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t all of our peril should the world But he knows he has a stiff task Adiscount the part that Africa has ahead. to play in the international climate- “Part of my job will be to make change arena. “I’d argue that climate sure that UCT is the fi rst port of call change issues are as important, if not for anyone wishing to fund research more so, in Africa than in the devel- on climate change and development in oped world,” says Professor Mark Africa,” he says. New. Appointed just a few weeks ago That will be one of his two main as UCT’s fi rst pro vice-chancellor challenges, observes Hewitson. “There and director of the African Climate are a lot of different activities going and Development Initiative (ACDI), on at UCT on climate change, and we New’s comments echo exactly the are in a good position to be a leader on sentiment and driving force behind the the continent, but it requires bringing ACDI. some synergy to our efforts to be a Identifi ed as a strategic research voice on the continent,” he says. interest of national and international The second is to cross the divide concern by vice-chancellor Dr Max between disciplines and departments Price in his installation address, the and research groups. Something New ACDI sets out to build knowledge and was part of at Oxford, where his research capacity in climate change department’s Environmental Change at UCT. Institute fostered the kind of interdis- New’s job will be to provide lead- ciplinary collaboration that the ACDI ership, bring together those who work attempts to bring about at UCT. across disciplines, faculties and de- “He’s good at working across partments in this fi eld at the university, domains, and he has broad interdis- and rev up UCT’s already impressive ciplinary experience,” comments research record in climate change. Hewitson. The initiative’s bottom line is to “I think the key is to create an address Africa’s climate and devel- enabling environment,” says New. opment challenges from an African “True interdisciplinary research is perspective. And, as New and others not easy . . . but when it is successful, on the ACDI have pointed out, there’s the results can be very exciting and plenty to be concerned about. novel.” For one thing, Africa is one of Cape Town may not be novel to the regions most sensitive to climate New, but there will be some transi- change, explains New. That’s not only tion. He leaves behind his partner and because climate is more variable in two children in Oxford – so the eldest, the tropics and sub-tropics, but also 16, can fi nish his A-levels there – and because there’s often less capacity expects there’ll be a bit of to-and-fro to cope with the impacts of climate travelling for the next two years (not change. so environmentally friendly, he appre- And as economies speed up on Full circle : Alumnus Prof Mark New returns to Cape Town and UCT to head up the university’s African Climate and ciates). But he will be accompanied the continent, as many predict they Development Initiative. by the family dog – who often goes to will, there are worries that these will the offi ce with him – and fears some not always follow what New calls “a opportunities – and a responsibility – World Wide Fund for Nature and, in the national chair in climate change at in his Oxford department may miss low-carbon development pathway”. to focus on climate change.” addition to working in Southern Af- UCT. In fact, over recent years the two the dog more than him. Which is where Africa’s scholars and He may have been based in the rica, has conducted research in South have co-headlined a few papers on And while not big on extramural scientists come in. UK, at the Oxford University’s School Asia (with the UK Department for climate change trends and processes activities – “I have a stellar record in “While much of what needs to be of Geography and the Environment, International Development) and South in Africa. propping up the foot of the university done in Africa on the climate issue is these past many years, but New is America. New isn’t too bothered about squash ladder, kicking people rather political and economic, it is important familiar with the African – and the A UCT graduate (born in the UK, swapping the Oxford brand for UCT than the ball in fi ve-a-side soccer, that the research community works to broader developing world – situation. but schooled in ), New – hey, it’s the only African university getting caught at long-on in the provide the best evidence, appropriate He’s worked with international groups has also kept in touch with his alma listed among the world’s top 200, he interdepartmental Twenty20 cricket to the African situation, for the politi- such as the International Water Man- mater, especially through the Climate points out, and his family lives in and competition” – he is looking forward cal and economic decision-makers,” agement Institute, the International Systems Analysis Group headed by around Cape Town. And he will retain to getting reacquainted with an old he says. “So I think there are amazing Livestock Research Institute and the Professor Bruce Hewitson, who holds a visiting position at Oxford. Cape Town fl ame: surfi ng. 2 Monday Paper NEWS 23 May – 05 June 2011 Vol. 30 #07 Roof raised at Obz Square HIV/Aids stigma remains a challenge – Price

