ISSUE #2 September 2018 OFFICIAL UJ ALUMNI MAGAZINE Prof Marwala shares his vision on the Fourth Industrial Revolution ESTHER MAHLANGU CHIEF JUSTICE PROF ROBERT recognised for MOGOENG MOGOENG FRY ENGLE her legacy as a Acknowledged for his notable The 2003 Nobel cultural entrepreneur. contributions within the laureate in economics. judiciary sphere. HKLM/0481 HKLM/0481 NEW! FULLY ONLINE Our Programmes are now more accessible. Our Programmes are now more accessible. Towards the end of 2017, UJ launched four 100% online only programmes. These first-of-its-kind online Towardsdegrees werethe end the of Master 2017, UJof Publiclaunched Health, four the100% Master online of only Public programmes. 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CONTENTS 02 Prof Marwala Sharing his vision on The Fourth Industrial Revolution 11 Prof Basie von Solms Research Professor in UJ’s Academy for Computer Science and Software Engineering 22 Itumeleng Sekhu Burn survivor, media personality and motivational speaker +6 Esther Mahlangu recognized for her legacy as a cultural entrepreneur. 8 Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng acknowledged for his notable contributions within the judiciary sphere. 9 Prof Robert Fry Engle, the 2003 Nobel laureate in economics receives an honorary doctorate from UJ. 10 Prof Omotayo Arotiba is honored with Professorial Inauguration. 13 JIAS, advancing excellence and diversity. 18 Professorial Inaugural address of Prof Marlize Lombard. 20 UJ researchers discover family of silver-based anti-cancer drugs. 24 Motheo Khoaripe, eNCA business journalist and markets anchor. 26 Mike Sharman, living his best life. 28 Roger Haitengi, Namibian athlete and head of UJ’s Athletics Club. 31 Unbeaten UJ women take USSA football title. 32 UJ takes seventh USSA squash title. 34 UJ Choir wins at the World Choir Games 2018. 39 UJ Library hosts a series of events. ALUMNI IMPUMELELO 1 PROFESSOR TSHILIDZI MARWALA WAS APPOINTED AS THE UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG’S SECOND VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRINCIPAL IN JANUARY THIS YEAR. AN EMINENT SCHOLAR WITH A DISTINGUISHED RECORD. HE HOLDS MORE THAN 45 HONOURS AND AWARDS, INCLUDING THE ORDER OF MAPUNGUBWE, SOUTH AFRICA’S HIGHEST HONOUR, GRANTED BY THE PRESIDENT FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA. “My vision is to position the new forms of machine intelligence, University of Johannesburg in the breakthrough materials and Fourth Industrial Revolution”, said approaches to governance that Professor Tshilidzi Marwala in his rely on cryptographic methods. inaugural speech. “Those who will Prof Marwala said that UJ was thrive in the Fourth Industrial age a leading university in such will have to understand the world, technologies and it should and the University of Johannesburg be linked to the innovation should therefore be at the forefront architecture of South Africa of laying down a foundation for the playing “a critical role in increasing University of the 22nd century”. the productivity of our industrial But what exactly is the Fourth sector and, thereby, reducing the Industrial Revolution? And what challenges of unemployment, does it specifically mean for UJ? inequality and poverty”. Prof Marwala described the Fourth “We should create an environment Industrial Revolution as one which for our staff and students to is going to integrate humans and master the tools of the Fourth machines, the physical and the Industrial Revolution”, he said. “We graduates must have fluency of cyber, a technological revolution should bring technology into our ideas. Fluency of ideas means that that will transform the world. He classrooms, whether by means of our graduates must be able to explained how the First Industrial blended learning or robotic tutors. come up with multiple ideas about We should use technology to Revolution occurred in England in a topic. Our graduates must be monitor the progress of the 17th century, bringing the steam active, agile and adaptive learners”. engine and the mechanisation our students”. Prof Marwala stressed that the of goods. The Second Industrial “We should increase the graduation other vital skill for the Fourth Revolution happened largely in the rates of our students. We should Industrial Revolution is judgement United States and was connected increase the qualification levels of and decision making. “A robot to the generation of electricity. The our staff. We should deepen our will not be able to decide how Third Industrial Revolution came international profile by bringing about because of the invention of the world into our classrooms and we should deal with migration semiconductors in the 1950s, giving taking our staff and students into of destitute people or about us a transistor and ushering in the the world. We should aim to have ethics or how to convince a electronic age. 20% of our staff to be international leader of a country that war is an by the year 2025 and 15% of our inappropriate way of The Fourth Industrial Revolution, students to be international by the handling disputes”. he said, is the advent of cyber- year 2020”. physical systems involving entirely He said students should be treated new capabilities for people and “We are required to train scientists well and that campuses should be machines as technology becomes and engineers who understand safe spaces for generating new embedded within society and humanities and social sciences. and very often provocative ideas. even within our bodies. He used We are to train social scientists “UJ will master the Fourth Industrial examples such as genome editing, who understand technology. Our Revolution only if we invest in 2 ALUMNI IMPUMELELO Prof Tshilidzi Marwala shares his vision our implementation capacity and Prof Marwala told Impumelelo “I have visited divisions and infrastructure. Our approach should recently that significant progress faculties on all four campuses. I facilitate open engagements. It had been made in the course of the have interacted with our students should facilitate blended learning year, from streamlining registration and unions to deal with all the where technology is the integral to resolving labour issues. He outstanding issues, especially part of teaching and learning”. said that his major challenge around salary negotiations. We was increasing the graduation have overhauled our systems of He said one of his immediate rate of students. “Also how do I financial governance to prevent priorities was the newly established create a culture of responsible future lapses in governance. I have Johannesburg Business School, behaviour, of working hard and of met with industrial players to create which would “facilitate the flow of being ambitious in our students?” the latest technology, leadership he asked. “How do I take UJ to programmes and projects and management to our industrial industry and bring industry to that are of mutual benefit. Now and government sectors”. Another UJ, especially given the serious is the time! I therefore call all our was to establish a Medical School. financial governance challenges we stakeholders in society, industry, “Again, we need to mobilise experienced last year that led to government, domestic and support from both local and the departure of senior leaders of international as well as our alumni, national governments to achieve our university? How do staff and students to join me in this. We will be seeking also the I deal with outstanding issues this great initiative of taking our participation of the private medical around accreditation and how do University into the Fourth Industrial industry. Our Medical School should I create a university of the Fourth Age. Let us jointly mobilize our Industrial Age?” allow graduates with three-year intellectual and physical resources degrees to complete a medical He said he had adopted a strategy to facilitate success in this degree in four years”. of communication. great initiative”. ALUMNI IMPUMELELO 3 Accountancy@UJ A Leader