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LATEST NEWS Journey of RESEARCH UKZN researcher wins discovery Research results on MBCHB student prestigious international begins for achievement at Medical Sciences prize K-RITH UKZN Page 9 Page 4 Page 6 & 7 High level praise for UKZN’s transformation achievements Page 2

AWARDS NEW RESEARCH Professor Malegapuru INITIATIVE Makgoba receives New UKZN unit geared to prestigious award revolutionise the maritime Page 3 industry Page 4

INSPIRING GREATNESS 2 YOUR MONTHLY CAMPUS NEWSPAPER • VOLUME 9 • NUMBER 10 • OCTOBER 2012 High level praise for UKZN’s transformation achievements

RAYLENE CAPTAIN-HASTHIBEER

KZN’s achievements in the area of transformation were Upraised by the Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande during the recent launch of the University’s Transformation Charter. Speaking at a launch function at Westville campus, Nzimande said he had been told Africans comprised 62 percent of the total student enrolments at UKZN this year while in 2011 62 percent of graduates and 33 percent of academic leadership had been women. ‘This is a very important achievement.’ It was necessary, Nzimande said, to move towards defining transformation beyond overcoming racial divisions and rather towards seeking radical change in our society – including the education and training system. Outlining the process of drafting the Charter, Professor Deo Jaganyi, Acting Deputy Vice- Chancellor: College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, explained it was commissioned by the University Council in response to the recommendations emanating from the Governance and Academic Freedom Committee of Council (GAFC) and the Ministerial Committee on Transformation and Social Cohesion and the Elimination of Discrimination in Public Higher Education Institutions. Jaganyi said the consultation process was broadly inclusive. ‘The inputs and comments from the Executive Director of Corporate Relations, Ms Nomonde Mbadi; Professor Renuka Vithal; Dr Blade Nzimande and Ms Phumla Mnganga. different constituencies were collated and independently The Chair of Council, Ms Phumla Higher Education system could be not easy, it is not for the faint The evening’s entertainment analysed including compliance Mnganga commended Professor Deo distilled and shared from UKZN’s hearted but has to be pursued with included a rousing performance by with University policies before Jaganyi for driving the process. transformation experience. leadership, commitment and Junior Mambazo, the children and incorporation into the draft Professor Renuka Vithal, Acting ‘Transformation of universities dedication at all levels,’ added grandchildren of renowned music document to enrich the Charter.’ Vice-Chancellor, said lessons for the can be achieved in our life time. It is Vithal. group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo. SA’s Chief Justice “presides” at UKZN legal forum

THANDIWE JUMO world of law,’ said Mogoeng. Mogoeng told students they THE School of Law’s academic and needed to embrace education for socio-legal programme, In the sake of the nation. ‘My appeal Conversation With, was launched to you is that once you have on the Howard College campus completed benefiting from recently with South Africa’s Chief practitioners in this Institution, Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng taking you avail yourself as a fountain of part in a high profile debate. wisdom for those who are yet to The inaugural session of the practice law.’ programme opens a forum in which The second part of the event leading legal luminaries will be involved Reddi calling for questions invited to discuss topical legal and from law students and academics judicial issues. followed by the unveiling of the The first part of the Honours Board of the Ellie conversation was a one-on-one Newman Memorial Moot Final conversation between the Chief Competition which he participated Justice and the Dean and Head of in as a finalist in 1985. the School of Law, Professor Referring to the Chief Justice’s Managay Reddi. address, Reddi said: ‘The School of The conversation saw Reddi ask Law at UKZN is one of the most Mogoeng, a School of Law transformed law schools in South alumnus, about his main priorities Africa. Our students range from the in respect of the judiciary, his very sophisticated to those who concerns about the delays and have had very little, if any, contact consequent costs in finalising Professor Karthy Govender, Professor Managay Reddi, SA Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng and Professor with luminaries in the legal cases, the on-going debate in the David McQuoid Mason. profession. legal profession about the ‘The Chief Justice’s visit to the undergraduate four-year LLB performance system to address the which would expose students to the justice is accessible to everyone,' School and the advice he dispensed degree and the most urgent backlog of cases, the issue of practical side of law. said Mogoeng. to our students will no doubt serve challenges he faces as Head of the transformation within the ‘We need to reach out more to ‘I am honoured to have been to inspire every one of them to Constitutional Court. judiciary and skills development institutions such as this one and taught by lecturers, such as Ellie strive for levels of greatness they The Chief justice responded by within the judiciary. He also our communities as this is one of Newman, who empower students so may have not thought possible.’ outlining plans about the advised law academics to foster the ways we can ensure everyone is when they leave this University The event was preceded by the implementation of the monitoring links with the Justice Department educated about their rights and they are better prepared for the Moot Final Competition. 3 YOUR MONTHLY CAMPUS NEWSPAPER • VOLUME 9 • NUMBER 10 • OCTOBER 2012 Groundbreaking UKZN-led research investigation raises hopes for HIV/AIDS vaccine LIZ CLARKE