tigma remains a concern, said Svice-chancellor Dr at UCT’s annual Candlelight Memo- rial Concert, organised by the HIV/ AIDS Institutional Co-ordination Unit (HAICU) on 12 May. The event, which featured local band Goodluck, commemorated the lives of colleagues and friends who have died of AIDS, supported those liv- ing with the virus, and addressed the stigma still attached to the Making room: One of the completed kitchens in the Obz Square residence, disease. currently under construction. “Our main job is to address questions of stigmatisation, and I he revellers didn’t quite raise the fi nal 887 rooms had been completed, urge you to go out there and talk Troof, but with the main roof on toilets and all. Vice-chancellor Dr about it,” Price told students. the seven-storey, R485-million Obz Max Price reminded the audience He referred to UCT’s campaigns Lighting the way: VC Dr Max Price and student Luke Nkosi light a candle at Square completed in March, UCT why UCT had embarked on the for tackling the disease, particularly UCT’s annual Candlelight Memorial Concert. offi cials, project consultants and project – the university’s largest capi- the discipline-specifi c HIV/AIDS contractors celebrated the occasion tal investment yet, and set to become curriculum course components that tion rates have levelled out among infected over 5.7 million South Af- in some style at a roof-wetting on 12 UCT’s biggest student residence have been incorporated into the young people, the university – and ricans. The big task, he added, is for May. There’s still plenty of fi ne detail when it opens its doors in 2012 – formal curriculum. the country – cannot be complacent individuals to take responsibility, and fi nishing work to be done, but as notably the changing demographics Price noted that although infec- in responding to a disease that has and always to practise safe sex. Chris McMinn of NMC Construction of students, many of whom would reported at the bash, brickwork to struggle with their studies if they the seventh fl oor was halfway done weren’t able to live within reach of by the end of April, while 433 of the the university and its facilities. Full steam ahead for task team

he task team established by Minis- Tter of Higher Education and Train- Skotnes Collection on tour ing Dr Blade Nzimande to develop a charter for establishing the importance of scholarship in the humananities and social sciences, and led by UCT’s Professor Ari Sitas, has completed its fact-fi nding visits. Sitas (sociology department) and Dr Sarah Mosoetsa of the University of the Witwatersrand have visited 22 of the country’s 23 higher education institutions, interacting with some 1 300 academics and students in the humanities and social sciences. They also ran focus groups with civil society organisations and social movements and recently held a key strategy workshop with 36 experts in the fi eld. A working paper developed by the task team was circulated for comment after CT’s Irma Stern Museum was the second stop for the national tour of the the strategic workshop. UKWV-sponsored Cecil Skotnes art collection, titled The Epic of Everlast- UCT’s Bianca Tame, also of the ing. After launching in Stellenbosch on 7 April, the collection will travel from sociology department, and co-ordi- city to city, ending in Paarl in January 2012. “He believed that immortality nator of the task team, said the facts could only be achieved through good works, one’s children and the power of gathered address six inter-related areas art,” said Professor Pippa Skotnes of UCT’s Michaelis School of Fine Art at the that affect the broader humanities, Irma Stern opening on 5 May. “His painting and art-making were his greatest facts about the “wellness” and integrity pleasure.” The exhibition left Irma Stern on 12 May, and opened in Pietermar- of South African higher education itzburg on 20 May. institutions, students and their scholar- ship, excellence and relevance, the qualities of mind necessary for gradu- ates in the fi eld, and specifi c problems relating to the subjects taught. “It has been hard separating fact More to come: Prof Ari Sitas, head of the national task team into developing from fi ction and perception from con- a charter to establish the importance of scholarship in the human and social viction,” Tame said. sciences. The task team will deliver its report to the Department of Higher Education and Training next month. Sitas is cautiously optimistic about the prospects of a new dispensation. “But the universities have also ties any more, and that it should be “The social ecology of what makes developed some very expensive hab- outsourced.” good research and teaching in the its. Yes, the relevance of our education There is a national and interna- humanities and social science is very system is under scrutiny by economic tional encounter being planned for frail at the moment and needs serious and social actors, but no one denies the beginning of June and then it will enhancement. But we are also facing the importance of deep literacy, critical be report-drafting time. By the end of levels of toxicity that are regrettable... analysis and cognitive complexity. June a report must be handed over to It takes years and years to create some- What people out there worry about, the Department of Higher Education thing good and it takes an idiot a few call them the market if you wish, is the and Training. hours to destroy it. The task team does actual quality our graduates possess, as While Sitas says he is keen to not want to be that idiot.” opposed to the rhetoric of many of us return to his favourite sociological Sitas also addressed a number of in the humanities. The thought of 900 century (the 17th) and to his “serious misconceptions that Aisha Lorgat, the students with one lecturer for one sub- obsessions with the musical theory of task team’s senior researcher, spent ject frightens them, but what frightens the Baghdad, Cairo and Cordoba many hours trying to verify, such as them more is that some students pass Schools of the 9th to 11th centuries”, funding for the university system – or fail under those conditions. There is he foresees plenty of post-task-team which, contrary to perception, has a joke doing the rounds that academia work to ensure the recommendations almost tripled since 1996, Sitas said. is not the core business of universi- of the charter are implemented. 