UV Jaaroorsig - University of the Free State

2007
UV Jaaroorsig
UFS Annual Review

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Inhoud • Content
1 Fortifying the foundations for a robust university:
the year 2007 against a five-year backdrop 1
2 Strategic clusters a decisive academic initiative 7
3 Institutional charter and transformation plan map the way forward 11
4 Equity and diversity the key to staff excellence 17
5 Gehalte in onderrig en leer ’n belangrike prioriteit 21
6 Navorsingskultuur al sterker 27
7 Taking the lead nationally, internationally 33
8 Mense-kapitaal maak dit moontlik 43
9 Facilities and high-quality campus to be proud of 49
10 New developments in student life and sport 53
11 Gesonde finansies die sleutel 57
12 Conclusion: robust foundations and the diversity challenge 61
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Fortifying the foundations for a
robust university: the year 2007
against a five-year backdrop
1

Change and transformation amidst continuity as
a university
In his inaugural address in February 2003, titled Continuity
and change, scholarship and community, quality and
equity, the new Vice-Chancellor pointed out that this
reconstitution of the UFS signaled how much a university
can and often must change – but also how, amidst such
change, it must safeguard its continuity of existence as a
university.
Two points were critical. First, in order to serve society,
the University much always fulfill the tra di tional
role of a university, i.e. to be a place of critical inquiry
and scholarship, of the generation and transfer of scientific
knowledge.
Secondly, while the UFS respects its intrinsic na ture as
university, it must continually adapt its form and scope to
meet changing opportunities and demands. In South Africa
as a developing society, for a very long time the UFS will
have to do many unconventional things to sup port
development and shape a new society – using its foundation
of knowledge.
Therefore, he said: “The greatest contribution the UFS
can make to the Free State community is to be and con ti nue
to be, now and in 25 years’ time, a very good, high quality
university – and always a creative, innovative, dynamic,
equitable, socially responsive and pro-active university.
“Therefore my vision for the University of the Free
State is to be a university of excellence, equity and in novation
– a leader in research, teaching, community service,
adult learning, transformation, non-racialism, non-sexism,
multiculturality and multilingualism; a contributor to our
country and our continent’s growth and develop ment; a
truly South African university,” Prof Fourie said at the
time.
The idea of a robust university
A particular theme, highlighted in the opening address and
annual review of 2004 (the UFS Centenary Year), was to
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The year 2007 marks the last year of the first term of office of the current Rector and
Vice-Chancellor, Prof Frederick Fourie. In July of this year he was also unanimously
re-appointed, by the University Council, for a second term of office.
The five-year milestone marks a systematic process of strengthening the foundations
of the University of the Free State over a five-year period. The purpose of this process was to lift
the UFS to a higher level of functioning in all key strategic areas. Much was achieved in these
five years.
firm up the foundations of the UFS in order to become a
great and robust university. Prof Fourie defined robustness
as begin strong and vibrant, vigorous, able to withstand
shocks, competition and turbulent times. Robustness was
required in many areas:
• The UFS must firstly be academically robust with high
quality staff, solid intellectual and disciplinary depth,
research integrity and research depth. It must also be
managerially and administratively robust: high quality
support and manage ment staff and processes, sys tems
integrity, ingrained professionalism and service culture.
• Secondly, it must be financially robust with sound
financial management, sufficient reserves to ab sorb
shocks, sound investment in the core business, and sound
remuneration and staff practices.
• Thirdly, the UFS must be robust in its management of
diversity and equity: solid and sound relations between
diverse groups, strong commitments to live in mutual
respect, strong common values to underpin an equitable,
diverse workplace and student community, and a firm
campus consensus on what kind of university society we
want to be.
Others include robustness in the regional role and regional
engagement of the UFS, playing a strong leader ship
role to meet the needs of a poor and developing society,
vigor ously playing its role as an engaged university, and
also in the UFS’ national and international leadership
role, projecting its expertise in niche areas into the sci entific,
industrial and policy arenas.
Dreaming a dream, in early 2004, of a great and ro bust
uni versity was almost unthinkable if not for the dramatic
success of the Financial Turnaround strategy of 2000-2004.
Its intention (and effect) was not just to get the UFS out of
a financial crisis, but to create sufficient financial space to
en able a turnaround in the core busi ness: to invest in topclass
staff, facilities, research, teaching and learning and
tech no logy in order to be a very good university, in disputably
one of the top five or six universities in the coun try,
whilst retaining a firm and sustainable financial basis.

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Die geskiedenisboek – Van sink tot sandsteen tot graniet – oor die eerste
eeu van die UV is vanjaar gepubliseer.
To pursue this goal the UFS has adopted five strategic
priorities during the past five years, namely:
• quality and excellence
• equity, diversity and redress
• financial sustainability
• regional co-operation and engagement, and
• national and international leadership, or “outward
thrust”.
To pursue these priorities and the desired level of
robustness, the period 2003-2007 was dedicated – amidst
all the normal challenges of managing a higher education
institution in turbulent times – to a intensive process of
launching a “package” of projects and initiatives geared to
strengthen the foundations of the UFS in order to make it
robust in the noted areas. (Obviously the attainment of
robustness is not a once-off exercise, but a long term project
built on step-by-step progress.) A particular task for
the Vice-Chancellor, agreed upon by the Exco in 2003, was
to be the guardian and promoter of high quality decisionmaking
and thorough analysis in all decisions and policy
documents.
Jaarlikse inisiatiewe
Sedert 2003 is jaarliks nuwe inisiatiewe aangekondig om
die UV voortdurend uit te lig na hoër vlakke, om die
boustene van ’n werklike goeie universiteit neer te lê en in
te messel. Dié boustene was deurgaans primêr afgelei van
die twee imperatiewe van akademiese uitnemendheid en
trans formasie – imperatiewe waarmee alle universiteite in
Suid-Afrika gekonfronteer word en mee worstel. Dit is in
2004 saamgevat in die idee van ’n robuuste universiteit,
soos hierbo genoem.
’n Belangrike stap was die basisdokument Academic
work at the UFS in terms of its intrinsic nature as a university,
wat in 2003 deur die Senaat goedgekeur is. Vanuit
’n duidelike prinsipiële standpunt oor die intrinsieke aard
en essensie van die universiteit en die ankerrol van “scholarship”,
spel dit die wedersyds-ondersteunende verwantskap
tussen onderrig en navorsing uit, en bied riglyne vir die
rolle en gewigte van onderrig, navorsing, diens en kon sultasie
werk in die opdrag van elke akademiese personeellid
asook in enige evalueringstelsel.
Aan die akademiese front was 2005 die jaar wat die
strategiese akademiese-kluster-inisitief deur die Rektor geloods
is – met die bedoeling om die UV te posisioneer as ’n
wêreld leier in ’n geselekteerde aantal akademiese kundigheidsareas.
Dit was in opvolging van die algemene sukses
om navorsing in die breë te bevorder en ’n ingewortelde
navorsingskultuur in alle fakulteite van die UV te vestig –
onder skraag deur die grootskaalse opgradering en aankoop
van duur navorsingstoerusting. Die strategiese-kluster-inisia
tief het in 2007, die huidige verslagjaar, ’n belangrike
mylpaal bereik (sien die betrokke hoofstuk in hier die verslag).
’n Opwindende nuwe inisiatief is ’n ondersoek na die
haal baar heid van die moontlike stigting van ’n in ge nieursprogram
of -fakulteit aan die UV.
Ter inisiëring van die vierde fase van transformasie van
die UV is ’n transformasieplan-proses in Februarie 2005
deur die Rektor geloods. Dit het gelei tot die Transformasieplantaakspan
(TPTT) se konsepplan in Oktober 2006 en
die finalisering daarvan as die UB Transformasieplan in
Maart 2007. Dit het saamgeval met werkswinkels wat oor
’n tweejaar-tydperk gehou is oor die idee en inhoud van ’n
moontlike “sosiale kontrak” vir die UV. (Daaroor word
breedvoerig later in hierdie verslag berig.) Die eerste
Koning Moshoeshoe-gedenklesing, deel van ’n inisia tief
om ’n gedeelde geskiedenisbesef by die UV te kweek, is in
2006 aangebied.
In dieselfde jaar is die idee van die UV as ’n betrok ke
(“engaged”) universiteit, wat vroeër begin het met die aan-

vank like ontwikkeling van die gemeenskapsdiensrol en
van die universiteit, gebaseer op ’n deeglike beleid, heelwat
verder geneem. Deur die verdere ontwikkeling en ver dieping
van ’n geïntegreerde samelewingsdiensmodel het die
UV die voortou in Suid-Afrika geneem. ’n Konseptuele
raam werk om dit binne die aard van die universiteit te fundeer
is in Oktober 2006 deur die Senaat aanvaar nadat ’n
nuwe beleid in Augustus 2006 goedgekeur is.
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Die Rektor en Vise-kanselier, prof. Frederick Fourie, en ander senior lede van die bestuur, luister na Plea from Africa tydens die opening in Februarie. Regs
van die podium is prof. Wynand Mouton, voormalige rektor en kanselier van die UV.
Om sy rol in die streek en in Suid-Afrika verder te verbreed
het die Rektor en Dagbestuur in September 2007
’n projek geloods om die moontlike vestiging van ’n fakul
teit of program in ingenieurswese ernstig te ondersoek.
’n Professionele konsultant is aangestel om na die
ge leenthede, moontlikhede en struikelblokke te kyk.
Daar voor moet die mark ontleed word en onderhoude
gevoer word met ’n wye verskeidenheid mense in die
ny werheids wêreld, ander universiteite, staats de partemente,
die Vrystaatse regering, die Sentrale Universiteit
vir Tegnologie en ander rolspelers. Die eerste verslag is
Moontlike ingenieursfakulteit ondersoek
’n Verdere uitvloeisel van hierdie benadering was ’n
be langrike streeksinisiatief, die sg. Tri-Campus-projek. Dit
is in 2005 geloods om hierdie kampus tesame met die
Bloem fonteinse Vista-kampus van die UV te gebruik as
deel van ’n streeksmodel waarvolgens ’n unieke ont wik kelingsdiens
aan die gemeenskap van die Vrystaat gelewer
word deur bediening van nie-tradisionele naskoolse onderwys
behoeftes. Die mees onlangse (2006-7) resultaat van
in Maart 2008 verwag, waarna verdere strategiese stappe
gedoen sal word.
Ingenieurswese lok baie studente uit die Uni versi teit
van die Vrystaat se voedingsgebied na ander uni ver siteite.
Hierdie stroom kan omgedraai word. In ge nieurswese-pro
jekte kan ook ’n belowende bydrae maak tot
die UV se derdestroom-inkomste, bv. met patente, waar
die UV nog afsteek teen universiteite met in ge nieurs fakul
teite. Dit kan ook ’n belangrike bydrae maak tot nywer
heids ontwikkeling en werkskepping in die Vrystaat.

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hierdie projek is die Skills for a Changing World-program,
wat tans in die ontwikkelingsfase is as ’n projek van die
FSHEC (Free State Higher Education Consortium), waar in
die UV ’n anker-aandeelhouer is.
Die modernisering van bestuurstelsels was sedert 2003
ook ’n belangrike inisiatief van die bestuur. Dit sluit in die
modernisering van rekenaardienste en -stelsels, ’n moder ne
besluitneming- en vergaderingsbestuurstelsel, ’n nuwe geïnte
greerde administrasie rekenaarstelsel (nl. PeopleSoft),
nuwe studenteregistrasieprosesse, ’n nuwe vergoeding- en
mens like hulp bron stel sels, ’n geïntegreerde pre stasie bestuur
stelsel, asook kundigheidsgebaseerde en gehalte-gerigte
fisiese beplanningsprosesse. Die stiging van ’n Beplan
nings eenheid (2004), ’n heeltydse Entrepreneuriese
kan toor (2004) en onlangs ’n nuwe Internasionale kantoor
(en -strategie) was ook belangrike stappe in hierdie jare.
Die dramatiese opgradering van die fisiese omgewing
en netheid van die hoofkampus is een van die suksesvolste
inisiatiewe van hierdie rektorstermyn. Die doel was om, na
die moeilike finansiële dekades van die 1980’s en 1990’s
toe kapitaalprojekte noodgedwonge afgeskeep is, die basis
te lê vir die volgende 25 jaar se funksionering. Naas ikoonprojekte
soos die herinrigting van die ou Hoofgebou, die
nuwe Eeufeeskompleks, die nuwe studentesentrum
(Thakaneng), die jolkol en astro-hokkievelde asook die
groot aanbouwerk aan die Chemie-gebou, was daar oor ’n
breë front die wesenlike herinrigting en gehalteverbetering
van feitlik alle akademiese en administratiewe geboue,
kantore en werksareas, asook sportgeriewe. Die grootste
impak op die kampusatmosfeer was die suksesvolle projek
om die hoofkampus voetgangervriendelik te maak met ’n
verskeiden heid voetgangerpaadjies, pleintjies en sitplek vir
studente en personeel – en minder motors in die sentrale
area, tesame met ’n nuwe geordende parkeerstelsel wat in
2007 ingestel is. Ook die Qwaqwa-kampus is aansienlik
opgradeer in hierdie termyn.
Die jaar 2006, toe ’n Institutionele Gehalte-oudit op die
UV gedoen is deur die Hoëronderwys Gehalte ver se ke ringskomitee
(HOGK) van die Raad op Hoër Onderwys, is veral
toegewy aan sistematiese inisiatiewe om die intrinsieke
gehalte van die akademie (veral onderrigleer) sowel as
steun dienste te verhoog, en om permanente ge hal te ver sekering
stelsels daar te stel. Ongelukkig het die UV eers teen
die einde van 2007 ’n voorlopige verslag van die HOGK
ontvang, en sou die finale verslag eers in 2008 ontvang
word. Die UV het gevolglik hierdie jaar voort gegaan om
aandag te gee aan van die leemtes en ge halte ga pings wat
die universiteit voor die oudit self geïdentifiseer het. Dié
gehaltegapings stem grootliks ooreenstem met aan be velings
in die voorlopige verslag van die HOGK.
The challenges of transformation, diversity and
equity: a new era?
The Vice-Chancellors opening address of February 2007
– titled Beyond redress: Towards the “promised land” of a
high quality, equitable, non-racial and non-sexist university
– was dedicated to the launch of the draft UFS Institutional
Charter, which is an important document to underpin the
transformation as university. Once refined and agreed upon
by the campus community, its main goal is to provide a
clear framework and vision of the kind of university the
UFS wants to be after transformation and after the necessary
redress phase. A key theme is to outline foundational (or
constitutive) principles for a university community,
characterised by diversity, that provides an institutional
culture of non-dominance, non-marginalisation and a sense
of belonging for all. (See chapter 3.)
In conjunction with the Transformation Plan and the
Employment Equity Plan, this document completed a trio
of initiatives intended to provide the foundation for
robustness with regard to transformation, diversity, equity
and human relations. Given the social divisions, complexity
and trauma of the current South African transition, which
the UFS cannot escape, this was to prove the most difficult
project of the last five years. Only time would tell whether
the UFS community was ready for the deep attitudinal
changes necessary for attaining robustness and reconciliation
in this area.
The main test in this regard was to be the Council
decision, in July 2007, to change the residential placement
policy to address the failed efforts to integrate residences
in the difficult times of the late 1990s. Whatever the
eventual outcome, bravely (if belatedly) crossing this
bridge would, through unfolding events in 2007 and 2008,
permanently affect the institutional culture of the UFS. In
this sense 2007 may prove to be a watershed year in the
history of the UFS.
Prof Fourie ended his opening address with the
university choir’s recording of Plea from Africa, written by
John Knox Bokwe (1855-1922). It expresses the yearning
of peoples in Africa under colonial oppression and
exploitation, the yearning for a new future, for a promised
land. He asked the audience to listen quietly to the words
from this prayer:

