9MAY 2011

ith Golden Arrow BusServices celebrating 150years in the business of

transporting passengers acrossthe Peninsula, it has partneredwith CPUT to bring educationto worthy students whowould otherwise be deniedthe opportunity to study at atertiary level.

For over five years, the Golden ArrowFoundation, through its holding companyHosken Consolidated Investments (HCI)Limited, has helped students withcomprehensive annual funding for the durationof their studies at CPUT worth well overR100 000.

In recognition of this continuing effort, theAdvancement Department hosted a luncheonat the start of the second term to honour thecompany for the opportunities given tostudents in industry-related academic

disciplines, such as Engineering and HumanResources.

This year, five students ranging from first-years to seniors, were awarded full bursariesto cover their tuition, accommodation, books,travel expenses, and living costs. Theyall shared the same sentiment of gratitudeto the bursars, promising to act withconsideration for the rare gift of ‘freeeducation’.

Speaking at the luncheon, Golden Arrow’sHuman Resources Director Meko Magidasaid the bursaries were an ideal means tocontribute towards the positive developmentof the country’s future workforce. “We employover 2 500 people with a wide spectrum ofskills from across the peninsula andcountrywide. We therefore felt it fitting to giveback to the pool from which we draw ourvalued human resources. We believe that ifyou offer holistic support to a student withgreat potential, you will reap even greaterrewards from them as a member of yourworkforce”, said Magida.

Vice-Chancellor Prof Vuyisa Mazwi-Tangaencouraged the recipients of the bursariesto make full use of the exceptional opportunity,urging them to pay full attention to theiracademics in order to succeed. AdvancementDirector Dr Garth van Gensen echoedher sentiments, saying the funding was aninvaluable gift to their development,adding that the students should use thisopportunity wisely.

Past bursary holder and recent graduateQaqamba Qauka said the bursary changedher life as a student, allowing her toconcentrate fully on her studies and not worryabout finances. Qauka is now workingin the Human Resources department atGolden Arrow.

Other projects supported by the GoldenArrow Foundation include Adventure BusTrips, support for the Woodside Sanctuaryand various educational and youth leadershipprogrammes.

By: Thando J. Moiloa

Golden Arrow Bus Servicesawards full bursariesto deserving students

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HONOURED PARTNERSHIP: Vice-ChancellorProf Vuyisa Mazwi-Tanga (centre) and Director: Advancement

Dr Alwyn Van Gensen (back row) with members of Golden Arrow BusServices, their holding company HCI Ltd and CPUT staff.

n commemoration of HumanRights day, the TransformationOffice hosted seasoned

cultural scholar and culturalactivist Dr Somadoda Fikeni* atCPUT’s Bellville campus at thestart of the second term.

The unique gathering left the audience withsome thought-provoking ideas, and had thementertained with a heart-warming concertfrom Watoto, a talented choir of orphanedchildren from Uganda who visited CPUT aspart of their promotional tour.

The seminar, titled ‘Nation building in thecontext of higher education with particularreference to discrimination and socialcohesion’ was supported by the Vice-Chancellor’s Office and the Civic EngagementUnit and well-attended by the student body.

In his address, Dr Fikeni made reference tothe challenges of integrating human rightswithin the higher education sphere, stating‘it is imperative that we take these factorsinto consideration when living and workingin a multi-cultural, multi-lingual environment’.

According to the Transformation Office’sManager George Mvalo, “CPUT is in themidst of a wide-ranging transformationprocess in its reach and impact onorganisational practices, processes andinstitutional culture. Its strategy is derivedfrom the institutional transformation, socialcohesion and diversity charter.

“The ultimate goal of the strategy is to alignall departmental transformation strategicplans to the institutional strategic plan.Ultimately, the objectives set out around theseven principles of the transformation charter,should be measurable and realistic within settimeframes”, says Mvalo.

The Transformation Office will be host oneseminar per quarter, with an event beingplanned for Africa Day in late May.