23 May – 05 June 2011 Vol. 30 #07 NEWS Monday Paper 3 Africa Day celebrations endorse UCT’s Afropolitan drive

frica Day, held annually on 25 nomic Development and Planning; AMay, is a red-letter date for UCT Associate Professor Pearl Sithole in terms of cementing the institution’s of the Department of Community position as an Afropolitan university. Development and Social Work at Already the university has made the University of KwaZulu-Natal; signifi cant strides in this endeavour, Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza of says deputy vice-chancellor Professor UCT, who holds the National Re- Thandabantu Nhlapo. search Foundation Research Chair “The Afropolitan vision is simple in Land Reform and Democracy in enough to describe: it is UCT’s aspira- South Africa; Associate Professor tion to play a role on the continent Harry Garuba, director of UCT’s that is commensurate with our pre- Centre for African Studies; and As- eminent position as one of Africa’s sociate Professor Leonhard Praeg leading institutions, and to play this of the Department of Political and role more consistently and more International Studies at Rhodes visibly,” he said. “We believe we are University. well-prepared for such a role.” • An exhibition at the Robert Leslie UCT’s annual intake of students, Social Sciences Building from 23 for example, is weighted heavily in to 25 May, from 08h30 to 16h00, favour of African students. In 2010, showcasing UCT’s partnerships 62% of UCT’s 4 671 international stu- and collaborations in Africa. dents came from 35 African countries, • The International Academic Pro- a total of 2 894 students. UCT is also gramme Offi ce (IAPO) will hold involved in several hundred research an Africa Day dress competition on collaborations in Africa and in many 25 May. The winning photograph capacity-building programmes. (A stands to bag R1 000, and the pho- special edition of Monday Paper, tographer R500. The photograph Afropolitanism at UCT, will be must have been taken between published in the week of 30 May to 08h00 and 20h00 on African Day. 5 June.) Please send all entries to Brenda Africa Day events at UCT on 25 Kok at [email protected] by May will include: noon on Thursday 26 May. Final- • A panel discussion on the study of ists will be announced on 1 June Africa in the post-colonial African and will be notifi ed by email or university, at 16h30 on Wednesday phone. Please include this informa- 25 May, in Lecture Theatre 1 in the tion: your name, department/unit, Graduate School of Humanities. country or countries which the gar- Panellists are: Professor Adebayo ments represent (if possible) and Olukoshi, director of the United your contact details such as email (From left) Rhoda Adonis and Ronelle Steenberg beat out a rhythm on Africa Day during the festivities in the commerce Nations African Institute for Eco- and telephone number. faculty last year. Alumna picks up marquee sci-fi award

lumna Lauren Beukes made National Book Award) and Patrick fi ction sub-genres, as well as African Aliterary history when she became Ness (winner of the Guardian chil- mythology and popular culture, the the fi rst South African to win the dren’s fi ction prize). book has received rave reviews since Arthur C Clarke Award, considered Published by Angry Robot Books, its release. the most coveted honour for science Zoo City is set in a dystopian and While she doesn’t want to be fi ction writing published in the UK. alternate Johannesburg where human pigeonholed as only a science fi ction Beukes bagged the award and the sensibilities or guilt can take on real writer, Beukes is an avowed fan of £2 011 purse for her second novel, animal form – animals who tag along the genre in all its forms. And, as the Zoo City, released in 2010. She was with their human mates, à la (but not groundbreaking movie District 9 has something of a dark horse, beating quite) Philip Pullman of His Dark shown, it offers new ways to look at out hot favourite Ian McDonald, Materials fame. The lead character, South Africa, she points out. whose The Dervish House trumped for example, is saddled with a sloth “I think science fi ction is at its Zoo City for the British Science Fic- on her back. most interesting when it’s used to tion Association (BSFA) best novel Borrowing from classic SF, distort reality in such a way as to get Mind-bending: Lauren Beukes has made her mark on the literary world by award only days before, and the likes urban fantasy, magic realism and a fresh perspective on reality.” winning the Arthur C Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City. of Richard Powers (winner of the US cyberpunk, among other science [email protected] International fellowship for EBE scholar

