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These were the words of Prof

Russel Botman, Rector and Vice-

Chancellor of Stellenbosch University

(SU), at the launch of the HOPE

Project to a local and an international

audience at the Konservatorium in

Stellenbosch last week (21 July).

Viewers across the world, which in -

cluded SU alumni living and working

in different parts of the globe, tuned in

to watch the event via live streaming.

Guests present included diplomatic

representatives from the United States,

Switzerland, India and Thailand, mu ni -

cipal, provincial and regional govern -

ment representatives, members of the

South African National Defence Force,

the SU Council, the HOPE Project Ad -

visory Committee, academics and local

and international business leaders.

“We have three responsibilities as

a university. The first is a moral re -

sponsibility. Given our history, we

have a moral responsibility to the

poor, to rural communities and to a

diversity of individuals in our coun -

try,” explained Prof Botman.

“Our second responsibility is the

historical responsibility to face up to

the lingering burdens of the 20th

century. The third responsibility is the

responsibility to embrace the

challenges of the 21st cen tury,

the world of a new gene ration of

young people, new ways of

learning, new oppor tunities for

research and the need for

harnessing emerging techno -

logies on an ongoing basis”.

“The HOPE Project is

our way of living up to these

re spon sibilities. It is our new,

long-term strategic plan – and it is

ambitious, comprehensive and inte -

grated,” he added.

The audience was entertained by

the likes of the Libertas Choir, which

filled the Konservatorium’s Endler

Hall with, amongst others, the haun -

ting beauty of Celine Dion’s and

Andrea Bocelli’s The Prayer, which

was sung in English, Afrikaans and

isiXhosa. The SU Choir, led by

conductor André van der Merwe, was

unable to attend, as they were in

China where they had just been

crowned world champions of the

World Choir Games. The Choir won

two gold medals and attained the

highest overall score of 95.8% of all

the 450 choirs that participated.

The evening was full of surprises,

with Prof Botman announcing the

University’s first Endowed Chair in

Intellectual Property, which will be

funded by Richemont, the world’s

leading luxury-goods group, of which

the University’s Chancellor, Dr

Johann Rupert, is Executive Chair -

person and Chief Executive Officer.

The Rector also spoke about the

University’s goal to raise R1.75

billion over the next five years

through the HOPE Project to

ensure the future sustainability of

the project.

“We can announce with pride

that, in the past three years – the

silent phase of the HOPE Project

– we have raised nearly R500

million in philanthropic contri -

butions”. (Read more on page 1 ofKampusnuus.)

He also announced plans to es -

tablish the Frederick van Zyl Slabbert

Institute for Leadership Development,

named after the late Dr Frederick van

Zyl Slabbert, former Chancellor of the

University. “We will focus, amongst

others, on the development of our

youth and student leaders and equip

them with a sense of responsibility

towards our country and its people”.

Prof Botman said that, through this

campaign, the University also hoped

to increase the percentage of alumni

who currently supported Stellenbosch

through financial contributions from

2% to 10%. A recent example of this

philanthropic spirit, he said, was the

MAP bursary fund set up by Stellen -

bosch graduates Nico Mans, Paul

Antohnie and Alphonso Primo.

SU unveils HOPE Project to South Africa and the worldUniversity initiative aims to have a global impact “The HOPE Project allows us to do three things – to be of service to society, addressing both existing problems andmeeting future needs, to be the best University we can possibly be for a new generation and to galvanise others intojoining us in our quest to help make the world a better place.”

Hope is a powerful human con cept...hope raises us up to go out and make a difference.

– Dr Shirley Jackson

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Rector and Vice-Chancellor ProfRussel Botman addresses the audienceat the launch of the HOPE Project

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HOPE as we see itThe concept of hope was discussed by several panelists that included promi -

nent individuals from South Africa’s academic, legal, economic and sport circles,

HIV/Aids advocacy groups and the media during the Hope in South Africa con -

ference held on campus last Thursday (22 July). The Conference formed part of

the launch of Stellenbosch University’s HOPE Project and speakers presented

various papers on how they envisioned hope in their respective fields.Speaking at the Conference, with his paper on The constitution as a source of hope, Dr Albie Sachs,

former judge of the Constitutional Court, warned against “blind optimism”. Dr Sachs, who had been an

academic for a number of years, said that a university should take risks: “an experiment is a risk” and

“universities should engage in that wrestling match between hope and doubt”. The constitution does not

provide food, homes and other things to people, he said, “but it provides the framework to do that.”

Prof Ben Smit, Director of SU’s Bureau for Economic Research, spoke about how the global economy

seemed to be recovering from the recession, although he warned that significant risks still remain. In his

paper entitled In times of financial meltdowns, what says the financial crystal ball? Is there still hope?, he

said that there was “realistic hope for global and domestic economic conditions to facilitate the University’s

important role in providing hope for the future via the creation of human capital and knowledge”.

Socio-economic rights expert and author of the recently published Socio-Economic Rights: adjudicationunder a transformative constitution, Prof Sandy Liebenberg, delivered a paper entitled Socio-economicrights: Real or false hopes? She pointed out that poverty has a profound impact on all three the key values

of human rights: human dignity, equality and freedom. One of the challenges of ensuring that socio-

economic rights offer real hope is “the creation of a range of effective, accessible forums to enable the

voices of disad vantaged groups to be heard in relation to socio-economic rights”.

The issue of maintaining hope amidst adversity featured prominently in the presentation of Ms Nokhwezi

Hoboyi, Ekurhuleni District Coordinator of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), who presented a paper

on Living with hope amidst the pandemic of HIV/Aids. In 2004, she had full-blown Aids and “thought that

I had no chance of surviving, but through the treatment literacy on the science of HIV I received from TAC,

I regained my strength, hope and will to survive”. She is healthy now because of antiretroviral treatment

“giving hope to other people who have just discovered their HIV status”. Developments that have taken

place in dealing with the HI virus throughout the world provide hope, she said.

Other speakers included Ms Phylicia Oppelt, editor of The Times, and Paralympics athlete and inter -

national gold medallist Mr Ernst van Dyk.

“My hope is sometimes tempered by reality,” said Ms Oppelt, who delivered a paper entitled The media: Mirror of hope, or of despair? “There are things that have become uncomfortable for me,” she said,

referring to the possibility of restrictions on the press. Reporting about uncomfortable issues “is my job”,

she said, “and I won’t apologise to anybody about it.”

Mr Van Dyk delivered a paper entitled Hope is never giving up, even against the odds. “Life throws

setbacks at you, to inspire you to perform better,” he said and suggested that one must have “a purpose in

life, a goal – and be able to bounce back, like a rubber ball”.

Prof Russel Botman, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University (SU), also participated in

the panel discussion and described SU’s Hope Project as “driving transformation in a broad context”.

The project, he said, is “about how we want to be seen and heard in the world”.

“We want to be a relevant as well as a good institution...a place that people can call home,” he said.

Prof Julian Smith, Vice-Rector: Community Interaction and Personnel, opened the Conference. SU staff

as well as members of the public attended. Dr Jerome Slamat, Senior Director: Community Interaction,

led a panel discussion and interactive session at the end of the Conference.– HANS OOSTHUIZEN

Building a

across two continentsImagine: A bridge of hope that links continents and connects two institutions of higherlearning through a number of photons travelling through a mesh of fibre-optic cablesspanning the Atlantic Ocean through London and then running undersea all the way toCape Town and further inland.

Prof Julian SmithProf Sandy Liebenberg

Ms Nokhwezi Hoboyi

Ms Phylicia Oppelt

Mr Ernst van Dyk

Dr Jerome Slamat

Dr Albie Sachs Prof Ben Smit

That’s the kind of network that Stellenbosch University

and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York,

will build through the Virtual Bridge to Africa agreement.

Guests at the launch of the HOPE Project on 21 July were

given a glimpse of what is possible

during a short virtual link-up from

the Endler Hall in the Kon servato -

rium, Stellenbosch, when Rensse -

laer’s President, Dr Shirley

Jackson, tuned in to not only view

and listen to the pro ceedings, but

later spoke to the audience as well.

“The Virtual Bridge demonstrates what can be achieved

through innovative collaboration between institutions

that share a common vision,” said the Rector and Vice-

Chancellor, Prof Russel Botman. “We concluded an agree -

ment last year to ensure capacity building in science and

engineering and to en courage the youth to focus their

studies on the global challenges of our time.”

The agreement came about thanks to

Rensselaer alumnus, entrepreneur,

filmmaker and MapInfo founder Sean

O’Sullivan. “His financial support is

allowing student teams from both of our

institutions to work together to find new

answers in the fields of energy, the

environ ment, water resources, trans -

portation and disease control – all glocal – in other words,

global in scope, local in impact,” said Dr Jackson.

However, it was a meeting prior to this between

‘bridge of hope’

Rensselaer’s President, Dr Shirley Jackson, during the virtual link-up with the HOPE Project launch last week

We will be limited only by our imaginations.

– Dr Shirley Jackson

‘‘ ’’Prof Botman and Dr Jackson in 2007 that led to the final agreement. The two

institutional heads were curious about how university exchanges could be

taken to the next level and how modern technology could be exploited in

such partnerships.

According to Prof Botman and Dr Jackson, the Virtual Bridge raises the bar

for educational exchange and research collaboration at a distance.

“This ‘bridge of light’ (the photons) also will be, in my view, a ‘bridge of

hope’. Research faculties and students from Rensselaer and Stellenbosch will

be able to collaborate remotely as never before, engaging in computational

research and data exchange at speeds of 10 giga bits per second. This, in turn,

will enable the creation of new opportunities, new ideas and new approaches.

We will be limited only by our imaginations,” said Dr Jackson.



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The three graduates were inspired to establish the bursary – the name is compiled from the first

letters of their surnames – following their own struggles to afford tertiary education. (Moreabout this and other recent donations by alumni and staff in the next edition of Kampusnuus.)

While Prof Botman was explaining the HOPE Project to the audience, Dr Shirley Jackson,

President of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest technological research university in

the United States, watched and participated in the proceedings from Rensselaer’s premises

thanks to the new Virtual Bridge to Africa agreement between SU and Rensselaer. (Read storyon previous page.)

Dr Jackson is a woman of many firsts – she is the first woman and first black president of

Rensselaer and the first woman to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

with a doctorate in Particle Physics. Under her leadership, Rensselaer completed a $1.4

billion development campaign last year.

“Hope is a powerful human concept. If faith moves mountains, hope raises us

up to go out and make a difference. And when we fall, it is hope that drives us to

rise again, to renew our work on the challenges of the day and to succeed in

making a positive difference,” she said.

Dr Jackson said that she endorsed the HOPE Project and had great confi dence

in its “future achievements” because she believed that the University had the

“dedication, competence and creativity” to take on

such an ambitious project and because SU is

considered a “valued partner” of Rensselaer.

“The strategy may be far-reaching but it is

also practical. Our partnering with Stellen bosch

Uni versity and, importantly, its partnering with

other African universities, will provide and

maximise opportunity for societal impact. The

HOPE Project will provide a framework for a

number of specific efforts – from helping the

disabled to parti cipate fully in society, to pre -

venting Aids infections – where results can be

expected within this generation. At the same time,

much of the work – such as de veloping Africa’s

future leaders – will have impact far into the years to

come,” said Dr Jackson.

“Investment in the HOPE Project is an invest ment in

the sustained academic excellence of Stellen bosch

University and enables the University to use its proven

strengths to serve human need and to be a beacon and model of higher

education for the whole world.”

– LYNNE RIPPENAAR

SU unveils HOPE Project

US stel HOOP Projek ook in Johannesburg bekend

Die HOOP Projek is ook in Johannesburg bekend gestel. ’n Galageleentheid is op

26 Julie gehou wat deur onder andere die Minister van Wetenskap en Tegnologie,

me Naledi Pandor, sakeleiers, diplomate, alumni en lede van die media, bygewoon is.

Me Pandor, wat gereageer het op die amptelike bekendstelling deur prof Russel Botman,

Rektor en Visekanselier van die Universiteit Stellenbosch, het in haar toespraak gesê dat die

projek die toegewydheid wat die instansie tot vernuwing en relevansie het, demonstreer en

dat dit gebaseer is op gesonde akademiese beginsels en ’n akkurate ontleding van nasio nale

en Afrika-wye behoeftes.

Sy het bygevoeg dat ’n toegewydheid tot die bevordering van wetenskapsbe oefening in

Afrika en die oplos van sommige van die kontinent se hardnekkigste probleme verwelkom

word. “Die Universiteit is ’n instansie wat hom kan beroep op akademiese bronne van ’n hoë

gehalte en ’n reputasie vir sukses het. Hierdie instansie het die potensiaal om ’n bete kenis -

volle bydrae te maak tot Suid-Afrika en Afrika se transformasie agenda.”

– MARTIN VILJOEN

Prof Russel Botman, Rektor en Visekanselier van die Universiteit Stellenbosch, en die Minister vanWetenskap en Tegnologie, me Naledi Pandor, tydens Maandagaand se funksie in Johannesburg



Maties gaan ŉ bottel volhoop die wêreld in stuur’n Bottel gevul met meer as 20 000 hoopbood -skappe gaan iewers langs die Kaapse kus in die seegegooi word.

Dít is die idee waarmee Deon Scharneck, ŉ eerstejaarstudent in

Teologie aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US), vorendag gekom

het om in te skakel by prof Russel Botman, Rektor en Vise kanselier,

se visie vir die HOOP Projek, waardeur die Universiteit die samele -

wing volgens ŉ stel ontwikkelingsdoelwitte van diens wil wees.

“Die idee is dat studente en werknemers van die Universiteit bood -

skappe skryf waarin hulle hul idee van hoop verwoord,” ver dui delik

Deon. “Waar die bottel uiteindelik uitspoel, sal God se wil wees.”

Die Hoop in ’n bottel-projek is op 23 Julie van stapel gestuur

as deel van die be kendstelling van die groter MatieHoop-visie en

-veldtog, ŉ projek waardeur studente hul eie inisiatiewe onder die

Studente raad se portefeulje Eenheid en Dialoog met die Rektor se

HOOP Projek wil versoen. Daar sal duidelik op die bottel aangedui

word dat die boodskappe ŉ MatieHoop-inisiatief is. Kontakbesonder -

hede sal ook aangebring word om te verseker dat wie ook al die

bottel vind, met die US in aanraking kom.

“Ons hoop om ook studente en personeel van ander Suid-Afri -

kaanse universiteite by die projek te betrek,” sê Deon. “Die bood -

skappe kan in Engels of enige ander taal geskryf word. Mense moet

weet daar is hoop in selfs die hopeloosste omstandighede. Alle lande

gaan deur krisisse, en ek glo die bottel en sy inhoud sal ŉ positiewe

boodskap uitdra waar dit ook al gevind word. Ek dink die Hoop in ŉ

bottel-projek kan ook help om die aandag te vestig op die talle US-

projekte wat hoop bied.”

Die boodskap-in-ŉ-bottel idee is geensins nuut nie. Almal ken ŉ

storie of twee van ŉ gestrande op ŉ eiland wat uit desperaatheid ŉ

boodskap in ŉ bottel die see in stuur. Dit is egter waarskynlik die

eerste keer dat dit op so ŉ groot skaal gebeur.

Volgens Deon hoop die organiseerders om die Fakulteit Inge -

nieurs wese te betrek om ŉ omgewingsvriendelike bottel te skep. Die

logistiek van presies hoe groot die bottel moet wees om vir soveel

boodskappe plek te hê moet ook nog uitgewerk word.

Die organiseerders besin nog oor presies waar en wanneer die

bottel in die see gegooi sal word. In dié stadium word Kaappunt as

‘lanseringspunt’ oorweeg. As alles volgens plan verloop, sal die

boodskappe vroeg aanstaande jaar die wêreld in gestuur word.

Een ding is seker: Dis onwaarskynlik dat jy ŉ groot genoeg bottel

in die naaste supermark sal raakloop.– STEPHANIE NIEUWOUDT

“Prof Botman se HOOP Projek lê ŉ

stuk verantwoordelikheid voor elke stu -

dent se deur,” verduidelik sy na afloop

van die bekendstelling van MatieHoop

op 23 Julie op kampus.

“Ons wil hê dat alle studente bemagtig

sal word om die visie van hoop hul eie te

maak.”

“Ons verwag nie dat elkeen met ŉ pro -

jek vorendag kom nie, maar studente kan

reeds ŉ groot verskil maak deur as men -

tors in koshuise, tutors op kampus, of by

gemeenskapsaksies buite die kampus be -

trokke te raak. Studente moet by mekaar

en by die groter gemeenskap inskakel.

Ons moet volwaardige vennote van die

groter HOOP-visie wees,” sê sy.

By die bekendstelling het prof Botman

gesê studente se sukses “lê aan die hart

van wat ons doen”.

In haar toespraak het Nadia studente

uitgedaag om ook ŉ verskil te maak.