*Dr Fikeni is a consultant at the HumanSciences Research Council (HSRC), aDirector: Eastern Cape DevelopmentCorporation and Chairman of the Council ofthe Walter Sisulu University, and previouslyserved as Chief Operations Officer at theNational Heritage Council.

He holds a BA (Hons) from the former

University of Transkei, a Masters degree fromQueen’s University, Canada, and a PhD:Political Science from Michigan University,USA. He continues to be an avid researcheron a variety of culturally-influenced issues.

By: Thando J. Moiloa

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Cultural activist and academic Somadoda Fikenireminds CPUT community of the importance of

HONOURING HUMAN RIGHTS

The Watoto Children’s Choir from Ugandaentertains guests with their spirited performance.

Dr Somadoda Fikeni, keynote speakerat the Human Rights Day symposium.

11MAY 2011

Wendy Levendal, originally fromRiversdal, came to Cape Town aftermatriculating in 1985 to further hereducation at the then Peninsula Technikon(Pen Tech). After completing her studiesin Graphic Design, she immediatelystarted to work at the institution.

Progressing through different departments,she now finds herself working for FUNDANI,as CPUT’s official graphic designer, and isresponsible for teaching aids at theinstitution.

“I’m a mother and wife to three wonderfulchildren and an even more remarkablehusband, and I hope that I will beremembered by them as a loving and caringmother and wife, “she says.Meanwhile,Levendal says there’s one thing she’ll neverforget. “I will always remember the day I

bungi-jumped in 1996. I thought I was goingto die. I saw death before my eyes.” Safeto say that Levendal likes to live close to -but not on the edge.

Although she’s well-known to many withinCPUT, Levendal says that there is one thingmany don’t know about her - “I am anintrovert, like you won’t believe! I’m a veryshy person”, she whispers.

Her ideal holiday is camping with herfamily and friends. “Somewhere quiet andpeaceful, where I can relax, and enjoy thebeauty of nature – that’s my idea of heaven!”

If she wasn’t a graphic designer, Wendysays she’d be an events manager or an airsteward. “I like organising events and doingdecor. So maybe I could’ve become aninterior designer. But as fate would have it,here I am and I love what I’m doing.”

Versatile – just one of the words that

comes to mind when one chats with

Lulamile Ntonzima, Public Management

lecturer on both Cape Town and Bellville

campuses.

Ntonzima, who has been at CPUT for sixyears now, is involved in the university’sretirement fund, where he has beennominated as a trustee. He’s also active inthe local National Education, Health andAllied Workers Union (Nehawu). It’s been agood six years at this institution forNtonzima, who is currently studying towardshis D.Tech degree in Public Management.“My colleagues may not know this, but I’ma very religious man and quite a softie - Isometimes get hurt too”.

Busy work schedule aside, Ntonzima isalso the proud father of two sons and ahappily married man. While his family alwayscomes first, he has a few extra muralactivities that cannot be brushed aside. “Iam the secretary General of the PAC in theWestern Cape and very closely involvedwith a few non-governmental organisationsand community engagement projects.”

Ntonzima believes it’s important to beinformed, beginning each day with his daily

dose of the news. “I watch first thing everymorning. National and international news,it doesn’t matter. He says that if there isone piece of advice that he can share, itwould be to read. “I can’t go a day withoutreading - every day one must acquire newknowledge and a new perspective. And asfor the rest of the day Ntonzima says thathe doesn’t do a lot of planning. But heemphasises that lecturing excites him andis definitely his daily highlight.

Ntonzima is passionate about goodgovernance. “Leadership involvement ingood governance, be it socially, politicallyor academically, is a driving force for me”.Asked who has inspired him during thecourse of his life, his eyes soften. “Myparents. They are my source of strength,but apart from my parents, I’ve built myway of life on the principles, ideologies,philosophical thinking and world views ofProf Mangaliso Sobukwe”.

A monthly column by Mariette Adams, where staff across CPUT’s campuses are profiled. This month we’re “Getting to Know” PublicManagement lecturer Lulamile Ntonzima, and Wendy Levendal, graphic design fundi for CPUT.