lphose Zingoni, professor of able international recognition from ship. He’s hoping to do the same for Astructural engineering and his peers – and the prominent role he the next generation of engineers. mechanics in the Department of Civil has played in promoting the exchange “One of the responsibilities of Engineering, has been elected a fel- of the latest fi ndings among research- fellows of the IABSE is to act as role low of the International Association ers. Over the past 15 years Zingoni models to the younger generation, and for Bridge and Structural Engineering has been investigating the behaviour encourage them to excel, and I hope (IABSE). of shell structures, and his 1997 text, that this award will give my students The IABSE boasts about 4 000 Shell Structures in Civil and Me- added inspiration,” he says. members in 100 countries. Zin- chanical Engineering, is now used in goni joins an elite group of only 150 more than 60 countries. He has also IABSE members worldwide who pioneered work on the use of group have been named fellows. theory in the study of problems in The fellowship recognises his structural mechanics. signifi cant contributions to the fi eld Zingoni is modest about this latest Building blocks: Prof Alphose Zingoni of structural engineering on the world recognition, and acknowledges UCT has been elected a fellow of the stage, through his own research and for providing an atmosphere that is International Association for Bridge scholarship – which enjoys consider- conducive to research and scholar- and Structural Engineering. 4 Monday Paper RESEARCH 23 May – 05 June 2011 Vol. 30 #07 Vaccine development the answer to TB - Hanekom here are few better placed than TProfessor Willem Hanekom to present new and unpublished data on the work of the South African Tuber- culosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI). Described as an “entrepreneurial clinician” and “an outstanding role model for SATVI and UCT”, Hane- kom, an internationally-recognised immunology expert, gave up a promising career in the US to work in South Africa, which has the second- highest number of TB cases in the world. Now a co-director at SATVI, he is playing a leading role in develop- ing TB vaccines, the basis for his inaugural lecture, Vaccines to Prevent TB, delivered on 4 May. For Hanekom, TB deaths can well be compared to the recent earthquakes and tsunami in Japan that killed about 10 000 people. Every year 1.7 million people around the world die of TB. “I don’t think TB deaths are any Advocate: Prof Willem Hanekom believes that vaccines will have a huge impact in the fi ght against TB. (Listen to the podcast of his inaugural lecture at http://www. uct.ac.za/news/multimedia/sound/2011/) less devastating or have any less im- pact on the economy of a community studies to address critical questions in The four vaccines SATVI has to measure in people’s blood (after are protected or not,” he said. or households,” Hanekom said. “So TB vaccine development. developed over the years have shown they have received a vaccine) to tell The SATVI group has already dis- really, we should do something.” Hanekom and his team are work- incredible results, he reported. “All whether they will be protected against covered new markers that are likely Vaccines, he believes, have the ing on everything from new ways vaccines tested so far are very safe.” TB. This is a major focus of his to show whether a vaccine will work. best chance of making an impact on to test potential vaccines and how But will they protect people against research group’s effort. This information is also exploited to the disease. safe they are, to assessing whether Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, the “In studies of vaccinated babies, better understand how people protect To this end, SATVI is in the proc- the vaccines will work and how our bacterium that causes TB? we were surprised to see that the themselves against TB; which, in ess of clinical development of new genetic make-up will determine vac- One problem, Hanekom said, currently-used tests may not measure turn, should lead to the development vaccines, and is conducting numerous cine success. is that we still do not know what the right things to show whether they of even better vaccines. Sports scientists put heads together to explore the brain

ntil someone fi nally markets facilities at the Sports Science Ua portable, helmet-sized MRI Institute of South Africa in New- scanner – and, yes, there are people lands, while the MRI scans were trying to do just that – picking the done at the Cape Universities Brain brain of a sports person in situ is not Imaging Centre on Stellenbosch Uni- going to be easy. versity’s Tygerberg campus. The main hiccup is that in most The project is breaking ground sports activities, even the non-con- for the study of the brain during tact ones, the head bobs and sways physical activity, and sets the tone around too much. Unfortunately, an for a string of possible new interven- MRI scan of the brain requires that tion studies to follow up on this pilot the subject’s head remains near- work, explains ESSM collaborator motionless. and postdoctoral fellow Dr Elske The technological hurdle seems Schabort. insurmountable, then. Or so you “Because of the diffi culty of the would think. project, technique, equipment and Recently, Eduardo Fontes, a methodology, limited information doctoral student from the University is available in this