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Give a thought to Africa! ’neath the burning Sun
There are hosts of weary hearts, waiting to be won
Many lives have passed away; and in many homes
There are voices crying now, to the living God.
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Breathe a pray’r for Africa! God the Father’s love
Can reach down and bless all hearts, from His heav’n
above
And when lips are moved by grace they so sweetly sing
Pray for peace in Africa from our loving God
’n Stukkie geskiedenis
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Chorus:
Tell the love of Jesus
By her hills and waters
God bless Africa
And her sons and daughters
In closing he urged: “Let us all – the diverse daughters
and sons of Africa in this beloved country and at this wellloved
university – take hands to build a new future, based
on a principled approach to scholarly quality and based on
a rich diversity – a new future for all at this university”.
In Februarie 2007, as die laaste stap van die eeu fees vie ringe van die UV, is die geskiedenisboek van die UV tydens
’n pragfunksie bekendgestel. Dit heet Van Sink tot Sand steen tot Graniet. Die Engelse weergawe se titel is
From Grey to Gold. Die boek beslaan meer as 500 bladsye. Die projek om die geskiedenis na te vors en te boek
te stel het ongeveer agt jaar geduur. Tydens die be kend stel lings funk sie was al die lewende oudrektore van die UV
teen woor dig. Pro fes sionele video-onder houde is tydens hierdie be soek met elk van hulle sowel as die huidige
rektor gevoer om hul perspektiewe op hul tydperke as rektor vas te lê. Hier is, van links, proff. Stef Coetzee,
Frederick Fourie, Wynand Mouton en François Retief. Prof. Mouton is in 2008 oorlede.

Strategic clusters a decisive
academic initiative 2

These strategic clusters were defined not only as re search
areas, but also to encompass strong undergraduate and
particularly postgraduate teaching as well as com mu nity
service. The goal is to be widely recognised as a site of
worldclass expertise in particular knowledge areas – whilst
continuing to provide general support for research and
teaching excellence across the many disciplines that constitute
the foundation of a broad-spectrum university.
Following extensive workshops and consultation, and
with the logistical support of the Directorate Research
Development, six provisional clusters were designated in
2006. Six interim cluster co-ordinators were appointed.
They took leadership in the further refinement of the
clusters and in intensive group discussions, also with the
Vice-Chancellor and Vice-Rectors. An increasing number
of disciplines and individuals were drawn into these multidisciplinary
discussions, already adding value and depth to
the academic discourse on campus.
Eventually six clusters, including their quite detailed
specification in main and sub-areas, were finalised and
approved by Senate in 2007. They are:
• Water management in water-scarce areas (interim coordinator:
Prof Maitland Seaman)
• New frontiers in poverty reduction and sustainable
development (Prof Gustav Visser)
• Transformation in highly diverse societies (Prof Piet
Erasmus)
• Technologies for sustainable crop industries in semi-arid
regions (Prof Wijnand Swart)
• Materials and nano sciences (Prof André Roodt), and
• Advanced bio-molecular systems (Prof Hugh Patterton).
Academics from approximately 30 departments and
ten centres and units are participating in the cluster process
thus far.
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In an increasingly competitive national and international higher-education environment,
no university can be a national or a world leader in everything – not even a Harvard or an
Oxford University. Therefore it has become imperative for the UFS to position itself, in its
next phase of development, not only as a good teaching and research university, but as an
institution that truly excels in selected areas of knowledge.
In 2005 the Vice-Chancellor initiated a process to identify priority areas on which to focus in
both research and teaching. In contrast to earlier efforts, broad consensus was reached that the
University should put an extra focus, in terms of energy and resources, on a small number of
strategic academic clusters – key multidisciplinary areas of knowledge that are strategically
important in terms of national priorities as well as opportunities in the national and international
knowledge landscape.
In the 2008 budget, approved in November 2007, a
further allocation of R10 million was made to the cluster
project. This is seen as seed money. The entrepre neu rial
element of each cluster will be an integral part of its design
and focus, leading to significant industrial and other
external partnerships and third-stream income. An interim
cluster-financing committee has been functional for the
better part of 2007, but the financial model has still to be
thrashed out.
The same applies to the management model or structure
that would be appropriate – whilst allowing for the
dif ferent needs of different clusters. This is a quite critical
element which requires careful consideration. What is required
is to design an innovative management and governance
model that maximally supports the cluster initiative,
with each cluster being multidisciplinary and cross-faculty,
with out creating tensions with deans and the research manage
ment within each faculty. It will also be important to
guard against dilution of the clusters by academics not
aligned with the cluster focus areas and unwilling to change
their academic focus but who want to share in the resources
allocated to the clusters.
However, several of the clusters have started to function
with funds allocated to researchers. The major task of the
Directorate Research Development in the future, with the
support of research leaders, heads of departments and
especial ly deans, will be to operationalise each cluster to
function as a beehive of academic work and innovation.
Related to the Cluster Initiative, the Directorate Research
Development has initiated the process for the UFS
to participate in the NRF South African Research Chairs
Ini tia tive (SARChI) by linking proposed research chairs to
existing clusters. These chairs will imply a sig nificant
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Jong navorsers het hulle navorsing bekendgestel op ’n navorsingsdag van die Fakulteit Geesteswetenskappe Van links is me. Steffi Cawood, prof. Engela
Pretorius (Visedekaan van die fakulteit), me. Maryna de Wet, me. Nadine Lake en me. Katherine Geldenhuys.
Each cluster is further associated with at least one recognised
NRF Institutional Research Development Program
me (IDRP) Research Niche Area (RNA). Eight RNAs
were approved for the UFS in 2007, the highest number of
all universities in the country. These RNAs encompass 24
NRF-funded research projects, representing a combined
total commitment of almost R30 million to the UFS over
the next five years from 2008 to 2012. The RNAs for the
UFS include:
• Agricultural risk management for Africa
• High throughput identification and characterisation of
biological and bioactive molecules
• Integrated water-resource management
• Local development in arid and semi-arid areas of the
central region of South Africa
• Managing the TB-HIV/AIDS co-epidemic: patient and
systems dimensions
• Nano-solid state lighting
• Polymer blends, composites and nanocomposites (modified
polymers)
• The development of sustainable crop value chains for
staple and underutilised crops in the semi-arid regions of
Southern Africa.
The Cluster Initiative is seen as one of five major in stitutional
mega-projects aiming at repositioning the UFS at a
significantly higher level of academic performance and
stature in five years.
Intellectual property protected
An Intellectual Property (IP) Policy for managing and
direct ing issues relating to intellectual property at the UFS
was approved for implementation. Progress has also been
made with contract research, the marketing of intellectual
pro perty and research commercialisation. A candidate at torney
has been assisting with contract management. The
acting Director for Entrepreneurship and Special Projects
continued his duties during 2007 and a process has been
initiated to appoint a manager to spearhead research commercialisation.
Legal representatives have been contracted
to handle patents for the UFS.

Jolkol, die nuwe kuierplek vir studente, is een van die groot projekte wat vanjaar aangepak is.
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Institutional charter and
transformation plan map
the way forward
3

Two important overarching transformation initiatives came
to fruition in 2007. In addition, a thorny transformation
challenge was tackled: diversity and racial integration in
residences.
Institutional Charter or “social contract” unveiled
A first draft of the UFS Institutional Charter was unveiled
by the Vice-Chancellor at the Official Opening of the
University in February 2007. The draft charter was the outcome
of a process, in 2004-2005, of intensive campus consul
tation around the concept of a Social Contract – a
process proposed by the Vice-Chancellor at his instal lation
in 2003. More than 800 staff members of diverse backgrounds
and many students took part in structured workshops.
After the initial raw emotions and reactions, the discus
sions led to proposals regarding the values and principles
which should underpin the “new” UFS. A draft Charter
was compiled and provisionally adopted by the Exco, Execu
tive Management, Senate and the UFS Council during
the first months of 2007. It was agreed that the Charter has
all the potential to be a break through and mile stone
document that provides essential guidelines to under pin
further transformation.
This was followed by an intensive round of dis cus sions
among academic staff, support services and students on all
three campuses to receive critical comments. A struc tured
questionnaire was used to guide the discussion and comments.
Individual comments were also received. A first impres
sion is broad support for the idea and content of the
draft charter – more than 90% of individuals and groups
that responded supported the idea. More than 60% of respondents
supported the transformation direction and commitments
in the Charter, and more than 70% the format of
the Charter – although a variety of perspectives ob viously
existed. If all went according to plan, a second draft of the
charter was to be prepared later in 2007. However, the
demands of the residence-diversity process significantly
delayed this process, at least until 2008.
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As a university community the UFS is committed to excellence in transformation and
the establishment of an inclusive new institutional culture. A key theme has been
that the university community must develop and nurture a culture of belonging. This
means much more than “accommodating” different groups. We must develop an
entirely new institutional culture with a sense of belonging for all, non-dominance as norm, and
a strong sense of common values, and in full recognition of the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights.
Main objective of the Charter: urgent, good
transformation and a sense of belonging
Unlike some business charters, the draft UFS Charter is not
in tended to specificy transformation goals, targets and
timeframes. That would be the task of the transformation
plan and employment equity plan (see below).
The UFS Institutional Charter comprises foundational
principles that seek to underpin a process of brisk, com prehensive,
high-quality institutional transformation, within
the context of a university committed to academic excellence,
equity and innovation. (The UFS now is in its fourth
phase of transformation. Previous phases were from 1978-
1996, 1997-2002 and 2003-2004.) It is believed that, if it is
based on a principled framework and vision of what kind of
future university we are transforming towards, the change
process will be faster, better aligned and more consistent
and will avoid being impeded by conflict, cross-currents
and power struggles. In other words, the goal is bestpractice
transformation.
Essential to the achievement of our goals is an in sti tutional
culture which embraces critical inquiry and free expres
sion, fosters excellence and quality, establishes an
enabling environment for the individual, is based on respect
for and appreciation of diversity, and – above all – promotes
a sense of belonging for all members of the university.
Main principles for a future transformed
University
The Charter starts by committing the University to up holding
the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa and
its Bill of Rights, as realised within the institutio nal context
of a university. This commits us to the advance ment of
human rights and constitutional freedoms, the elimi na tion
of discri mi nation, and to equality and human dignity for
all. The Charter also confirms general values that underpin
the University, such as academic freedom and autonomy,
excellence and quality, fairness, service, and integrity.