GETTINGto know you

o educate students andstaff on the comprehensivee-resources (including

databases & e-books) that canbe found at CPUT Libraries, anE-Resources Fair was held inApril on the Bellville campus.Senior Librarian Zanele Mathe,largely responsible for organisingthe event, said they wanted theCPUT community to take fulladvantage of these electronicresources and ensure they areused extensively for research.

Held in front of the Major Sports Hall andthe Auditorium, each faculty hosted anexhibition table, with respective facultylibrarians manning the tables. Organisers helda competition in which students had tophysically demonstrate their ability to fullyut i l ise the database after v iewingdemonstrations by librarians.

The vendors and sponsors of theE-resources Fair prizes included SWETS,Proquest, Sabinet, Emerald, Elsevier, Springer,WWIS and Books 24/7. SWETS sponsoredthe main prize, an HP laptop, while the secondprize was a Vodafone cell phone sponsoredby the Director of CPUT libraries, Dr ElishaChiware.

According to Mathe, the esponse to the fairwas overwhelming. “The feedback wereceived was very positive. Students andstaff from different campuses showed a lotof interest and follow-ups for students whoasked for further training are being taken careof by respective Faculty Librarians.”

CPUT Libraries are aiming to repeat thefair next year on Cape Town campus. “Thiswas the first time that we had an E-resourcesfair, but because it was so successful, weare looking into the possibility of staging thisevent annually,” Mathe said.

The winners agreed that the fair providedthem with all the necessary informationand guidelines on how to use e-resourceseffectively, without physically being inthe library.

Winners of the grand prizes were JohannesMoos, M Tech education student who walkedaway with the HP laptop, while B TechEngineering student Nomzamo Tshemesescooped the second prize which was a cellphone hamper.

Meanwhile, librarians across the countrycelebrated South African Library Week in lateMarch, and to highlight the services andresources available, CPUT libraries joined inthe action, albeit a week later due to theinstitutional holiday.

Library Week was themed “Read in yourlanguage @ your library”.

Accordingly, Engineering faculty librarian,Siviwe Bangani, delivered a paper on hisexperience of writing a novel in isiXhosa andhaving his book published.“The theme encourages a culture of readingand intends to promote reading andpublishing in all South African languages”,said Bangani. “It also places the spotlight onthe importance of mother tongue instructionas a key factor in education and helpspreserve culture and language.”

CPUT libraries also held a competition forstudents, who had to create a poster oranswer a questionnaire in five differentlanguages regarding SA Library Week. Fivewinners from all the respective campuseswere chosen, with first year Jewelry Designstudent, Simphiwe Dumengane, walking awaywith top honors. The competition wasorchestrated by the two library interns, NazreeCarlsen and Judy Ruiters. Regina Sikhosana,Bellville Library Branch Manager presentedthe winners with their gifts, while SulaimanMagal, Cape Town Library Branch Manager,acted as master of ceremony.

As SA Library Week celebrations came toa close, the message was clear - librariesbelong at the forefront of SA’s developmentas a nation, and as part of CPUT, studentsand staff have no excuse not to read in theirlanguage at their library.

By: Mariette Adams

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LIBRARY WEEK, A SUCCESS: After delivering a heart-felt paperabout the usage of African languages, Engineering faculty librarianSiviwe Bangani was loudly applauded by the audience. Here, he

is congratulated by fellow library colleagues Judy Ruiters andNazree Carlsen, Public Relations interns at the library and

Estelle Kriger, Senior Library Assistant: Marketingand Promotions.

13MAY 2011

PUT’s Open Day was heldrecently and declared ahuge success, with over

9 000 learners visiting the expoover the course of three days.To promote their courses andprogrammes, and emphasise thecritical importance of theirdiscipline, the RadiographyDepartment at CPUT recentlyheld their own annual Open Dayat Groote Schuur hospital withthe theme: Radiation Therapy asa Career Choice. Given that by2020, 70% of all new cancercases will occur in low andmiddle-income countries suchas South Africa, and that canceractually kills more people a yearin the developing world thanmalaria, HIV and TB combined,the Open Day aims to highlightthe importance of the professiont o h e a l t h c a r e , w h e r eradiographers are seen tooffer an essential service and“scarce-skill”.