area of exercise of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São science research,” says Schabort, Paulo, Brazil, spent some weeks at “and therefore the opportunity to the Medical Research Council/UCT be among the fi rst to initiate such Research Unit for Exercise Sci- novel investigations will allow great ence and Sports Medicine (ESSM) progress in our work to try to under- overcoming this snag. After fi rst stand and describe the involvement hearing of the work of Professor of brain and central nervous system Tim Noakes, ESSM director, on the during exercise and performance relationship between the brain and Along for the ride: Cyclist Ian McClarty is strapped into the MRI simulator, while Dr Fabien Basset of the Memorial regulation.” sports performance, and on how University of Newfoundland (left, in blue) and Eduardo Torres (at back) set up the rest of the equipment, all part of a study Now back in Brazil, Fontes is (and which) cerebral areas control to explore brain activity during exercise. making a start on the analysis of the exercise, Fontes was keen to travel data. Firstly he and a team of inter- to Cape Town to work with Noakes. ergometer. (Watch a video of the To get cyclists used to the head scans with seven well-trained, com- national collaborators at ESSM and And he came prepared. gadget at www.youtube.com/user/ restraints and the sensation of cy- petitive cyclists. It took the cyclists UNICAMP will calculate the specifi c In the hopes of taking a brain UCTSouthAfrica.) cling while supine, all this within the a session or two to get used to the demands of the atypical cycling scan of a cyclist performing at peak, The machine would allow the claustrophobic confi nes of an MRI unusual set-up of the simulator, position, and then cross-check those Fontes and his father, a mechani- researchers to take an MRI scan of scanner, Fontes called on the help Fontes admits. with what they fi nd on the scans. The cal engineer in Brazil, had put their the cyclist completing a standard – if of Charles Harris, chief technical “The fi rst impression when they fi rst results should be out early next

heads together. They designed and punishing – VO2 max (aka maximal offi cer in UCT’s Department of Hu- see it is, oh man, I won’t make this. year, says Fontes. built a makeshift contraption that al- oxygen consumption) test. This test man Biology. In his workshop Harris But after we improved their comfort But the very early fi ndings, at lowed a cyclist to lie fl at on his back, measures the maximum amount of constructed a mock-up of the MRI – their head and their positioning – least, suggest that the results from head kept stock-still in a helmet oxygen that a person’s body can bed and scanner, and made sure the they’re fi ne.” the simulator and MRI scans were fi xed to the bed of the scanner, while transport and use during a bout of fi nal cycling apparatus was scanner- The prep work with the cyclists very evenly matched – confi rmation

still being able to pump furiously at exercise in which intensity is gradu- friendly (no metal bits, for example). on the simulator – including full VO2 that the simulator did its job. Now a set of pedals connected to a cycling ally increased over time. Fontes ran the full tests and max tests – took place at the ESSM comes the brain-teasing stuff. 23 May – 05 June 2011 Vol. 30 #07 RESEARCH Monday Paper 5 Gradual catastrophe in shifting sands Baden Powell Drive is a hazard to motorists - and a lesson to environmen- tal and geographical science students

Sample this: Dr Frank Eckardt (right) briefs students on data collection on the False Bay dunes. (Inset) Unusable: The sand has reclaimed this beach-side picnic spot.

ature’s way of changing is not historic changes to the coastal land- of people as well as the environment Nalways apparent to us. A recent scape over the last 60 years. – that could easily be avoided. The Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town, South Africa geomorphology fi eld excursion by Dr The shifting sand has made its “Coastal developers who insist on invites you to a screening and public discussion of the film Frank Eckardt of UCT’s Department mark on residences, seaside recre- building on the dunes are simply not of Environmental and Geographical ational structures and the road itself. taking reality into account,” says Eck- Science examined the road alignment Soil samples were collected for ardt. “Environmental problems can be COURTING of Baden Powell Drive, the scenic examination of organic content, as associated with climate change, but route that hugs the False Bay coast a an indicator of stability, and grain sometimes it simply amounts to too little too tightly for comfort. size and shape, which give a sense of many people doing stupid things in It’s so close to the waves that sediment mobility. Vegetation cover the wrong places.” JUSTICE sometimes it literally becomes a and calcium cement content were But if developers know the long- beach road. Eckardt explains that also noted. A GPS device was used to term consequences, why build in CHAIR because of the naturally shifting sand, place sample locations into the wider these areas? Justice Albie Sachs dunes can form in the middle of the context. “Profi t,” answers Eckardt. Former Constitutional Court Judge tar in a matter of hours. The road is “Student group work will “Developers make their money and narrow and unlit, so it can pose a seri- generate a fair amount of data to be