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The draft Charter then deals with constitutive principles
relating to both academic and social dimensions of the
future UFS. Like a constitution of a state, but adapted to the
university environment, it seeks to specify founda tional,
constitutive principles and parameters of the future, transformed
university. These are intended to give a clear sense
of direction to decisions and practices at the University and
to provide desired checks and balances. They are meant to
guide decision-making and behaviour and to relieve much
of the tensions and anxieties of the transformation process
in order to speedily arrive at the desired future transformed
university and achieve our ideals.
A first category of constitutive principles relates to
main taining the intrinsic nature of the University as a place
of science and scholarship in the context of engagement
with the situation and problems of South Africa and Africa.
A second group of principles relate to maintaining and
strengthening academic culture, quality and excellence.
A very important group of principles relates to diversity,
institutional culture and social context within the institution.
The core constitutive principle is to create a sense of belonging
for all members of the university – black and white,
male and female, of whatever language, cultural or economic
background, sexual or religious orientation, as well
as people with disabilities. Constitutive principles that support
this goal include the following:
• Equity, justice and fairness in dealing with diversity.
• Non-dominance amongst diversity, i.e. preventing dominating
behaviour of any individual or group over others,
irrespective of numbers.
The Charter underscores the importance of a redress
phase, given the socio-political history of the country
and the UFS and the significant backlogs that still exist,
and commits the University to urgently complete this
phase.
But it also starts to conceptualise the end of the
redress phase. The Charter suggests that the end of the
redress phase may be in sight when an ap pro ximate
racial and gender balance in the composition of staff
and students is attained. (This idea was echoed when
the concept of sufficient diversity was used in de termining
the quantified targets of the employ ment equity
plan; see below.) Reaching such a point would create
condi tions where most of the conflict and anxieties of
• Non-marginalisation, respect for minorities and ap preciation
for diversity in personalities, individual pre ferences,
human skills and workplace skills.
• Sufficient diversity in the composition of academic and
support staff and students to constitute the neces sary
institutional space for nurturing non-racialism, nonsexism,
multi culturalism, multilingualism and nondominance.
• Sufficient diversity of symbols and artifacts to reflect the
diversity of histories and cultures unambiguously and in
a balanced, respectful manner.
• Substantive and sufficient multilingualism (in terms of
the main and other languages) in academic and support
activities.
• Substantive multiculturalism and embracement of the
diversity of cultures.
• Balance between competing interests and conflicting
objectives by explicitly and innovatively pursuing the
difficult trade-offs that may be necessary.
This Charter states that we unambiguously commit ourselves
to embrace and celebrate the rich diversity of South
African peoples within the central region, a diversity that
manifests itself in intellectual and philosophical orientation,
language, culture, religion, social and economic status, sexual
orientation and nationality, among others. We stand for
maintaining “sufficient and substantive diversity” because
it makes us a better university, a more equitable university,
a more innovative university, and an engaged university.
Further groups of principles relate to the work en vi ronment,
student life, and governance and management. A
Defining the redress and post-redress phases
the current transition are resolved, and where approximate
balance and trade-offs between objectives, forces,
interests and interest groups are attained, and where a
sense of belonging exists for all members of the
university.
This would then provide the incubating environment
for moving, in the longer run, into the post-redress era,
moving further towards full non-racialism, non-sexism,
non-discrimination and a normalised university com munity
– a state of affairs where old paradigms, divisions,
pains, conflicts and tensions will be transcended, and
where race and gender have ceased to be decisive factors
in determining policies, behaviour, attitudes and thinking
of individuals or groups at the University.

notable principle in the latter context requires the sub stantive
presence of different population groups and gen ders in
governance, management and decision-making bodies.
It appears that the ideas and basic principles of the
charter have already started to influence thinking and
policy-making at the UFS, e.g. in the Employment Equity
Plan, where the threshold of “sufficient diversity” was
specified numerically for the first time in terms of the
designated groups. The latter concept also was important in
the residence placement policy (see below), where very
low percentages proposed by some traditionally white
residences were not accepted since they would not provide
sufficient diversity. Charter concepts also permeate the
Transformation Plan (see below) and the draft Integrated
Three-year Rolling Plan of the UFS for 2008-2010.
If this pattern continues, the Charter could be a major
breakthrough in the planning unit, transformation discourse
on the UFS campus as it may serve to clarify thinking on
very complex issues and to guide us on the way forward.
University Transformation Plan approved
The UFS is now in its fourth phase of transformation.
Previous phases were from 1978-1996, 1997-2002 and
2003-2004. The University’s latest Transformation Plan,
flowing from the Transformation Plan Task Team (TPTT),
was approved by Senate and Council in the first half of
2007. This was the end result of two years of hard work by
the TPTT, which was launched early in 2005. The TPTT
handed its final report to Management in October 2006.
After requesting input and comments from staff and other
stakeholders, the Planning Unit, the Exco and the Executive
Management drew up a final document.
The plan comprises a clear conceptualisation and de finition
of transformation as understood by the University,
i.e. as a deep and pervasive, intentional and phased process
affecting the institutional culture, underlying assumptions,
and institutional behaviours and processes of the institution.
In addition, it systematically lists remaining transformation
goals and challenges adopted by the University, as well as
strategies to address these.
Approximately forty transformation projects are listed,
in four broad categories:
• Institutional culture. This includes attaining a sense of
belonging for all by transforming the institutional culture
from a dominant Afrikaans culture to one that creates a
state of non-dominance amidst diversity, enhancing and
fostering diversity in student life (including a new
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residence placement strategy) as well as staff life, and
furthering multilingualism by refining the language
policy.
• Academic responsiveness, relevance and engagement
with regard to research, academic programmes, teachinglearning
methods and community service, as well as
enhanced student access, throughput and success.
• Governance and management, in particular the possible
refinement and realignment of the vision and mission of
the University.
• Employment equity, in particular to finalise the
employment equity plan in order to accelerate redress by
appointing staff from underrepresented groups to attain
substantive and sufficient diversity.
The Plan also rank the projects in different catego ries of
urgency and time-frames. Diversity-related projects were
accorded the highest priority, in particular the following:
• Increasing diversity in student life, notably a new residence
placement policy;
• A plan for creating a sense of belonging, based on a
thorough analysis of the determinants of such a sense;
• Employment equity and redress;
• Language policy and diversity, and
• Equity in access, throughput and success.
The Plan also targets diversity in student extra-curricular
activities; interpreting services; multilingualism in
front line support services; language empowerment; employment
practices and hindrances to redress; postgraduate
and international student support, and the finalisation of the
Institutional Charter.
Most of these projects have proceeded well, and some
have been completed in part or as a whole. Unfortunately,
as noted above, the organised political resistance against
the new residence placement policy impacted heavily on
the time and energy available to management. This has
definitely delayed the execution of important elements of
the Transformation Plan.
The promotion of diversity and multilingualism is
proceeding well. One challenge is that new complexities of
multilingualism are coming to the surface, especially with
regard to staff language skills and attaining the ap pro pri ate
trade-off between language diversity goals and employment
equity goals. This may be a problem especially in the postgraduate
sphere. In the process, refinements of the parallelmedium
tuition policy (e.g. simultaneous interpretation)
are being piloted.
There already are many other positive elements. The
UFS has now more diverse (or “culturally representative”)

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building names. The Moshoeshoe Project in honour of the
legendary founder of the Basotho nation is contri buting
towards a shared sense of history. The diversity sensitisation
workshops remain a valuable intervention. However, it
appears that a sense of alienation amongst black staff and
perhaps also black students remains. Human relations on
campus needs to be strengthened, also between academics
and support staff, as well as between male staff and senior
female managers. A Code of Conduct, especially with
regard to racism and sexism and other forms of dis crimination,
may be an important instrument to entrench respect
for the human rights of all staff and students on campus.
Diversity in residences:
finally crossing the bridge
In 2005, when the new trans formation-plan process was
launched by the Rector, the issue of residence diversity and
the placement policy was put on the table as a strategic
priority and accepted as such by Executive Mangement and
Council, inter alia in the approved Strategic Plan of 2006.
The final report of the TPTT (Transformation Plan
Task Team) of October 2006 flagged residence diversity
and placement policy as key priorities, following their
consultation process with various internal and external
groups and communities. Diversity in student life and the
finalisation of the new placement policy thus was one of
the approximately 40 transformation projects identified by
Executive Management in its Transformation Plan 2007-
2010, approved by Council in June 2007.
This was not the first attempt to attain diversity in residences.
A previous attempt in the 1990s failed due to the
development of high risks of violence in integrated residences
– a factor attributed to the complexities of an early
post-1994 generation of students where black and white
had not had any meaningful contact in e.g. schools and socially.
As a result a new policy was adopted in 1997/8
which allowed residences to have a dominant culture,
whilst accepting 30% students from another culture. Over
time this unfortunately was allowed to gravitate to a po sition
where residences became almost exclusively white or
black. Accordingly this issue was put on the table again as
part of the 2005 transformation project. This followed
submissions by the Vice-Rector: Student Affairs to Manage
ment to suggest that the set-up of the residences being
separate on the basis of race is not acceptable.
’n Opvoedkundige rasionaal: Om ’n herhaling van die
probleme van die laat 1990’s te voorkom, het die Dag bestuur
na deeglike nadenke besluit om enige nuwe beleid to
baseer op ’n opvoedkundige rasionaal, nl. om ons studente
(wat uit ’n steeds verdeelde samelewing kom) gereed te
maak om in die werkplek en as landsburgers volledig in ’n
om gewing van diversiteit te kan werk en funksioneer. Daar
is ook aanvaar dat jongmense tien jaar later meer gereed
sou wees vir diversiteit en integrasie. Nogtans is besef dat
dit in effek ’n hersosialisering van studente, wat uit so veel
ver skillende gesins-, skool- kerk- en sosio-ekono miese
agter gronde kom, sal moet behels. Verskeie modelle is dus
oorweeg en ontleed.
Benefits for students: With the integration policy the
UFS intends to overcome the racial divides of the past and
equip stu dents in residences with the knowledge and skills
to under stand people from other cultures, appreciate other
languages and to respect differences in religion and economic
background. Students in UFS residences will have
a dis tinct advantage over many other work seekers in
South Africa, because the workplace today is a very
diverse place with people of many backgrounds. The UFS
wants to esta blish a new model of residence life in which
students will voluntarily embrace diversity and learn
about diversity so as to add value to their educational
experience in a residence.
Uitgebreide konsultering: Die eerste konsultasies oor
integrasie reeds in Mei 2004 plaasgevind, toe die be stuur
en moontlike integrasie van koshuise met huis komi tees
en koshuishoofde bespreek is. Daarna was die kwessie
van die plasingsbeleid op die agenda in verskeie institusionele
besluite, strategiese planne en goedgekeurde
transformasiedokumente van die UV.
Uitgebreide konsultasiegesprekke het in die eerste
helfte van 2007 met studente en ander belanghebbendes
plaas gevind om hulle in te lig oor die ontwikkeling van ’n
voorstel vir die integrasie van die UV se koshuise en hul
kommentaar te kry.
Tussen Februarie en Mei 2007 is meer as vyftien gespreks
geleenthede met die hoofkampus studenteraad, huiskomitees,
studente-organisasies, koshuishoofde en ander
persone gevoer om moontlike beleidsvoorstelle te toets en
insette van studente en ander te kry. Kommentaar is aangevra
van alle koshuise. Etlike van die studente-insette is in
die konsepbeleid geïnkorporeer. Informele gesprekke is
ook met alumni-leiers asook met sommige alumni-verteenwoordigers
op die Raad gevoer. Ter wille van aan vaarbaarheid,
veral onder wit studente, ouers en alumni, is parameters
wat reeds in 1997 aanvaar is (maar nooit regtig
geïmplementeer is nie) in die beleid ingevoer, sowel as ’n

epaling dat koshuise steeds ’n sê sal hê in die plasing van
eerstejaars – hulle kan 50% self plaas.
Met duidelike blyke gedurende die gespekke dat ’n
aan sienlike mate van aanvaarbaarheid onder die stu dente
en alumni op hierdie wyse bereik is, het die Bestuur in
Junie 2007 ’n nuwe beleid om diversiteit in koshuise te
ver hoog – wat onder meer die integrasie van kos huise
vanaf 2008 impliseer – aan die Raad voorgelê. Dit is met
’n groot meerderheid goedgekeur (en weer in September
2007 met slegs een teenstem bevestig nadat ’n vergadering
van die Konvokasie ’n versoek aan die UV gerig het om
die beleid te herroep).
’n Gesofistikeerde beleidsdokument: Die goedgekeurde
dokument was ’n omvattende be leids dokument oor diversiteit
in koshuise waarin ’n ge so fisti keerde en opvoedkundige
benadering tot diversiteit en die ver skil lende dimen
sies van diversiteit in groot besonderhede uit een ge sit
is. Dit het die billike en gebalanseerde hantering van veel taligheid
met o.m. tolkdienste ingesluit. Dit is ook gelei deur
die beginsels van voldoende diversiteit en voldoende en
substantiewe veeltaligheid wat in die konsep Institusionele
Handves ontwikkel is, met die oog daarop om alle studente
tuis te laat voel in koshuise.
Wat plasing spesifiek betref, is teikens gestel om voldoende
diversiteit in koshuise te bereik. Daarvolgens moet
tradisionele blanke of swart junior koshuise minstens 30%
van die ander ras op eerstejaarsvlak in 2008 en daarna
inneem. Dit sou beteken dat die nuwe beleid oor ’n driejaar
tydperk ingefaseer word. (Vir senior koshuise is ’n
teiken van 50% gestel.) In effek moes junior koshuise in
2008 maar ongeveer 10% van hulle totale plekke met
studente van ’n ander ras vul.
Om die besluit te implementeer, is ’n Kos huis di ver si teitimplementeringskomitee
(Residence Diversity Im plementation
Committee – RDIC), onder leiding van dr E Moraka,
Viserektor: Studentesake, tot stand gebring. Personeel sowel
as studente leiers is hierin opgeneem. Die komitee se hooftaak
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was om meganismes vir die imple mentering van die Raadsbesluit
te ontwikkel en te finaliseer.
Die rektor het ook in ’n reeks koerantartikels die
belangrikheid van die nuwe beleid aan ouers, alumni en
studente uiteengesit.
Ontwrigting van implementering: Ten spyte van die
konsultasie- en goedkeuringsprosesse wat gevolg is, en die
lae tempo van infasering, het die Vryheidsfront Plus
Kovsies kort na die Raadsbesluit begin om weerstand by
wit koshuise teen rasse-integrasie te mobiliseer op grond
van beweerde onvoldoende konsultasie en omdat koshuise
se tradisies aangetas sou word. Ook gedurende die SRverkiesing
het die VF+ Kovsies heelwat teenstand op
hierdie basis gemobiliseer. Dit het onder meer daartoe ge lei
dat wit studenteleiers in ’n slegs beperkte mate deelgeneem
het aan implementerings taakspanne. Dit het hul deelname
en bydraes in verdere beplanning en konsultering vertraag
en verwring. Die primariusse en primaria is in ’n stadium
deur die rektor uitgenooi om met voorstelle vorendag te
kom oor alternatiewe implementeringsmodelle, maar niks
is ingedien nie.
In Augustus 2007 het die Vryheidsfront Plus (d.w.s. nie
die studentetak van die VF+ nie) ’n aansoek by die Hoog geregshof
ingedien om die rasse-integrasie van UV-stu dentekoshuise
ter syde te stel. Enkele dae voor die hofsaak, en
kort nadat die UV se responderende dokumente by die hof
ingedien is, het die VF+ in Oktober 2007 on voorwaardelik
sy saak teruggetrek, met kostes. Hoewel VF-gesinde studenteleiers
daarna meer begin deelneem het aan die taakspanne,
was dit reeds eksamentyd en kon baie min be planningswerk
nog met hul medewerking gedoen word.
In geheel gesien het die politieke inmenging van die
VF+ die implementering van die beleid aansienlik gekortwiek,
die bydraes van studenteleiers dikwels van die spoor
af geneem, en dalk veroorsaak dat heelwat koshuise en die
afdelings Studentesake asook Verblyfdienste nie heeltemal
vir 2008 voorberei was nie.

