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The graduation ceremony<br />
On arrival<br />
Please present yourself at the registration desk in the foyer where a seating card indicating your name, degree or<br />
diploma and seat number will be handed to you.<br />
You will be referred to a desk or counter where you may claim your guest tickets.<br />
Guests must be seated 30 minutes before the ceremony starts. Unfortunately, late arrivals or guests without<br />
tickets will not be admitted into the graduation hall. Guest seats are not reserved.<br />
If you have arranged to collect your academic dress at the graduation venue (except at the Pretoria venue which<br />
does not provide such a service), please collect it at the supplier’s stall.<br />
Babies and toddlers will not be admitted into the graduation hall. Children seven years and older will be required<br />
to obtain a guest ticket.<br />
During the ceremony<br />
The congregation<br />
When the academic procession enters the hall, all graduands, diplomands and guests should rise. They may only<br />
be seated once the Chancellor has given the signal to do so.<br />
Graduands, diplomands and guests are requested to remain seated for the duration of the ceremony and not to<br />
leave the hall until the academic procession has exited the hall.<br />
At the end of the ceremony, graduates, diplomates and guests should remain standing until the academic<br />
procession has left the hall.<br />
Graduands<br />
When signalled by Graduations staff, the graduand whose name appears first in the programme rises, and<br />
carrying the hood over the left arm and seating card in the right hand, ascends the stage from the right (as seen<br />
from the audience).<br />
The graduand hands his or her card to the college representative, who reads out the name. The card is returned<br />
to the graduand which serves as a cue to walk towards the Chancellor and kneel with the right knee on the<br />
stool. The Chancellor confers the degree.