leave. And soon people are wonder- SPEAKER ous hazard to traffi c. In some sections shared and analysed by the class,” ing why they have boulders on their Justice Yvonne Mokgoro Chairperson it veers so close to a cliff that it might says Eckardt, “so this also serves as front stoep.” This is the case with South African Law Reform Commission, Tshwane slip into the ocean in a few years. an important exercise in managing some properties in Betty’s Bay, where “Baden Powell Drive was built environmental data.” coastal mass movement is not uncom- SPEAKER between a belt of shifting dunes and “In some areas, naturally shifting mon. Justice Kate O'Regan a shoreline,” says Eckardt. “You landscapes are held frozen in time Eckardt argues that the world’s Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg have to question the wisdom of that by vegetation,” he explains. “Alien focus on “low-frequency, high- Date: Tuesday, 24 May 2011 • Time: 17h15 guests to be seated by 17h30 – 19h00 decision. “The road serves as a lesson vegetation is especially effective in magnitude” events, such as fl oods and Venue: Labia Theatre, 68 Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town for Eckardt’s third-year students. In a preventing dunes from encroaching tsunamis, comes at the expense of RSVP: Lavenia Benjamin • Email: [email protected] fi eld trip following its path from Mui- on development, but this can prevent less media-friendly phenomena, such Tel: (021) 689-1005 • Fax: (021) 689-1003 • Website: www.ccr.org.za

zenberg to the Wolfgat nature reserve, beaches from being replenished. An as soil erosion, disingenuous develop- All are welcome and entry is free. Kindly RSVP as seating is limited. students collected sand samples from example of this is Llandudno, where ment and dying sandy beaches. several areas and examined historic the beach sands can be starved out of “Even slow, creeping change can air photos. This is the fi rst step in existence.” be hazardous,” he notes. “We need to a research project documenting It’s an ongoing battle. Misplaced be more thoughtful with zoning, and CENTRE FOR contemporary environmental controls infrastructure demands constant give nature the respect and space it CONFLICT RESOLUTION

and processes as well as determining maintenance – a cost at the expense demands.” CAPE TOWN • SOUTH AFRICA 6 Monday Paper NEWS 23 May – 05 June 2011 Vol. 30 #07 Graduate quality a growing concern mproving the quality of univer- researched in South Africa. cellor of the University of Western Isity graduates was the focus of a “There are no national instru- Sydney in Australia; Associate Pro- symposium at UCT in March, hosted ments for tracking and monitoring fessor Simon Barrie, director of the by the joint task team of the West- graduates or for obtaining feedback Institute for Teaching and Learning ern Cape Provincial Government on the quality of their learning expe- at the University of Sydney in Aus- (PGWC), the National Business Initi- riences at universities,” says Favish. tralia; and Dr Caryn Musil, senior ative and the Cape Higher Education And while university mission vice-president of the Association of Consortium (CHEC) universities. statements make claims about the American Colleges and Universities The call to explore the critical quality of graduates they wish to in the US. development challenges in improv- nurture, these are not necessarily The symposium was attended by ing graduate quality is fuelled by meaningful to academics. about 100 people from government, employers’ concerns, the legacy of “So one of the key purposes of business and universities. Accord- varying standards of graduates with the symposium was to learn from ing to Favish, the symposium was the same qualifi cations from differ- international experience about how extremely successful. ent higher education institutions, and research on graduate attributes is “Several recommendations for growing international developments conducted and how other universi- possible future activities were gener- with regard to using the notion of ties have used graduate attributes to ated, including research on pedago- graduate attributes to strengthen the enrich the formal and co-curricula. gies that enable the development of curriculum and the overall student Another aim was shape a research intended graduate attributes, collabo- experience. agenda for the region and, possibly rative research with the provincial Judy Favish, director of UCT’s later, the broader national system,” government and business on tracking Institutional Planning Department explains Favish. graduates, and the development of and chair of the planning group that International academics invited a conceptual paper on graduate at- organised the two-day symposium, to give their perspectives were Pro- tributes.” explains that the subject is under- fessor Geoff Scott, pro-vice-chan- [email protected] Campus tour for fi re department he Health and Safety Depart- Tment hosted a campus tour for members of the City of Cape Town’s Fire and Rescue Services, part of the university’s efforts to strengthen relationships with the service, and to familiarise the group with UCT layout. Ultimately, the orientation on upper campus will help fire fighters navigate their way around the university more easily when called on for assist- ance. Organic veggies on News highlights in brief order through CHED • Emer Prof Solomon Benatar of some of the challenges in real estate South African Police Service. The