Equity and diversity the
key to staff excellence
4

These projects include the Grow Our Own Timber (GOOT)
initiative for academic positions, as well as a SETA/UFS
Workplace Learning Internship for support-services staff.
Approximately R18 million has been set aside in the past
five years for this important strategic priority to allow
faculties and departments to appoint persons from the
designated groups. Every opportunity to employ senior
black and female managers has been utilised.
Employment Equity Plan approved
An Employment Equity Policy was approved in 2005 and
the big step forward was the approval of the EE Plan by
Council in November 2007 following laborious work at
several levels. The UFS employed an alternating top-down
and bottom-up approach to develop a three-year-rolling
plan for employment equity, ensuring that top-manage ment
guidance was provided, yet intensive department, faculty
and sup port-service level input was obtained in the identification
of barriers and the development of the EE measures
and set ting of numerical targets.
The sensitive issue of numerical targets and goals was
thrashed out in producing the plan. An important breakthough
was made by the Empoyment Equity Committee in
reaching consensus on the way to conceptualise and specify
numerical targets. The plan adopts and utilises an important
concept, that of sufficient diversity, first introduced in the
draft Institutional Charter. An important element of the
approved Plan is a quantitative indication of what sufficient
diversity means.
A specific group (black male, black female, white female,
white male) is seen as being sufficiently represented
with in a UFS staff category when it has a 20% or higher
representation. This implies that the appointment of persons
from groups that exceed 20% representation does not count
for employment equity-target attainment. A 20% re pre sentation
per group in each staff category is viewed as the five-
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The UFS firmly believes that diversity among staff is an asset that will assist the
institution in its quest for excellence. The Employment Equity (EE) Plan is of the most
crucial areas of concern and a key element of the Transformation Plan.
As at other universities, the problem exists that not all groups are sufficiently
represented in all of the staff categories. While the UFS has made significant progress regarding
all the components of employment equity, progress regarding the black staff profile has
stagnated over the past three years. It has thus become essential to set more specific and realistic
numerical targets and to formulate additional plans and projects to achieve these targets.
year target. Every available opportunity should also be
utilised to appoint people with disabilities.
In addition, for the designated groups as a whole, sufficient
diversity was defined as a minimum of 50% representation
for the designated groups as a whole for each
UFS staff category. These targets of 50% are to be attained
within the next five years.
Since the approval of the policy a lot of work was
done by the EE sub-committees and the Central EE Committee
to produce EE plans for the various faculties and
sup port-service units. The targets may also have implications
for staff categories where a below-20% white male
or white female complement is present, e.g. garden or
cleaning services.
The EE Plan constitutes compliance by the UFS with
its statutory obligation in terms of the Employment Equity
Act, No. 55 of 1998. The plan is the core component of the
UFS programme to achieve its strategic priority of equity,
diversity and redress.
The plan is a firm, objective commitment by the UFS
and its stakeholders, embodying timeframes, goals and
positive, measurable measures whereby the UFS can
achieve substantial progress in implementing and creating
a consolidated understanding and roadmap for employment
equity at the UFS.
The current picture is one where the academic staff
numbers are increasing, but progress is still unsatisfactory.
Good progress was made with regard to white women in
some categories, designated groups in top management
(50%), and black men in the junior lecturer category (less
than 20%). However, progress is still slow with regard to
black men and women in other categories. The UFS also
realises that it might be difficult to attain these targets in,
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Year
Perm
Staff
Professional staff
%Prof
Staff
%Prof
Women
%Prof
Black
2003 1,476 50% 22% 7%
2004 1,613 47% 20% 7%
2005 1,513 50% 22% 8%
2006 1,709 48% 21% 8%
2007 1,870 47% 21% 8%
Year Number
Total staff
%Black %Female
2003 3,203 32% 52%
2004 3,445 36% 53%
2005 3,623 34% 53%
2006 4,089 36% 53%
2007 4,222 37% 54%
We will grow more of our own timber
To boost our employment-equity goals on senior academic
and research levels management looks at different ways to
achieve the numerical goals. More focus is to be placed on
the Grow Our Own Timber Programme (GOOT) and
mentoring. Two new projects for “growing our own timber”
for academic positions have been approved, as well as
a Workplace Learning Internship initiative for support services.
There is also a project in the pipeline for the development
of leadership among promising black academic
and support staff to equip them for senior and high-level
management positions.
GOOT help transformasie bevorder
Die GOOT-program vorm deel van die strategiese prioriteite
wat meehelp om die oorhoofse transformasieplan
aan die UV te bestuur. Dit is een van die inisiatiewe wat
reeds in 2001 ingestel is om gelykberegtiging van personeel
te bevorder.
Dit program behels twee beursprogramme – A.W.
Mellon en die Atlantic Philantrophies. Studente uit aan gewese
groepe, wat akademiese loopbane wil volg en oor
voldoende potensiaal beskik, het studiebeurse ontvang om
meesters- of Ph.D.-grade te behaal om hulle voor te berei
vir akademiese aanstellings en om die ouerwordende korps
aka demici in ’n nuwe bedeling te vervang. Genote is gekoppel
aan ervare studieleiers oor dissiplines heen.
Die huidige program loop aan die einde van 2008 ten
einde en daarom is die twee nuwe voorstelle deur bestuur
aanvaar om die voortbestaan van die insiatiewe te verseker.
Die eerste voorstel beoog om studente nasionaal te werf vir
die voltooiing van ’n meestersgraad oor ’n tweejaarperiode
waarna hulle aangestel word op die vlak van junior lektoraat
/ lektoraat. In die tweede sal huidige personeel bygestaan
word om hul meesters- of Ph.D.-grade te verwerf vir
aanstelling in meer senior posisies.
Die UV voorsien ’n inname van ongeveer 60 kandidate
in elk van die twee programme. Dit sal in drie groepe oor
’n periode van drie jaar plaasvind met 20 kandidate per
groep.
Vanweë die erns om gelykberegtiging rakende per soneel
te bereik, sal tien kandidate in elk van die programme
uit interne bronne befonds word totdat eksterne fondse
gegenereer kan word. Die eerste voorstel sal aan die begin
van 2008 ’n aanvang neem en die tweede in die tweede
semester van 2008.
Bursaries to promote programme
In the Mellon Programme two new bursaries were awarded
in 2007. Of the current intake, nine doctoral and thirteen
master’s degree students have completed their studies. Five
masters’ degree students left the programme on completion
of their degrees. Eight students are pursuing their Ph.Ds.
Of the group involved in their Ph.Ds two accepted
appointments outside the UFS. Fifteen fellows accepted
positions within the UFS. Two left the programme prior to
obtaining any qualification.
In the Mellon Programme Mr Kingdom Moshounyane
of the Department Drama and Theatre Arts received a
bursary to complete part of his doctoral studies in Norway.
In the Atlantic Philantrophies programme one new
fellow was awarded a bursary in 2007. Of the current intake
of Ph.D. students (Faculty of Law), one Ph.D. study was
completed in 2007, one submitted a thesis and another is
due to submit. All three were appointed in academic
positions. One student (Faculty of Health Sciences) will
complete a Ph.D. in 2008. One completed a master’s
degree, submitted in 2007 and is due to register for a Ph.D.
in 2008.
Vordering in sommige departemente
Sommige departemente in die Fakulteit Natuur wetenskappe
het reeds veel vermag ten opsigte van die transformasie
van hul personeelprofiel. Die Departement Antropo
logie het ’n 50:00-verdeling ten opsigte van diversiteit.

Onder tutors is 80% van kleur, terwyl al die tydelike personeel
in die navorsingsprojekte van Khoe-San-afkoms is.
In die Departement Engels en Klassieke Take is 47%
van die personeel swart (sewe mans en ’n vrou) en 47%
van die personeel is vroulik (sewe blank en een swart).
Die Departement: Studente Akademiese Dienste het
ook groot vordering gemaak en nege persone uit die
aangewese groepe (wit vroue uitgesluit) aangestel. Uit die
billikheidsfonds is vyf persone aangestel en die ander vier
was nuwe aanstellings in vakatures wat voorheen deur wit
vroue beklee was.
’n Besondere mylpaal ten opsigte van diversiteit is in
die Departement Maatskaplike Werk bereik met die aanstelling
van me. Merlene Esau as junior lektor, die eerste
per soon van kleur by die departement. Die Eenheid vir
Taalbestuur (ETB) het ’n navorser van formaat vanuit die
aangewese groepe aangestel. Die Departement Siel kunde
beskik oor vyf (35,7%) doserende personeellede (per manente
aanstellings) uit die aangewese groepe waarvan een
personeellid op die Qwaqwa-kampus is.
In die Sentrum vir Gesondheidsisteemnavorsing en
Ontwikkeling (SGSN&O) was nege swart vroue, twee
kleur lingvroue, nege wit vroue, ’n swart man en ses wit
mans, waarvan een die diens verlaat het.
Ook by UV-Bemarking duur die strewe na groter integrasie
van swart alumni voort. Die inkorporering van alumni
wat by die Qwaqwa- en Vista-kampusse gestudeer het,
lewer ’n betekenisvolle bydrae tot hierdie strewe.
By Rekenaardienste is reuse-vordering gemaak met die
indiensneming van personeel uit die aangewese groepe. Reke
naar dienste het vanaf ’n baie lae verteenwoordiging in
2005 tot 52% van personeel uit die aangewese groepe
gevorder.
In die Fakulteit Teologie is dr. Jeannette Steyn aangestel
as die eerste voltydse vroulike dosent in die fakulteit.
Sy is in die Departement Praktiese Teologie (Pastorale
Terapie), maar sal ook vir 50% van haar tyd diens doen as
Onderrig- en Leerbestuurder van die fakulteit.
Dr. Ingrid Dennis is as die eerste vroulike Direkteur
van die Instituut vir Grondwaterstudies aangestel.
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Hulp met taaldiversiteit
Die tolkdiens in die Departement Afro-Asiatiese Stu die,
Gebaretaal en Taalpraktyk het ’n rol gespeel in die
hantering van diversiteit deurdat enkele SR- en twee UBvergaderings
van Engels na Suid-Sotho en omgekeerd
getolk is. By verskeie vergaderings van die Mangaung
Plaas like Munisi paliteit en die Motheo-distriks munisipaliteit,
asook Pansat, is buiten Afrikaans/Engels-tolking
ook ’n diens in onder meer Engels/Xhosa, Engels/Suid-
Sotho en Engels/Tswana gelewer.
’n Sesotho/Engels-tolk het by die tolkspan aangesluit.
Dié blinde persoon het hy hom by vergaderings geweldig
goed van sy taak gekwyt. Hy het ook gehelp met die opleiding
van bykomende Engels/Suid-Sotho-tolke. Die
tolk diens – veral ’n diens in onder meer Suid-Sotho,
Xhosa en Tswana – het verskeie geleenthede aan tolke
gebied om hulle vaardighede aan te wend, uit te bou en ’n
inkomste te genereer.
In die tweede semester is begin om by die huis vergaderings
van die koshuise Emily Hobhouse en Roosmaryn
te tolk. Dié tolking is baie goed deur sowel Engelse as
Afrikaanse studente ontvang en het ’n positiewe invloed
op die wedersydse kommunikasie, maar ook die wedersydse
begrip tussen die studente tydens huis ver gaderings
gehad. Studente uit die koshuise het opleiding gekry sodat
hulle self in hul koshuise kan tolk onder toesig van ’n
senior tolk.
Die Afdeling Personeelontwikkeling en Prestasie bestuur
het vier Sesotho-kommunikasiekursusse aan gebied
wat 34 personeellede voltooi het.
Om ’n diverse groep studente te bedien is ’n
Sesotho-sprekende sielkundige by Kovsievoorligting
aan gestel. Die Departement Sielkunde sal ook jaarliks
’n Sesotho-sprekende verskaf om internskap by Kovsievoorligting
te doen.