ATHER than doing GREGORY DARDAGAN reaction to cover itself with the experiments in test tubes or sugar that formed a point of Rconical flasks, bioscience HOPES for the discovery of a vulnerability, and so allowed the complex bioscience can now be vaccine against AIDS have risen development of antibodies that done on a chip not much bigger than substantially following research hit the weak spot.’ your thumbnail. Liz Clarke spoke to – led by a scientist – Abdool Karim said broadly an international scientist, now in which shows that antibodies neutralising antibodies were KZN, who is involved in this ground- manufactured by some HIV- considered to be the key to breaking work. infected people have the making an AIDS vaccine. ‘This Imagine a bank of medical potential to destroy 88 percent of discovery provides new clues on laboratories filled with white-coated HIV strains found throughout how vaccines could be designed technicians performing any the world. to elicit broadly neutralizing number of clinical tests. Now The AIDS study published in antibodies.’ imagine that those tests could be the journal, Nature , The CAPRISA statement said done for thousands of patients in a describes how a unique change highly potent forms of broadly tiny computer chip, and the results in the outer covering of the neutralizing antibodies against returned within minutes. virus found in two HIV-infected HIV were identified about three Dr Frederick Balagaddé, a KwaZulu-Natal women years ago but until now it had Ugandan researcher, who has produced the potent antibodies. not been known how the human worked in the US for much of his The South African research body made the antibodies. academic career, has shown that consortium, led by Professor ‘To make this discovery, the this type of mind-numbing cyber of the research team studied the target space technology is not only Centre for the AIDS Programme of some of these antibodies, a possible but is close to becoming an of Research in South Africa sugar that coats the surface everyday reality. (CAPRISA) at the University of protein of HIV, forming a site of He has now embarked on KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), vulnerability. another critical step in the process, comprises scientists from the ‘By tracing back the taking up a five-year investigative Dr Frederick Balagaddé. National Institute for evolution of the virus that research role at the new KwaZulu- Communicable Diseases (NICD) elicited these antibodies, they Natal Research Institute for TB and ARVs. People were counseled but long queues of people having to wait in Johannesburg, the University showed that the particular weak HIV (K-RITH) international facility just to help them accept they were for hours at clinics, the greater the of Cape Town, the University of point was absent from the virus in central Durban. dying. Many committed suicide. chance of bringing these epidemic the Witwatersrand and UKZN. that first infected the KwaZulu- One of his goals – ‘call it more a Unimaginable suffering is what I diseases under control. For the past five years the Natal women. However, under passion, even an overriding remember.’ ‘It is part of the new age of team has studied how certain constant pressure from other commitment’ he says – is to develop But it was, he says “a unique personalized medicine. Not only HIV-infected people develop very less powerful antibodies that HIV/TB computerized microfluidic type of awareness for that time” and will the patient be tested swiftly, but powerful antibody responses. develop in all infected people, chip-based platforms, to one that made the young and the correct medication will also be According to a statement their HIV was forced to expose revolutionise the way testing, impressionable schoolboy advised using appropriate from CAPRISA, the antibodies this vulnerability over time. treatment and research is done, determined to find answers. information systems.’ are referred to as broadly This allowed the broadly particularly in resource poor areas The first part of that journey (K-RITH says it is currently neutralising antibodies because neutralizing antibodies to where clinics and health was to secure a scholarship to recruiting exceptional students and they kill a wide range of HIV develop,’ said the statement. professionals are few and far Manchester College, Caltech and outstanding researchers to help types. ‘Analysis - performed in between. Stanford University in the US where bring visions like this to a practical The team initially established collaboration with scientists ‘The current dilemma the world he was able to combine his interest reality). that two KwaZulu-Natal women from the University of North faces is that the poorest countries in human biology with the Analogies are pretty important could produce the antibodies. Carolina and Harvard carry the biggest disease burden, development and invention of new when it comes to explaining the Follow up research by NICD University in the United States - made worse by limited health-care forms of biotechnology. nuts and bolts of this discovery. scientists, Dr Penny Moore and of a large number of other and poverty. They are also the least It is at this point that one has to ‘Think of a gadget the size of a Professor Lynn Morris, revealed viruses from throughout the capable of dealing with these think about things so tiny that it cell phone,’ he says. ‘Think of the that a sugar, referred to as a world, suggest that the problems,’ says Balagaddé. almost beats human chip inside it which miniaturizes “glycan”, on the surface protein vulnerability at position 332 may ‘At the same time the world is understanding. Immersed in this the process of receiving and coat of the virus at a specific be present at the time of shrinking into a global village. The microscopic world Balagaddé was sending mountains of information position formed a site of infection in about two thirds of continents have morphed into able to develop the microchemostat, across vast distances. This is the vulnerability in the virus, subtype C viruses (the subtype organs of the same organism. As we the first of its kind in the world, same principal. Using circuitry enabling the body to mount a most common in Africa). shrink, infectious diseases that that could mimic the biological cell thinner than human hair we can set broadly neutralizing antibody This research was funded by afflict one organ start to affect the culture environment found in any up a miniature network that can response. the South African government’s whole world collectively. It’s an issue conventional laboratory – on a run thousands of tests very quickly ‘Understanding this Department of Science and that needs to be addressed globally.’ miniature scale. and accurately and at the same time elaborate game of “cat and Technology, the US National This 30-something investigator is But what good would that be to cut costs to a fraction.’ mouse” between HIV and the Institutes for Health and the Bill no stranger to the impact of HIV ordinary people, you might well ask? Might sound simple the way he immune response of the infected & Melinda Gates Foundation. and the misery and destruction it ‘In basic terms a computer can puts it, but the gadgetry required person has provided valuable The long-term follow-up causes in Africa. take over tasks that humans him to design a complex web of tiny insights into how broadly studies of the women in ‘In the 1990s when I was a generally can’t do. If we can train pumps and human hair-sized water neutralizing antibodies arise,’ KwaZulu-Natal were schoolboy in Uganda, it was as machines to conduct complex hoses that could react to said Moore. additionally funded by the South though as young people we were medical analysis, it will help to instructions from a “Big Daddy” Morris, who is Head of AIDS African Technology Innovation living in a dark and terrifying hell- alleviate the global shortage of multitasking computer, do the tests research at NICD, said they had Agency as well as USAID hole with little or no escape. doctors and health professionals.’ and provide answers, not in days, been surprised to discover the (through CONRAD) and CDC as Friends, mums, dads, uncles, aunts, He believes that if rapid but in hours or minutes. virus which caused infection part of PEPFAR. Fellowships brothers and sisters were dying the streamlined computerized It’s a brave new world – and often did not have this antibody from the Fogarty International most hideous deaths. There were no microfluidic testing reduces the happening right on our doorstep! target on its outer covering. ‘But Centre and the Wellcome Trust over time, the virus was also played a key role in enabling Professor Malegapuru Makgoba receives prestigious award pressured by the body’s immune the research.