langanani Building on UCT’s boxes (at R65 and R95 respectively) UCT’s Centre for Bioethics is the valuation. event, titled Catching the Scorpions’ Hupper campus is the new collec- of a variety of vegetables picked lead editor of Global Health and • Assoc Prof Rashida Manjoo of Tail, was organised by the UCT tion spot for fresh organic vegetables, that morning will be available for Global Health Ethics, launched at the Department of Public Law, the Black Law Student’s Forum. delivered weekly. This new service pre-order and pick-up from 13h00 UCT in March. Comprising numer- United Nations Special Rapporteur • Social media played a pivotal role in for staff and students is the result to 16h00 on Tuesdays. For further ous essays from scholars around the on Violence Against Women, will the recent Egyptian revolution, and of an unlikely partnership between information email harvestofhope@ world, the book sets out to address receive an honorary degree from will be key in future mobilisation and the Centre for Higher Education and abalimi.org.za. Seen above at the fi rst essential questions on global health Northeastern University in the US at pro-democracy activities, according Development (CHED) Transforma- delivery on 10 May were (from left) from medical, philosophical and the end of May, recognising her work to Prof Steven Youngblood of Park tion Committee and Harvest of Hope, Gideon Baum of Harvest of Hope, social-scientifi c perspectives. in human rights. University in Missouri, US. Young- a sustainable livelihoods project that Mzi Mnyatheli and Cheryl Brown of • A recent series of seminars, work- • UCT engineering students were blood was delivering a public lecture, works with micro-farmers on the CHED and Siyanda Mangcunyane of shops and conferences drew the among those presented with City The Role of Social Networking in Cape Flats. Small- and medium-sized Harvest of Hope. who’s who of world human genome of Cape Town Corporation Medals Democratic Movements, hosted by studies to Cape Town. Among them by Cape Town mayor Dan Plato. IAPO and the Centre for Film & were Sir Walter Bodmer and Profes- The medals are awarded to the top Media Studies at UCT in May. sor , two of the most second- and third-year students and • Human rights in South Africa were Fellowship for respected scientists in the fi eld. The to the top students in their fi nal year the focus of the Faculty of Law’s two also visited UCT as guests of of study in each of the engineering second Rabinowitz Visitor Lec- Prof Raj Ramesar. departments. ture, presented by Lord (Leonard) trauma research • UCT medical graduate Michael • Former Constitutional Court Justice Hoffmann, a retired senior British Hayden, now professor of human Kate O’Regan believes that the judge, on 5 May. The combination rauma research at UCT has increase the number of well-trained genetics and molecular medicine at appointment of Constitutional Court of racialism and legalism which had Treceived a boost, with the South African trauma researchers, the University of British Columbia in judges is a matter of great impor- distinguished the country’s previ- National Institutes of Health (NIH) use research fi ndings to build trauma Canada, has been named the winner tance, given the powerful role of the ous regime, followed by its sudden granting a further fi ve years of and injury prevention and treatment of the Canada Gairdner Wight- court. O’Regan, a UCT alumna who and peaceful abandonment, had no fellowship funding to the Phodiso programmes, and benefi t South Afri- man Award. The award is given to now serves as an acting judge of precedent, Hoffmann said. training and research programme. can communities. “I have learned a Canadians who have demonstrated appeal on Namibia’s Supreme Court, • Forerunners, a UCT Unilever Phodiso – the Northern Sotho word great deal by doing science in differ- outstanding leadership in medicine was a guest speaker at a talk hosted Institute-produced fi lm that charts the for healing – is a collaboration ent parts of the globe, and my hope and medical science throughout their by the UCT History and Current Af- lives of four young black South Afri- between UCT and the University of is that a good young researcher will careers. fairs Society in April. can professionals, received a special California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in use this opportunity to visit the US • Dr Manya Mooya of the Depart- • Advocate Menzi Simelane, director jury award at the recent Cannes In- the US that recruits one candidate and grow,” says Katherine Sorsdahl, ment of Construction Economics and of the National Prosecution Author- ternational Pan African Film Festival. annually for a two-year post- project manager of UCT’s Brain Management has landed a prestigious ity, UCT’s Prof Wouter de Vos and Two years in the making, the full- doctoral scholarship. The success- Behavioural Institute. There is so contract with Springer, one of the advocate Aifheli Tshivhase were length feature documentary follows ful candidate will receive full-time much interesting and important work world’s largest publishing houses, to panellists leading a discussion on the the day-to-day lives of four South salary support to attend UCLA for that remains to be done in the area of release his fi rst book. His work, Real disbandment of the Scorpions and Africans in an attempt to understand three months, conduct their own trauma”. The deadline for applica- Estate Valuation Theory: A critical the establishment of the Hawks, a what it means to be black and middle research in South Africa, and publish tions is 1 June. For more information appraisal, could be an answer to specialist investigative unit within the class in South Africa today. their work.Phodiso’s mission is to email [email protected]. 23 May – 05 June 2011 Vol. 30 #07 CLASSIFIED Monday Paper 7