Gehalte in onderrig en leer
’n belangrike prioriteit
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Die groei in studentegetalle, veral sedert 2000, duur voort, maar teen ’n stadiger tempo.
In 2007 het die UV bokant die vlak van 25 000 gegroei. Die aantal eerstejaars het ook
gegroei, maar die verwagting is dat die aantal nuwe lingeerstejaars in 2008 en 2009
sal begin afneem. Dit is gebaseer op ’n voorspelling van die aantal leerders in die
skoolpyplyn, veral dié wat sal kwalifiseer vir universiteitstoelating. Die effek van MIV/vigs is
ook hierin verreken.
Die studentetal het sedert 2000 van 12 143 meer as verdubbel
tot 24 684 in 2007, maar die verwagting is dat die
aantal nuwelingeerstejaars in 2008 en 2009 sal begin afneem.
Dit is gebaseer op ’n voorspelling van die aantal
leerders in die skoolpyplyn, veral dié wat sal kwalifiseer
vir universiteitstoelating. Die effek van MIV/vigs is ook
hierin verreken. Nagraadse studente vorm ongeveer 30%
van die UV se studentetal.
Studente-tal
Jaar Totaal Swart Vroulik Afstand Nagraads
2003 21,984 62% 55% 8% 34%
2004 25,351 64% 55% 8% 31%
2005 24,659 61% 55% 9% 31%
2006 24,132 60% 55% 8% 30%
2007 24,684 61% 56% 7% 28%
Die fakulteite se studentetalle sien soos volg daaruit:
Voor graads Nagraads
Eko no miese en Be stuursweten
skap pe
4574 891
Ge sond heids weten skap pe 1420 430
Regs geleerd heid 987 102
Natuur- en Landbou-
Wetenskappe
2813 1473
Geesteswetenskappe 6101 2020
Teologie 99 173
Teaching-learning policy finalised
In an important step a new teaching-learning policy for the
UFS was approved by the Senate. The policy focuses on
quality and excellence as well as equity, diversity and
redress and closely links quality assurance, scholarship and
innovation in teaching and learning. The teaching-learning
policy is aligned with international developments in higher
education as well as quality goals, and addresses the fundamental
principles underpinning teaching and learning. The
Division Teaching, Learning and Assessment of the Centre
for Higher Education Studies and Development (CHESD)
played a major role in the development of the teachinglearning
policy.
e-Learning an integral part of blended learning
approach
During 2007 the UFS introduced the “blended approach”
as the most effective delivery approach for the “engaged”
teaching and learning model. The “engaged” model was
also endorsed during 2007 as the institutional teaching and
learning model of choice.
The blended approach makes it possible to use facilities
to capacity, reduce contact time between lecturer and student
and make the presentation of classes in Afrikaans and
English easier. The blended approach involves the design
of course modules to incorporate some face-to-face contact
between lecturers and students, as well as some electronic
contact between lecturers and students. The extent to which
traditional face-to-face contact is replaced by electronic
contact will differ from module to module, depending on
the extent to which a particular module is more theoretical
or more practical.
During 2007 the anticipated increase in the number of
e-learning modules did not take place as planned. One of
the factors that influenced the planned expansion was the
migration of electronic distance modules, previously made
available to students by a commercial partner in Johan nesburg,
to the learning management system of the UFS. At
the end of March 2007 the Division e-Learning in the
CHESD migrated 164 course modules to the institutional
learning management system. This process was completed
in two weeks.
A task team, chaired by the Division e-Learning, was
established to identify the full implication of the takeover,
and to make recommendations in this regard. Issues such as
the implementation of an electronic student-registration
pro cess, as well as the administration of examination sessions
for off-campus students enjoyed the attention of the
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those related to the envisaged migration of on-campus
modules from WebCT to Moodle at the end of 2007, it was
decided to defer the expansion of the blended model to
2008.
The migration of first-semester modules from WebCT
to Moodle for on-campus students was completed at the
end of November 2007. A total of 465 course modules will
be available to students on the institutional learning management
system at the beginning of 2008.
The migration of modules from WebCT to Moodle was
characterised by a re-evaluation of learning materials and
support for lecturers in ensuring that the new modules on
Moodle were interactive and that the modules encouraged
active student engagement. The Division Teaching, Learning
and Assessment was also involved in the migration process
and offered lecturers support with regard to the pedagogical
foundations upon which the modules had been
designed.
Planning has already begun, in consultation with lecturers
involved, for the implementation of new e-learning
modules during 2008. By the end of November 2007, 128
academic staff members had attended both a Moodle Orientation
workshop and a Moodle Follow-up workshop.
The planning of four experimental modules, in collaboration
with interested academics, in 2006 led to the implementation
of three of these modules in 2007. The first module
is a general academic skills module that was developed in
collaboration with the teaching and learning team in the
Faculty of Health Sciences. The second is a language-proficiency
module, aimed at postgraduate students. This module
was developed in collaboration with the Department of
English. The third module was developed in collaboration
with the Department of Economics and involves the novel
use of an interactive, electronic textbook.
It is envisaged that these modules will be implemented
fully during 2007 and 2008, and that the first evaluations of
these modules will be conducted at the end of 2008.
Deursetkoers kry aandag
Die Fakulteit Natuur- en Landbouwetenskappe het ’n Leeren
Onderrigbestuurder aangestel om die deurvloei koerse van
die fakulteit te verbeter. Sy aanvanklike fokus is op die
kursusse in die eerste jaar van die verlengde en die gewone
programme. Volgens ’n navorsingsverslag wat op 2006 se
syfers gebaseer is, is daar wel sukses met die verlengde program,
maar is die sukseskoers (ongeveer 30%) laag en ver-
dere ingrypings moet gemaak word. Die blyk duide lik dat ’n
beter punt vir wiskunde in matriek ’n goeie aan dui ding gee
of studente suksesvol gaan wees in die program al dan nie.
Dit blyk veral dat swak wiskunde-onderrig op skool nie
maklik in een jaar op universiteit reg gestel kan word nie.
Gegewe hierdie feite, het die fakulteit besluit om sy
betrokkenheid op skoolvlak te verhoog en is ’n projek ontwikkel
om die leermateriaal in die wiskunde en weten skappe
op skoolvlak te help ontwikkel en om onderwysers by te
staan in die gebruik van leermateriaal.
Career preparation a success
In the Career Preparation Programme (CPP), an access programme,
over 1 240 students registered were registered in
2007. A total of 1 014 degrees have been awarded since
1996 to students who commenced their studies in CPP; 95
of these were honours degrees, sixteen masters degrees,
and six M.B.Ch.B degrees.
On account of a partnership agreement between the
National Institute for Higher Education in the Northern Cape
(NIHE) and the UFS, student numbers increased in Kimberley
from 30 in 2002 to 264 in 2007. Since January 2005,
second-year courses in Economic and Management Sciences
as well as in Humanities were also implemented and 38
students registered in these programmes. Since Jan uary 2006
certain third-year courses were also imple men ted. A total of
41 third-year students registered in 2007. At the end of 2006,
the first seven B.Soc.Sc (Human and Social Dynamics)
students graduated from this partnership.
Student Successes
Year % Success
2003 72%
2004 68%
2005 70%
2006 72%
2007 70%
Student success rates are of critical importance. At the
time of the Institutional Audit in 2006, it was identified by
the UFS – and subsequently by the audit panel – as a
potential problem. Data showed a decline in the overall
success rate (from 73,4% to 69,2%) from 2003 to 2004.
The approved UFS Enrollment Plan of the Department of
Education stipulates a target of 74% for the UFS from 2008
to 2010.

Data for 2004 - 2006 show a marked four percentagepoint
increase in the overall success rate, but a 2% drop
again in 2007.
As far as new first-year students are concerned, the
period since 2004 - 2006 also displays a significant increase
in success rates. For black first-years it has gone up from
50% to 59%. For white students the success rate is 80%,
which equals the national benchmark figure.
While the success rate for black students is not ac ceptable
yet, the increase as such is an important change. The
impact of the new Department of Student Development
and Success and its new tutorial programmes will hope fully
boost the success rate significantly.
The context in which the UFS functions and the stu dent
population that it serves are relevant factors. The UFS has
chosen to be a university of access to students with potential
from disadvantaged backgrounds, and has created various
routes of access and success for such students. The
UFS does not exclusively target learners from private
schools, for instance, or use artificially high admis sion
criteria to exclude students from disadvantaged school
backgrounds. Compared to a university that adopts such
strategies, the educational value-added that the UFS imparts
to its students may be much, much higher. Nevertheless,
this is an area that we would like to improve significantly.
Onvoorwaardelike gradering ’n eerste
Op die gebied van onderrig en leer is die Sentrum vir
Rekeningkunde in die Fakulteit Ekonomiese en Be stuurswe
tenskappe is die eerste in Suid-Afrika om ’n on voor waarde
like gradering van die Suid-Afrikaanse Raad van Ge ok-
An Office for Postgraduate Support was approved in
June 2007 and students, staff and faculties stand to
benefit. Postgraduate students and postdoctoral research
fellows will have their interests promoted in
synergy with faculty and departmental facilities. The
office will also provide a critical resource to the
faculties in the form of a single database of post graduate
students, postgraduate topics, supervisors and funding
opportunities. It will also serve as a useful resource and
base for training and information for younger and less
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trooi eerde Rekenmeesters te kry vir die voorbereiding van
geoktrooieerde rekenmeesters. In die jaarlikse MBAbeoordeling
deur die Financial Mail het die Bestuurskool
ook baie goed gepresteer.
More students are drawn to programmes
The Programme in Higher Education Studies experienced
rapid growth and the number of full qualifications (advanced
diploma, M.A. and Ph.D.) increased to almost a
hundred. Approximately thirty persons registered for
occasional studies in the various modules (short courses
excluded). The number of Ph.D. students in Higher Education
Studies increased to 25. Four completed their
degrees. The variety and the interdisciplinary nature of the
research undertaken manifest in the topics of these stu dies,
namely: effective student evaluation, skills development in
public-health training, promotion of learning amongst unprepared
students and the development of a research culture
in undergraduate occupational therapy.
The M.A. programme experienced exceptional growth
in 2007 when forty members of staff and from other institutions
enrolled for the first year of the qualification.
There were about 15 students in the Advanced Diploma
in Higher Education, but there are clear indications that an
increasing number of students from the FET and privateeducation
sectors are interested in the qualification. Several
persons with extended experience in these sectors have
obtained admission to enroll for the qualification after
going through a recogition of prior learning (RPL) process.
There are already indications that these persons can become
the most successful group in the programme.
Office to support postgraduate learning and research
experienced members. The creation of this office is part
of a concerted effort by the UFS to create an optimal
environment for post graduate students to achieve
quality and excellence in their research activities. This
is in line with the emphasis placed by government on
post graduate students – through the NRF’s strategy of
Ph.D. a Key Driver. The HEQC Audit identified also
the absence an office for post-graduate students as a
weakness regarding quality-related arrange ments for
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The four credit-bearing short learning programmes and
occasional studies in Research Development, developed by
the division HES&R are available to all departments and
faculties at the UFS. In 2007 two of these short courses
(SPRESK: Writing and computer skills for the researcher,
and SPQUAL: Introduction to Qualitative research) were
presented for the first time. Twelve staff members have
completed the courses successfully.
With regard to occasional studies several students registered
for single modules during 2007. The largest was the
groups of sixteen each for HOS512 (Assessment) and
HOS518 (Learning Facilitation). If overlapping is considered,
about 45 different students registered for occasional
studies in 2007.
Health Systems Centre a valuable asset
Since its inception in 1993, the Centre for Health Systems
Research and Development has shown unremitting growth
and expansion in terms of staffing, projects, the scope and
diversity of its research and development activities, and its
financial standing. After fifteen years of successful operation,
the centre can lay claim to commendable experi ence
and expertise in a number of fields of study and methodological
approaches, and amid an ever-widening basis of
national and international collaboration in research.
In 2007, excellence in the research and developmental
endeavours of the centre was recognised when its director,
Prof. Dingie Janse van Rensburg, was promoted to Distinguished
Professor. In his career of 37 years Prof. Van
Rensburg played a vital role in establishing a culture of
scientific publication among young and upcoming researchers.
He is wellknown, both nationally and inter nationally,
as a researcher, research manager and grant holder
in respect of HIV and Aids and Tuberculosis and recipient
of numerous awards and commendations.
Diensleer word ’n volwaardige afdeling
Sedert Februarie 2007 is die Afdeling Diensleer onder leiding
van dr. Mabel Erasmus ’n volwaardige akademiese
steun diensafdeling binne SHOSO. Die integrasie van Samelewingsdiens
met onderrig, leer en navorsing is vir ons ’n
strategiese prioriteit. Diensleer bevorder die integrasie van
samelewingsdiens met onderrig en leer.
Die UV se Samelewingsdiensbeleid bepaal dat uit eindelik
in elke akademiese program een diensleermodule aangebied
moet word om elke UV-student die geleentheid te
gee om teoretiese kennis in die praktyk toe te pas. Die doel
is om akademies, persoonlik en professioneel te groei en ’n
sin vir burgerlike verantwoordelikheid te ontwikkel. Vanjaar
is reeds 55 diensleermodules aangebied, waarby meer
as ’n duisend studente betrokke was.
Verskeie vorme van ondersteuning is verleen aan UVpersoneel
wat by diensleer betrokke is, insluitend die fasilitering
van akademiese ontwikkeling. Om die kwaliteit van
diensleer aan die UV deurlopend te bevorder, word ’n module
oor diensleer vir dosente in die M.A.-program in Hoëronderwysstudies
aangebied. Verskeie gasdosente het bykomende
perspektiewe gebied.
Akademiese uitnemendheid in diensleer word bevorder
deur navorsing oor diensleertemas aan te moedig. ’n Na vorsingsprojek
oor Engagement of staff in Community Service
Learning at the University of the Free State is vanjaar
onderneem en ’n akademiese artikel hieroor is aanvaar vir
publikasie. Die studie handel oor personeellede wat by
diensleer betrokke is se beskouinge oor die waarde van
hierdie benadering tot onderrig en leer; hul ervaring rondom
die mate van steun en erkenning wat hulle aan die UV
ontvang; en hul voorstelle ter verbetering van die stelsel.
Hoewel personeel uiters positief is oor die waarde van
diensleer vir studente en vennote, het die ondersoek getoon
dat ontevredenheid heers oor die billike verrekening van
diensleer in die UV se insentief- en bevorderingstelsels. In
die lig hiervan sal ’n proses wat gerig is op billiker ver rekening
van diensleer in prestasiebestuur en bevordering in
2008 aangepak word.
Ten opsigte van Samelewingsdiens is ’n video kon ferensie
oor Service Learning as a basis of Research and
Scholarship, wat die bevordering van diensleernavorsing
ten doel gehad het, deur veertien personeellede van die Fakulteit
Geesteswetenskappe bygewoon. Dit is deur proff.
Bob Bringle en Julie Hatcher van die Indiana University-
Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) gefasiliteer.
Een van die besondere voordele wat diensleer vir die
UV inhou, is dat dit aan studente uit verskillende groeperinge
die geleentheid bied om oor die kunsmatige skeiding,
wat deur bywoning van lesings in die onderskeie tale
teweeggebring word, in diverse groepe saam te werk aan
diensleerprojekte in die gemeenskap. Terugvoering het aangedui
dat ’n groter waardering vir die waarde en voordele
van diversiteit by studente teenwoordig is na afloop van
hierdie samewerkingservarings. Gefokusde navorsing hieroor
moet nog onderneem word.
Ploeg terug in die gemeenskap
Die Sentrum vir Volhoubare Landbou en Landelike Ontwikkeling
het ’n somerskool vir die sentrum se af stand on-