“Ons staan vandag voor ŉ keuse om

die geleentheid te gebruik om deel te

neem aan iets wat werklik ŉ verskil kan

maak. As studente moet ons droom én

doen. Hier is ŉ geleentheid vir albei.”

Een van die studente wat droom en

werklikheid met mekaar versoen, is

Nataly Pietersen, ŉ derdejaarstudent in

BA Tale en Kultuur. Op haar inisiatief

word ŉ liedjieskryfwedstryd vir studente

tans beplan.

“Die doel is dat studente, hetsy indi -

vidueel of in groepe, liedjies sal skryf wat

ŉ duidelike boodskap van hoop oordra.

Op dié manier sal die leiers van die Uni -

ver siteit ŉ duidelike begrip kan vorm van

hoe die studente hoop verstaan en hoe hul -

le die toekoms van die Universiteit sien.

Dié inligting maak dalk verdere projekte

moontlik,” sê Nataly.

Op die foto verskyn van links prof Russel Botman, Rektor en Visekanselier van die US; Deon Scharneck, die dryfveer agter die Hoopin 'n bottel-projek; Nataly Pietersen, wat as deel van MatieHoop met 'n liedjieskryfkompetisie vorendag gekom het; Nadia Marais,SR-lid met die portefeulje Eenheid en Dialoog; en Gerhard Wiese, Voorsitter van die SR

Deur MatieHoop doen studente ook húl deelMet MatieHoop wil die Studenteraad (SR) van die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US) studente bemagtigom met inisiatiewe vorendag te kom wat by die Rektor en Visekanselier, prof Russel Botman, segroter visie met die HOOP Projek aansluit. Dít is die gevoel van SR-lid Nadia Marais, wat vir dieportefeulje Eenheid en Dialoog verantwoordelik is.

FRANCOIS GROEPE, Hoof Uitvoerende Be ampte van

Media24: Ek dink dis baie positief dat die Univer -siteit ŉ groter rol in Suid-Afrika en Afrika beginspeel, veral nou, so kort ná die Wêreld beker. Onsmoet die momen tum en positi wi teit ondervang enbehou. Vir my is hoop om iets in ŉ beter toestandte laat as waa rin jy dit ontvang het deur tasbareinhoud daaraan te gee.

ILSE CILLIERS, ŉ kom munikasie -

spe sialis: Dit is ŉfantas tiese en

am bi sieuseprojek,maar ekglo dat dieUni ver -siteit dit

sal kandoen met die

kennis tot hulbeskikking. Hoop

is vir my om nooit moed op te geenie, ongeag omstan dighede.

XINA BLAAUW, a second-year BA

Language and Culture stu dent: It is avery good project – MatieHope and theRector’s HOPE Project. I wasn’texpecting so manyconcrete de tailsof how thepro ject willwork – itwas great.To me, hopeis believingand hopingthat things canchange for thebetter.

HANLIE LINDE, Direkteur:

Gemeenskaps dienste by

Stellenbosch Munisi -

paliteit: Ek dink disamazing dat dieUniversiteit, wat niebekend is vir sy waagsamestappe nie, hierdie reuseveldtog aanpak. En die muni -sipaliteit is ontsettend trots om dieUniversiteit in ons dorp te hê – die Rektor kan seker wees van ons ondersteuning.

ALBIE SACHS, former judge in the Con -

stitu tional Court: Hope isaffir mation; it is not

the enemy of doubt.It em braces doubtand is unafraid ofdoubt. It believesthat good will come of ques -

tioning everything.It is the inter -

rogation of life with soul. PATRICK PARRING, CEO

of PAREQUITY: Giventhat we are 16 yearsinto our democracyand are still faced withhuge challenges and

given that my maidenspeech as the founder of

the Western Cape BusinessOpportunities Forum

(WECBOF) was based on the idea of institutionscreating hope in societies, it is inspiring to see aleading institution in South Africa and the worldtackle such an extraordinary and very challenginginitiative. This is obviously a very importantproject and having said that, I hope that theUniversity will achieve its hopes and aims. I wishProf Botman the best of luck with this endeavour.

DUIMPIE BAYLY, oudmatie, Distell-

direkteur, en Voorsitter van die Tegniese

Komitee van die Wyn- en Spiritusraad:

Ek dink die HOOP Projek is ŉ fantas -tiese idee om nóú, veral ná die Wêreld -beker, aan te pak om ons te help omdaardie momentum en gees van dieWêreldbeker lewend te hou. As ŉoudmatie is ek baie trots op die Univer siteitStellenbosch dat hulle so iets wil aan pak. Die UShet die vermoë om van enigiets ŉ suk ses te maak en om mense te inspireer om betrokke te raak, maar natuurlik het hulleook finansiële hulp nodig om hul doelwitte te bereik.

MALAN JACOBS, ŉ derdejaar -

student in BComm

Regte: Die HOOPProjek kon

beter bemarkgeword hetonder stu -dente sodathulle beterverstaan

waaroor ditgaan, hul

steun daar aankan toe sê en dit hul eie maak. Ekis ten gunste van die veldtog.

THINUS RAS, ŉ MSc-student

in Meganiese Ingenieurs -

wese: Dis ŉ baie cool ideeom so ŉ bewussyn by stu -dente te skep. Dit is baieambisieus, maar ambisie isgoed. Ek’s in.

JACOLETTE KLOPPERS, oudmatie en

Kaapse Redak teur van BY: Dit is vir mywonderlik dat die Univer siteit die toe -koms wil om arm; dat hulle bereid is omwerklik die uitdagings van die toekomsaan te pak en só te wys dat hulle ernstigis daar oor om die ver -lede se onregagter te laat.Ek voel trotsom ŉ oud -matie tewees as dítdie inisia -tiewe is wathulle aanpak.Ek wil graag hêdit moet werk.

Hoe ervaar jý die HOOP Projek?Ná die bekendstellingsgeleentheid van die HOOP Projek op 21 Julie en die studente -

geleentheid op 23 Julie, het ons van ons gaste genader om te hoor hoe hulle die

HOOP Projek ervaar. Hier is hulle antwoorde.

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RESEARCH

“The world today is very much con -nected; how we change one area hasan effect on the biodiversity in otherparts of the world. We cannot affordto ignore that message,” said ProfSteven Chown at the 4th InternationalPolar Year Conference in Oslo, Nor -way, during his prize lecture as thefirst recipient of the Martha T MusePrize. The prize, worth R750 000($100 000), is supported by the TinkerFoundation and administered by theScientific Committee on AntarcticResearch. It recognises Prof Chown’soutstanding work in science and onpolicy in Antarctica.

Prof Chown, Director of the De -part ment of Science and Tech no logy/National Research Foundation Centreof Excellence for Invasion Biologyand professor at the Depart ment ofBotany and Zoology, is recognised asa world leader in his field of researchand as a respected advisor to theAntarctic Treaty System.

According to Ms Renate Rennie,Chair person and President of theTinker Foundation, Prof Chown clear -ly exem plifies the attributes of theprize. She referred to the prize criteriawhich demands that a recipient is not

only excellent in science in Antarc -tica, but also contri butes substantiallytowards the preser vation of the area.

In his lecture, Prof Chown remin -ded the audience that, in the 50 yearssince the 3rd International Polar Year,the earth’s population has increasedfrom 2.9 billion to 6 billion people.“Changes in the global system influ -ence the Antarctic and vice versa,” hestressed, while showing the results ofthese impacts on Marion Island in theSub-Antarctic, where he does much ofhis research.

HOOP Projekbetree nuwe fase

“Hierdie soort investering is nodigom die US se posisie as akademiese ennavorsingsleier in die 21ste eeu tehandhaaf en uit te bou. Daarvoor móétons belê in ons studente, ons perso neel,ons fasiliteite en die tegnologie watnodig is om ons universiteit na noghoër hoogtes te voer in die toe koms enom ons te rat om die groot uitdagingsvan ons land en die konti nent metsukses die hoof te kan bied,” het ProfBotman gesê.

Die geleentheid is onder meer deurverteenwoordigers van buitelandsemissies, donateurs en US-weldoeners,sakelui, prominente alumni en ver teen -woordigers uit die hoër onderwys sektoren die media bygewoon.

“Oor die afgelope drie jaar het onsakademiese leiers hulle beywer om ŉreeks visioenêre inisiatiewe te formu -leer wat eiesoortige Afrika-uitdagingsaanpak. Saam met ons programme terverbetering van personeel- en stu dente sukses, en investering in infra -struktuur en ons fasiliteite, maak hier -die inisiatiewe die hoeksteen uit vanons strategiese posisionering vir dievolgende dekade,” het prof Botman bydie geleentheid gesê.

Deur die toepassing vanwetenskap en toonaangewendetegnologie, beoog die HOOPProjek om die Universiteit se ‘wetenskap-vir-die-same -lewing’-benadering uit te boudeur, met behulp van wêreldklas -navorsing en interaksie, ŉ tasbareverandering in gemeenskap pedwarsoor die land teweeg te bring.

Die verskillende inisiatiewe isafgestem op vyf van die temas op diewêreldontwikkelingsagenda, naamlikdie uitwissing van armoede en ver -wante toestande, die bevordering vanmenswaardigheid en gesondheid, diebevordering van demokrasie en men se -regte, die bevordering van vrede enveiligheid (wat voedselsekerheid in -sluit), en die bevordering van ŉ vol hou -bare omgewing en ŉ kompe te rendeindustrie.

“Of dit nou inisiatiewe is soos her -nubare-energievoorsiening aan diestreek, voedselsekerheid in Suider-Afrika, geskilbeslegting en leierskap, oflandelike gesondheidsorg en ont -wikkeling, ons wil ons gewig by dieland en die vasteland se dringendstebehoeftes ingooi,” sê prof Botman.

“Dit is noodsaaklik dat Afrika-

universiteite oplossings vir ons uniekeAfrika-uitdagings bedink. Met behulpvan ons bewese vermoëns en ons ven -nootskappe met ander Afrika-univer -siteite, hoop ons om nie net opnuut onsplek as ŉ relevante universiteit in die21ste eeu te verseker nie, maar ook om die lewens van burgers oor die hele vasteland te verbeter.”

“Vir ŉ tersiêre instelling om in hier -die eeu relevant te bly, moet ons onsakademiese en navorsingskundig heidinspan en dit tot diens van die same -lewing aanwend,” sê prof Botman.

“Die HOOP Projek se inisiatiewe is hoegenaamd nie die enigste manierwaarop ons ons gemeenskap sal diennie – die HOOP Projek beoog die in -sluiting van ál ons onderrig, navorsingen gemeenskapsinteraksie. Dit verteen -woordig ’n nuwe benadering wat aan -sluit by die ongelooflike werk watreeds oor ons hele instelling heen ver rigis. Voorts is die HOOP Projek-veldtogŉ manier waarop ons nog méér talentvir ons Universiteit kan werf namateons voortdurend ons personeel- en stu -dentekohort trans formeer en aan almalgelyke geleent hede en toegang gee.”

Die US het die afgelope drie jaar indie stille fase van die HOOP Projekreeds bykans R500 miljoen se filan -tropiese skenkings ontvang. Meer as 4 500 skenkers het die US ondersteunsedert April 2007, toe die visie van die US as bouer van hoop in Afrikagestalte gekry het.

Donateurs sluit in voorste sakelui enstigtings wat groot bedrae bewillig het,maar ook individue – hetsy alumni ofander vriende van die US – wat ge reeldkleiner bedrae skenk om by voor beeldbehoeftige studente by te staan.

� Lees ook op bladsy 3 oor die onge -looflike spanwerk wat daartoe geleihet dat die openbare bekend stellingvan die HOOP Projek so ’n reusesukses was.

Two princes were present when Somerset West resident Prof Steven Chown received his prize. From theleft are Prof Chuck Kennicut, Prince Albert II of Monaco, Prof Chown and Crown Prince Haakon of Norway

(John Petter Reinertsen, SAMFOTO)

Stellenbosch scientist receives top international Antarctic prize

Vanaf Julie sal alle perso neel -lede van die UniversiteitStellenbosch (US) hul wel -

wees aanlyn in die gerief van hul eiekantoor kan bestuur. Dít is dank sy dienuwe, opwindende web tuiste van dieUS se Welweesfunksie wat toegangbied tot inligting oor ver skeie wel -wees programme en -geleent hede opkampus.

Met sy inhuldiging in 2007 het dieRektor en Visekanselier, prof RusselBotman, reeds sterk klem gelê op hoedie US die doelwitte in die dokumentŉ Strategiese Raamwerk vir die Eeu -wisseling en Daarná kon bereik. Eenvan daardie doelwitte was die skepvan ŉ personeelkorps wat visiegerig,ge motiveerd en bekwaam is. Hierdiedokument het later Visie 2010 en2012, sowel as die Oorhoofse Strate -giese Plan (OSP), gerig. Die US seHOOP Projek, wat onlangs aan diepu bliek bekend gestel is, het sy oor -sprong in die OSP, en die Wel wees -webtuiste is net nóg ŉ voorbeeld vanhoe die HOOP Projek in die Univer -

siteitsomgewing vorm aanneem enpersoneelsukses aan die instansiebevorder.

Volgens me Maureen Kennedy,koör dineerder van die US se Wel -weesfunk sie in die Afdeling MenslikeHulp bronne, bevat die nuwe web -tuiste in lig ting oor onder meer pro -gramme soos die Werknemeronder -steunings program, die Gesondheids -bevorde rings program en die MIV/Vigs-werk plekprogram, sowel asbelangrike nuus oor nasio nale eninternasionale ge denk dae, met ŉbepaalde klem op na sio nale ge sond -heidskwessies en wel wees geleenthedeby die Universiteit.

“Maatskappye besef al hoe meerdat jy nie die uitsette van ŉ maatskap -py van menslike hulpbronne kan skeinie. Daarom word daar toenemend nadie welwees van wer kers omgesien. ŉGelukkige wer ker is ’n produktiewewerker,” ver dui delik Maureen.

Die visie van die US se Welwees -funksie is om ŉ goed gebalanseerdearbeidsmag te hê wat optimaal in ŉ

bemagtigende, sorgsame en onder steu -nende werksomgewing funksioneer.

“Natuurlik is welwees nie net dieafwesigheid van siekte nie. Ons kon -sentreer ook op die algehele welweesvan US-personeel. Ons kyk na ŉ per -soon in ál sy dimensies – die lig -gaam like, sosiale, finansiële énemosionele – en ons help die persoonom optimaal te funksioneer,” sêMaureen.

Volgens me Gretchen Arangies,Direk teur: Menslike Hulpbronne(Bedryf), sluit die welweesfokus ookaan by die Universiteit se ontwikke -lingstemas, veral wat betref diebevor dering van menswaardigheid engesondheid. Sy sê die nuwe webtuistevir die Welwees funksie is nie net ŉmanier om deur middel van tegno -logie beter met US-personeel oor hulwel wees te kommu nikeer nie, maarsal ook tot die ver wesen liking van die US se doel witte bydra.

� Vir meer inligting, besoekhttp://www0.sun.ac.za/hr/wellness/

Welweeswebtuiste sal personeelsukses help bevorder(turn to page 9)

Dean visitsmilitarycounterparts in China

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MILITARY

Die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US) se HOOP Projek is ver -

lede week (21 Julie) aan die publiek bekendgestel. As deel

van hierdie projek het die Rektor, Prof Russel Botman, die

grootste fondsinsamelingsveldtog nog deur ’n universiteit in

Afrika aangekondig. Die mikpunt is om oor die volgende vyf

jaar ’n minimum van R1,75 miljard uit hoofsaaklik filan tro -

piese skenkings in te samel.

Dit is noodsaaklik dat Afrika-universiteite oplossings vir onsunieke Afrika-uitdagings bedink.

– Prof Russel Botman

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2 O P I N I O N / M E N I N G K A M P U S N U U S

One of the earliest lessons I learned is that change will happen whetherwe initiate it ourselves or fight to resist it. I’ve therefore always under -stood change as an opportunity to transform not only yourself or yourrelationships, but to change the way in which you deal with situations,to start that project you’ve been postponing, to close the door on a situ -ation that no longer makes you happy and to open your heart to theuncertainty of other options or paths. Change, for me, is not about lossalone, but about being reshaped into a different, hopefully wiser, humanbeing.

This month was one of those months of change. This is my lasteditorial as editor of Kampusnuus as I am leaving the Communication

and Liaison division for a new environment on campus. It’s an exciting journey thatwill present unique challenges, but also opportunities for growth in my career and asa person. Although I look forward to making a contribution to the University on adifferent platform as of August, I will miss the people that I have worked with in thisdivision and am thankful for the opportunities for growth I was given here.