Held in conjunction with the RadiationOncology Department at the hospital, theday targeted Grade 10 to 12 pupils studyingMaths, Science or Biology. The pupils weretaken through the four disciplines ofRadiography – Diagnostic Radiography,Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasound and RadiationTherapy.

Raheema, a third year Radiography studentinvolved for the second time with the OpenDay, said, “We‘ve displayed the fourdiscipl ines of Radiography but weconcentrated mostly on Radiotherapy. Thisis because people apply less to studyRadiotherapy than the other disciplines -either they perceive it to be more complicated,or they feel they don’t want to be involved inthe sadness of cancer treatment. I thinkthere’s a lot of misinformation in that sense.We try to set the record straight; show themhow rewarding it is to take care of patients,how patients feel and how we integrateworking with a social worker to deal with thepotential emotional toll. Radiotherapists arein great demand as not a lot of people arequalified, and many of those who do moveoverseas where there more opportunities.”

Shaney, a third year Radiology student

who worked as a marshal during the OpenDay, said “Our role is to help inform the pupilsabout the course and what we do on a dailybasis. When they ask us question we canexplain exactly what we do in a clinicaldepartment. As senior students we arequalified to answer their questions, and itmakes sense for us to do this as we are justa few years older and can really give them asense of the course.”

Shaney mentioned that though many pupilswere interested, some were quite scaredwhen they heard the word radiation. “Someeven stood far away, we needed to call themto come closer and have a look at what wasbeing explained. We had to re-assure themthat it’s safe and ok,” she said.

In general the students and pupilsdescribed the Open Day as exciting andinformative. Abdul Mahomed, a pupil fromRylands High, said “I have come to the OpenDay because I really want to pursue a careerin Radiography. It was a great experienceand taught me that I can do one of fourdifferent things should I choose to.”

By: Jan Weintrob and Thami Nkwanyane

introduces scarce-skills career to excited pupilsRadiology Open DayC

RADIOLOGY UNCOVERED: Pupils and teachers watch attentively as CPUTstaff at the Radiology Department at Groote Schuur show them the ropes.

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olanda Morkel and HermieVoulgarelis, lecturing staff at the Department of

Architectural Technology in theFaculty of Informatics andDesign (FID), recently presentedtheir work and current researchto a Work Integrated Learning(WIL) forum on the RoelandStreet campus. They wereinvited by Jake de Villiers,Faculty coordinator of theWIL unit.

Morkel and Voulgarelis are currentlyimplementing an alternative pedagogicalmodel in the second year programme of theND Architectural Technology, which theydeveloped as a result of their respectiveDTech research work. They are part of theTechnology in Education ResearchPostgraduate Students group lead by theirsupervisor, Prof Johannes Cronje, Dean ofthe FID.

The design studio is at the centre oflearning in architecture. It is in this physical

space where problem-based learninghappens through interaction, collaborationand conversation. This innovative model,that aims to provide similar collaborativelearning, is supported by Prof PG Raman,HOD of the Department of ArchitecturalTechnology. It successfully integrates theacademic project with Workplace Learning(WPL) and Service Learning (SL) to ensurean enhanced learning experience forstudents, while at the same time, achievingcommunity engagement and socialresponsiveness.

Workplace learning is supported by a multi-modal academic component comprised ofcontinuous off-campus online learning andquarterly 7 - 10 day, mostly on-campus,face to face workshops. Blogging, Facebook,podcasting and Skype online tools are usedto facilitate off-campus learning and tomonitor students’ workplace experience.The workshops, on the other hand, compriseof site visits, lectures, and design-buildactivities.