der rigstudente in Bloemfontein aangebied. Ongeveer 50%
van die sentrum se studente kom uit die Suider-Afrikaanse
Ontwikkelingsgemeenskap (SAOG), Sentraal- en Noord-
Afrika en so ver as Kanada, die VSA, die Verenigde
Koning ryk en Europa. Die sentrum het 52 nuwe voor afgekeurde
studente in 2007 gehad.
Die Departement Menslike Bewegingskunde het sy
dienste beskikbaar gestel aan die Lebone-kinderhuis van
die Calhib Mohabi-sentrum. Die praktiese opleiding en gepaardgaande
dienslewering van Remediërende Onderrigstudente
van die Departement Psigo-Opvoedkunde lewer
’n bydrae tot samelewingsdiens en diensleer. Elke jaar
word ’n gemeenskapsprojek geïdentifiseer waarby hierdie
studente as deel van hul praktiese opleiding betrokke moet
wees. Dié studente was aktief by die Hoërskool Martie du
Plessis betrokke.
Dr. Gregory Alexander (Psigo-Opvoedkunde) is be trokke
by verskeie streeksinisiatiewe. Hy werk saam met dr. R
Maarman, vakhoof: Vergelykende Opvoedkunde van die
Noordwes-Universiteit aan verdere navorsing oor die geamalgameerde
skoolsituasie in Noordwes en Noord-Kaap.
Hy is deur die Nasionale Raad vir Ekonomiese Onderwys
van die VSA gekies vir verdere opleidingsessies in Mexiko.
Die UV Regskliniek het ’n ooreenkoms gesluit met die
Departement van Justisie en Grondwetlike Sake in terme
waarvan die kliniek in staat gestel word om vyf kandidaatprokureurs
en een “mentorprokureur” aan te stel vir die
volgende twee jaar.
Die Fakulteit Teologie het die voortou geneem deur
twee buitengewone leerstoele in te stel op vakterreine wat
nog nie in Suid-Afrika ontgin is nie. Prof. Pieter de
Villiers, buitengewone professor in Bybelse Spiritualiteit,
het op 12 September 2007 sy intreerede gelewer oor
Bybelse spiri tualiteit, vrede en ’n geweldskultuur. Prof.
Laetus Lategan, dekaan: Navorsing aan die Sentrale Universiteit
vir Tegnologie, is aangestel as buitengewone professor
in Professionele en Navorsingse tiek in die De partement
Dogmatologie.
Die Sentrum vir die Begeleiding van Geestelike Leiers
(Shepherd), die gemeenskapsdiensarm van die fakulteit,
het in 2006 onder leiding van die direkteur, dr. Gerhard
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Studente presteer
Die Fakulteit Natuur- en Landbouwetenskappe was
suk sesvol met opleiding van studente uit voor heenbenadeelde
gemeenskappe. Desmond Ncango (Ph.D.student
in Biochemie) het in Desember die eerste prys
van die gewilde biochemie- en industriëlemikologiesessie
van die Asiatiese Mikologie-kongres (AMC
2007) gewen. Meer as 300 verteenwoordigers van 27
lande het die kongres in Maleisië bygewoon.
Pulane Mahoka van die Departement Bou rekenkunde
en Konstruksiebestuur het die Vereniging van
Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars (VSABR) se goue
medalje as uitstaande finalejaarstudent in Suid-Afrika
ontvang. Sy is die eerste swart damestudent in Suid-
Afrika wat hierdie gesogte toekenning ontvang.
Botha, tot stand gekom. Talle werksessies is reeds gehou
en netwerke word opgebou waardeur die geestelike leiers
van talle kerke vaardigheidsopleiding kan bekom.
Personeel van die Departement Ondernemingsbe stuur
het verskeie KMMO-gerigte opleidingsessies in same werking
met SETA aangebied, terwyl die Suid-Afrikaanse Bestuurs
ontwikkelingsinstituut ’n tender aan die program
Openbaresektorbestuur toegeken het om die Ontluikende en
die Gevorderde Bestuursontwikkelingsprogram in Noordwes,
Vrystaat en KwaZulu-Natal aan te bied. Die ven nootskap
tussen die Eenheid vir Entrepreneurskap en Senwes vir
die aanbieding van die Skole Entrepreneursprojek het in
2007 nuwe hoogtes bereik en met die ruim finansiële
betrokkenheid deur die Nederlandse Naober Stigting word
ontluikende entrepreneurs deur middel van die Mind
Dynamics Profile deur dr. Johan van Zyl opgelei.
Die Bestuurskool het in samewerking met ABSA die
High Performing Directors and Governance Programme
bekend gestel wat ten doel het om rolspelers in die kor poratiewe
bestuursomgewing, soos uitvoerende en nie- uitvoerende
direkteure, trustees en raadslede, te bemagtig.

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The total expenditure on research in the central university
budget has grew dramatically by more than 100% from
R12,2 million in 2005 to R26 million in 2007, confirming
the UFS’s commitment to research.
The Directorate Research Development has prioritised
the efficiency of its research information-management
systems as a critical requirement to further enhance the
profile of the UFS as a research institution. The directorate
has therefore joined the national Research Information
Management System (RIMS) initiative, led jointly by the
Department of Education (DoE) and the Department of
Science and Technology (DST).
The first five-year cycle of the current UFS research
strategy, which was approved in 2003, will come to an end
during 2008. The strategy guided research develop ment
from 2003 to 2008 by focusing on the development and
enhancement of a research culture at the UFS, through its
five objectives: quality assurance, equity and redress, financial
sustainability, support systems, and output dimension.
The HEQC Institutional Audit recommended that “the
UFS should revise its strategy for the development of
research, focusing particularly on the prioritisation of goals
and objectives…” This recommendation, in addition to
changing internal and external imperatives such as the
Strategic Cluster Initiative, the South African Research
Chairs Initiative (SARChI) and a new strategic plan
launched by the NRF, will inform and direct the external
review of research development at UFS. This review will
serve as framework to guide the UFS towards a New
Research Strategy for the next five years until 2013.
More get NRF ratings
Following a drop in the number of NRF-rated researchers
to 70 in 2006, the total of rated researchers at the UFS
increased when an additional ten persons obtained an NRF
rating. The UFS now has 75 NRF-rated researchers. According
to Evaluation and Rating Facts & Figures 2007, a
publication of the NRF Evaluation Centre, the UFS is rated
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Research output for 2007 was 454, following increases from 410 in 2005 to 455 in 2006.
Since 2002 the UFS accredited research output has increased by approximately 50%
(from 304). The total subsidy-bearing output (the above plus research master’s and
doctoral degrees) has also increased to beyond the benchmark set by the Minister of
Education. Furthermore, as recommended by the HEQC, the Directorate Research Development
is developing the necessary mechanisms of support and incentives for researchers to publish
increasingly in ISI-listed journals.
UFS accredited publication output, 2000 – 2006
4th among the top-ten universities in South Africa in terms
of the percentage (11,6%) of their research/instruction staff
with a valid NRF rating.
The effort the university puts in the development of
young researchers is paying off as twelve young researchers
obtained a rating during the year.
Four researchers of the Faculty of Economic and
Management Sciences – Proff. Frikkie Booysen, Hendri
Kroukamp, Philippe Burger and Lochner Marais – received
NRF gradings. In the Faculty of the Humanities three
received first-time gradings. They are Proff. Heidi Hudson
(C1) en Jackie Naudé (C2) en Dr Christo Heunis (C3).
In Theology Prof. Johan Janse van Rensburg received
a C3 grading. The faculty now has four NRF-graded
researchers – a remarkable achievement for a small faculty.
Proff. Andries Snyman, Francois Tolmie en Pieter Verster
received C gradings in the past.
Boost for black researchers
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Prof. Philip Nel was die inisieerder van die Sentrum vir Afrika-studies wat
einde 2007 tot stand gekom het.
encourage participation in the NRF Thuthuka Programme.
The UFS Thuthuka grant-holder numbers increased significantly
from 25 in 2006 to 44 in 2007, representing an
increase in Thuthuka funding from R2 million to almost
R2,4 million. The UFS boosted participation with tailored
support mechanisms, e.g. identifying potential applicants
and assisting them in proposal development through workshops
and individual sessions.
Research grants doubled
An increase in National Research Foundation (NRF) grants
– more than doubling in five years (from R7,3 million to
R17,4 million) – reflects a similar strong upward trend in
research activity. Central research funds allocated in 2007
was R26 million, again confirming the UFS’s commitment
to research.
Meer publiseer, lewer referate
’n Ryk oes van uitsette verskyn op die geakkrediteerde publikasielys
en gekeurde konferensieoptredes deur lede van die
Fakulteit Ekonomiese en Bestuurswetenskappe. Proff. Buks
Wessels, Philippe Burger, mnr. JP Geldenhuys en me.
Marina Marinkov van die Departement Ekonomie verskeie
UFS Thuthuka funding and grantholders, 2003 – 2007
geakkrediteerde artikels en hoofstukke in boeke gepubliseer,
terwyl die meerderheid van die akademiese per soneel van
die departement ook gekeurde referate by nasionale en
internasionale konferensies gelewer het. Die Sentrum vir
Rekeningkunde en die Departement Bedryf siel kunde het
vier artikels, met eersgenoemde wat vier nasionale en twee
internasionale referate gelewer het, en per soneel van Bedryfsielkunde
drie internasionale referate.
Lede van die Departement Openbare Bestuur het vyf
referate op die jaarlikse konferensie van die International
Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration
(IASIA) in Abu Dhabi gelewer. Prof. Hendri Kroukamp is
vir sy wetenskaplike bydrae tot die sukses van die
konferensie vereer. Personeel het sewe referate by nasionale
konferensies en een in Namibië gelewer, met sewe ge akkrediteerde
tydskrifartikels wat gepubliseer is. Die departement
lui ook ’n nuwe era in deur drie geakkrediteerde
artikels in samewerking met Rekeningkunde, Ekonomie en
Bedryfsielkunde die lig te laat sien.
Die Sentrum vir Ontwikkelingsteun het dertien artikels
in geakkrediteerde tydskrifte en ook vyf gekeurde referate
by internasionale en vyf by nasionale vakkongresse
gelewer. ’n Hoofstuk is ook bygedra tot State of the Nation:
South Africa en die boek Going for broke: the fate of
farmworkers in arid South Africa, wat deur die WNNR
uitgegee is.
Die Sentrum vir Ontwikkelingsteun het met uitgebreide
navorsingsprojekte in die sentrale gebied van Suid-Afrika
voortgegaan. Die programme fokus toenemend op
droogtegebiede met die sosio-ekonomiese ontwikkeling in
hierdie areas. Dit word deur die NNS befonds en verskeie