Before I tell you more about the jam-packed edition for this month, I would liketo thank a few people who have helped Kampusnuus go from strength to strengthover the last four and a half years. To my managers, Susan van der Merwe andMohamed Shaikh: You foresaw what I was capable of doing before I could evenenvision it. Thank you for having faith in me. I hope this newspaper is now closer to the product that you have imagined it can be. To all my colleagues in the division,in particular Liezl Scholtz and Martin Viljoen: Thank you for your feedback, con -structive criticism, willingness to write a story for Kampusnuus when you had yourown deadlines, and the jokes cracked to relieve the pressure we often work under.Thank you to the Language Centre and their team, in particular Marguerite van derWaal and Alta van Rensburg, who are responsible for the second round of editingand often help with translations. You have been my second pair of eyes during theediting process and your professionalism is what has made Kampusnuus such anexcellent product. To the photographers Hennie Rudman and Anton Jordaan, whowere always available, even when called in on short notice, to take photographs forthe Kampusnuus. This newspaper would have been a dull product had it not been forthe colour you added through your work. And thank you for the added humour withwhich you fulfilled your role. To Heloise Davis, the designer of Kampusnuus, whobecame a friend and a mentor: Your creativity, per fectionism, enthusiasm andwillingness to work long hours to deliver an excellent product kept me inspired ondays when my own creativity was sapped dry.

I also want to thank all the contributors (in particular Engela Duvenage, PriscillaBooysen, Liesel Koch, Mandi Barnard and her team and Julie Streicher and herteam) to Kampusnuus who, through their articles, criticism and compliments helpedshaped the newspaper into what it is today. Thanks to our readers whose valuableinput en sure that we reflect the University as a whole and to Shumani Printers whoalways delivers an excellent product under very tight deadlines at times. Lastly, Ithank my husband, Eldridge – my sounding board, biggest supporter and mostconstructive critic. Thank you for being understanding on those nights when the

Kampusnuus deadline was looming and there was no time for anything else.

Not only the Kampusnuus editorship is changing; the University itself is alsoundergoing a transformation. Mahatma Gandhi said “You must be the change youwant to see in the world” and Stellenbosch University (SU) is doing exactly thisthrough its HOPE Project (read more in the Kampusnuus special edition wrap).

On page 1 you can read about Prof Steven Chown, the first recipient of theMartha T Muse Prize. Our usual opinion piece appears on page 2 and discusses,amongst others, how different cultures view community interaction, be it in acomplex or simplistic manner.

The USB Executive Development (USB-ED) recently established a new unit forproject management. Read all about this on page 3. We also honour Prof Andries vander Walt, a Computer Science lecturer, who passed away in 2008. Read about themedal that was named after him and awarded to its first recipient recently.

On page 4 we look at how the Faculty of Theology has imagined a differentworld through embarking on a research project on the impact of globalisation onhumanity with partners in both South Africa and Germany. The first copy of theirreport was handed over to one of South Africa’s anti-apartheid and human rightsactivists, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. We also talk to Prof Julie Claassens,who will head up the Faculty’s HOPE initiative on human dignity.

On page 5 you will see how the University is creating hope in society via itsstudents, who are building homes with Habitat for Humanity South Africa. On page6, Willem van Kerwel, the new farm manager at Welgevallen Experimental Farm,tells us how the son of a farm worker became the manager of that same farm.

The World Cup might have come and gone, but SU is investing its time in ini -tiatives that have a long-term impact and that offer hope for generations to come.The Lentelus Soccer Centre is one of these initiatives. Read more about it on page 7.On the same page you can also read about Prof Sandy Liebenberg from the Facultyof Law and her new book on socio-economic rights.

We talked to the Dean of the Military Academy, Prof Edna van Harte, about herrecent trip to China (page 8). We also tell you more about the language developmentand assessment centre established by four multilingual universities in South Africa(page 9) and about the entrepreneurial development programmes at MatiesCommunity Service that are changing people’s lives (page 10). We also talked to thepeople who work behind the scenes and who have a direct impact on the researchexcellence of this University (page 12).

This edition is not only about the changes that our University is undergoing, butabout the hope it is creating in tangible ways on campus and in society through itsteaching and learning, research and community interaction initiatives. We may soundarrogant in presuming that we can change the world, but if I look at the interestingstories that make it into each edition of Kampusnuus (and even those that do not), Ibelieve we might just do that.

VAN DIE REDAKTEUR SE LESSENAAR / FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

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US-kundigheid helpomliggende skoleBeste Rektor en personeel van die Univer siteit Stellenbosch

Dit is vir ons ŉ groot voorreg om dieUniversiteit Stellenbosch (US) as een vanons opvoeder- en leerderontwikkelaars by StIdas RK Primêr te kan hê.

Ons opregte dank vir al die projekte watby ons skool plaasvind. Ons het groot waar -dering vir die Smile-, Climbb-, Celemus- enBlended-leesprojekte. Hartlike dank aan dievolgende persone vir al hul bydraes tot die

verbetering van akademiese standaarde:� Raffie van Wyk wat ten nouste saam met

ons personeel op Wiskundegebied werken seker maak dat ons al die no digebronne tot ons beskikking het – onsopregte dank, ook vir al die toe rustingwat sy vir ons aanry.

� Andrew Fair wat seker maak dat onsleer ders die beste ervaring in Wetenskapkry. Deur sy toedoen het besoekendepro fessore van die US, sowel as dieMTN Science Centre met húl professoreen assistente, ons skool besoek. Ons steldit hoog op prys.

� Tessa Arendse en Marie Spangenberg virhul puik bydrae tot lees, en vir hul

ondersteuning van lees in die klaskamer.� Annatjie Hanekom vir haar uitmuntende

bydrae wat betref leesspesialiste en leesin die algemeen.

� Levenia Pretorius en haar span vanBlended, wat al hul produkte aan onskom bekend stel het en seker gemaak hetdat alle opvoeders opleiding kry.

� Laaste, maar nie die minste nie, dieFakulteit Opvoedkunde, Celemus, Trevorvan Louw, Edward Smuts en DenisePietersen vir al hul leiding op leiers- enbestuursgebied in die Opvoedkunde. Onswaardeer dit opreg. ŉ Spesiale woordvan dank aan Denise Pietersen, onsmentor wat baie nou met ons saamwerk.

Elkeen se bydrae, hoe gering ook al, wordhoog op prys gestel. Dankie dat julle St IdasRK Primêr genader het om van ons ŉuitmuntende skool te maak.

Vir my is dit ŉ droom wat waar gewordhet dat die US met hul kundigheid omlig -gende skole se opvoeders ontwikkel, en onsbystaan met ons uitdagende en enorme taakom die beste gehalte opvoeding aan elkekind te gee.

Hiervoor salueer ons julle.

Vriendelike groete

– Me GM RippenaarPrinsipaal en personeellid van

St Idas RK Primêr

It is interesting to observe thatSouth African scholars studythe topic of community inter -

action through Western eyes anduse writings predominantly fromNorth American scholars. Mostauthors are aware of somethingthat they call the “South Africancontext” and focus on the two

worlds represented in South Africa: theAfrican, on the one hand, and the Western(Anglo-Saxon), on the other.

Interestingly enough, the numerous otherworld cultures – Arab, Latin, Indian, Asian,Scandinavian, Slavic and so on – are rarelymentioned or compared, even though these allhave old traditions in both culture andschooling. And, together, they cover the vastmajority of the global population. Westernsociety in general and American society inparticular can be considered young andinexperienced by comparison.

Many of the statements about the obli -gations of academia towards society and theresponsibility of super-privileged peopletowards sub-privileged people seem to be ladenwith morals. It is also often led by a dogmaticview of the world, where particular notions are

considered to be universal ideals (such asmodern democracy, individualism and ca -pitalism), while the true differences that existbetween different peoples in terms of language,culture, traditions and religion are ignored.

The proposed ideas therefore seem to starthalfway, not touching on fundamental ques -tions, such as “What is community engage -ment?”, “Why is it required?”, “Is this nottrivial for a university?”, “If it isn’t trivial forSouth African universities, why is that?”, “Whytake Western and North American universitiesas examples?”, “Why should (modern) demo -cracy (individualist capitalism) be the idealform of government?”, “What is the SouthAfrican context and how does it compare withthat of the United States of America?” and“How does it relate to the rest of the world?”

South African society in general anduniversities in particular centre on an obsessiveassessment structure: If an activity is notassessed, it is considered useless. Communityinteraction is not rigorously evaluated (yet),hence it is disregarded by most. Only the raremorally driven individual invests in it. Thismentality can and should be changed in thefollowing manner:

� People should be rewarded for “freethinking” (Erich Fromm, 1939).

� People should be rewarded for actions thatbenefit the collective. This will create an en -viron ment where the individual forms anintegral part of the collective and both bene -fit. Duty towards the collective changes intoloyal ty and creates a natural and healthysymbiosis. But such an environment re quiresa structure and mechanisms that can be putin place only by management, in our specificcase, that of Stellen bosch University.

In Western society, individualism and greedhave become the norm. This is unnatural andsickens people and societies. Without a changein that structure, none of these problems can besolved. The name of that structure is (modern)democracy and it is not an example to befollowed. A South African university shouldbecome a truly “South African” university andnot because this is “good” but because this is“right”. The responsibility to change rests on allof us, but the responsibility to enable thatchange rests with management.

– DANIEL MIKEŠ

Senior Lecturer SedimentologyDepartment Earth Sciences

Kampusnuus wilgraag ’n platform skep vir ge -sprekvoering opdie kampus.Menings inartikels, brieween Kampuskletsoppie Rooi plein!is dié van diebetrokke indi widuen nie nood -wendig die stand -punt van dieKampusnuus-redaksie of dieUniversiteitStellenbosch nie.

Community interaction: complex or simple?


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The new centre follows the pio -neering work done by Prof ChrisBrown, a well-known academic inproject management, who introducedthe discipline to USB with 20 stu dentsin 1992. Since then, about 9 000students, at different levels, have re -ceived tuition in project manage mentat the business school.

Executive head of the centre, MrMC Botha, said that project manage -ment at USB-ED is now combinedinto a unit to provide room fortraining, supplemented by elements ofresearch and consultancy services, tocompanies and the public sector.

“Our approach at the Centre forProject Management Intelligence is thatfirst-class project management prin -ciples, together with other ele ments ofmanagement, provide for a successfulrecipe for service delivery.”

The centre will be supported by anadvisory committee consisting ofacademics as well as specialists fromthe private and public sectors. SasolTechnology will also play an im por tantpart in the activities of the centre.

“Project management cannot bestudy-guide driven only. Project ma -nagers are, after all, confronted byquick-changing realities in the work -

place. It is therefore fundamentallyabout creating synergies betweenacademic training and the workplace.This is why the relationship with SasolTechnology is so important to us,” MrBotha said.

The 2010 FIFA World Cup SouthAfrica has placed a new focus onproject management in South Africa,with the spotlight being shone oncountry’s ability to host the event.The World Cup projects were com -pleted during a period of economichard ships, accentuating the country’sachievement.

While South Africa has managed to

deliver on the stadiums for the WorldCup, there is still the thorny andpolitically sensitive issue of servicedelivery to different communities. The pu blic sector is currently less than suc cessful with service delivery,

spe ci fically because project manage -ment principles are not adhered to.“Project management should be highon the agenda if South Africa is to be suc cess ful at local level,” Mr Botha said.

Medalje ingestel ter nagedagtenisaan Rekenaarwetenskapdosent

Rekenaarwetenskapstudent Niel de Wet is die eerste ont vanger van dienuutingestelde Van der Walt-medalje, waar mee die beste voorgraadse studentin Rekenaar wetenskap aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US) vereer word.

Die medalje is ingestel ter nage dagtenis aan prof Andries van der Walt, ŉgeliefde jarelange dosent in Rekenaarweten skap, wat in 2008 oorlede is.

Sy weduwee, Nettie, was saam met ander lede van sy ge sin teenwoordig bydie eerste oorhandiging van die medalje.

Niel het ook ŉ R5 000-prys van die maatskappy SI ontvang.Tydens die geleentheid is twee ander toekennings ook ge maak. Gideon

Redelinghuys het die IBM-prys ter waarde van R5 000 gewen vir die besteBSc(Hons)-projek in 2009. Morné Chamberlain, wat verlede jaar sy MSc-graad in Reke naarwetenskap verwerf het, het ŉ US-medalje ont vang as diebeste meestersgraad student in die Fakulteit Natuur wetenskappe in 2009.

– ENGELA DUVENAGE

Mev Nettievan der Walt,weduwee vanprof Andriesvan der Walt,was teen -woordig toedie eersteVan der Walt-medalje aanRekenaar -weten skap -student Nielde Wet oor -handig is(McElory Hoffman)

The Centre for Project Management Intelligence at USB-ED was officiallyopened on the 29th of May. At the opening were Mr Willem Louw, a guestspeaker from Sasol, Mr MC Botha, Head of Centre, Prof Chris Brown, alecturer at USB and Mr Frik Landman, CEO of USB-ED

USB-ED establishes new unit for project managementUSB Executive Development (USB-ED), the public exe cutive develop ment and trainingcompany of the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), has further ex tended itsactivities with the establishment of the Centre for Project Management Intelligence.

Biobrandstofkundiges stig nuwe maatskappyTwee Matie-professors is onder

die stigterslede aan die spitsvan Stellen bosch Biomass

Tech nologies (SBMT), ’n nuwe bio -brandstoftegnologie maatskappy watoor die vermoë en kundigheid beskikom volhoubare energie-opsies inSuider-Afrika ’n aansienlike hupstootte gee.

Prof Emile van Zyl, bekleër vanSANERI (die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasio -nale Energienavorsingsinstituut) seleerstoel in Energienavorsing: Bio -brandstowwe en Ander AlternatieweSkoon Brandstowwe in die Departe -ment Mikrobiologie, en prof JohannGörgens van die Departement Proses -ingenieurswese, is albei nie-uitvoeren -de direkteure van dié maatskappy, watdeur die voormalige Mondi-werk nemerCasper Nice as Uitvoerende Direkteurbestuur word.

Die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US),wat deur sy tegnologieoordragmaat -skappy, InnovUS, ŉ aandeelhouer in

die maatskappy sal wees, is ook SBMTse navorsingsvennoot vir verdere teg -nologieverbeterings.

Volgens meAnita Nel, Direkteurvan InnovUS, is die Universiteit trotsdaar op dat sy navorsers al hoe meeronder nemerskap aan die dag lêen geleent hede skep om hultegnologie te be mark. “Dit isopwindend vir InnovUS om be -trokke te wees by ŉ maat skappywat onder andere top gehalte -navor sings uitsette uit eie gelederesaam met ŉ wêreldleier op die ge -bied sal kom mer sialiseer.”

SBMT beskik oor die regte omdie jongste verwerkings tegnologiewat deur die Ame ri kaanse maat -skappy Mas coma Tech nologiesontwikkel is, te kommersialiseer envir Suider-Afri kaanse toestande enplant-mate riale aan te pas.

Wat innovasie en prestasie betref,word Mascoma as een van die voorstetien maatskappye in die wêreldwyebio-energiesektor beskou. Die maat -

skappy is verbind tot die ontwikkelingvan omgewingsvolhou bare laekool -stofbiobrandstowwe teen lae koste. Hulgekonsolideerde bioverwerkings metodeverwerk nievoedselbiomassa voerstow -we tot sellulose-etanol deur middel van

ŉ gepatenteerde proses wat diebehoefte aan duur ensieme enbymiddels uitskakel.

“Dit is gepas dat hierdie tegnologienou ook plaaslik deur SBMT beskik -

baar gestel word,” sê prof Van Zyl, inwie se laboratorium navorsing oorgeskikte giste vir die Mascoma-tegno -logie oor die afgelope dekade ont-wikkel is. Dít is gedoen saam metMascoma-stigterslid prof Lee Lynd van

Dartmouth-kollege, wat ook ŉbuiten gewone professor in die USse Depar te ment Mikrobiologie is.

Sellulose-etanol is ŉ voorloper indie produksie van tweedegenerasie-biobrandstowwe uit lignosellulêreplant materiaalbronne, onder meerhout en landboureste soos suiker -riet bagasse, wat nie hoofvoedselpro -duk sie in ge vaar stel nie.

SBMT verskaf hoogs doel -treffende verwerkingstegnologieteen lae koste, wat aansienlikebesparings in kapitaal en be -

dryfskoste in die produksie vansellulose-etanol kan meebring.

Binne die volgende twee jaar, so dradie nodige beleggings bekom is, hoopdie maatskappy om met hul eerstedemonstrasiegrootte aanleg te begin

om die volle omvang van die kommer -siële lewensvatbaarheid van die onder -neming te toon. Die grootte van diedemonstrasieaanlegte sal deur die be -skikbare grondstowwe en finan sieringbepaal word. Kommer siële aan legtekan na raming 40 tot 150 mil joen literetanol per jaar produseer.