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he South African round of the 10th TChinese Bridge Chinese Profi cien- cy Competition for Foreign College Students, an annual event for students taking Chinese at South African universities, was hosted by UCT at the Belmont Conference Centre, Ronde- bosch, on 8 May. The competition, presented by the Hanban, the organisation that promotes the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language, offers an opportunity for stu- Building bridges: Participants and guests at the South African round of the10th dents to demonstrate their profi ciency Chinese Bridge Chinese Profi ciency Competition for Foreign College Students. in the language and share their experi- only started to offer Chinese studies The top two students were selected ences, and also sets out to promote from this semester) took part. They for the semi-fi nal and fi nal rounds, friendship and understanding, explains went up against rivals from Rhodes which will be held in China in July. Professor Wu Qianlong, deputy direc- University, None of the UCT students qualifi ed for tor of the Confucius Institute at UCT. and UNISA. that event, but two – Rachel Anderson Refl ecting the growing numbers of The participants all spoke in Chi- and Gafsa Steenkamp – were pre- South African universities offering Chi- nese for three minutes, then demon- sented with third prizes, which makes Stand up: Among the SRC members who attended the protest were Ross Hare nese studies, the number of contestants strated their understanding of Chinese them eligible for scholarships to study and Inshaaf Isaacs (fi rst and second from left) and Kathleen Taylor and Amanda Ngwenya (fi rst and second from right). this year hit 27 – the highest yet. culture through performances such as Chinese at a university in China for Ten students from UCT (which singing or dancing. one year. Ikeys pip Rights snuffed out Maties in by police brutality ollowing the violent death of his life in this manner. intervarsity FUCT alumnus Andries Tatane Also speaking at the event was during a protest action in Ficksburg deputy vice-chancellor Professor or the moment it would appear in April, UCT staff and students Crain Soudien, who said UCT should Fthat the Ikey Tigers have the gathered at Jameson Plaza on 5 May be especially outraged, because the wood on the Maties, as the sporting to protest against police brutality. tragedy touches on questions which saying goes. Not only did the UCT Students’ Representative Council are at the heart of the university. team usurp the Cup from their (SRC) president Amanda Ngwenya “Our primary function is to pre- Stellenbosch University rivals, but said that although the incident has pare all of us to come to uphold and now the Tigers have rubbed salt into been well covered by the media, the to exemplify the values of a democ- the Maties’ wounds with a thrilling Salt in the wounds: The Ikey Tigers celebrate their thrilling – and rare – UCT community needed to recognise racy,” said Soudien. “Central to this 28-19 win in their annual intervarsity intervarsity win over Stellenbosch. what had happened. is unconditional respect for others, clash in Stellenbosch on 14 May. after wasting – as they’ve done so of- or even four in some cases) than “However, we must be careful the unconditional right of people to Understandably the Tigers are ten over the years – their dominance other contenders; in an attempt to not to get caught up in the hysterics associate with whom they want, their overjoyed. These intervarsity wins are of possession and territory. UCT now clear students’ diaries for the upcom- and display of outrage,” Ngwenya unconditional right to dignity, and as rare as, well, intervarsity wins; it’s lies third on the Western Province ing exams, the sides have crammed told protestors. “Only those who critically, their unconditional right to only UCT’s third in 30 years, accord- Super League, behind Maties and Vic- midweek games into their fi xture lists knew him, his community and family, express themselves freely.” ing to the unoffi cial record-keepers, torians (the other Stellenbosch outfi t). as well. are truly in mourning.” Soudien called for the UCT com- and the fi rst since a 2004 triumph There’s still some work to be So the likes of Durbanville- Video footage of Tatane’s death munity to redouble its efforts to pro- (that one’s offi cial). done, however, if they want to qualify Bellville, Hamiltons and even the has heightened public awareness of mote human rights and to publically But this one is especially satisfy- for the National Club Champion- unpredictable SK Walmers, all sitting police brutality, noted Ngwenya, but reject the idea of reacting violently to ing. The Tigers had to claw their way ships. All three university teams have in the bottom half of the log, may this was not an isolated incident and those with different views. back from a 9-19 half-time defi cit, played at least one game more (three well still catch up. Tatane is by no means the fi rst to lose [email protected]

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