VICE-CHANCELLOR Professor Motlanthe and Vice-Chancellor of Malegapuru Makgoba has received the Federal Republic of Germany the first South African-German Dr Philipp Rösler, were present. Science Award at a special In a letter to the University function held recently in community, Mrs Phumla Johannesburg. The award honours Mnganga, Chair of Council, Professor Makgoba for his congratulated Professor Makgoba contribution as one of South on the prestigious achievement. Africa’s “top researchers and ‘This serves to reaffirm the global scientists”. recognition and respect that he The presentation of the award continues to earn for his formed part of the 60th contributions to science. Council anniversary celebrations of the acknowledges his leadership in Southern African-German advancing the scientific endeavour Chamber of Commerce and at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Industry at which South African and in South Africa,’ said Professor Salim Abdool Karim. Deputy President Kgalema Mnganga. Professor Malegapuru Makgoba. 4 YOUR MONTHLY CAMPUS NEWSPAPER • VOLUME 9 • NUMBER 10 • OCTOBER 2012 UKZN researcher wins Leading academic prestigious international receives Lifetime Medical Sciences prize Achievement Award MELISSA MUNGROO KwaZulu-Natal. ‘It is truly humbling to be recognised in the JUDITH ANNAKIE-ERIKSEN PROFESSOR Keyan Tomaselli of company of great scholars and the Centre for Communication, practitioners such as Jaffe and KZN scientist and renowned Media and Society (CCMS) has been researchers such as Larry Kincaid, researcher Professor awarded a LifeTime Achievement Maria Lena Figouera, Professor UQuarraisha Abdool Karim Award for Communication Lynn Dalrymple, the Johns has won the Academy of Sciences Research by Johns Hopkins Health Hopkins University contingent and for the Developing World (TWAS)’s and Education in South Africa my own colleagues,’ said Tomaselli. 2012 Prize for Medical Sciences ‘for (JHHESA). Tomaselli has played a crucial her exceptional and distinguished The award was made at a recent role in the development of a public contributions to HIV prevention gala dinner hosted by the JHHESA, health communication programme and women’s health’. USAID and the Johns Hopkins at the CCMS funded by the TWAS awards are among the University School of Public Health. JHHESA through USAID for the world’s most prestigious scientific The Alan Jaffe Humanitarian past 10 years. prizes recognising scientific Award for Lifetime Achievement In partnership with a group of excellence in the developing world was presented to Tomaselli in CCMS graduates, he was in the fields of agricultural recognition of his significant instrumental in developing a sciences, biology, chemistry, earth contribution towards the national AIDS campaign in the mid- sciences, engineering sciences, institutionalised and stable 1990s, using a mathematics, physics and medical continuation of training, research communication/cultural sciences. The prize includes an and capacity building in health perspective which moved beyond inscribed plaque, a certificate and communication for academics and awareness to provide valuable an award of US$15 000. practitioners in the field. research into cultural/socio- Abdool Karim is Associate The late Alan Jaffe was a Doctor economic constraints to effective Scientific Director of the Centre for working on HIV issues in rural responses. the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Professor Keyan Adjunct Professor of Public Health Tomaselli was awarded at the Nelson R Mandela School of the JHHESA Lifetime Medicine at UKZN, and Associate Achievement Award. Professor in at the Mailman School of Public Health at in New York. The TWAS award is in Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim. recognition of her significant scientific contributions spanning ‘I am deeply humbled by the young scientists in Africa to pursue two decades of the HIV epidemic in TWAS Prize in Medical Sciences. It their dreams.’ , especially her has been an arduous but fascinating Abdool Karim’s distinguished ground-breaking research on journey of scientific discovery for career is marked by her pivotal tenofovir gel as the first HIV me,’ said Abdool Karim. research achievements in HIV prevention technology for women. ‘Every bit of the effort was prevention at CAPRISA, her global This research, which was first worth it because the need for HIV leadership role as Co-chair of the presented at the International AIDS prevention methods for women, NIH funded HIV Prevention Trials Conference in Vienna, was hailed especially in Africa, is critical and Network, and being Co-chair of the by the Science journal as among the urgent. I hope my findings Scientific Programme of the 2012 Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of contribute to the dream of an AIDS- International AIDS Conference 2010. free generation and inspire today’s held in Washington recently. New UKZN unit geared to revolutionise the maritime industry THANDIWE JUMO AND HAZEL LANGA ‘However, its most important function will be to inform the city of THE SA maritime community is Durban about careers in the firmly behind ensuring the highly maritime sector. I would like to specialised Unit of Maritime Law make an appeal to the maritime and Maritime Studies launched at community to ensure that this Unit the University of KwaZulu-Natal is a success,’ said Tsautse. recently is a hub for research in the Its focus will be on – but also well field. beyond – the boundaries of The Unit – officially opened by eThekwini and the Durban port UKZN’s Vice-Chancellor and community. Principal areas of Principal Professor Malegapuru teaching excellence at a Makgoba – is a strategic research postgraduate level range from initiative located in the College of maritime law, maritime transport Law and Management Studies and port economics to customs and which makes UKZN the only excise. University in South Africa to offer Professor Trevor Jones, this amalgam of maritime Academic Co-ordinator of the Unit offerings. said: ‘The University has committed Makgoba regarded the Unit as substantial financial resources to the University’s unique signature the establishment of the Unit which initiative and a signal approach includes an extensive maritime towards maritime studies and library as well as a large collection maritime law. of maritime related materials. All of ‘We are making the maritime these will benefit postgraduate sector a business for the University students, researchers and the and this Unit is very important as maritime community.’ we are preparing for the academic This interdisciplinary Unit catwalk which will be the maritime boasts teaching and research sector in five years to come,’ said expertise from various schools and Makgoba. Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal, Justice Malcolm Wallis; Acting Dean of Accounting and Economics disciplines within the College of Located on the threshold of the and Finance at UKZN, Professor Jim Fairburn; Non-Executive Director of the National Ports Regulator of Law and Management Studies such largest port-related maritime South Africa, Ms Thato Tsautse; and Dean of Law at UZKN, Professor Managay Reddi during the launch of as maritime law, environmental law, community in any city in the the Unit of Maritme Law and Maritime Studies at the Howard College campus in Durban. international trade law and southern hemisphere, the Unit has international economics, maritime been established at UKZN to offer a In her address, UKZN Alumnus committed to ensuring the skills within the maritime sector. economics, transport economics, consolidated postgraduate teaching and non-executive Director of the sustainability of the Unit. This Unit will be able to produce taxation and maritime site and research portal for the National Ports Regulator of South ‘It is inspiring to see that UKZN well researched papers that give an management which are professional and commercial Africa, Ms Thato Tsautse, said the is playing a leading role in training accurate concept of where complemented by practical maritime community. maritime community was people to address the shortage of maritime really is. industry expertise. 5 YOUR MONTHLY CAMPUS NEWSPAPER • VOLUME 9 • NUMBER 10 • OCTOBER 2012