“Deur brandstof met behulp vanhierdie tegnologie te produseer, kanons kweekhuisgasse help verminder en Suider-Afrika in die rigting van ŉgroener ekonomie stuur,” meen profVan Zyl. “Afrika het volhoubare enomgewingsveilige opsies nodig wat nieons voedselproduksie of natuur likeplantegroei bedreig nie.”

Nie net wil die maatskappy etanolop groot skaal kommersieel vervaar dignie, maar beoog ook om deur middelvan die biobrandstofbedryf vaardig -hede te ontwikkel, menslike hulp bron -vermoë uit te bou en met die gemeen -skap te skakel.

– ENGELA DUVENAGE

Die Universiteit is trots daar op dat sy navorsers al hoe meeronder nemerskap aan die dag lê en geleent hede skep om hulteg no logie te be mark.

– Me Anita Nel, Direkteur van InnovUS

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Die suksesvolle bekendstellingvan die Universiteit Stellen -bosch (US) se HOOP Projek

die laaste twee weke in Julie was ’nspanpoging soos wat dié instelling nognie die afgelope 10 jaar beleef het nie,en ’n klinkklare be wys van wat be reikkan word deur sinergie en same werking.

Die strategiese proses het ongeveerdrie jaar gelede afgeskop met die ont -wikkeling van die Oorhoofse Strate giesePlan (OSP) en die voorleggings deurfakulteite vir projekbefondsing. Daar isoorspronklik 21 ‘OSP-projekte’ goedge -keur. Intussen het daar addisio nele pro -jekte bygekom en is daar baie werkagter die skerms gedoen om be fonds -ings moontlikhede en befondsings bronnete ondersoek; bemarkings materiaal teproduseer en die kampus voor te bereiop die bekendstelling van die veltog.

Vir elk van die ‘OSP-projekte’ – nouakademiese inisiatiewe genoem – het dieOntwikkelingspersoneel ’n behoef te -bepaling vir befondsing opge stel, en ookvir ander fasette van die OSP soos omstudentesukses en per soneelsukses teverseker, en vir die ontwikkeling van diefasiliteite en in frastruktuur op dieUniversiteit se kam pusse. Terselfdertydhet die joernaliste van die afdelingKom munikasie en Skakeling met pro -jekleiers geskakel om inligting en foto’sbymekaar te maak vir die nuwe web -blad, die bemar kingsbrosjure en diemediavrystellings, terwyl die skakel -afdeling voor bereidings begin tref het

vir die verskil lende bekendstellings -geleenthede.

“Hoewel die Universiteitsontwik -kelingspan wat ontstaan het uit diesamesmelting van die StellenboschStigting en die afdeling Kommunikasieen Skakeling, onder leiding van profTobie de Coning, Hoofdirekteur: Strate -giese Inisiatiewe en Menslike Hulp -bronne, grootliks die HOOP veldtoggekoördineer en bestuur het, het talleander afdelings ’n groot rol gespeel indie sukses van die bekendstelling,” sêmnr Mohamed Shaikh, Senior Direk -teur: Kommuni kasie en Skakeling.“Buiten die perso neel in fakulteite, veraldie projekleiers, het personeel vanFasilteitsbestuur, Aan kope, USBD, dieTaalsentrum, Infor masie tegnologie (IT)en die Konser vatorium ons personeelwerklik on dersteun.”

Die bekendstelling van die US seHOOP Projek het uit ’n magdom ver -skillende elemente bestaan. Aan die eenkant was die Ontwikkelingspan besigmet voorbereiding vir die fondswer -wings veldtog, onder meer om poten -siële donateurs te identifiseer en methulle in gesprek te begin tree, oorsesefilantropiese stigtings te besoek enbefondsingsvoorstelle op te stel.

Die Kommunikasiespan was betrok -ke by die formulering van ’n gesament -like leksikon om eenvormige kommu -ni kasie te verseker, ongeag die mediumwat gebruik word; die ontwikkelingvan ’n identiteit vir die veldtog in

same werking met Ogilvy, ’n agentskapwat vir dié doel aangestel is; die skryfen vertaling van bemarkingsmateriaal,kopie vir die web en mediaberigte; dieproduksie van ’n kort bekendstellings -video, uitstal- en promosiemateriaal; endie reëlings vir elke geleentheid. In dieweek voor die bekendstelling is ver skil -lende mediakantore in die Kaap besoekas deel van die kommunikasieveldtog.

Die e-kommunikasiespan het dieon derbou van die nuwe webblad, insamewerking met die afdeling Informa -sietegnologie, beplan en gekoördineeren moes ook verseker dat die inligtingbetyds opgelaai word. Die webblad –www.diehoopprojek.co.za – is die USse eerste om op die Microsoft-inhouds -bestuurstelsel, Microsoft Sharepoint2010 (MOSS), gebou te word. Om aandie Ontwikkelingspan se behoefte vireenvoudige aanlynskenkings voor -siening te maak, is daar met die plaas -like organisasie GivenGain saamge -werk om elektroniese skenkings vir dieHOOP Projek moontlik te maak.

Die e-span het ook deur ’n direkteweb-uitsending (live streaming) op dieUS se nuusblog, Flickr, Facebook,Twitter, en YouTube die HOOP Projekaan die kampus en buitewêreld gehelpbekendstel. Saam met die mediakantoorhet die e-span deur middel van uitste -kende sinergie verseker dat die nuusoor die HOOP Projek op elektronieseplatforms en deur die tradisionelemedia versprei word.

Bekendstelling van HOOP Projek groot sukses danksy goeie spanwerk


4 N U U S / N E W S K A M P U S N U U S

“My aanstelling by die Fakulteit spruit direkvoort uit die finansiering wat deur die HOOPProjek beskikbaar gestel is om die Fakulteit seklem op menswaardigheid te be vorder. Ek salvoortaan verantwoorde lik wees om die Fakulteitse inter dissiplinêre navorsing oor menswaar dig -heid te koördineer en te sti mu leer, en saam tedink oor hoe ons hierdie inisia tief kan uitbou enook beter by ons onder rig en gemeenskaps inter -aksie kan integreer,” ver duidelik sy.

“Navorsing oor menswaardigheid word reedsop vele gebiede hier by die Kweekskool onder -neem. Onderwerpe soos armoede, geweld enrassisme, wat ten diepste met menswaardigheidverband hou, word onder meer by sen tra soos dieBeyers Naudé Sentrum vir Publieke Teologie endie Eenheid vir Godsdiens- en Ontwikkelings -navorsing ondersoek. Dit is teologie wat juisgestalte kry daar waar mense swaarkry – ŉteologie wat daarna streef om hoop te bring insituasies van wanhoop.”

Julie se onderrig en navorsing konsentreeronder andere op femi nistiese, literêre en post -koloniale vertolkings van die Bybel, Bybelseteologie, metafoor en Godstaal, en die samehangtussen die Bybel, teologie en etiek.

In haar onderrig probeer sy altyd haar stu -dente vir die realiteite van die wêreld voorberei.

“In die jare wat ek in Amerika klas gegee het,was dit vir my belangrik om by my studente ŉbewussyn oor die globale konteks van die Bybelte kweek. Die Bybel is ŉ kragtige boek en kan,

na gelang van hoe dit gebruik word, ŉ positieweóf negatiewe uit werking op mense hê. Kykbyvoor beeld na hoe die Bybel gebruik is omapartheid te regverdig, om vroue te onderdruk,en om slawerny in Ame rika goed te praat,”verduidelik Julie.

“Ek probeer dus in my klasse om my studentekrities bewus te maak van hoe die Bybel deurdiegene in magsposisies misbruik is. Aan dieander kant kan die Bybel ook deur middel vanverbeeldingryke, ingeligte vertolkings ŉ posi -tiewe uitwerking in die wêreld hê.”

Haar belangstelling in feminisme is aan -gewakker toe sy teologie aan die US studeer het.“Ek het by die US begin studeer in dieselfde jaarwat die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk vroueas predikante in die kerk toe gelaat het. In daardiejare was daar maar ŉ handjie vol vroue studentein Teologie – ek was byvoorbeeld die enigstevrou wat in my jaargroep gegradueer het. Onshet ook nie vroue dosente gehad nie. Die eerstekeer wat ek ŉ vrou as dosent gehad het, was toe ek vir my doktorsgraad aan die Princeton-kweekskool in Princeton, New Jersey, beginstudeer het. Tog het my feministiese bewus synontwikkel danksy die mans dosente wat myaangemoedig het om verder te studeer sowel asdie onder steuning van ander vroue studente omons uitdagings saam te probeer verstaan enkreatief te hanteer.”

“Vandag is dit wonderlik om by die Kweek -skool vir ŉ groot aantal vroue studente te kanklas gee, om senior vrouekollegas te hê, en om

tot onlangs selfs ook ŉ vrouedekaan aandie stuur van die Fakulteit Teologie te kon hê.”

Julie reken dat daar “natuurlik nog baiestryde gestry moet word” oor geslags -gelykheid in die kerk en in die same -lewing, veral as ŉ mens die geweld teenvroue in gemeenskappe oor die wêreldheen in ag neem. Sy konsentreer dus baieop geslags gelyk heid in haar eie onderrigen navorsing, onder andere deur haarkursus oor geslag, kultuur en die Skrifwaarmee sy Teologiestudente sensitiewermaak vir geslagsgelykheid.

Sy werk tans aan heelparty aan bie dingsoor mens waardig heid. Een daarvan isbedoel vir die kon ferensie oor mens waar -digheid wat die US se Fakulteit Teologiein Oktober saam met die Neder landseUniversiteit van Kampen sal aanbied, enhandel oor die wyse waarop die boekKlaag liedere sowel as JM Coet zee seDisgrace geweld teen vroue as ŉ metafoorvir die ondergang van die land gebruik. Dié aanbieding, A True Disgrace? TheRepresentation of Violence against Women in the Book of Lamentations as well as in JM Coetzee’s Novel Disgrace,bevraag teken of vroue nie net weer gebruiken verder geobjektiveer word wanneer die sen si -tiewe saak van verkragting en geweld teen vrouegebruik word om ŉ teologiese of politieke bood -skap oor te dra nie. “Dit is belangrik dat ons nie

die werklike stories van vroue wat verkrag word, ignoreer nie, maar mis kien verleen hierdieklem op vroue, seksuele teistering en verkrag-ting juis prominensie aan geweld teen vroue,”meen Julie.

The Faculty of Theology hasmanaged to dream a differentworld through its involve-

ment in a three-year projectfocusing on the impact of globa-lisation on society. The final reporton the project, which was hostedby the Faculty’s Beyers NaudéCentre for Public Theology, wasrecently handed to former AnglicanArchbishop Desmond Tutu by DrAllan Boesak.

The Dreaming A Different World:Globalisation and Justice for Huma nityand the Earth – The Challenge of theAccra Confession for the Churchesreport is the result of a globalisationproject that was started by Prof ThiasKgatla, moderator of the UnitingReformed Church in Southern Africa,and Dr Johann Weusmann, Vice-President of the Evangelical ReformedChurch in Germany.

“I’m very deeply moved to dis -cover that, as we look at God’s world,the faith community is still engaged,especially because God’s world is stillvery much a world of inequalities andinequities. If we think of climatechange alone, the ones who are mostresponsible for the devas tating changesthat are happening to our planet are theones who are least vulnerable. Theprice is being paid by the poor and theweak, who are direct ly affected byfloods and droughts,” said Arch-bishop Tutu.

“In a time of crisis, such voices asthe ones that are contained in thisreport will come out more strongly.The current financial crisis is not onlyabout a financial crisis but also about amoral crisis.”

Archbishop Tutu said that the faithcommunity was an ideal choice todraw attention to the theologicalimmorality of the effects of globali -

sation on the most vulnerable andmarginalised in society, as this wasalso the space in which the fightagainst apartheid was rooted.

“When people get to know, as theydid in the struggle, that the situationwe find ourselves in right now is notpurely political but a case of what isfundamentally wrong being expressedthrough political and economic spaces,you will find more and more peopletrying to understand what God’s worldis meant to be like and how its citizensare meant to live. We cannot havesystems that encourage over-com -petitive ness, which is a feature ofcapitalism, and be surprised when wefind ourselves in a situation ofeconomic collapse. This is funda -mentally about a spiritual crisis in theworld,” said Archbishop Tutu.

According to Dr Boesak, who wasappointed Professor Extraordinary inSystematic Theology in the Faculty ofTheology at Stellenbosch University(SU) in 2007 and who is also respon -sible for the research programme onglobalisation and economic justice atthe Beyers Naudé Centre, the firstcopy of the report was handed toArchbishop Tutu because he is con -sidered a “champion of the poor andthose who are marginalised”.

The report focuses on, amongstother things, the churches’ response tothe challenge of globalism; empires;imperial power and its consequences;consumerism; justice and ecology; the global food crisis; globalisationand gender; and globalisation andmilitarism.

The report was also recentlyaccepted by the World Communion ofReformed Churches, which represents200 churches in 107 countries acrossthe world.

Oudmatie aan stuur van Teologie se HOOP-inisiatief Prof Julie Claassens, ’n oudmatie en Medeprofessor in die Departement Ou en Nuwe Testament, het jarelank in Amerika gewerk, maar is nou terug by haar alma mater om haar akademiese ondervinding en passievir teologie met die studente en personeel in die Fakulteit Teologie te deel. Sy sal op die breë tema vanmenswaardigheid konsentreer, en is ook sedert Junie verantwoordelik vir die Fakulteit se HOOP-inisiatief, Klem op die bevordering van menswaardigheid – een van 22 akademiese inisiatiewe wat die UniversiteitStellenbosch (US) van stapel gestuur het.

Prof Julie Claassens is onlangs as medeprofessor in dieDepar tement Ou en Nuwe Testament aangestel

(Anton Jordaan, SSFD)

Dr Allan Boesak (front, left) handed over a copy of the Dreaming A Different World report to former Anglican Arch -bishop Desmond Tutu (front row, middle). Also attending the event were Dr Johann Weusmann (front, right), Prof Nico Koopman (back, left) and Prof Thias Kgatla (Hennie Rudman, SSFD)

Dreaming a differentworld for humanity

The recommendations contained inthe report will now be implemented inthe church environment.

Two task teams were appointed inboth South Africa and Germany todrive the research for the globalisationproject. Dr Boesak served as coor -dinator of the South African globali sa -tion task team, while Dr Weusmannwas coordinator of the German taskteam. The report is a response to theAccra Confession of 2004, which isbased on the theological convictionthat Christians are required, as a matter of faith, to respond to theeconomic and ecological injustices

of today’s global economy.

According to Prof Nico Koopman,Dean of the Faculty of Theology andDirector of the Beyers Naudé Centre,the report is a “shining example” ofhow the University is realising itsdevelopment goals, which are centredon people, communities, the environ -ment and industry. The project, saidProf Koopman, was both inter- andtransdisciplinary and offered the Uni -ver sity the opportunity to “serve as aknowledge partner for faith commu -nities on a global level”.

“This report will have an impact on

public thinking and public policy in all spheres of life, on both local andglobal levels,” he said.

“The project itself envisions andacknowledges the dignity of peopleacross the world and realises thatinhumane systems like the ideology ofglobalism can dehumanise people andmake them doubt whether they aretruly a child of God. At Stellenbosch,our entire focus is centred on howscience can be used to benefit societyand on the idea that we can make acontribution to changing the worldthrough science. With this report, wecan make a real difference.”


Maties help broodnodige huise in Mfuleni bou Die dag 11 Junie was nie net ŉ

grote vir Suid-Afrika en dieres van die wêreld met die

afskop van die FIFA Wêreldbeker nie.Vir Rose Kedama (37) van Mfuleniwas dit een van die gelukkigste daevan haar lewe, want die langverwagtehuis wat studente van die UniversiteitStellenbosch (US) en Habitat forHumanity South Africa vir haar gebouhet, was kant en klaar.

Rose en haar kinders is een van 11 gelukkige gesinne wat die trotseeienaars van ŉ splinternuwe huisgeword het danksy Habitat forHumanity South Africa se NasionaleJeugbou week, waaraan sowat 50Maties deelgeneem het.

Die Maties, in samewerking met

studente van die Universiteit Kaapstad(UK), het in Junie vier van die huisegebou, waarvan die Universiteit eengefinansier het. Die ander sewe huiseis deur kerkgroepe en hoërskoolleer -ders gebou.

Habitat for Humanity South Africais in 1976 gestig, en het sedertdienduisende lae-inkomstegesinne vanhuise voorsien. Kerke, gemeenskaps -groepe en ander vrywilligers het in -tussen by hulle aangesluit om dienimmereindigende behuisingsuit -daging die hoof te bied.

Rose, wat tot nou toe saam methaar twee kinders in ŉ plakkershutgewoon het, sê: “My en my kinders seharte was so bly toe die huis klaar was.Ons bly nou al ŉ maand in die huis en

dit is baie lekker, veral in die winter.”