sleutelstudies is reeds in 2007 afgehandel.Die sentrum het
twee verslae gelewer oor die Conflict in South African
cities: an analysis of service-related unrest gebaseer op
gevallestudies in Phumelela, Khutsong, Phomolong en die
Nelson Mandelabaai-munisipaliteit en belig die redes vir
die onrus sedert September 2004. Die resultate van die
ondersoek het wye nasionale radio- en televisiedekking
geniet, en is ook aan die Parlementêre Portefeuljekomitee
oor Plaaslike Regering in Kaapstad voorgedra.
Die Fakulteit Ekonomiese en Bestuurswetenskappe se
totale uitsette het fenomenaal van 14 in 2005 tot 40,89 in
2006 en 47 in 2007 opgeskiet.
In die Fakulteit Gesondheidswetenskappe is 5 artikels
in geakkrediteerder publikasies opgeneem.
In 2007 het nagraadse studente aan die Departement
Musiek vier artikels in geakkrediteerde tydskrifte publiseer
en een in ’n internasionale tydskrif – ’n prestasie wat nog
nie deur ’n ander tersiêre musiekinstansie in Suid-Afrika
geëwenaar is nie. In Augustus was dié departement die gasheer
vir die eerste kongres van die South African Society
for Research in Music. Personeel het drie referate by dié
geleentheid gelewer.
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Sakelui uit Bloemfontein en Johannesburg was gaste op die Bloemfontein-kampus. Hier is van links: prof. Frederick Fourie (Rektor en Visekanselier), mnr.
Mr Sipho Dube (entrepreneur van Bloemfontein), mnr. Andrew Scholtz, direkteur van Vistapark Developers, en dr. Ezekiel Moraka, Vise-rektor:
studentesake. Die UV handhaaf ’n noue verbintenis met die bedryf, nie alleen om fondse te bekom nie, maar ook om te verseker dat die UV studente van die
hoogste gehalte lewer.
Akademiese toerusting
Die Fakulteit Natuur- en Landbouwetenskappe het
in sy verbinding tot hoër kwaliteit onderrig en navorsing
verder geïnvesteer in apparaat en infrastruktuur.
Hierdie verbintenis het ’n gevoelige knou
gekry met die brand in die Chemie-gebou.
Die Departement Geologie het in 2007 ’n nuwe
petrografiese mikroskoop gekry om sy navorsing in
mineralogie, petrologie, eksplorasie en ekonomiese
geologie uit te brei. Die verdere uitrol van die Fakulteit
Natuur- en Landbouwetenskappe se ap paraatstrategie
is ook by ander departemente voort gesit
en die dringendste behoeftes is aangespreek.
Fondse van R2,5 miljoen is ook uit die Nasionale
Toerustingprogram van die NNS verkry.
Hierdie geld is gebruik om ’n FT-Raman-spekrometer,
’n ABI PRIM 313 OXL-16 kapillêre genetiese
anali seerder en ’n Gel-Scan 3000 plus Dyad
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Alumni honoured people who carried the UFS name beyond our campus borders. Here are, from the left: Mr Deon Meyer, well-known writer, Mr Zingile
Dingani, Secretary of Parliament, Prof. Helena van Zyl, Director of the School of Management, and Mr Corrie van Zyl, Assistant couch of the Protea
Cricket Team.
Die Fakulteit Teologie handhaaf ’n hoë na vor sings uitsetsyfer.
Dié klein fakulteit met 2% van die UV se na vorserskorps
was in 2006 vir 10% van die na vor sings uitsette
verantwoordelik.
Hoëronderwysnavorsing kry tuiste
Bykomend tot die navorsingsaktiwitieite van personeel en
studente is ’n subafdeling vir Hoëronderwysnavorsing in
die groter afdeling Hoëronderwysstudie en -Navorsing gevestig
om die gehalte van navorsing in die afdeling te verbeter
en uit te brei. Prof. ‘Mabokang Monnapula-Mapesela
is die hoof van die subafdeling. Besondere mylpale was
twee navorsingsprojekte, naamlik ’n Inheemse Kennisprojek
(IK) oor die orale tradisie en ’n ETDP SETA-projek oor
kapasiteitsontwikkeling. Vyf navorsers het aan die ETDP
SETA-projek deelgeneem waaruit ses artikels vir publikasie
voorgelê is. Vier werkswinkels met betrekking oor orale
tradisie is aangebied.
Close relations with industry
The UFS is continuing to work closely with industry in
various areas. Sasol invested R9 million over the past three
years in the Department of Chemistry. This was part of the
strategic alliance forged between the UFS and Chemistry,
in terms of which the UFS invested R12 million in the
department. (These amounts exclude the expenditure on
the chemistry-building renovation project, which may eventually
cost approximately R50 million.) Sasol has been
very impressed with the department’s increase in significant
published research outputs on basic petrochemical
reactions.
The Netcare Private Hospital Group made a donation to
the Department of Haematology and Cell Biology for among
others the establishment of a bone-marrow transplant
programme, the development of a molecular-biology
laboratory and the development of anti-leukemia remedies.
Through the Technology and Human Resources for
Industry Programme (THRIP), managed by the NRF and
the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the university
is involved with many projects with industrial partners. A
project of the Centre for Plant Health Management
(CePHma) has won a 2007 Technology Award presented
by the national Department of Trade and Industry.

’n Syaansig van die Chemie-gebou wat aanbouings en vernuwings van etlike miljoene rand ondergaan.
The university recognises the importance of not only
generating new knowledge, but also actively participating
in the application and utilisation of such knowledge and
tech nologies to generate new products, processes and
services. The most important aims of working with
industry include:
• Responding to national (and global) initiatives aimed at
improving the environment for commercialisation at
the UFS
’n Bedrag van R13,7 miljoen is aan die Departement
Mikrobiese, Biochemiese en Voed sel bio tegnologie
se Bio chemiese afdeling toegeken om navor
sing te doen op pre historiese organismes.
Hier die kontrak is toegeken deur Biopad, ’n Suid-
Afri kaanse bio teg no lo gie-maat skap py wat ven nootskappe
tus sen na vor sers, entrepreneurs, besighede,
die re gering en ander rol spelers sluit om in novasie
te bevorder en volhoubare biotegnologiese sake on-
Oer-organismes lok fondse vir navorsing
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• Providing researchers legal, business and infra structural
support to do so
• Engaging in commercialisation mining by identifying
projects with possible commercialisation potential
• Acting as an intermediary between inventors and
patent attorneys, and providing inventors with advice
and support in the patenting process
• Paving the way for generating a third stream of
income.
der nemings te ontwikkel. Die kontrak behels die
stigting van ’n platform vir meta genomika – ’n
tegniek wat na vor sers in staat stel om DNA uit
mikrobes in hul natuurlike habitat te onttrek en dit
verder in die labora toriums te ondersoek. Die projek
word ondersteun deur die Departement van Wetenskap
en Tegnologie en die NNS wat bydraes lewer
tot die beurse van die 17 nagraadse studente in die
program.

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Die Sentrum vir Afrikastudie in die Fakulteit Geesteswetenskappe is in November
2007 geloods met ’n openingsrede deur die Adjunkminister van Onderwys, mnr.
Enver Surty. Die sentrum is die uitvloeisel van fakulteitsinisiatiewe, asook die
strategiese visie en herposionering van die UV ten opsigte van sy rol in Afrika.
Dit is die vyfde sentrum van sy soort in Afrika en die tweede in Suid-Afrika. Die sentrum beoog
om op ’n innoverende wyse betrokke te wees by die uitdagings en kwessies van die kontinent.
Die oogmerk sal nagestreef word deur samewerking met plaaslike, streeks- en kontinentale
organisasies en instellings.
Enlarging the footprint internationally
The UFS’s vision of playing a bigger role in the sub-region
and also in Africa as a continent received further momentum
with the appointment of a Head of Internationalisation
from the beginning of 2007. The office is finalising the
UFS Internationalisation Strategy, which will include a
focus on the internationalisation of research. In this regard,
the office will identify international research funding
opportunities and establish contact with large funding
bodies. It will aim to create research opportunities, facilitate
international visits, mobilise research funding, expand
and maintain international research agreements, establish
administrative aid, and expand research membership.
Bande oor (digitale) grense heen gesmee
’n Videokonferensie is in 2007 op die Hoofkampus gehou
waartydens ’n memorandum van verstandhouding met die
Universiteit van Gent in België onderteken is. Die ondertekening
het deel gevorm van ’n weeklange program,
Accenta, waarop Bloemfontein en die Vrystaat die eregaste
was. Akademici van die Departement Rekenaarwetenskap
en Informatika het referate gelewer in een van die forums
wat deel van die program in Gent was. ’n Videokonferensie
oor maniere om die digitale kloof te oorbrug is uit Bloemfontein
en Gent toegespreek en terselfdertyd regstreeks op
die internet uitgesaai. Die rektore van die universiteite van
die Vrystaat en Gent het die ondertekening ook per videokoppeling
gedoen.
More postgraduates drawn
In the Faculty of Humanities the research projects of the
Centre for Health Systems Research and Development
were multi- and interdisciplinary, and multi- and interinstitutional
in nature. The impact of work by the centre
was particularly evident through a Roundtable on Health
Systems and Antiretroviral Access in Bloemfontein in
October. The Roundtable was organised and presented in
collaboration with the Free State Department of Health.
Delegates from as far as Malawi, Zimbabwe, Kenya,
Zambia, Uganda, Belgium, the USA and France attended.
Conference proceedings will be published to reach regional
and international stakeholders. Staff at the centre supervise
an increasing number of master’s and doctoral studies from
various disciplines, and also from countries like Zambia,
Namibia, Eritrea and Zimbabwe. In this manner the centre
contributes to the research capacity of the region.
Collaborations include the Development Economics
Research Group (DERG) of the World Bank and the
Netherlands Support Programme of the World Bank, the
Department for International Development (UK), the
Flemish International Cooperation Agency, the Center for
Global Development (University of Houston), and the
Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp.
Samewerking voortgesit
Die Eenheid vir Taalbestuur (ETB) het sy samewerking
met die Departement Sport, Kuns en Kultuur van die
Vrystaatse Regering voortgesit rondom die Multilingual
Information Development Programme. Die projek het in
Desember aan die einde van sy derde siklus suksesvol ten
einde geloop. Die jaar is afgesluit met ’n internasionale
colloquium aan die Universiteit van Antwerpen wat by gewoon
is deur verteenwoordigers van die Vrystaatse Pro vinsiale
Regering en die befondser van die projek, die Provinsie
van Antwerpen. Die eenheid het goeie na vorsingsuitsette
gelewer in die vorm van die sesde nom mer in die Van
Schaik-reeks Studies in language policy in South Africa.
Die bundel – Multilingualism and Exclusion – bevat
bydraes deur plaaslike en oorsese kundiges.
Afrikaans woeker
Prof. Hennie Van Coller, hoof van die Departement
Afrikaans en Nederlands, Duits en Frans, het op uitnodiging
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Cambridge History of South African Literature en aan
Afrikaanse vertalings van sonette van Shakespeare gewerk.
Dr. Mathilda de Beer (Afrikaans en Nederlands) het op
’n weeklange kongres in Ghana deelgeneem aan ’n paneelbespreking
gereël deur die Omohundro Instituut vir Vroeë
Amerikaanse Geskiedenis en Kultuur oor die gevolge van
kolonialisme en slawehandel. Die departement was ook
aan die stuur van die reëlings vir die Nederlandse Taalunie
se jaarlikse Neerlandistiek-winterskool vir Suid-Afrikaanse
studente. Meer as sewentig studente het ingeskryf.
Language development gets momentum
The Department of English has been involved in a cooperative
language-development project with the Central
University of Technology CUT). Dr Arlys van Wyk’s
reader-based language development programme has been
implemented at the CUT. The department is actively
involved in the Ford Foundation-funded project Skills for a
Changing World. Dr Van Wyk and Jeanne van der
Westhuizen, an MA student, also launched the Dr Blok
Literacy Project for which Raubex provided a sponsorship
of about R480 000.
Dr Van Wyk and Prof. Jackie du Toit of the Department
of Afroasiatic Studies, Sign Language and Language
Practice serve on the provincial language committee of
PANSLAB in the Free State. Prof. Van Wyk also serves in
the executive management of the South African Association
of Language Teachers.
Prof. Margaret Raftery has been elected regional vicepresident
of the Council of the English Academy for the
Free State for 2007-8. She is also with Rosemary Gray and
Idette Noome co-editor of the first online international
edition of the English Academy’s scholarly journal, The
English Academy Review, in partnership with publishers
Taylor and Francis in the UK. She has also been on the
Council of the Southern African Society for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies for many years (and editor of its
newsletter since 2003).
Help met ontwikkeling
Deur die Departement Maatskaplike Werk se betrokkenheid
by die Association of South African Social Work
Education Institutions (ASASWEI), waar nasionaal gekyk
word na opleidingsvraagstukke in maatskaplike werk, kon
heelwat opbouende bydraes gelewer tot die ontwikkeling
van opleiding in maatskaplike werk.
Fakulteit ploeg terug in die landbou
Die Lengau Agri-ontwikkelingsentrum het talle uit reikingsaksies,
waaronder boeredae en opleiding, gehad. Die
nuutste toevoeging is die MIV/vigs-inisiatief om plaaswerkers
in te lig oor die siekte, die hantering en voorkoming
daarvan.
’n Historiese vergadering tussen National African
Farmer’s Union (NAFU) en Vrystaat Landbou is deur prof.
Herman van Schalkwyk, Dekaan van die fakulteit, gefasiliteer.
Op die vergadering is besluit om saam te werk
wat verskeie landbousake betref.
Prof. Van Schalkwyk is deur die Minister van Landbou
aangestel op die Raad van Landbank en op die Land bounavorsingsraad.
Antropologie se bande strek oor grense
Prof. Piet Erasmus van die Departement Antropologie is
aangestel as eksterne moderator vir al National University
of Lesotho se Antropologie-kursusse. ’n Gesamentlike
somerskool tussen die UV en die NUL word ook in die
vooruitsig gestel.
Die departement huisves reeds die afgelope vyf jaar die
sekretariaat van die Nasionale Khoi-San Oorlegplegende
Konferensie. Dit het meegebring dat die UV toenemend as
vennoot deur die Khoe-San-gemeenskap op nasionale vlak
gesien en erken word. Die departement het met ’n
gemeenskapsprojek – Kalahari Plaaskombuis – onder die
‡Khomani San (naby die grens van Botswana, Namibië en
die Kgalagadi- Oorgrens Nasionale Park) begin. Die Dutch
Women’s Small Fund (Pequinita) het €5 000 (ongeveer
R60 000) vir die projek geskenk.
In die lig van die UV se wye betrokkenheid by die
gemeenskappe van die Vrystaat en die wyer sentrale streek
in Suid Afrika en die behoefte van die Griekwa Nasionale
Konvensie om die erfenis van die Griekwa na te vors, te
bewaar en uit te bou, is ’n samewerkingsinisiatief ter erkenning
van die rol van die Griekwa gesluit. Die uitsette sal
gebruik word om ontwikkeling op ekonomiese, maatskaplike,
kulturele en sosiale vlak te inisieer, te stimuleer
en te implementeer.
Die Eenheid vir Khoe- en San-studies in die Departement
Antropologie is goedgekeur. Navorsing in die
Culture and Memory Project is volstoom in die Vrystaat en
Noord-Kaap aan die gang en insiggewende voorlopige
resultate rondom tale is ingesamel. Die projek het in 2007