Abafundisi basenyuvesi i-Islamic University of Gaza bavakashele e-UKZN Improving quality of life for SITHEMBILE SHABANGU children with disabilities NGENHLOSO yokwakha ubudlelwano nokubambisana LUNGA MEMELA disabilities. with the DoH re-engineering of kwezocwaningo, abafundisi Final-year students from the primary healthcare, such ababili abavela e-Islamic TUDENTS from UKZN’s Disciplines of Audiology, Dentistry, interventions were critical. University of Gaza School of Health Sciences Occupational Therapy and Speech Flack said a holistic approach to bavakashele e-UKZN Stogether with various Language Pathology joined healthcare was needed and recalled ukuzoxoxisana ngalokhu. governmental and non- Stanger Hospital nurses in the two successful projects being run Izihambeli governmental organisations provision of a variety of primary in the School of Health Sciences at bekunguSolwazi Mohammed recently offered free primary health screening services. the neighbouring KwaDabeka and M. Shabat oyi- Vice- Izivakashi ezivela eGaza bezihambele e- healthcare services to children Mhlongo said the intervention Marianridge communities. She President for Academic UKZN. living with disabilities in the rural aimed to assess children with said experiential learning was Affairs noDkt As’ad Y oyi- district of iLembe. disabilities in the community. The essential for students in the School. Vice-President for External ekolishini lakwaHumanities, The intervention programme results would be evaluated and lead Mrs Nobuhle Nzimande, HOD of Relations abahlanganyele uSolwazi Sarojini Nadar held at the Ntathakusa Primary to programmes being designed to the hosting School, said the nabafundisi abahlukene kubalwa ukhulume ngemikhakha yabo School in Ndwedwe was the first of assist parents, caregivers and intervention was vital as many kubo noMphathi wezocwaningo e- nangezindlela abangabambisana its kind. educators in the community to parents struggled with raising UKZN uSolwazi Cheryl Potgieter. ngazo ezingeni labafundi The partnership was formed address children’s specific needs. children with disabilities. I-Islamic University of Gaza abaneziqu. when representatives from the Parents and caregivers also Mr Sibongiseni Chamane, an inabafundi abangu 21 000, izikole USolwazi Deresh Tongaat Hulett group approached used the opportunity for free Educator at the School, said they ezingu 11, kugxilwa kakhulu Ramjugernath wesikole the Health Sciences Disciplines at screening and hospital referrals were very grateful health services kucwaningo kwezobunjiniyela. sezobunjiniyela e-UKZN UKZN on behalf of desperate were made in special instances. had been brought into the Izingxoxo ziveze izindawo ukhulume kakhulukazi parents and caregivers of children Dr Penelope Flack, Academic underdeveloped community which kwezokufunda ezihambisanayo ngezindlela okungabanjiswana with disabilities who are members Leader for the Discipline of had limited access to basic phakathi kwamaNyuvesi ngazo nangendlela womabili of the local sugarcane farming Speech-Language Therapy at healthcare. ‘We hope to see more womabili, kwenza nezihambeli amanyuvesi angazuza ngayo. community. UKZN, said the University would and more interventions of this zakujabulela ukuthi bangaletha Umhlangano uphothulwe Ms Nkonzo Mhlongo, Socio- continue to play its part in nature.’ abafundi babo abaneziqu ngesivumelwano sokuthi i-UKZN Economic Development Manager developing educational Ms Nadhira Ramnat and Ms bazoqhuba izifundo zabo. izosayinda isivumelwano for Tongaat Hulett, said the programmes for parents and Fathima Suleman, students from Abafuna ukukwenza sokusebenzisana (Memorandum provincial Departments of Health educators to better understand how the Audiology Discipline, said they ngokushesha ukuba iGaza ilethe of Understanding) nenyuvesi (DoH) and Social Development to manage children living with both had family members who abafundi babo abenza izifundo yaseGaza. teamed up with the local King disabilities. were deaf, and screening for zePhD bazobhalisa lapha * English version available on Shaka non-governmental Flack said iLembe had a strong hearing loss on the day had been an eNyuvesi. Ophethe ezocwaningo page 10. organisation for people with community structure and in line uplifting experience. UKZN astronomer charts cosmic filament in three dimensions GREGORY DARDAGAN

THE three-dimensional structure of a cosmic filament has been revealed for the first time using high resolution images from the Hubble telescope. The breakthrough was made by a University of KwaZulu-Natal astronomer Dr Mathilde Jauzac, in partnership with international colleagues. The cosmic filament forms part of the cosmic web which traces the distribution of matter in the universe, similar to the complex system of neurons in the human brain with filaments playing the role of nerve fibres. The international team comprising scientists from South Africa, France, the United States, Japan, Denmark and the United Kingdom, discovered the filament while studying the distribution of mass around the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745 known as MACS J0717. Galaxy clusters, the largest structures in the universe which are held together by gravity, contain thousands of galaxies and are This enormous image shows the Hubble telescope’s view of the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745. The large field of view is a believed to lie at the nodes of the combination of 18 separate Hubble images. Studying the distorting effects of gravity on light from background galaxies, a team of astronomers cosmic web. In time they grow as has uncovered the presence of a filament of dark matter extending from the core of the cluster. The location of the dark matter is revealed in a matter is funnelled into them along map of the mass in the cluster and surrounding region, shown here in blue. The filament visibly extends out and to the left of the cluster core. cosmic filaments. Using additional observations from ground-based telescopes, the team was able to map the filament’s structure in three dimensions, the first time ‘From our earlier work on this has ever been done. IMAGE: NASA, ESA, HARALD EBELING & JEAN-PAUL KNEIB MACS J0717, we knew this cluster was actively growing and thus a concentrations of mass - in this dimensions required further Jauzac’s team is so extended that a the University of KwaZulu-Natal prime target for a detailed study of way the galaxy cluster acts as a observations from the Subaru and beam of light would take about 60 has led this pioneering study.’ the cosmic web,’ said co-author Dr large gravitational lens. It is a Canada-France-Hawaii telescopes million years to travel across it. Dr Jauzac plans to continue her Harald Ebeling of the University of subtle effect and the study required to locate thousands of galaxies The team’s findings have backed work on a larger sample of galaxy Hawaii in the USA. very precise images from the within the filament and get up the view of how small clusters, with similar interesting Dr Jauzac, who earlier this year Hubble Space Telescope of the measurements of their velocities irregularities in the universe at the features, using observations from started a research fellowship at galaxies around and behind the using the Keck and Gemini time of the big bang grew over the Southern African Large UKZN’s Astrophysics and filament as well as new tools telescopes. billions of years to form the large Telescope (SALT). Cosmology Research Unit, used the developed by the team to reveal the Dr Jauzac, who recently cosmic structures seen today and The forthcoming James Webb method of gravitational lensing to hidden dark matter filament. obtained her PhD from Laboratoire have provided astronomers with Space Telescope will be a powerful map out the distribution of the ‘The challenge’, explains co- d’Astrophysique de Marseille in further insights into how the tool for detecting filaments in the dark matter in the cosmic filament. author Dr Jean-Paul Kneib of the France, said: ‘Filaments of the elusive dark matter is spread across cosmic web, thanks to its enhanced Dark matter, which has eluded Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de cosmic web are extremely extended the universe. sensitivity over the Hubble Space detection by astronomers to date, Marseille in France, ‘was to find a and diffuse, which makes them Professor Sunil Maharaj, Telescope. makes up 90 percent of the matter model of the cluster’s shape which very difficult to detect, let alone Director of UKZN’s Astrophysics The research is presented in a in the universe and forms the fitted all the lensing features we study in three dimensions.’ and Cosmology Research Unit, paper titled: “A Weak-Lensing Mass backbone of the cosmic web. observed.’ The first convincing detection of confirmed the impact of this study. Reconstruction of the Large- Scale The technique of gravitational Observations by the Hubble part of a cosmic filament was made ‘The team has shown insight and Filament Feeding the Massive lensing has its foundation in Space Telescope gave the best two- earlier this year by a team of originality in making an excellent Galaxy Cluster MACSJ0717.5+3745”, Einstein’s theory of general dimensional map of the mass astronomers led by Dr Jorg contribution to a difficult problem. which will be published in next relativity which predicts that light distribution. However, to see the Dietrich. We are indeed pleased that Dr month’s issue of Monthly Notices of should bend around large shape of the filament in three The filament discovered by Dr Jauzac from our research unit at the Royal Astronomical Society. 6 7 YOUR MONTHLY CAMPUS NEWSPAPER • VOLUME 9 • NUMBER 10 • OCTOBER 2012 YOUR MONTHLY CAMPUS NEWSPAPER • VOLUME 9 • NUMBER 10 • OCTOBER 2012 Journey of discovery