Sy is vol lof vir die studente watby die projek betrokke was: “Hulle isbaie vriendelik en hardwerkend. Ekwaardeer dat hulle in hul vakansiegekom het om my te help bou aan myhuis. Ander mense kan by hulle leer.”

Pieter Botha, ŉ derdejaarstudent inBiodiversiteit en Ekologie, sê dit isdie tweede jaar wat hy aan die weeklange bouery deelneem. “Dit is baieharde werk, maar dit is alles die moei -te werd as ŉ mens ná die week siendat jy ge help het om iets tot stand tebring wat iemand se lewe wesenlikverander.”

Gedurende die week het die stu -dente, leerders van die Hoërskool

Mfuleni, en die voornemende eienaarssy aan sy gewerk om die huise klaar tebou. Middagetes is by die skool be -dien, waar almal saam ontspan hetvoordat die harde werk hervat is.Bekwame bouers het voortdurendseker gemaak dat alles goed verloopen die huise volgens bouregulasiesgebou word.

Die mense wat huise ontvang,moet Suid-Afrikaners wees, die grondbesit waarop die huis gebou word,behoeftig wees, en ook self minstens60 uur aan huise vir ander mensegebou het. Boonop word die voor -nemende eienaars geleer hoe om be -grotings op te stel en vir hul toekomsvoorsiening te maak.

Yolande Hendler, Voorsitter van

die US se Habitat for Humanity-vereniging, sê: “Hierdeur kry mensenie net huise nie, maar word hul lebemag tig om na hulself om te sien.”

Die studente van die UK en som -mige Maties is in koshuise op Stellen -bosch gehuisves sodat hulle mekaarbeter kan leer ken en verhou dings kan bou.

Volgens hul webblad, het Habitatfor Humanity sedert sy stigting meeras 300 000 huise gebou en sodoendemeer as 1,5 miljoen mense in 3 000gemeenskappe wêreldwyd ŉ dak oordie kop gegee. In Mfuleni alleen isdaar sedert 2007 meer as 300 huisegebou.

– SONIKA LAMPRECHT

Die geboue op Tygerbergkampussal oor die volgende aantal jareŉ gedaanteverwisseling onde -

rgaan wanneer die eerste fase van ŉopgraderingsprojek van ongeveer R220 miljoen eersdaags afskop.

“As deel van die eerste fase is ŉbedrag van R20 miljoen vir diedringendste knelpunte beskikbaargestel,” verduidelik mnr Chris Munnik,Hoofdirekteur: Fasiliteitsbestuur.

Ten einde dié kampusbates vol -houbaar te bedryf en agterstande wat

oor jare ontstaan het, in te haal, sal dieeerste fase die volgende opknappingsinsluit: die opgradering van die hys -bakke, opgradering van die elek trisi -teits netwerk, die herstel/vervangingvan die dakke van die drie akademiesegeboue, die skoonmaak van die buite -kant van die drie geboue, en beroeps -gesondheids- en -veiligheidskwessies.Mnr John Villet tree namens die Uni -versiteit Stellenbosch (US) as projek -leier op, terwyl die uitvoerende projek -bestuur aan die fasiliteitsbestuur -

maatskappy Drake & Scull FM uitge -kontrakteer is.

Die instandhouding van die huis -vesting vir buitelandse studente sal asŉ afsonderlike projek aangepak word.Volgens mnr Eben Mouton, Fakulteits -bestuurder by Tygerberg kampus, be -loop die projekwaarde vir dié aparteprojek R1,6 miljoen, en sal dit tenvolle deur die betrokke koste sentrumgedek word. Dit maak dus nie deel uitvan die R20 miljoen wat be skikbaargestel is nie.

Mnr Mouton meen die instand -houdingsinhaalprojek sal nie net opkort en mediumtermyn ŉ beduidendeverandering in estetika meebring nie,maar sal ook beroepsveiligheids- en -gesondheidskwessies in die gebouehanteer om ŉ veel veiliger werks-omgewing vir personeel, studente enbesoekers te skep.

Bykomend tot die instandhoudings -inhaalprojek sal nóg ŉ projek inAugustus begin om twee bestaandelesinglokale in ŉ nuwe, moderner en

groter lokaal te omskep wat met diejongste tegnologie toegerus sal word.Dié stap volg op die stelselmatigetoename in MB,ChB-studente. Dietotale koste hiervoor beloop net meer as R6 miljoen, en word ge -samentlik met sentrale en Fakul -teitsgeld ge finansier. Die nuwe lokaal,wat plek vir meer as 300 studente salhê, sal vir die akademiese jaar 2011gereed wees.

– PRISCILLA BOOYSEN

Reuse opknapping aan geboue op Tygerberg skop af

Gewilde Imbewu-Gesog-program lok meerstudente na gesondheidswetenskappeDie gewilde Gesog-program van die Fakulteit Gesondheidswetenskappe (FGW) bestaan reeds ŉ dekade lank en maak ’nbelangrike element van die FGW se werwings- en uitreikingsprogram aan studente uit diverse omgewings uit. Dieprogram spog alreeds met ’n redelike goeie sukseskoers: omtrent 50% van die groep graad 12-leerders wat die programin 2009 bygewoon het, is vir studierigtings in die FGW gekeur. Vanaf 2010 sal die program se naam aangepas word nadie Imbewu-Gesogprogram waarna die finale naam, die Imbewu-program, in 2011 ingefaseer sal word.

Vanjaar het 83 graad 11-leerders die program meegemaak. Tydens die besoek is hulle blootgestel aan die verskeiden -heid studierigtings by die FGW. Die program is van 28 Junie tot 2 Julie aangebied en het onderwerpe soos beroeps -keuses, die US se taalbeleid, beurse, studievaardighede, studenteondersteuning, koshuis- en kampuslewe, etiek, stu -dente gesondheid, diversiteit en MIV/Vigs aangeraak. Die program is aangevul met paneelbesprekings met seniorstudente, ’n debat, ’n toer deur die Morfologie Museum en disseksiesale, en ’n navorsingsvoordrag. Vanjaar se groepleerders was hoofsaaklik afkomstig van die Wes-Kaap aangesien die Wêreldbekersokkertoernooi vervoer uit anderprovinsies bemoeilik het.

Die Fakulteit Gesondheids -weten skap pe se gewilde Aka -demiese Jaardag word vanjaar

op 11 en 12 Augustus aangebied. Ditbeloof om ’n stimulerende program tewees en sal dien as ’n toonvenster virdie jongste navorsing deur studente ennavorsers in gesondheidswetenskappeen ver wante navorsingsvelde.

Die Tygerberg Akademiese kampusis die tuiste van ongeveer 2 500 voor-en nagraadse mediese studente, 700mediese dokters waarvan 150 spesia -liste is, sowel as heelwat lede van dieaanvullende gesondheidsberoepe. Diekampus en Tygerberg Hospitaal -kompleks saam het ’n gekombineerdepersoneelkorps van om en by 7 000, enversorg daagliks dieselfde aantal pa -siënte. Die Akademiese Jaardag hettoenemende blootstelling in die plaas -like media wat ’n belangrike rol speelom openbare bewustheid en deelnameaan te wakker.

Die program vir die AkademieseJaardag is soos volg:

Woensdag 11 Augustus� Verskeie parallelle sessies van ver -

skillende belangegroepe, in apartelesinglokale in die Fakulteit.

� Die beste voordrag en plakkaat byelkeen van hierdie sessies word aandie einde van die betrokke ses sieaangewys. ’n Kort geleentheid saldie volgende dag gehou wordwaartydens die algehele prys-

wen ners van die vorige dag separallelle sessies aan gekondig enaan die ge hoor voor gestel sal word.

Donderdag 12 Augustus� Die gebruiklike spiespuntlesings

(met inbegrip van die AJ Brink-spiespunt lesing) deur kundiges uitdie verskil lende belangegroepe, salgelewer word.

� Aankondiging en voorstelling vandie wenners van die vorige dag separal lelle sessies.

� Die gasspreker, prof WielandGevers, praat oor: Researchpublishing in SA: Past, present andfuture

� Die ander spiespuntvoordragte is:� Prof Hein Odendaal: Pre natal

exposure to alcohol and cigarettes� Prof Eileen Hoal: The history in

our genes: The complex structureof the South African colouredpopulation

� Prof Dana Niehaus: There’s aXhosa on my stoep: Meanderingthrough 13 years of schizophreniaresearch in the Xhosa population

� Dr Andre van der Merwe:Laparoscopic urologic surgery:A key to success in Africa

Besoek gerus die webblad bywww.sun.ac.za/aad vir meer inligting.Ons nooi jou hartlik uit om hierdie be -sondere geleentheid op die FakulteitGesondheidswetenskappe se programby te woon.

Gesondheidswetenskappespog met nuutste navorsing

Matie student Anika Venter gee ’n baksteen aan vir een van haar medewerkers Die Matie studente geniet ’n blaaskans met ander gemeenskapvrywilligers

K A M P U S N U U S N U U S / N E W S 5(M

ichelle Pietersen)



“Ek het nog altyd ŉ passie virboer dery gehad,” sê mnr Willem vanKerwel. Hierdie passie is duidelikwan neer hy deur die perskeboordestap en uitwei oor die soort perskes,hulle ontwikkeling en hoe die weerdie bome se bottyd beïnvloed het.

Willem het in Januarie 1984 astegniese assistent by die DepartementHortologie aangesluit. Hier was hyonder andere betrokke by navorsingoor kern- en steenvrugte en laterhoofsaaklik sitrus.

Sy vaardighede, sê hy, is by dieDepartement Hortologie “gevorm enontwikkel”, en hy is dankbaar vir diegeleenthede en leiding wat hy daarontvang het. So was hy in dié tydbetrokke by verskeie navorsings -artikels wat gepubliseer is, soos diéoor sitrus deur drs Graham Barry enStephan Verreynne, veral om die pro -bleem van sonbrand by sagtesitrus tevoorkom.

In 2008 het hy as boordbestuurderby Welgevallenproefplaas begin, waarhy nou, twee jaar later, tot plaas -bestuurder gevorder het. Hy is en -toesiasties oor wat dié nuwe posbehels. “Een van ons projekte waaroorek baie opgewonde is, is die erdwurm -boerdery, waardeur ons ons eie orga -niese kompos sal maak en só ook die

organiese deel van ons verskillendebedrywe by die plaaswerksaamhedesal integreer. Ongelukkig kan ons nieeensklaps van konvensioneel na orga -nies oorskakel nie: Sekere konvensio -nele metodes is steeds nodig.”

Willem gesels geesdriftig voort: “ŉAnder groot doelwit is om die om vat -tende GLOBALG.A.P.-oudit (ŉ ouditvan goeie landboupraktyke) op dieplaas te ondersteun. Omdat ons vanons vrugte, druiwe en groente uitvoer,moet ons toesien dat die che miesestow we wat ons toedien nie die toe -laatbare vlakke oorskry nie. Ons vrug -te, groente en melk moet veilig weesvir menslike gebruik. Nóg ŉ grootuitdaging wat tot die pos byge voeg is,is die Afdeling Veekunde, wat ook diemelkery insluit. Ek kry won derlikeondersteuning met veebestuur van diekenners by Veekundige Wetenskappe.”

Sy positiewe ingesteldheid teenoorsy werk het hy by sy pa geleer. “Mypa was baie toegewyd en hardwer -kend. Hy het geglo dat jy jou werkbehoorlik moet doen, maak nie saakwatter werk nie. Sy integriteit in sywerk is iets wat ek altyd sal onthou enaltyd in my eie lewe toepas.”

Willem sê hy kon sy droom ver -wesenlik om plaasbestuurder te worddanksy die ondersteuning van sy vrou,

Dorothy, wat in die afdeling Kommu -nikasie en Skakeling by die Univer -siteit werk, sowel as sy kinders,Wium, Inge en Werner.

“Ek het ŉ wonderlike vrou en kin -ders wat my oneindige onder steuninggee. Hulle is altyd daar vir my. VeralDorothy moes baie opoffer sodat ekmy droom kon najaag, en was altydbereid om ná werk vir my te wag asek moes proefplaas toe om werk af tehandel.”

Dit is egter duidelik nie net dieboerdery wat Willem na aan die hartlê nie, maar ook die mense wat nou indie gemeenskap woon waar hygrootgeword het. Só gesels hy oor wathy vir die plaasarbeiders en hul g sinnewil doen: “Toe ons destyds hier ge -woon het, was dit ŉ gesonde en be -dry wige gemeenskap. Ons wil dítgraag terugbring en dwelm- en alko -holmisbruik uitwis. Ook die plaas -kinders is vir my baie belangrik. Onsmoet kyk na hoe hulle smiddae besiggehou kan word. Daar is reeds ŉkunstenaar wat die kinders by ver -skeie skilderprojekte gaan betrek en ŉmaatskaplike werker wat die gemeen -skap oor fetale alkoholsindroom salinlig,” vertel hy.

Hy wil ook saam met die Univer -siteit die moontlikheid van alterna -

tiewe verblyf vir afgetrede plaas -werkers ondersoek wat ná uittrede nie meer in die plaashuise kan woonnie.

Willem wil graag die kinders opdie plaas aanmoedig om oor moont -likhede buite die plaasgemeen skap tedroom, skool klaar te maak en ookuniversiteitstudie te oorweeg. “Ashierdie kinders verder kan gaan leer,

kan hulle ook goeie loopbane hê enhul kennis weer in hul eie gemeen -skappe belê. Baie mense voel hulle isvir ewig vasgevang in die lewe van ŉplaasarbeider. Hoewel daar niksverkeerd is met daardie soort werknie, wil ek die kinders ook aan andermoontlikhede blootstel en hulle aan -moedig om geleenthede vir verderestudie aan te gryp.”

Plaasarbeider se seun bestuurnou WelgevallenproefplaasKleintyd het hy sy pa, 47 jaar lank ’n plaasarbeider op Welgevallenproefplaas, by die werkrondgevolg. Vandag bestuur hy daardie selfde plaas.

Mnr Willem van Kerwel, die nuwe plaasbestuurder van Welgevallenproefplaas,se pa het 47 jaar lank as plaasarbeider op dié plaas gewerk

(Hennie Rudman, SSFD)

A letter of intent that will lead to thecreation of a long-term partnership tosupport HIV prevention through sportprogrammes was recently signedbetween the Technical University ofMunich (TUM) and StellenboschUniversity (SU).

The plans envisioned by theTUM, represented by its Faculty ofSport and Health Science, and itsSouth African partners, SU andHOPE Cape Town Association(HOPE), will lead to long-termscientific cooperation between SouthAfrica and the Federal Republic ofGermany in various environmentsfocusing on HIV, such as clinicalscience, sport and health science,immunology, epidemiology, trainingand public health. Such cooperationwill be underpinned by the exchange

of students, teachers, doctors andscientists with the aim of traininghighly qualified scientific experts andteaching personnel.

One of the main objectives of theworking group is to recruit leadingresearchers and experts on HIVresearch from South Africa andGermany, focusing particularly onprevention through sport pro -grammes, including practical publichealth care and the attraction of big industrial investors to help deal with problems related to HIVprevention.

Ongoing successful collaborationsin HIV research at SU will be used asa model for similar cooperationbetween SU, HOPE and the TUM.

The purpose of the South African-

German cooperation is to im proveaccess to effective measures of HIV prevention through sport pro -grammes, to improve appropriatepatient management, to stop thetrans mission of HIV, to reduce thesocial and economic toll of HIV andto assist in the development andimplementation of new preventativeand therapeutic tools and strategies tostop HIV. Such cooperation will par ti cularly, but not exclusively, aim to establish an interdisciplinaryapproach to address HIV prevention,both in research and in clinicalpractice, by:

� educating peer-group mentors insport activities (the transfer of asuccessful German project onpreventing smoking inadolescents);

� empowering young women;

� teaching young men about theimportance of responsibility andteamwork; and

� increasing life quality throughadequate sporting opportunities forpeople who are HIV positive.

“The partners believe that the en -visaged South African-Germanpartnership for HIV preventionthrough sport programmes willcontribute towards reducing theburden of HIV in each partnercountry. It will enhance the quality of education, training and scientificresearch through capacity buildingand the exchange of skills andresources,” says Prof BerndRosenkranz of the SU Faculty ofHealth Sciences.

SU and Munich university tackle HIV prevention through sport

NOTICEBOARDCommunityinteraction projectregistrationPlease register and/or update yourStellenbosch University (SU)community interaction projects by15 September 2010. Registrationand approval are valid only for the calendar year to ensure anaccurate institutional record of allcommunity interaction projectsthat can be used for management,monitoring, evaluation and coor -dination purposes. Please visit theSU community interaction websitehttp://www.sun.ac.za/CIDB orcontact Joanne Williams at021 808 2977 or [email protected] assistance or more details.

