where she did research on Latin, classical culture and courses doctoral degrees, he was a reader the growth and development of children, in English, philosophy, Xhosa and in biochemistry at the University of and in the UK at the International Greek. Greenwich in London from 1972 to Mental Health Charity. 1994. Lydia Woolf (BSocSc) worked as a Class of 1944 child protection social worker in London Class of 1950 for 22 years. Phryne Bousanis (BA) is retired Dr Edward Allen (BArch) has retired and living in Zimbabwe, London and Prof Victor Dubowitz (BSc) was from the University of British Columbia Athens. She is writing a historical Professor of Paediatrics and Neonatal and lives in West Vancouver. novel based on the occupation of the medicine at Royal Postgraduate Ionian Islands by Britain. Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, Class of 1948 for 23 years and is now emeritus Class of 1942 professor. He was the foundation John Burrow (BSc eng) headed president of The World Muscle Society. his own engineering consultancy Marcus Lotereyman (BSc mech Dr Samuel Ginsberg (MBChB) is a from 1959 to 1992. He is now holds eng) retired and lives in Italy. general practitioner in Hobart and a part-time directorships of Highway Norrie Webber (BA, S/S&H) retired lecturer in anatomy at the Tasmanian Management Services Ltd and in March 2006 as vice-president for Medical School. Captains Golf Tours Ltd. Persons with Physical Disabilities, Dr Edmund Rose (MBChB) left a Dr Philip Slayen (MSc, psychology) after 60 years involvement; she is private practise in Oudtshoorn to has been in the UK since 1979 and was still a member of the Rehabilitation became a missionary surgeon in a consultant in public health medicine International Honour Council. Thailand with the Overseas Missionary from 1983 until retirement in 1993. He Fellowship and other organisations. is almost 80 and says, “Everything Class of 1937 Dr Douglas Shennan (MBChB) worked works but it hurts!” as TB specialist in southern and central David Bateman (BSc civil eng) Africa, and in the radiological service Class of 1947 retired in 1981, and is now a of the National Coal Board. He retired member of the council and executive from practice in 1992 but worked for a John Doff (BA) arrived in the UK in committee of the Cape Provincial month at Karanda Mission Hospital in 1948 and is now retired after a career Organisation for the Aged (CPOA) Zimbabwe in September 2006. in advertising and marketing. in Cape Town.

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