Council members on a tour of K-RITH. begins for K-RITH

LIZ CLARKE kind outside the US and filled with extraordinary scientists,’ he said. T took just seven years from The opening of the new airy and inception to reality – a record in attractive building on Tuesday Ithe sphere of scientific October 9 was a joyous and proud development. occasion with celebrated storyteller, But the big day has arrived. Gcina Mhlope, bringing a unique The new global KwaZulu-Natal blend of traditional magic to the Research Institute for event. Other crowd-pleasing Tuberculosis and HIV is now open interludes were a performance by for business in the grounds of the the KwaZulu-Natal Youth Wind UKZN Nelson R Mandela School of Band, the rhythmic and Medicine. The highly modular harmonious Kholwa Brothers and building with its distinctive wood the Wiggins Secondary School interior and unique mosaic Choir. designs houses nine university Among the VIPs celebrating the departments that will now be the birth of this international facility linking hub between three were the National Minister of existing UKZN Medical School Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi; Kurt buildings. Schmoke, Chairman of the HHMI Director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for TB and HIV (K-RITH ) Professor William Bishai speaks The establishment of K-RITH as Trustees and Vice President of a major player in the global fight Howard University; Dr Zweli during the multi million rand launch of K-RITH. PHOTO: RAJESH JANTILAL against TB and HIV has set a Mkhize, Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, powerful and fundamental new K-RITH’s new Director Professor precedent in terms of collaborative Bill Bishai; UKZN Vice-Chancellor, science. Professor Malegapuru Makgoba In his welcoming address Robert who outlined the history of the new Tjian, President of the Howard building and those who had made Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) possible a far-reaching dream. emphasised the need to translate The high point of the opening research into novel treatment for ceremony was the official unveiling the “twin scourges” and new ways of the K-RITH Tower Building. to manage the diseases. Pressing the start button were Dr ‘It is fresh thinking that has led Motsoaledi, Professor Makgoba, to the creation of this international Professor Tjian and Professor From left: Professor Robert Tjian; Professor Malegapuru Makgoba; Dr Zweli Mkhize; Professor William Bishai; Mr Kurt Schmoke; Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and KwaZulu- research facility - the first of its Bishai. Natal MEC for Health, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo.

Guests attend the multi million rand launch of K-RITH at UKZN’s Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine in Durban on 9 October 2012. PHOTO: RAJESH JANTILAL

The signing of the agreement between the HHMI and UKZN on the 26th September 2008 in Washington DC. Seated: Professor Malegapuru Makgoba, Vice-Chancellor of UKZN and Dr Jean Schroeder, Senior Program Officer HHMI with An aerial photograph of the K-RITH Tower Building. PHOTO: STEVE MCCURRACH Professor Tom Cech, President of the HHMI and Dr Jack Dixon of the HHMI. Standing in front of the K-RITH building is the HHMI’s Senior Scientific Officer, Dennis McKearin, PhD. PHOTO: LIZ CLARKE 8 YOUR MONTHLY CAMPUS NEWSPAPER • VOLUME 9 • NUMBER 10 • OCTOBER 2012 Computer science student wins national award

ASHAY NATHOO Financial Engineering and UKZN’s School of Mathematics, Economics (CIFEr 2012) in New Statistics and Computer Science S Annaliza Moodley, who York. made its presence felt at the event completed her honours in CIFEr is the major with several academics and MComputer Science at collaboration between the students - including Adewumi and UKZN last year, received the award professional engineering and Professor Nelishia Pillay - for the best fourth year honours financial communities and one of presenting at the conference. student at the conference and prize the leading forums for new The UKZN delegation giving ceremony of the Operations technologies and applications in presented research papers in the Research Society of South Africa the intersection of computational area of optimisation and modeling (ORSSA). intelligence and financial which provided practical solutions Moodley was nominated for the engineering and economics. to problems of national award by her Supervisor, Dr In addition to the recognition importance including annual crop Aderemi Adewumi, who received and prestige the award holds, planning, sports league the prize on her behalf. Moodley was given a cash prize for scheduling, blood assignment in Moodley’s project, which her achievements. It was the first blood banking, financial portfolio focused on financial portfolio time since the merger that a UKZN selection and the early detection of selection with heuristic student has won the prestigious type two diabetes. optimization, had earlier been annual award which places the The Conference was also an accepted and presented by University’s name in the ORSSA opportunity for the UKZN group to Adewumi at the IEEE Hall of Fame. network with other academics and International Conference on It was also the first computer industry partners, seeking ways Computational Intelligence for science project to scoop the award. for future collaboration. Ms Annaliza Moodley. Horticultural Science Students share their exchange postgraduate student programme experiences wins AgriSETA Award

SALLY FROST industry partners which in Mathaba’s case is the Citrus Industry. UKZN’s Mr Nhlanhla Mathaba was Mathaba’s PhD project named the Best Performing investigates the events leading to Agricultural Sector Education and chilling injury in lemons, a Training Authority AgriSETA physiological disorder of fruit and bursary student during the vegetables leading to severe peel organisation’s annual gala dinner in discolouration, thereby reducing the Johannesburg. marketability of produce. A variety of awards recognising The project resulted in a deeper various role players in the understanding of the occurrence and agricultural sector were made at the mitigation techniques of chilling event. injury in citrus fruit. Mathaba, a Science Foundation ‘This achievement would be Programme student, has recently impossible without the guidance and submitted his thesis for a PhD in support of my Supervisor, Dr Sia Horticultural Science. Beetling, and my industry partner, The AgriSETA evaluated the Citrus Academy of the South nominees by interviewing students, African Citrus Growers’ their supervisors and project Association,’ said Mathaba.

Exchange students from left: Ms Humairah Bassa; Ms Nokuthula Ngubane and Ms Zaakirah Bassa.