School projectsThe Community Interactiondivision of Stellenbosch University(SU) would like to get a bettersense of the activities that theUniversity is undertaking inschools to improve coordinationactivities within the University andfor the benefit of the schools inthe immediate area and beyond.Please assist the division in this re gard by registering your school-related projects on the SUcommunity interaction databasehttp://www.sun.ac.za/CIDB by 15 September 2010. Pleasecontact Rolene Liebenberg,Manager: Schools Partnerships (at 021 808 9142 [email protected]) or JoanneWilliams (at 021 808 2977or [email protected])for more information.

Members of the Bavarian Choir accompanied the German delegation to South Africa. Here the choir poses with Rev Stefan Hippler of HOPE Cape Town (fifth person from the left), Prof Beckmann of TUM, Prof Wynand van der Merwe of SU and Dr Rupert Pritzl of the Bavarian State Chancellery


K A M P U S N U U S N E W S / NUUS 7

Sowat vier maande nadat profRussel Botman, Rektor en Vise -kanselier, en prof Julian Smith, Vise -rektor: Gemeenskapsinteraksie enPersoneel, die eerste sooi van diéultramoderne sokkersentrum gespithet, is dit op 6 Julie te midde vangroot opwinding geopen. Die lint wasook skaars geknip of ŉ horde gees -driftige kinders het hul jong talent opdie veld begin toon.

Die sentrum, wat deel uitmaak vandie FIFA 2010-nalatenskap, sal asbasis dien vir die Universiteit Stellen -bosch (US) se Jeug sport inisiatief, watdaarop gemik is om jong talent deursokker te ontwik kel. Dié projek is eenvan die US se HOOP-inisiatiewe. Ditis ook in pas met die instansie sestrate giese fokus om wetenskap tenbate van die ge meenskap aan te wend,en Suid-Afrika en die vasteland segroot ste uitdagings só die hoof tebied. Dit skep ook hoop vir kindersmet ŉ lewendige belangstelling in sokker.

In hierdie eerste fase van die pro -jek, wat sowat R18 miljoen gekos het,is ŉ kunsgrasveld van volle grootte,en Futsalsokkerbane (vyf-aan-ŉ-kant-sokkerbane) wat deur FIFA goedge -keur is, aangelê. ŉ Tweede fase wordbeplan wat grasvelde, sandbane (virstrandsokker) en uiteindelik ŉ volle -dige paviljoen, opgeknapte aantrek -kamers en ŉ konferensiesentrum sal

insluit. Dit sal na raming ŉ verdereR80 miljoen kos.

“Die Jeugsportinisiatief, wat metdie Sokkerakademie en skole in diegemeenskap skakel, sal kinders enook mense met gestremdhede help om hul vaardighede te ontwikkel,”het prof Smith, wat ook sportsake aan die Universiteit bestuur, gesê.

Die sentrum is egter veel meer asnet ŉ sportprojek. Hier sal kindersook akademiese en lewensvaardig -heids opleiding ontvang danksy ŉvennootskap tussen die US se Sport -prestasie-instituut (SUSPI) en ŉDuitse organisasie, Stars of Tomor -row. Hierdie naskoolse program salleerders wat akademies sukkel, toe -gang bied tot spesialisopvoeders,afrigters en nagraadse studente watbykomende studiehulp, gespesiali -seer de lewensvaardigheidsopleidingen sokkerlesse sal aanbied.

“Of dit nou die naskoolse program,ons akademie vir talentvolle jeug, ofons ontwikkelingsinisiatief vir meisiesen kinders met gestremdhede is – onsoorkoepelende doel is om ŉ holistiesesokkerervaring te bied wat wyer assport strek en jongmense ook metsterk sosiale en akademiese vaar dig -hede toerus,” sê me Gugu Ntuli, Hoof-Uitvoerende Beampte van SUSPI.

– SONIKA LAMPRECHT

“The book discusses, amongstother things, the socio-economicinjustices of the colonial and apartheidperiods and examines the transfor ma -tive potential of the 1996 South Afri -can Constitution, particularly theimplications of the entrenchment ofjusticiable socio-economic rights inthe Bill of Rights. It analyses how thecourts, particularly the ConstitutionalCourt, have interpreted the socio-eco nomic rights of the Constitutionover the last 13 years and it evaluateswhether this jurisprudence has thecapacity to help transform the circum -stances of communities marginalisedby poverty,” says Prof Liebenberg.

Other issues explored in the bookinclude the jurisprudence that hasdeveloped in respect of children’s andprisoners’ socio-economic rights, theevaluation and critique of someleading cases in housing, health careand social security, and the impactthat socio-economic rights have hadon private law, in particular on con -tract and property law.

“The book ultimately insists on theresponsibility of the courts to interpretthe socio-economic rights of the Con -stitution in ways that promote morejust economic and social relationshipsin South Africa.”

Prof Liebenberg’s interest in thefield of socio-economic rights wasignited by the work she did in moun -ting legal challenges to the forcedremoval of communities under apart -heid legislation and her involvementin political trials during that time. This

piqued her interest in how the lawcould be used to serve even the mostmarginalised in society.

This interest saw Prof Liebenbergappointed to the technical committeeadvising the Constitutional Assemblyon the drafting of the 1996 Constitu -tion. She also founded the Socio-Eco -nomic Rights Project based at theCommunity Law Centre of the Uni -

versity of the Western Cape in 1997and has, through this Centre, beeninvolved in a number of ground -breaking amicus curiae (friends of thecourt) interventions, such as theGovernment of South Africa v Groot -boom case, which focused on the rightto housing, and the Minister of Healthand Others v Treatment Action Cam -paign and Others, which dealt withthe right of pregnant mothers to haveaccess to government-provided anti-retroviral treatment to prevent the trans -fer of the HI virus from mother to baby.

“The Constitution gives us apower ful tool to support people intheir struggles for a better life. How -ever, we need to see civil, political

and socio-economic rights as inter -related. If someone is starving, thatperson can’t exercise her or his poli -tical freedoms and, if someone isuneducated, that person can’t partici -pate fully in society. There’s really nopoint in having all these freedoms butnot having the means to exercise thosefreedoms. I’ve always been interestedin how the rights contained within our

Constitution can be used to make aconcrete difference in people’s lives,”explains Prof Liebenberg.

This is also the message that ProfLiebenberg passes on to the post gra -duate students whom she supervises.“I’ve had passionate lecturers whoinstilled the idea in me that the lawshouldn’t be just about making moneybut that it should be used to improvethe lives of others. I try to instil thissame sense in my own students today.”

Prof Liebenberg’s extensive re -search and legal work in socio-eco -nomic justice have resulted in herbecoming an internationally recog -nised scholar and expert in the field.She serves on the editorial boards of

the South African Journal on HumanRights, the African Human RightsLaw Journal, Speculum Juris and theHuman Rights Law Review. She iscur rently Chair of the Board ofDirectors of the Socio-EconomicRights Insti tute of South Africa and is also a mem ber of the Board of theInstitute for Human Rights andDevelopment in Africa (based in theGambia). In addition, she is the co-director of one of SU’s HOPEinitiatives, Com bating Poverty,Homelessness and Socio-economicVulnerability under the Constitution.

The South African Constitution,explains Prof Liebenberg, is unlikeany other constitution in the world.Constitutions have traditionally fo -cused on civil and political rights butSouth Africa took this a step furtherby incorporating judicially enforce -able socio-economic rights into theConstitution. The supreme law ofSouth Africa thus aims not only toaddress the injustices of the past but,as Prof Liebenberg says, also to createa transformed society “based on de -mo cratic values, social justice andfundamental human rights”.

“Internationally, the South AfricanConstitution is seen as a good exam -ple of a constitution that includessocio-economic rights that can be en -forced in a court of law. In a sense,we’re seen as a laboratory and manycountries and United Nations bodiesare interested in how South Africancourts interpret and enforce theserights and whether they have an im -

pact on people’s lives. The book hastherefore attracted international inte -rest,” Prof Liebenberg says.

Prof Liebenberg hopes that thebook will have an impact on what shedescribes as South Africa’s “relativelyconservative legal culture”.

“I hope the book will be useful tothe legal community and civil societyorganisations involved in socio-econo -mic rights advocacy and litigation. Myultimate hope is that the book willcontribute to developing our legalsystem to be more responsive to theclaims and circumstances of thoseliving in poverty.”

Socio-Economic Rights –adjudi cation under a transformativeconstitution can be ordered fromJuta & Co by visitingwww.jutalaw.co.za.

Socio-economic rights instrumental intransforming South African societyAn interest in law and how it can be utilised to bring about social change is a passion that has driven the research and advocacywork of Prof Sandy Liebenberg, HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law at Stellenbosch University (SU)since 2004. Her recently released book, Socio-Economic Rights – adjudication under a transformative constitution, is a tangible productof her life’s work, examining how the “judicial interpretation and enforcement of socio-economic rights can be more responsive tothe conditions of systemic poverty and inequality” in South Africa.

Prof Sandy Liebenberg tackles theimportant issue of socio-economic rightsin her new book


Lentelus Sokkersentrum sal sokkersterre vir die toekoms ontwikkelRegs: Me Jackie Wiese (links), Direk -teur: Sportburo, en raadsheer CyrilJooste, burgemeester van Stellen -bosch, deel die groot oomblik metprof Julian Smith, Viserektor: Ge -meen skaps interaksie en Personeel(middel), toe hy onlangs die LentelusSokkersentrum amptelik geopen het

(Justin Alberts)

Onder: Die lint was skaars gekniptoe kinders van die gemeenskap volgeesdrif hul sokkertalent op diesplinternuwe veld gewys het

(Justin Alberts)

The supreme law of South Africa thus aims not only to address the injustices of the past but also to create atransformed society based on de mo cratic values, social

justice and fundamental human rights.

– Prof Sandy Liebenberg’’

Die FIFA Wêreldbeker is verby en Spanje het die toernooidie eerste keer in die geskiedenis gewen, maar op Stellen -bosch oefen talentvolle sokkerspelers reeds by die nuweLentelus Sokkersentrum vir toekomstige toernooie.

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8 N E W S / N U U S K A M P U S N U U S

These were the words of Prof Ednavan Harte, Dean of the Military Aca -demy in Saldanha, following an 11-dayvisit to China. Prof Van Harte was theonly civilian among 15 leaders fromEnglish-speaking military aca demiesacross Africa, who were invited by theChinese Ministry of National Defenceto participate in a symposium and visitmilitary educational institutions inBeijing, Shanghai and Nanjing.

“The 21st century brings with it anumber of challenges,” says Prof VanHarte. “Wars are not necessarily foughtin the same manner as before. Thereare greater threats of cyber warfare andthe way in which terro rists operate haschanged. Fighting in the horn of Africaregion is different to fighting inAfghanistan, for instance. Visits likethe one to China and the interactionthat takes place between the differentmilitary leaders bring about a betterunderstanding of the military andsocietal challenges that different coun -tries face and how they deal with these

challenges. Through these kinds ofsymposia, one gets a sense of howcurrent your curriculum and research isand whether it equips military leaderswith the necessary skills and knowledge.It also enables comparisons withofficer education and training in othercountries. Military education in the21st century must sensitise militaryleaders to the impact of war on theenvironment and our responsibility tosocieties in which wars are fought.”

Prof Van Harte says she noticed thatgender equality in South Africa hadprogressed much further than mostother countries represented at the sym -posium in China. “We have women en -gaging in actual combat on the battle -fields, women who fly military planesand who captain naval ships. However,there are certain realities one has toface. Most women are physically un -able to handle very heavy weaponry.Most of the dele gates from other coun -tries that were in China, including ourhosts, have women working mostly in

support functions, such as nursing andad minis tration. The rapid pace of tech -no logical advancement will open newpossi bilities for women in the military.”

Prof Van Harte was particularlyimpressed by the Chinese’s “absolutefocus on education for military per -sonnel and the population at large”.

“Within the space of a hundredyears, China’s advancement in theareas of science and technology isimpressive,” she says.

“The financial and human resourcesChina has poured into educating offi -cers are worth replicating and we canlearn from it. China places a high valueon international exchanges and en -courages other military academies tosend their students there. What is re -grettable though, is that foreignstudents study at the College ofDefense Studies, which is situatedseparately from the training facilitiesfor Chinese students. This means thatforeign and local students are keptapart. There is therefore no or very

limited interaction between theforeigners and the Chinese in thesemilitary institutions.”

Prof Van Harte says that the languagebarrier is cited as the reason for theseparation between foreigners and thelocals in the class room. But she hasanother take on the issue.

“It could be that the Chinese areafraid that too much contact with out -siders could contaminate the ideologyof their own people. Although theChinese claim that China is movingtowards democracy, Communistprinciples are still firmly entrenchedand adhered to.”

An advantage of these kinds ofexchanges is that they open the door tobilateral agreements regarding edu -

cational exchange programmes andother initiatives. “SU’s Faculty ofMilitary Science struggles to findnautical science lecturers and is in needof engineers to teach in our Depart -ment of Nautical Science. We do nothave sufficiently skilled manpower. Incontrast, China has a number of highlyskilled engineers whom we couldutilise through exchange programmesand whom we could learn from.”

Delegates were also shown displaysof weaponry and military equipment.“The goal was probably to buy fromChina, and several countries seemedinterested. However, South Africa doesquite well manufacturing some of ourown military equipment.”

– STEPHANIE NIEUWOUDT

Exchange of ideas main focus inMilitary Dean’s visit to China“The trip to China offered me an unique experience to learn from and exchange ideas with someof Africa’s leading military leaders. I was able to immerse myself in how military education andtraining is offered in different parts of the continent and the world. While we often view militarypowers like the United States and Britain as the gold standard when it comes to military edu -cation and training, I was once again reminded of the important role that China, Korea and Russia,have played in the education and training of military personnel in Africa.”

Prof Edna van Harte accepts a plaque from Maj Gen Zhang Yingli, Comman -dant of the College of Defence Studies at the National Defense University,during her visit to China

These are the words of Ms EllenTise, Senior Director of StellenboschUniversity’s Library and InformationService and President of the Inter -national Federation of Library Asso -ciations and Institutions (IFLA), onbeing awarded an international prizefor her distinguished leadership andoutstanding contribution to inter -national librarianship.

The award was made by the Inter -national Relations Committee of theAssociation of College and ResearchLibraries during the annual confe -rence of the American Library Asso -ciation (ALA) held in Washington in June.

“It’s very motivating and it

inspires me to do more and to workeven harder to ensure that librariescontinue to drive equal access toknowledge for all,” Ms Tise adds.

Prior to the ALA conference, MsTise and the IFLA President-electIngrid Parent had the opportunity tovisit earthquake-hit Haiti. They wereable to meet with IFLA colleaguesfrom that country and to inspect theimpact of the earthquake on librariesin Haiti. The earthquake struckHaiti’s capital Port-au-Prince inJanuary this year, sowing widespreaddevastation.

“During our two-and-a-half-daystay, we visited several institutionsand held meetings with, among other

people, the Minister of Culture andCommunication, Marie LaurenceJocelyn Lassègue,” says Ms Tise.

An official agreement between theRepublic of Haiti and the Inter -national Committee of the BlueShield, of which the IFLA is afounding member, was signed for thecreation of the Ark Treatment Centre,a rescue centre for documentsdamaged by the devasta ting earth -quake. The agree ment includestraining for local libra ry and archiveworkers by expert volun teers par tici -pating in the recovery.

The IFLA is the leading inter -national organisation representing andpro moting the interests of library andinformation services and their clientsworldwide. In August 2009, Ms Tisebecame the first South Afri can to beappointed as the IFLA presi dent. TheIFLA presidency is the highest posi -tion for a professional person workingin the field of library and informationservices. Her term ends in 2011.

Ms Tise’s main duties as the IFLApresident include representing thefederation at various conferences andevents, giving keynote addresses andspeeches, advocating for libraries bypromoting the sustainable develop -ment of libraries worldwide andmana ging the federation through itsgoverning board. This last duty en -tails attending two governing boardmeetings per year held in The Haguein the Netherlands in April andDecem ber and attending two boardmeetings during the annual congressheld in a different region or host cityeach year.

“This recognition bears testi monyto Ms Tise’s excellent track record as a leader and her contribu tions tointernational librarianship. She’s doneus proud. The award is an honour notonly for her but for StellenboschUniversity as a whole,” says ProfRussel Botman, Rector and Vice-Chancellor.

– ILSE ARENDSE

Ellen Tise inspired to do more

Ms Ellen Tise, Senior Direc tor of the Uni versity’s Libra ry and Infor mationService and President of the IFLA, received an international prize for herleadership and outstanding contribution to international librarianship


“It’s an honour to be recognised by my peers as well as byother promi nent individuals and organisations for the workthat I’ve done in the field of library and information services.”

The Unit for Corporate Gover -nance in Africa at the Uni -versity of Stellen bosch Business

School (USB) has been selected aslocal research partner for the 2010review process of the Socially Re -sponsible Investment (SRI) Index of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange(JSE). The Unit was selec ted by theJSE and the UK-based re sponsible-investment research spe cialist EIRIS.The review process, which com -menced this month, will be undertakenby EIRIS in conjunction with the Unit.