This is where Service Learning (SL) comesin. The Department of Architectural

Technology is partnering with the Centre forMultigrade Education (CMGE) at theWellington campus, led by Director, Dr JurieJoubert, to create sustainable andappropriate learning spaces for multi-gradeschools in disadvantaged rural areas. TheCMGE provides support to ten suchcommunity schools in the form of learningmaterials, teacher support and training.

The major design and technology projectin the second year ND ArchitecturalTechnology is a community project at the StMichael’s Primary School, Oude Brug, nearElgin, one of the schools supported by theCMGE. The students are working on a spatialclassroom intervention that will actually bebuilt by the students themselves in Novemberthis year.

Fundiswa Nofemela, Manager of Co-operative Education at CPUT’s Centre forCommunity Engagement and WorkIntegrated Learning, commended Morkeland Voulgarelis on their initiative. Sheexplained that this is the kind of pioneeringwork needed in an institution like CPUT.

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IMPRESSED: Children from St. Michael’s Primary celebratethe arrival of this learning opportunity for their school.

15MAY 2011

The Department of Architectural Technologyrecently hosted their annual Awards Functionfor students who excelled in 2010. Held atthe Thomas Pattullo Building on the ForeshoreCampus, the function was presided over witheloquence and a great sense of humour byActing Head of the Department of Town andRegional Planning, Vic Theunissen,. Co-ordinated efficiently by Shamiela Saiet and

her team, the event was attended by about75 people.

Some 30 awards, generously sponsoredby the industry and built environmentinstitutions were presented to students whohad shown dedication and ingenuity in theirstudies and project work. Following theawards ceremony, Prof. Julian Cooke of UCTmade a Key Note speech on the importance

of those professionals who put buildingstogether. He also spoke of the need toconsider making architecture an integral partof design education.

Cooke says he was particularly impressedwith the way the staff and students of theCPUT Department of Architectural Technologyare placing the emphasis squarely on thisaspect of architectural practice.

By: Jan Weintrob

Architectural TechnologyStudents' Awards Function

SHINING STARS: Architectural Technology students whoexcelled in 2010 acknowledged at the Awards Function.

Students were honoured for showing dedication andingenuity in both academic and project work.

or many it may seem a bridgeto fa r, bu t fo r BTech Pub l icManagement student Lungiswa

Nante, it was mission possible. Nante,former SRC member at the institution,is now a full-time council member ofUniversity Sports South Africa (USSA)- all thanks to her passion for sports.

Students from 23 different tertiary institutions werenominated, and with Nante receiving 80% of the votes,she was elected as USSA’s Development Officer atthe end of October 2010. As result of her hard workwith USSA these past few months, Nante made yetanother break-through. She was chosen to sit on theNational Executive Committee (NEC) for sports asUSSA representative.

She’s active in many different sports codes, butaccording to Nante she loves Judo more than anyother. “I received provincial colours earlier this year injudo, which just goes to show that if you really lovewhat you doing and enjoy yourself while doing it, itpays off.”

Her duties include organizing USSA tournaments aswell as mentoring beginners at various institutions.She oversees volleyball, karate, surfing and table tennis.But Nante believes her real challenge in this positionis yet to come. “I’ll be attending the World StudentGames in Shenzen, China, from the 6th to the 24th ofAugust and will be responsible for the USSA’sadministration”, she says.

“I have had numerous meetings, workshops andconferences that I had to cover since I landed in thispost. I have met the minister of sport Fikile Mbalula,Bafana coach Pitso Mosimane and South African 100and 200 meters sprinter Geraldine Pillay. It was anamazing honour, and gave me more insight into theworld of sport, but the coming World Student Gamesin China will be my sternest test yet.”

Nante holds Cape Town and in particular CPUT closeto her heart. “I’m planning to study sports managementin the near future and have had a few offers fromuniversities across the country to come and study withthem. But my first choice would be to come back tothe Cape and study here at CPUT - that’s if they’ll haveme”, she laughs.

By: Mariette Adams

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PROUD REPRESENTATIVE: CPUT student, Lungiswa Nante, poses in front of the USSA emblem,where she now works as a student mentor in various different sporting codes.