MELISSA MUNGROO with. about our country’s politics and the Sisters and postgraduate population statistics.’ THREE UKZN students have students in Theoretical Physics and The sisters also had the completed five-month overseas Environmental Science, Humairah opportunity to travel to Spain, exchange experiences which they and Zaakirah Bassa, studied at England, Denmark and Scotland. described as both exciting and an Konstanz University in Germany. They advised other students to eye-opener. ‘The University and its courses take up any opportunity to study Fourth year Social Work student are very student-driven. You get a abroad as an exchange student Ms Nokuthula Ngubane, who two-week trial period to study what because it was an amazing learning attended Jönköping University in you feel you might want to take on experience which taught one to Sweden, said: ‘The campus life in as a major. There’s also a lot of budget and be independent. Sweden is very relaxed - you have sporting activities such as ‘It changes your way of thinking time to complete assignments and snowboarding and skiing,’ said and opens you up to experience new projects while still being able to Humairah. places and cultures,’ said Zaakirah. enjoy socialising. ‘We took a climate change course She said exchange students needed She said despite the obvious and one of the topics discussed was to be flexible and prepared to learn language barrier students had been area studies in South Africa. as much as they could of the host Mr Nhlanhla Mathaba. welcoming and easy to interact Students asked us a lot of questions country’s language. 9 YOUR MONTHLY CAMPUS NEWSPAPER • VOLUME 9 • NUMBER 10 • OCTOBER 2012 Agricultural Economics staff and students scoop awards SALLY FROST for two weeks in Akankwasa et al. The December. titles of the papers UKZN academic staff and Senyolo presented presented and the authors postgraduate students walked off a poster titled: were: with the lion’s share of awards at the “Examining the “Social capital and recent national Conference of the household household poverty in Agricultural Economics Association purchasing decision rural KwaZulu-Natal”, by of South Africa (AEASA) in of underutilized L Baiyegunhi; Bloemfontein. leafy vegetables “Smallholder maize value Mr Garreth Sparks, who (ULVs) in Limpopo chain in the Eastern Cape: graduated summa cum laude with an province, South Mr Garreth Sparks. constraints and MScAgric (Agricultural Economics) Africa”. opportunities for chain degree in April 2011, Professor Ms Michelle Browne, who development”, by M Muchara, GF Gerald Ortmann and Professor Mike graduated in April with an MScAgric Ortmann, E Wale & B Letty; “The Lyne won the prize for the Best Paper (Agricultural Economics) degree values rural households attach to published in Agrekon – the official Front from left: Mr Stanley Sharangua, Ms Grany Senyolo, and Dr cum laude, shared first prize with a forest products and services: the case ISI-accredited journal of AEASA – in Edilegnaw Wale. Back from left: Dr Lloyd Baiyegunhi, Professor Gerald student from the University of of three communities in KwaZulu- 2011/12 for a paper titled: “A Ortmann and Mr Binganidzo Muchara. Pretoria for the 2011/2012 AEASA Natal, South Africa”, by S normative economic analysis of co- Africa”. It was published in Agrekon awarded a South African Best Masters Thesis award. Her Sharaunga, M Mudhara and E Wale; operative biodiesel production using Vol 50(3) in September, 2011. Agricultural Economics Professional thesis is titled: “Measuring “Mentee and mentor competencies soybeans produced by smallholders Senior Lecturer Dr Edilegnaw Fellowship, which is administered by household resilience in developing for forming and sustaining in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa”. Wale won the prize for the best article the National Agricultural Marketing countries: evidence from six African mentorship: perspectives from the Sparks, Ortmann and Mr Louis published in a scientific journal Council and AEASA. countries”. Browne was supervised South African sugar industry”, by R Lagrange, formerly a Senior other than Agrekon for his paper This award will enable Senyolo by Ortmann and co-supervised by Mabe, E Wale & SRD Ferrer; “The Lecturer in Agricultural titled: “Explaining farmers’ and two other young researchers to Professor Sheryl Hendriks of the effect of banana cooking qualities Engineering at UKZN, won the decisions to abandon traditional visit well-known American University of Pretoria. and other consumption Protein Research Trust Best varieties of crops: empirical results institutions, including Cornell Lecturer Dr Lloyd Baiyegunhi characteristics on consumers’ Scientific Article award for 2011/12 from Ethiopia and implications for University, USDA or other US and postgraduate students Mr intentions to purchase East African for their paper titled: “An economic on-farm conservation”. This paper government agency research Stanley Sharangua, Mr Binganidzo Highland Banana hybrids in evaluation of soybean based was published in the Journal of facilities, the World Bank, Tuskegee Muchara and Mr Royal Mabe also Uganda”, by K Akankwasa, GF biodiesel production on commercial Sustainable Agriculture (2012). University, not-for-profit institutions presented papers at the Conference. Ortmann, E Wale & WK farms in KwaZulu-Natal, South Lecturer Ms Grany Senyolo was and international research centres, Ortmann presented a paper by Tushemereirwe. Research results on MBCHB Seminar focuses on cartoons, student achievement at UKZN satire and South African politics LUNGA MEMELA