The Unit is also the first local part -ner selected on the African con tinent.It will be responsible for con ductingcompany analysis for the Index.

“The involvement of a local partneris a significant step forward inbuilding capacity in environmental,social and governance knowledge andresearch in South Africa,” says MsCorli le Roux, Head of the SRI Indexat the JSE.

As part of the process of trans -ferring knowledge and building capa -city, the Unit will handle the researchof a large percentage of companies thisyear, while the remainder will behandled by EIRIS.

“The intention is that, in duecourse, the Unit will be responsible forthe bulk of the research. The JSE willcontinue its relationship with EIRIS,which remains responsible for theover sight of the entire research processand the final quality assurance of theanalysis. As far as companies are con -cerned, the process will remain un -changed,” adds Ms Le Roux.

According to Mr Deon Botha,Senior Research Fellow at the Unit,the partnership perfectly complementsthe USB’s strong track record in thefield of good governance, as EIRIS isone of the leading global providers ofre search into the environmental, social,governance and ethical performance ofcompanies. “We are very excited aboutthe partnership with EIRIS and lookforward to assisting an acknowledged

global expert in the field of re -sponsible investment.”

“Over the last few years, we’veconducted related research in colla -boration with the Public InvestmentCorporation and believe that our localknowledge and expertise will addvalue to the JSE SRI Index,” says Mr Botha.

Launched in 2004, the JSE SRIIndex is a governance index that hasbecome a widely accepted gauge forevaluating corporate citizenship withincompanies. The Index employs abroad range of criteria that reflectglobal SRI standards whileaccommodating issues particular toSouth Africa, such as Black EconomicEmpowerment and HIV/Aids.

Mr Botha also anticipates synergiesto develop between the different re -search processes utilised by EIRIS and the Unit to evaluate and scorecompanies and believes that this canonly benefit South African companies.

Mr Peter Webster, ExecutiveDirector of EIRIS, says that, as theIndex has become more established,they have been looking for oppor -tunities to build a local partnership.“We find that, around the world, localpartnerships deliver better localknowledge and provide insights thatimprove our global research metho -dology. Such partnerships also help topromote responsible investment in anational or regional context and we are very pleased to be able to contri -bute to capacity building and skillsdevelop ment in this increasinglyimportant aspect of the investmentprocess.”

“The Unit has an established trackrecord in the field of corporate gover -nance and, as investors around theworld widen their governance con -cerns to include social and en -vironmental issues, we look forwardto working with the USB and the

JSE to address that demand in South Africa.”

– CLAYTON SWART

USB unit selected asresearch partner for JSE


K A M P U S N U U S N U U S / N E W S 9

Vier meertalige universiteite,naamlik die universiteite vanStellenbosch (US), Pretoria

(UP), die Vrystaat (UV) en Noordwes(NWU), het onlangs saamgespan wattaalontwikkeling en -assesseringbetref deur ŉ formele samewerkings -oor eenkoms aan te gaan met die stigvan ISenTA, die InterinstitusioneleSentrum vir Taalontwikkeling en -assessering. In Engels is die Sentrumbekend as ICELDA (Inter-institutionalCentre for Language Developmentand Assessment).

ICELDA se doel is om bestaandewerksaamhede vir taalontwikkeling en-toetsing eerstens te konsolideer entweedens uit te brei deur hoofsaaklikop die ontwikkeling van kundigheid,en dus ook vermoëbou, te konsentreer.Prof Leon de Stadler, Direkteur vandie US se Taalsentrum, meen dat ŉ

vennootskap soos dié juis die ruimtedaarvoor skep, veral as in ag geneemword dat Suid-Afrika tot dusver nognie werklik oor voldoende geldige enbetroubare taaltoetse beskik het nie.

ŉ Spesiale fokusgebied vanICELDA is daarom navorsing oor, endie ontwikkeling van, taaltoetse entaalkursusse. Die toename in dieaantal gespesialiseerde versoeke virtaaltoetse en -kursusse vir verskillendeteikengroepe het ŉ diversifisering vanbestaande produkte genoodsaak. So isdaar aan die plaaslike én internasio -nale front belangstelling in akade -miese luistertoetse vir die hoëronder -wys omgewing; luister- en spraaktoetsevir inbelsentra; en toetse vir finansiëleadviseurs, verpleegkundiges, diepolisie, ensovoorts. Hierdie toetse salmet verloop van tyd ontwikkel,beproef en verbeter word, hoewel die

hoofklem steeds op navorsing sal val.Prof De Stadler sê dit is vir die US

ŉ eer om deel van hierdie vennoot -skap te wees. “Die rede hiervoor is datICELDA se produkte van hoogstaandeen wetenskaplike gehalte is – tenminste 14 artikels oor die produkte endie navorsing wat daaroor gedoen is,het oor die afgelope vyf jaar ingeakkrediteerde tydskrifte verskyn.Verder word daar ook reeds enkelenagraadse studies oor verskillendeaspekte van die bestaande produkteonderneem, wat die wetenskaplikebasis daarvan verder behoort te ver -sterk.” Ter ondersteuning hiervanword alle winste uit die verkoop vandie toetse tans vir beurse aan belo wen -de nagraadse studente, en die finan -siering van kleiner projekte by ál vierinstansies aangewend.

Pronkprodukte is die Toets van

Akademiese Geletterdheid (TAG) ensy Engelse eweknie, TALL, omdat ditreeds op nasionale vlak, ook aan dieUS, as taalplasingstoetse gebruikword. “Dit is tans die mees betroubareen geldige toetse in hul soort in Suid-Afrika,” sê prof De Stadler.

Daar heers ook groot opwindingoor die toets van akademiese ge -letterdheid vir nagraadse studente,oftewel TALPS. Dié toets bepaalgeletterdheidsvlakke by nagraadsestudente, veral buitelanders, maar isewe akkuraat met die voorspelling vangeletterdheidsvlakke van Suid-Afri -kaners. Dit word reeds met groot suk -ses aan die UP, die UV en die NWUgebruik. Prof De Stadler sê daar wordtans aan ŉ voorstel gewerk om hierdietoets aan die US bekend te stel.

“Die feit dat daar besluit is om dieadministratiewe setel van ICELDA

aan die US en in die Taalsentrum tevestig is ŉ pluimpie in die hoed vandie Universiteit, en boonop is ditfinansieel en logisties voordelig virdie US,” sê prof De Stadler.

“Ek glo die US en die Taalsentrumkan ŉ betekenisvolle bydrae tot diewerksaamhede van ICELDA lewer,”voeg hy by. “Die Taalsentrum genietimmers internasionale erkenning opdie gebied van taaltoetsing met hulonlangse akkreditasie as toetssentrumvir die Universiteit van Cambridge seESOL-eksamensindikaat.”

Vir navrae oor ICELDA of syprodukte, skakel met Tobie van Dyk,Hoof van die Eenheid vir Afrikaans enEngels aan die Taalsentrum, enAdministrateur van ICELDA, [email protected] of 021 808 2495.

Vennootskap voorsien in behoefte aan geldige en betroubare taaltoetse

Steven Chownreceives topinternationalprize

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“On Marion Island, the averagetemperature has in creased by 1.5°over the past 50 to 60 years and theannual pre cipitation has de creased by600 mm,” he said. He com paredphotographs from the 1960s withones taken in 2009 to illustrate amajor change in the island’s climateand biodiversity.

Alongside the changes in the glo balclimate, the world has wit nessed adrama tic increase in bio logical in va -sions over the past 50 years. ProfChown presented data showing thecorrelation between the increasednum ber of visits to the islands and theincrease of alien species. The moreoccu pants in an area, the more likelythe presence of alien species. This istrue for mammals, vascular plants and insects.

Prof Chown ended his lecture byexpressing his hope for the nextgeneration of scientists: “I hope theywill look back and say that the 4th International Polar Year reallychanged the way things are done.May our future scientists be able tosay that we succeeded as scientistsand as people and that we no longer have the problems that our ancestors had.”

– ENGELA DUVENAGE

New world record forParalympic Matie swimmerParalympic swimmer Charl Bouwer (picture) wasin excellent form during his 400 m freestyle eventat the 24th Inter national German SwimmingCham pion ships for the Disabled held in Berlin,Ger many. He broke his own world record in theS13 dis ability category despite the fact that he isstill recovering from a knee injury and has not yetreached top form again. Charl swam the 400 mfree style in 4:13.10, beating his previous recordof 4:14.02, which he esta blished when he won agold medal at the Beijing Paralympics inSeptember 2008. He also bettered his own SouthAfrican records in the 100 m freestyle and 100 mbutterfly.

Charl originally hails from Kim ber ley, wherehe also started his swimming career. At the end of2009, he moved to Stellenbosch and joined theMaties team.

However, after aggravating an old knee injury,he had to undergo reconstructive surgery to his

knee and spent a couple of months undergoingreha bilitation. The dedicated Charl was back inthe water as soon as the doctors gave him thethumbs-up to restart his training programme.

“Due to the uncertainty about the progress ofhis re covery, it was de cided that he should travelto Greece and Germany in June to test how fastand how well he was re co vering. He certainlypassed this test with flying colours and thisprogress bodes well for Charl for the upcomingInterna tio nal Paralympics Committee Swim mingWorld Cham pion ships, which is a majorinternational event and which will be held inEindhoven in the Netherlands in August,” saysMr Pierre de Roubaix, Sport Manager:Swimming.

Charl is currently on South African soil againto con tinue his training and preparation inanticipation of the Championships.

– MARCEL SMIT

Vierde groep PLUS-programleerders ontvang sertifikate

Hier is die leerders wat onlangs die PLUS-program voltooi het. Voor van links is Elton Jacobs, Suzette van Rooyen, Suzette Rademan, Ronelia Booysen, BereniceWilliams, Mishka Abrahams en Faheema Losper. In die middel van links is Steven Festus, Freddie Jacobs, Henry Groenewald, Elvira Rohland , Gaynor Septemberen Donelda Petersen. Agter van links is Nellie Snyman (Administratiewebeampte: Menslike Hulpbronne), Lorinda Nel (Fasiliteerder), Caroline Jacobs, KamielaCrombie, Yumna Williams, Jacoba Moffat en Jan Knight (Adviseur: SDF). Me Raleah de Klerk was siek en kon nie die funksie bywoon nie (Anton Jordaan, SSFD)

’n Groep van 18 personeellede aan dieUniversiteit Stellenbosch (US) hetonlangs die vierde groep geword omdie Professionele LeerderskappeUniversiteit Stellenbosch (PLUS)-program te voltooi. Die personeellede,wat in verskeie fakulteite, departe -mente en omgewings op kampuswerk, het onlangs hul vlak 3 en 4-sertifikate tydens ’n amptelikeoorhandigings funksie in die Konser -vatorium ontvang.

Prof Tobie de Coning, Hoof -direkteur: Strategiese Inisiatiewe enMenslike Hulpbronne, het die

sertifikate oorhandig. Hy het die groepgelukwens met hulle prestasie en gesêdat dit vir hom veelseggend is dat dieleerders juis hulle opleiding voltooi indie week wat die US se HOOP Projekbekend gestel is. “Julle skep hoop injulle eie lewens deur mede-eienaar -skap van julle loopbane te neem,” het hy gesê.

Prof De Coning het verder gesê dathy hierdie groep almal as medebouersaan die HOOP Projek beskou. “Onsweet dat as medebouer van hoop,moet ’n mens ook deel hê aan daardiehoop,” het hy bygevoeg. “Die PLUS-

program is een van die manierewaardeur die US hoop vir sy per -soneel skep en behoort alle US-personeellede die geleentheid te biedom hulself te verbeter, ongeag of hulle’n junior of ’n senior werknemer is.”

Elke jaar bied die PLUS-programpersoneellede die kans om formeleleerderskapkwalifikasies te bekomdeur aan leerderskappe – formelenasionale sertifikaatkursusse opvlakke 3 en 4 van die NasionaleKwalifikasieraamwerk (NKR) – deelte neem.

Die suksesvolle US personeellede

het ’n 12-maande leerderskap voltooien krediete is toegeken deur asses -sering in die werkplek (70%) engestruktureerde opleiding (30%). Me Lorinda Nel, ’n fasiliteerder by die private opleidingsvoorsienerSiyathembana, het die onderrigbehartig.

� Inligting rakende die PLUS-program is beskikbaar op MenslikeHulpbronne se webblad onder diehofie Vaardigheidsontwikkeling. Virnadere inligting, kontak Jan Knight(SDF) by 083 235 7229 of [email protected].

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10 G E M E E N S K A P S I N T E R A K S I E / C O M M U N I T Y I N T E R A C T I O N K A M P U S N U U S

Dr Jerome Slamat (picture), SeniorDirector: Community Interaction atStellen bosch University, was

recently elected as the founding Chair -person of the South African Higher Edu -cation Commu nity Engagement Forum(SAHECEF). The organisation representsuniversity staff members who are respon -sible for a broad typology of communityengagement expressions in higher edu -cation in South Africa.

“The three core functions of a uni ver -sity are teaching, research and com munityengagement. Over the past few years therehas been an increased aware ness of theneed for universities to engage with diffe -rent kinds of commu nities,” ex plains Dr Slamat.

“We have to move away from thinkingof ‘community’ in deficit terms; as in -herently needy and black. A wider andmore differentiated definition of ‘com -munity’ might open up more and excitingpossibilities for universities.”

The idea for SAHECEF originated twoyears ago when Dr Slamat and Rev KiepieJaftha, former Chief Director: Community

Service at the University of the Free State,started discussing the possibility of es -tablishing an organisation that would in -volve all universities in the country. ProfDenver Hendrickse, Director: CommunityEn gagement at the University of Pretoria,soon became a member of the initial corediscussion group. When the organisationwas finally launched in Durban in No vem -ber 2009, it consisted of 22 public univer -sities and one private university.

The SAHECEF Board consists of 24 members – one representative fromeach university, mandated by the Vice-Chancellor of that university.

The goals of SAHECEF include advo -cating and championing community en -gagement among South African highereducation institutions with relevant stake -holders; exploring and encouraging oppor -tunities for co-operation and partnershipsamong these institutions; sharing ex pe -riences and best practice in terms of com -mu nity engagement; facilitating the dis -semination of new knowledge; and promo -ting community engagement as a vehiclefor development and trans formation.

Dr Slamat explains that there is a hugeneed among university staff involved indifferent expressions of community inter -action to form communities of practice.Working groups for university staff in -volved in teaching and learning, research,community engagement management andpartnership management were formed toprovide platforms for debate and exchange.

The current SAHECEF Executive hasprioritised support to universities in thearea of community-based experientiallearning (especially service learning) andvolunteerism (for example by facilitatingparticipation in Mandela Day activities) forthe current year. A major conference onCommunity Engagement in Higher Edu -cation is planned for November 2011.

SAHECEF will soon commission anumber of researchers to prepare researchpapers on higher education communityengagement that will be presented at theconference. “Higher education communityengagement is a relatively new knowledgefield and we are laying the groundworkhere,” says Dr Slamat.


In these uncertain times, manypeople realise that skills enhancementis the answer to increasing theirchances of obtaining gainful employ -ment, increasing their value to thecompany that they work for or startingtheir own business.

The Adult Entrepreneurial De -velopment Programme of MatieCommunity Service is helping to fillthis gap through a number of initia -tives. One of these is the BusinessSkills Programme, which targetsunemployed people and those who arealready employed, but who feel thatthey need to improve their entre -preneurial skills for their current jobor to pur sue interests elsewhere.

“The programme entails develo -ping marketing skills, learning to drawup a business plan and learning to domarket research,” explains Mr HenryAfrica, Senior Programme Managerfor Entrepreneurial Development atMatie Community Service.

The Business Skills Programmedraws wide interest not only from thecommunities in and around Stellen -bosch but also from outlying regions.

“This reflects the growing needamong many people to start their ownbusiness,” says Ms Lydia Burger,Depu ty Director of Matie CommunityService.

“The attendees include both peoplewho are opportunity-driven and thosewho know that they have to improvetheir skills as quickly as possible tobecome more relevant in the market-place. Some attend because they’renot sure exactly what they want to do,but they want to hone their businessskills anyway.”

The Business Skills Programme isoffered twice a year and participantsattend three-hour sessions once aweek over ten weeks.

“The programme is attended bypeople from different walks of life andit’s interesting to see how networksare formed and how attendees identifybusiness opportunities,” explainsHenry.

Ms Marilyn Fillies, who lives onthe premises of the DrakensteinCorrec tional Service, attended the pro -gramme two years ago and has sinceestablished a closed corporation,

Sizisayukhanyo Trading, throughwhich she offers a house cleaning andbabysitting ser vice. The programmehas also been the stimulus that sheneeded to gain accre ditation for herfledgling catering service. She hasrecently signed a con tract to providecleaning services at an upmarkethousing development and she will

soon employ 10 people for thiscontract.