ESEARCH conducted by an expert in pedagogic factors in Rthe medical curriculum at UKZN, Professor Ted Sommerville, has revealed that students with previous tertiary education experience tend to do better than others in the MBChB programme. During a study investigating From left: Head of UKZN Special Collections, Ms Joyce Myeza; Mrs Rabia several demographic influences on Motala; Manuscript Librarian for the Alan Paton Centre, Mr Nazim Gani; MBChB student achievement, Mrs Phoebe Brown; and Director of UKZN Libraries, Dr Nora Buchanan. Sommerville found that when examined individually, age, sex and VICKY CROOKES father.’ Gani said Zapiro argues that facilitator background had no ‘his unflattering portrayal of significant impact on the success of UKZN’s Alan Paton Centre and President Zuma is entirely based on students being studied. Struggle Archives adopted the theme actual quotations where the Students’ first language and the Cartoons, Satire and South African President has said outlandish, financing of their studies did seem Politics for its 7th Peter Brown chauvinistic, and ignorant things to influence their achievements. Professor Ted Sommerville. Memorial Seminar. about AIDS, women and the rule of However, only high school quintile Manuscript Librarian of the Alan law. (socio-economic status of the students of today were a lot more the high fliers. His observation was Paton Centre, Mr Nazim Gani, Zapiro had said that Madiba community), previous tertiary relaxed than older generations that at university, some of the latter presented the keynote address titled: encouraged him personally as a experience, assessment marks and about the comprehensive and did not cope because they knew “Cartoons, Satire and South African cartoonist and gave him the a student’s matric points were packed information passed on to from high school that they could Politics: A Case Study of Zapiro’s necessary space to express himself. significant independent them by lecturers. open their books the night before Cartoons”. ‘Zapiro feels there is an important determinants of how well students Sommerville’s analysis of the and excel in the next day’s Gani said cartoons, satire and role for cartooning in South Africa. progressed through their medical nine demographics came after examination. South African politics generated He is of the opinion that cartoonists degree. holding focus groups with medical Sommerville mentioned that much interest and debate locally as are being taken more seriously than Sommerville presented the students from diverse backgrounds medical schools in a number of well as internationally. ‘Obviously ever. This is evident by the fact that study at the College of Health and listening to their perceptions countries evidently believed that with Zapiro being South Africa’s President Zuma is suing him and Sciences’ Annual Research on teaching and learning in the achieving ‘straight As’ was not most celebrated and published furthermore by the recognition of Symposium, saying the findings MBChB programme. enough to excel in medicine and cartoonist, I felt it was necessary to cartooning in journalism circles,’ could have implications for student ‘Most of the obvious indices of added pre-selection interviews to case study his cartoons especially said Gani. admissions for curriculum the diversity that we strive for show their recruitment process. since he had been actively involved In conclusion, Gani said he structuring, planning therapeutic significant differences when Sommerville said, however, that with the United Democratic Front believed political cartoons interventions and for the pre- examined independently. However, it was not easy to measure an and the End Conscription contributed to the understanding of medical education sphere. in combination, several turn out to applicant’s dedication, Campaign.’ media representation of issues, Sommerville said various fade into the background compared commitment and Gani traced Zapiro’s cartooning people and events. As a result, future studies at school and university to schooling, tertiary education, the conscientiousness simply from a career from the time he was a young studies ‘should focus on the level had documented factors that standards of difficulty of pre-selection interview, particularly child, drawing pictures of monsters feasibility of political cartoons could influence students’ successive assessments and lastly – in South Africa, as students come to exorcise them from his dreams, towards understanding a particular assessment marks – ‘the ultimate and minimally – the more directly from very diverse backgrounds. through to his portrayal of Madiba as social phenomenon and how they can measure of academic success or cognitive aspect of students’ matric A firm believer in problem- a father and moral guardian of the be harnessed to build and shape failure’. performance.’ based learning, Sommerville said nation and Jacob Zuma with his public opinion’. The study was inspired by his Commenting on the small students with previous tertiary famous showerhead. The seminar ended with a passion to teach a new generation impact of matric performance, education experience were more He touched on how difficult it had question and discussion session and of critical thinkers who would join Sommerville said he suspected that likely to do well throughout the been for Zapiro to criticize former a vote of thanks by retired the medical fraternity and meet the today’s average high school student MBChB curriculum, possibly President . Manuscript Librarian, Mrs Jewel special healthcare needs of the might have an advantage in the because they had already developed ‘According to Zapiro, the first time he Koopman, who highlighted the country. He was concerned that MBChB programme over some of some independence of thinking. did so felt like a son criticizing his importance of having a free Press. 10 YOUR MONTHLY CAMPUS NEWSPAPER • VOLUME 9 • NUMBER 10 • OCTOBER 2012

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HE School of Management, Information Technology and Strengthening international TGovernance (MIT&G) recently hosted the American- African-European (AAE) Summer School Programme. The two week-long links through the AAE interdisciplinary and intercultural Masters study hosted by UKZN and the University of the Witwatersrand catered for the Summer School Programme College of Law and Management Studies key priorities of improving the University. postgraduate enrolments by ‘Masters students can use this promoting international opportunity to network and discuss collaborative scholarly work collaborative research possibilities opportunities between UKZN and between themselves and other partnering universities. UKZN students. It also created a platform for ‘There are also opportunities to UKZN academics to engage with embark on a full research masters International postgraduate or a 100 percent fee remission for students and academics from full research or doctoral research. Germany’s Chemnitz University of Please think about this and share Technology and the University of the news of these exciting the Witwatersrand on global opportunities with other students,’ business management trends, said Vajeth. economic forums and political Students also participated in the leadership in South Africa. information sharing sessions by Mr Taahir Vajeth, Senior delivering presentations and being Lecturer and Academic Leader: part of team building events. The Human Resource Management, IR students also enjoyed a tour to the & ER, encouraged students doing SAB-Miller Plant and Nampak in their masters to take advantage of Durban and a Heritage and the various scholarship packages Freedom Route tour in offered to international students by Pietermaritzburg. Participants of the AAE Summer School. Accounting students impress prospective employers College Fun Run a great success STAFF and students from the the College Office’s Witches and College of Agriculture, Wizards and the Cowboys and Engineering and Science braved Indians from the School of Life wet and misty weather to take part Sciences, while the bright green of in a fun run at the Ukulinga the School of Mathematics, Research Farm. Statistics and Computer Science A fun run has been part of the stood out. Faculty of Science and Prizes were awarded for the Agriculture’s tradition for years best dressed team and the best but this was the first time the team spirit. First Man and Woman entire College participated. home, Mr Thulane Singwane and Teams from the various Ms Wendy Janssens, won prizes as Schools and Offices dressed did the last to finish. according to their chosen themes. A lunch was held in Ukulinga’s Colourful attires were donned by main hall after the run. The Cash Cow Group with Accounting Lecturers Mr Khaya Sithole (third left) and Ms Salma Vanker (third right).

THANDIWE JUMO Vanker, said the exercise helped format to make their presentation students enter the workplace on Pick n Pay. THE School of Accounting better prepared. The Cash Cow group won after Economics and Finance in ‘The project is of great value as impressing the judges by adopting partnership with accounting firm it brings together the theory a game show theme titled “Invest Ernst and Young recognised top taught and the application thereof. or Don’t Invest” which analysed achievers at the Accounting 300 It allows students to hone in on the benefits and risks of investing awards ceremony held in Durban report writing skills, master their with Mr Price Group Limited. recently. presentation skills and provides Ernst & Young Director, Ms The event rewards the an outlet for students with Jane Oliva, said her company was achievements of top students and creativity. scouting for future employees who also gives them a platform to ‘The project has been running had energy, enthusiasm and the showcase their skills to Ernst and for many years as a joint initiative courage to lead and the Young in the hope of future between UKZN and Ernst and Accounting 300 event capture all employment. Young and we would like to thank those elements. In the presentations, students the firm for their continued ‘It is not only about technical were required to analyse financial support,’ said Vanker. content but also about statements of a top 100 listed Team 006 chose to examine the presentation skills, creativity and company on the Johannesburg financial aspect of Netcare the energy of the students. Stock Exchange. Limited while the Corporate ‘Everyone who has presented Working closely with their Supremacists group looked at has produced quality which has lecturers for guidance the groups Woolworths Holding Limited’s given them an edge over their had to creatively translate theory ratio and share analysis. peers that is why we continue to into practical scenarios. The Supernova group decided build a relationship with UKZN,’ Accounting Lecturer, Ms Salma to adopt a business news bulletin said Oliva. Cowboys and Indians from the School of Life Sciences. Islamic University of Gaza academics visit UKZN

SITHEMBILE SHABANGU Mohammed M Shabat, and the strong research focus area. here for degrees. The Dean for addressed the issue of potential Vice-President for External Discussions revealed common Research: College of Humanities, areas of collaboration between the TWO academics from the Islamic Relations, Dr As’ad Y, who met with academic areas of interest between Professor Sarojini Nadar spoke two institutions and the potential University of Gaza visited UKZN several academics and UKZN’s UKZN and Gaza whose about the College’s academic benefits. recently to discuss and establish Dean of Research, Professor Cheryl representatives expressed a strong programmes and the common The meeting ended with UKZN partnerships for research Potgieter. interest in growing their areas of collaboration in the committed to signing a collaboration. The Islamic University of Gaza postgraduate component. postgraduate discipline. Memorandum of Understanding They were the Vice-President for has 21 000 students and 11 Schools An immediate goal for Gaza is Professor Deresh Ramjugernath with Gaza in order to formalize the Academic Affairs, Professor with Engineering being a very to send PhD students to register of the School of Engineering partnership. 11 YOUR MONTHLY CAMPUS NEWSPAPER • VOLUME 9 • NUMBER 10 • OCTOBER 2012 The UKZN Griot Of Marks and Socialism

KEYAN G TOMASELLI Questions Indicate that all they students, the first batch co- complained bitterly that her first have Learned is How to Write terminous with the first election, pay slip reflected a tax deduction. FEW years ago on a field trip Exams". This brings us to the 2nd refused to read, work or participate. What was I going to do about it, she students recurringly used Law of Procrastination, that They were simply doing ‘time’. No demanded. Athe word "random" to refer students who only know how to need, they assured their The class became visibly to anything that grabbed their write exams have yet to learn how increasingly exasperated lecturers, animated and distressed on attention, something that was to learn. Also, they don’t know that “Soon, the ANC will be in learning that they were tax fodder. occur? We had a great seminar and novel, an odd event that required they don’t know – they are running government and socialism will Why not re-distribute Anglo- this class came to the academic some kind of colloquial signifier. on empty/zero. The lecturer's stock provide”. This conclusion was American’s profits one asked. A party big-time as a result of this “Random” was soon evacuated of response to these kinds of offered after the lecturers had study just reported revealed that if conversation. any meaning – like a well known questions is found in the Law of locked the seminar room door. The each individual was to get an equal Suffice it to say that the expletive – and simply became a Irritated Reaction: "A Register Will class would be allowed to leave only share, the income per head in 1994 mechanism of redistribution marker that marked some empty be Taken!" This Law suggests that after they explained their otherwise would be just R17. The question cannot be “random”. To get back to exclamatory rhetoric. Being seen students attend a class to sign a inexplicable refusal to learn. was posed by a student who is now education. A variation of Terman’s to be using cellphones here, there register rather than to learn or Thirty minutes of excruciating a head honcho in the advertising Law (Stanford University), would and everywhere, irrespective of participate. silence loosened their lips. “OK, I industry. And so it went, until state that “There is no direct content, meaning or relevance, is So, what's the point of this responded”, now we have a starting enlightenment dawned. Socialism relationship between the quality of the gesticular equivalent of exercise in Academology? point. My colleague, Eric Louw, I is flawed because people venerating an educational program and its cost nothingness taking on significatory Learning is a collective said would examine this passivity want to benefit but not (or the ‘time’ spent doing value. “We’re connected – seems to socialization process. Participation proposition. He had, after all, just contribute, participate and learn. nothing/something in the be the message to onlookers’”. But helps to get a foot in the door – i.e. finished a PhD on Marxism, in the Resources are finite in this system classroom)”. Time is like using cell even the concept of “zero” has employment. As Jonathan Jansen aftermath of the Soviet meltdown. and marks mean nothing when phones , if it’s question of being meaning – even if it signifies keeps telling unemployed Louw’s response was that a learning and problem-solving is not ‘seen’ to be ‘doing’ even if nothing emptiness. graduates in The Times, volunteer, contributing factor to the failure of occurring. The Soviet Union was is being done, then we are running Another student foible is the do, get experience, take up unpaid communism was the myth that running on empty/zero in more on empty Active participation in a question: "Is it compulsory"? This internships to fill in your CV. ‘socialism would provide’. Who ways that one. Successful socialism collective learning environment is might be called the First Law of Waiting for top-paying will pay the taxes, I asked, for this to is not just a matter of signing the the key. Student Procrastination. Realising management posts only works for occur? The students were register, being seen to be doing that evasion is not an option, the the small class of self-righteous horrified to learn that as part of the ‘time’ or paying fees to get a * Keyan G Tomaselli is Director Caveat becomes: "Is it for Marks?" politically connected. The rest have employed middle classes that their certificate. Wealth creation is of the Centre for Communication, It is at this point that the Corollary to work for their living. This is own salaries would contribute to needed no matter the type of Media and Society. He has of the First Law kicks in, especially known as the Law of Mundane the tax base. Were they prepared for economy. Then, it’s a question of outgrown the idea that exam when lecturers try to respond Existence. Most of us have to know the 45 percent marginal tax that we redistribution, and the rich are marks measure anything other intelligently and patiently to the how to slog where the elite just have were paying? Even as they lived required to support the poor, than rote learning. First Law and its Caveat parroted at to cash their paychecks. middle class lifestyles they had though in many societies, like ours, them by students. All this reminds me of a foolishly assumed that they were it is the poor who support the rich. Disclaimer: The views The Corollary states that graduate class we taught in the revolutionaries who would be The question is how and under expressed in this column "Students Asking these kinds of early 1990s. Many of the MA exempt. Indeed, a new staffer had what conditions can redistribution are the author’s own.

Ms Janet Van Eeden, a judge at the Assegai Awards Student Film Seen at the 16th edition of Poetry Africa: UKZN’s Vice Chancellor Professor Malegapuru Makgoba; CCA Awards, hands Ms Lona Mkhize her Best Script Award. Director Mr Peter Rorvik and one of the performing poets Ms Werewere Liking of the Ivory Coast. 12 YOUR MONTHLY CAMPUS NEWSPAPER • VOLUME 9 • NUMBER 10 • OCTOBER 2012

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