“I attended the Business SkillsProgramme because I wanted to createsomething through which I could helppeople in the community who arebattling,” says Marilyn. “The trainingenforced my confidence in my ownabilities. I’m also proud that I’ve

created a business through which I canprovide work for others.”

A number of Stellenbosch Uni ver -si ty staff, ranging from those whohave PhDs to semi-skilled personnel,have also benefited from the BusinessSkills Programme.

– STEPHANIE NIEWOUDT

Leer hulle eers die lekker prak -tiese deel waaruit hulle ietskonkreet kry om mee te spog.

Dan, wanneer hulle graag meer wilweet, bied jy die teorie aan.

Uit jare lange ondervinding weetmnr Henry Africa, Senior Program -bestuurder: Entrepreneurskaps ont -wikkeling by Matie Gemeenskaps -diens (MGD), dié benadering werkuitstekend wanneer jy jong mensenuwe vaardighede wil leer. By diejaarlikse winterskool wat as deel vandie Jeugentrepreneurskapsont wik -kelingsprogram aangebied word,behels die praktiese komponent diesny van bottels (sodat gebruiks -voorwerpe soos blomvase en glasedaaruit gemaak kan word), beeldhou -

werk, videoproduksie en hare vleg.

“Die praktiese vaardighede iseintlik bykomend tot ons werklikedoelwit, naamlik om hulle te leer omuiteindelik hul eie ondernemings tekan bedryf,” sê Henry. Terwyl hulledie praktiese vaardighede aanleer,word hulle ook onder meer geleer omsakeplanne op te stel, te onderhandelen finansiële beplanning te doen. Metbetrekking tot die ver skillende vaar -dighede word sekere ‘ekstras’ ookaangeleer en ander moont likhedeuitgewys. Met videoproduksie, by -voorbeeld, besef die jong mense goudaar is ŉ behoefte aan grimeer -kunstenaars en spyseniers.

Die kursus is gewis suksesvol:Elke jaar is die graad 10- en 11-leer -

ders, op wie die winterskool gemik is,nie net bereid nie maar gretig om ŉdeel van hul vakansie daarvoor pryste gee. Vanjaar het leerlinge van dieHoërskool Makapula en die Sekon -dêre Skool Kylemore die winterskoolbygewoon.

“Ons het vir die leerders gesê hulle kan vroeg huis toe gaan op diedag wat die Wêreldbekersokker begin, maar hulle was so gretig omaan hul projekte te werk, dat ons hullebykans moes dwing om te loop,”vertel Henry.

“Die jong mense leer hulle moetself geleenthede probeer uitwys,” sême Lydia Burger, Adjunkdirekteurvan MGD. “Die meeste mense wathul eie ondernemings begin, se ouers

is entre preneurs, by wie hulle vankleins af leer. Dít is egter nie diegeval in woon buurte waar diewerkloosheidsyfer hoog is en mensenie altyd die nodige geleenthede krynie.”

Plaaslike studente vrywilligersword as fasiliteerders opgelei eningespan om die voor nemende jongentre pre neurs by te staan. Sodoendeword ook die studente se vaardighedeop verskeie maniere geslyp. Hulleleer onder meer om as mentors op tetree en verbeter hul vermoë om metander saam te werk.

Daar heers steeds ŉ algemene op -vatting dat ŉ mens eers ná skool vir ŉloopbaan moet begin voorberei.

“Die ideaal is egter om al ópskool, in ŉ veilige omgewing, en son -der die gevaar van moontlike gelde -like ver lies, die nodige vaar dig hedeaan te leer,” sê Henry.

Lydia voeg by: “In Suid-Afrikabegin die meeste mense hul onder -nemings wanneer hulle in die knyp isen geld moet verdien. Gewoonlikgebeur dit sonder die tersaaklikesake kennis en -vaardighede. Die ge -brek aan kennis lei dikwels tot mis -lukking. Dis ŉ ideale situasie vir ŉjong mens om in ŉ veilige omge wingnood saaklike entrepre neurs vaardig -hede te leer, sodat hulle as vol -wassenes ekonomies onafhanklik kanwees.”


MGD ontwikkel ondernemersvaardighede by jeug

Slamat to head national communityengagement forum for universities

Entrepreneurial developmenthelps adult South Africans to start own businessUnemployment rates in South Africa have increased sub -

stantially in the last 18 months due to a number of factors.

Mr Henry Africa (left) and Ms Lydia Burger talks about how the development of entrepreneurial skills in both the youthand adults are helping South Africans to start their own businesses (Hennie Rudman, SSFD)

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K A M P U S N U U S K U N S E N B O E K E / A R T A N D B O O K S 11

SAMARITAN OF SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY

Pat Tebbutt

“The Chris Burger/Petro Jackson Players Fund has been many things to itsrecipients over the years. It has been a life saver – thanks to its educationand intervention programmes – and it has been a Godsend, a best friend, aconfidant and a brother to those who have been struck down by calamitouschance. And it has been something else to the game of rugby in SouthAfrica; it has been our conscience ...” – Oregan Hoskins, SARFU President

Now, thirty years later, the Fund is flourishing and has assisted over 400seriously injured players at a cost of more than R30 million. It has also putin place a programme to make rugby a safer game and to prevent seriousinjuries.

This is the historical account of those thirty years. It is a story ofunrelenting effort, of unflagging determination and dedication, and ofpublic goodwill and generosity to a cause close to South African hearts.

RELIGION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN POST-APARTHEIDSOUTH AFRICA

Ignatius Swart, Hermann Rocher, Sulina Green & Johannes Erasmus

Religion and Social Development in Post-apartheid South Africa isa book of fundamental interdisciplinary scope offering perspectiveson the role of organised religion, in particular the Christianchurches, in addressing the post-apartheid public challenge ofsocial development and developmental social welfare.

Not uncritical towards prevailing religious social practices, thebook stands out for its claim to a critical approach in conceptua -lising the contribution of organised religion and offering a com -prehensive range of perspectives on the subject matter across thedisciplines of theology and the social sciences.

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Man van vele talente se werke in Sasol Kunsmuseum te sien

Die uitstalling is saamgestel uitwerke wat die Universiteit in 1996 uitdie boedel van sy weduwee, RonellMeintjes, ontvang het, en word inhierdie uitstalling – 30 jaar ná sy doodin Julie 1980 – aangebied saam met ŉ paar kernwerke uit privaat ver -samelings.

Meintjes was ŉ boorling vanMolteno in die Oos-Kaap, maar hetlater saam met sy weduweemoeder ensuster na Kaapstad verhuis, waar hy ŉstudent in tale aan die Universiteit vanKaapstad was.

Hy het sy eerste skildery op ŉvroeë ouderdom voltooi, en het as 19-jarige sy eerste uitstalling gehou. InKaapstad was hy gewild by oud enjonk in die kunswêreld. In sy reeksdagboeke meld hy watter van diedestydse groot geeste in die kuns- enmusiekwêreld hy ontmoet en latergoeie vriende mee geraak het, soosMaggie Laubser, Cecil Higgs, Hubertdu Plessis en Florence Zerffi, wathom twee jaar lank onderrig het. Sy

het ŉ groot invloed op hom gehad.

Meintjes het in Desember 1946 virŉ jaar in Londen gaan woon en werk,onder meer as omroeper by die BBCsaam met Arnold van Wyk. In 1958 ishy weer terug Londen toe vir ŉ jaar.

Hy is in 1980 oorlede nadat hyhom as ŉ belangrike Suid-Afrikaansekunstenaar en skrywer gevestig het.Bo en behalwe verskeie artikels enkleiner literêre werke, het hy 35 boekegepubliseer, waaronder gesag heb -bende werke oor die Suid-Afrikaansegeskiedenis. Al hierdie aspekte van sylewe sal in die uitstalling belig word.

Ná sy dood is ŉ Meintjies-kamerby die Hoërskool Molteno ingerigwaar sy omvattende boekery enverskeie kunswerke uitgestal word.

Meintjes is reeds vroeg in dieSuid-Afrikaanse pers beskryf as “eenvan die mees belowende en interes -santste van die Afrikaanse kunste -naars” en as ŉ man van vele talente.

Sy nalatenskap bestaan uit meer as

ŉ duisend olieverfskilderye, dosynebeeldhouwerke asook etlike grafiesewerke. Hy het in al Suid-Afrika sebelangrikste galerye uitgestal – somsop sy eie en soms saam met kunste -naars soos Alexis Preller, JH Pierneef,Gerard Sekoto, Irma Stern, MaggieLaubser en Walter Battiss.

Meintjes het eenmaal gesê: “Myvisie het sy oorsprong in die bodemvan Afrika en ek het daaraan ŉ per -soonlike stempel gegee wat moontlikeendag in die hart en verbeelding vanŉ ander generasie ’n reaksie magvind.”

Besoek die Sasol Kunsmuseum byRyneveldstraat 52. Die Kunsmuseumis Maandae van 10:00 tot 16:30 enDinsdae tot Saterdae van 09:00 tot16:30 oop. Toegang tot die Museum isR5 vir volwassenes en R2 vir stu -dente. Vir meer inligting kontakCorlia Harmsen by 021 808 3524.

� Hier is een van Meintjes seskilderye, The Young Man in Sleep

’n Uitstalling van die Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar, skrywer en historikus, Johannes Meintjes

(1923–1980), het op 18 Julie geopen en sal tot 28 Augustus 2010 in die Sasol Kuns -

museum op Stellenbosch te sien wees.


Die volgende uitgawe van Kampusnuus verskyn op 30 Augustus 2010

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Prof Manie Geyer (middel) van die Departement Geografie en Omgewingstudies het op 15 Junie sy intreerede gelewer. Die titel daarvan was The Evolution of Urban Systems. Byhom staan prof Magda Fourie, Viserektor: Onderrig (links), en prof Hennie Kotzé, Dekaan van die Fakulteit Lettere en Sosiale Wetenskappe. Prof Geyer is sedert 2009 aandie US verbonde. (Sonika Lamprecht)

Prof David Hall of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology delivered hisinaugural address on 17 June. In his presentation, titled Now, but not yet – tension inobstetrics, Prof Hall discussed two dangerous complications of pregnancy: Early-onsetsevere pre-eclampsia and pre-term labour. Here is Prof Hall (second from the left)with Prof Magda Fourie, Vice-Rector: Teaching, and Prof Wynand van der Merwe,Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences.

PROF DAVID HALL DELIVERS INAUGURAL SPEECH PROF MANIE GEYER PRAAT OOR STEDELIKE STELSELS

Hard aan die werk nog lankvoor hane aan kraai dinkTerwyl die meeste van ons nog diep in droomland is en die hane nog nie eens aan

kraai dink nie, is die werknemers wat na die vee op die Welgevallenproefplaas langs

Coetzenburg, Stellenbosch, omsien reeds hard aan die werk.

Soggens 05:00 lei mnr ElroyBurger die 32 koeie van hul kamp aandie bopunt van die plaas na diemelkery – ŉ halfuur se stap – waarmnr Pieter Frank besig is om diemelk masjiene gereed te kry.

Elroy hou ook die stalle skoon,voer die koeie, en moet ook die kal -fies leer om op hul eie te suip. “ŉKalfie bly omtrent drie tot vier dae bysy ma, en word dan verwyder en opsy eie geplaas. Ek moet dan die kal -fies leer om op hulle eie te suip deurŉ vinger met melk in hulle bekke tedruk of deur hulle tot by ŉ bak melkte lei en te wys hoe om dit te suip.”

Mnr Pieter Williams, Elroy sekollega, help ook met die voer van diekoeie. As drywer is hy ook verant -woordelik vir die wegry van mis endie aanry van voer. Saam met hullewerk mnr James Williams, wat ookmet die skoonmaak van die diere sehokke help, en vir die weivelde engepaardgaande besproeiingverantwoordelik is.

Sodra al die koeie by die melkeryis, verduidelik Pieter Frank, stap diediere so te sê self deur die deur. “Diekoeie weet presies hoe om by diemelkery in te stap en aan te tree,” sêhy. “Soos hulle instap, word elke koeise nommer neergeskryf. Elroy en ekwas dan die koeie se spene, en plaasdie masjien se rubberkloustukke ophulle spene sodat hulle gemelk kanword. Sodra hulle klaar gemelk is,neem ons ŉ lesing, wat neergeskryf enop die rekenaar gestoor word,” sê hy.

Navorsers kan dan sien hoeveelmelk een koei per maand of per jaargelewer het.

Volgens prof Chrisjan Cruywagenvan die Departement VeekundigeWetenskappe is die werk wat op Wel -gevallenproefplaas gedoen word vankardinale belang vir die navorsings-en onderrigbedrywighede van dieDepartement. “Die gehalte van ons

navorsing en onderrig is direkafhanklik van die ondersteuning eninsette van die proefplaaspersoneel,”sê hy. “Hulle verrig ŉ groot enbelangrike taak. Ons sê wél dankie inons wetenskaplike publikasies en opverskeie verhoë, maar dit is belangrikdat hulle ook in die algemene persvan ons waardering kennis neem.”

Teen so 06:30 is die koeie klaargemelk, en word hulle na die stalleteruggelei. Daarmee is die werkers sewerk egter nog lank nie klaar nie. Be -halwe dat die koeie laatmiddag weergemelk moet word, moet die masjieneook ná die oggend- en middagmelk -sessies gewas, en die pype in diemasjiene uitgepomp en gespoel word.Die werkers is ook betrokke by diepasteurisasie van die melk, die inspuitvan die koeie, en help ook met diegeboorte van kalwers.

Dié vier manne werk ŉ sewedag -week – van vroeg soggens tot omtrent16:30 – maar maak darem beurte omelke tweede naweek af te neem.

Al die melk wat die koeie produ -seer, word aan plaaslike maatskappyeen die publiek verkoop. Die publiekkan daagliks tussen 14:30 en 15:00melk teen R4,50 per liter by die mel -kery koop. Onthou net om jou eiehouers te bring.

Die plaas is ook al vir goeie melk -bottervetproduksie en -proteïenesowel as vir goeie melkproduksie deurdie Vereniging van Meestersuiwel -boere Wes-Kaap bekroon. Tans wordproewe gedoen om uit te vind wattervoer die beste is vir die koeie, en hoedit die koeie se melk beïnvloed.

Die werkers sê, omdat hulle sogereeld met die koeie werk, raak hullebaie geheg aan dié diere. “Deur net nadie koei se speen te kyk, kan ons jouhaar nommer en melkproduksie gee,”vertel Pieter Frank. Die diere ken ookdie werkers goed, en kom vinnignader as Pieter Williams met die

trekker voer aangery kom. “As ekbegin wegry, dan begin hulle weerraas,” verduidelik Pieter Williamslaggend.

Hulle weet ook om nader te komas Pieter Frank vir hulle fluit.

Naby die melkery werk mnr SamPietersen. Hy is verantwoordelik virdie versorging van die vyf bokke en46 skape op die plaas. Teen 06:30,vertel hy, lei hy die skape en bokkevan die kampe waar hulle slaap na dieweidingsvelde. In die aand bring hyhulle weer terug, en maak ook sekerdat hulle gevoer word.

Bedags maak hy die hokke skoon,en is ook verantwoordelik vir diediere se ontwurming en inenting. Dieres van die tyd help hy met ander takeop die plaas, soos die herstel vanomheinings. Al werk hy al 21 jaar opdie plaas, lyk die skape steeds vir homeenders, en ken hy hulle net aan hulnommerstrokies uit. Die diere kenhóm egter, en as hy roep, begin hullesaamdrom en nader aan die hek be -weeg sodat hulle na hul slaaphokkegelei kan word.

Dan breek die tyd ook aan vir diediereversorgers om huiswaarts te keer.Een ding is egter seker: As ŉ koei ofskaap vannag geboorte skenk, sal eenvan hulle daar wees om haar by testaan, ŉ handjie by te sit as hullemoet, en oor haar te waak tot allesverby is.

� As jy van enigeen in jou omge -wing weet wat ‘agter die skerms’werk, en wie se werk tot dieUniversiteit se drie kerngebiede –navorsing, leer en onderrig, engemeenskapsinteraksie – bydra,wil Kampusnuus graag van jouhoor. Gee ons die werknemers enhul lynhoofde se kontakbesonder -hede, en vertel ons van die werkwat hulle doen en hoe dit volgensjou tot die Universiteit se visie vanuitnemendheid bydra.

James Williams lei die koeie uit die kamp na die melkery (Hennie Rudman, SSFD)

Elroy Burger besig om die koeie met die masjiene te melk (Anton Jordaan, SSFD)

Van links is die melkmanne Pieter Frank, James Williams en Pieter Williams (Hennie Rudman, SSFD)

Sam Pietersen sorg vir die bokke en skape op die plaas (Hennie Rudman, SSFD)

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