internasionale befondsing van ongeveer R1,8 miljoen
ontvang. ’n Ander projek oor die Korannagodsdiens is
afgehandel en ’n boek en artikel het hieroor verskyn.
Drama en Kuns wys hoe dit dit gedoen word
Prof. Nico Luwes is vir ’n derde keer genooi om regie in
Pavlodar in Kazakhstan te doen en het Die Buite-egtelike
Ouma in die Tsjechof-teater opgevoer. Hy het ook die
Sanlamprys vir beste regisseur en beste produksieprys vir
Lewensreg by die KKNK ontvang. Die stuk is bekroon as
beste teks en JP du Plessis van die departement is as die
naasbeste akteur aangewys. Mnr. Gerben Kamper is
benoem vir die gesogte Kanna-toekenning as beste akteur
by die KKNK en by Aardklop vir sy spel as Caliban in
Storm (Shakespeare).
Die professionele been van die departement, Facts, is
deur Lotto-befondsing in staat gestel om verskeie groot
produksies op te voer en het die jaar afgesluit met ’n
musiekspel, Little Shop of Horrors.
Me. Emmie van Wyk het opgetree as adviserende
paneellid vir fondstoedeling deur die Nasionale Kunsteraad
en vir die RGN as rapporteur van die National Arts, Culture
and Heritage Policy Review Summit.
Die Artists-in-Schools-projek van die Departement
Beeldende Kunste gaan voort om kunstenaars uit die
gemeenskap die geleentheid te gee om hul kennis en
vaardigheid in skole oor te dra. Die Departement Kuns en
Kultuur het R750 000 aan die projek toegeken. Die
aktiwiteite is in 2007 na die Suid-Vrystaat uitgebrei.
Jaco Spies (Beeldende Kunste) het ’n merieteprys op
ABSA se 22ste L’Atelier Kunskompetisie gewen – die
eerste Vrystater om dit te doen.
Aan die stuur op verskeie terreine
Dr. Marcel Brüssow (Menslike Bewegingskunde) het ’n
open bare verhoor oor die Nasionale Sport en Rekreasiewysigingswet
in Bloemfontein toegespreek op uitnodiging
van die Vrystaatse provinsiale Departement van Sport,
Kuns en Kultuur. Hy tree ook op as konsultant vir die
Vrystaat Sportwetenskapinstituut (FSSSI). Benewens hul
betrokkenheid by verskeie sportspanne van die UV,
Lindsay Saker- en OFM-fietsryspanne is die personeel van
dié departement ook betrokke by nasionale atlete met die
oog op die Olimpiese Spele in Beijing, asook die Springbokrugbyspan.
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Dr. Santjie Botes is aangewys op die nasionale
Departement van Onderwys se Komitee vir Liggaamlike
Opvoeding.
Dr. Derik Coetzee was die kondisioneringsafrigter
van die Springbokke wat in 2007 die Wêreldbeker gewen
het. Hy was ook die ontvanger van die Kovsie Alumni se
Cum Laude-toekenning en die Vrystaatse Sport skrywersvereniging
se Toyota-toekenning as Sport beampte
vir 2007.
Uit die Departement Geskiedenis is prof. André
Wessels benoem as lid van die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie
vir Wetenskap en Kuns se Geskiedenis-kommissie. Hy het
op versoek uit die buiteland ’n hoofstuk oor lord Roberts as
militêre bevelvoerder vir die Britse publikasie Victoria’s
generals voltooi.
Mnr. Lourens Geyer, Direkteur: Menslike Hulpbronne,
is deur die Nasionale Menslikehulpbrondirekteursforum
vir Hoër Onderwys as sy verteenwoordiger op die ACU
HRM Network Steering Committee aangewys. Dié komitee
het in Julie 2007 in Hongkong vergader om onder meer
die internasionale menslikehulpbronkonferensie van Mei
2008 in Tobago (Wes-Indiese Eilande) te beplan. Hy het ’n
aanbieding by die nasionale Welstandskonferensie, wat in
April 2007 deur die UV gereël is, gemaak en een oor
prestasiebestuur by ’n internasionale konferensie van die
South African Association for Research and Development
in Higher Education (SAARDHE).
Prof. Hennie van Coller is steeds die Suid-Afrikaanse
leier van ’n internasionale digitale projek oor literêre
relasies, voorsitter van die SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en
Kuns én lid van die letterkundekommissie.
Die departementele voorsitter van die Departement
Maatskaplike Werk, dr. Roelf Reyneke, het ook gedien op
die wetenskaplike komitee van die International Association
for Social Work se internasionale konferensie van 2007.
Hy is ook lid van die keuringskomitee van die Suid
Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns vir die Stalsprys
in maatskaplike werk.
Prof. Koos Bekker dien op die Raad van die Vrystaatse
Vereniging vir Publieke Administrasie en Regering, terwyl
prof. Cobus Rossouw, me. Cornelie Crous en mnr. Dion
Holtzhausen (Sentrum vir Rekeningkunde) op die bestuur
van die Suider-Afrikaanse Rekenmeestersvereniging in
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Prof. Frikkie Booysen is hoofnavorser in die Effective
Aids Treatment and Support in the Free State (FEATS)
Study. FEATS is ’n multi-miljoenrandprojek oor die
effektiwiteit van vigsbehandeling en -ondersteuning in die
Vrystaat en word deur die Wêreldbank en Nederland
gefinansier. Dit is die grootste toekenning nog deur die
Navorsingskomitee van die Wêreldbank aan navorsing in
een land, en het ten doel om die voordele van antiretrovirale
behandeling vir ouers, familie van pasiënte en die
gemeenskap te bepaal. Prof. Booysen is ook aangewys op
die Interim Research Sector Steering Committee of the
South African National Aids Council (SANAC).
Prof. Hentie van Wyk is as vise-president van die
Suider-Afrikaanse Rekenmeestersvereniging en is op die
akademiese oorsigkomitee van die Suid-Afrikaanse Raad
van Geoktrooieerde Rekenmeesters verkies, met prof. Alta
Koekemoer as nasionale voorsitter van die Be lasting belange
groep van die Suider-Afrikaanse Reken meesters vereniging.
Prof. Van Wyk was hoofspreker op die 7th
National Management Convention van die Maurition
Mananagement Association en ’n genooide hoofspreker op
die International Financial Accounting and Tax Practice
Conference by die I-Shou Universiteit in Taiwan.
Dr. Cobus Pienaar van die Departement Bedryfsielkunde
is Direkteur en verteenwoordiger van die Arbinger Insituut
in Suid-Afrika.
Me. Sunell Wiehman van Kovsie-voorligting en
-ontwikkeling is die voorsitter van die Vrystaat-streek van
die Society of Student Counselling in South Africa
(SSCSA). ’n Referaat – Preparing students for the future
journey of marriage – wat sy by die SSCSA-konferensie in
Vanderbijlpark gelewer, het ’n toekenning gekry.
Me. Sheila Vrahimis is aangestel op die Vrystaatse
Benoemingskomitee en prof. Kobus Laubscher is aangestel
as die voorsitter van die Nasionale Produktiwiteitsinstituut
se Maatskaplike Plan- en Produktiwiteitsraad.
Die fakulteit se samewerking met die National Council
on Economic Education (NCEE) van die VSA is voortgesit.
Werk is aan die gang om ’n soortgelyke liggaam in Suid-
Afrika te vestig.
Musiek skuif grense
Die Departement Musiek het ’n belangwekkende same werkingsooreenkoms
met die National Institute for Higher
Education in Kimberley gesluit om die B.Mus-kwalifi ka sie
daar aan te bied. Noel Stockton en Leon Snyman het op
streeksvlak seminare aangebied vir lede van polisie-orkeste.
Noel Stockton het ook as ’n beoordelaar van die Lubner
Instrumental Music Awards in Kimberley opgetree.
Die Mangaung String-program onder leiding van Peter
Guy het in 2007 gegroei het tot die grootste musikale
uitreikprogram in die land. Die UV, ’n vennoot in hierdie
program van die provinsiale Departement van Kuns en
Kultuur, maak klaskamers en kantore beskikbaar en help
met gevorderde onderrig aan leerders.
Samewerking tussen die Departement Musiek en die
Neuberg-somerskool in Oostenryk het in April neerslag
gevind in die Neuberg-in-Bloemfontein-projek en is deur
52 studente landwyd bygewoon. Hanna van Schalkwyk,
georganiseerder, was ook beoordelaar op die Oos-Kaapse
Musiekkompetisie in Oos-Londen, terwyl Sanyo se
Nasionale Junior Orkeskursus in Kimberley onder die
leiding van Hans Huyssen gestaan het.
Die personeel en studente van die departement is op
talle vlakke internasionaal betrokke. Pianis Albie van
Schalkwyk het Indië op uitnodiging besoek en saam met
die tjellis Berthine van Schoor opgetree. Hy het ook in
Julie as deel van die personeel van die Neuberg Inter nationale
Kulturtage in Neuberg, Oostenryk opgetree.
Hans Huyssen het in Oostenryk en Duitsland as
baroktjellis opgetree en deur Suid-Afrika getoer as lid van
die Vroeë Musiek-ensemble così facciamo. Twee nuwe
komposisies het elk ’n première beleef, naamlik Gan meets
Ursula in Stellenbosch en Ciacona & Tshikona in
Johannesburg. Laasgenoemde werk het soveel byval gevind
dat ’n tweede uitvoering in Oktober op versoek van die
Minister van Kuns en Kultuur, dr. Pallo Jordan, tydens die
IBSA-konferensie in Sandton met die Johannesburgse
Filharmoniese Orkes onder leiding van die komponis
plaasgevind het. Die konferensie bevorder samewerking
tussen Indië, Brasilië en Suid-Afrika.
Internasionale kundige aangestel
Prof. Christiane Nord, internasionale vertaalkundige van
Heidelberg, Duitsland is aangestel as buitengewone professor
in die Departement Afro-Asiatiese Studie, Gebaretaal
en Taalpraktyk (AGT) en het die departement in Julie
be soek. Sy was die hoofspreker op linguistiek kon gresse in
Potchefstroom en Port Elizabeth en ’n aantal le sings en
kort kursusse aangebied aan die vertalers van die Lesothoparlement
en dosente en studente van die Uni ver siteit van
Limpopo.
Die Lessius Hocheschool in Antwerpen het prof. Jackie
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The SIFE team of the UFS participate in the world finals in New York. Here is Prof. Tienie Crous (second from the right), Dean of the Faculty of
Economics and Management Sciences, with some of the SIFE team members. They won the national championship for the fourth time and presented
South Africa in New York.
dié instelling in Antwerpen, Gent en Leuven te lewer. Hy
was hoofspreker op die Sesde Internasionale Kongres oor
Ikonisiteit wat in April by die Universiteit van Johannesburg
gehou is. Hy dien op die Nasionale Advieskomitee
van Vega Brand Communications School in Sandton en
herverkies tot die NG Kerk se Taakspan van Bybelvertaling
en -verklaring. Hy dien ook op verskeie kommissies gemoeid
met die Afrikaanse Bybelvertaling, onder meer die
Advieskommissie van die Afrikaanse Bybelvertaling.
Kommunikasiekundiges trek saam
Personeellede van die Departement Kommunikasie en Inligtingstudie
was betrek by die beoordeling van Vodacom
se Joernalis van die Jaar-kompetisie, by Sanef se bestuur en
die stigting van die National Scholarly Editor’s Forum
onder die vaandel van die Academy of Science of South
Africa (ASSAF). ’n Hoogtepunt was die aanbieding van die
Suid-Afrikaanse Kommunikasievereniging (SACOMM) se
kongres by die UV. Onder die afgevaardigdes was ook
mense uit Nederland, Uganda en Nigerië. Die meeste Suid-
Afrikaanse universiteite, asook enkele private tersiêre instellings,
was verteenwoordig.
Politieke Wetenskap neem leiding
In September het die Departement Politieke Wetenskap
onder leiding van prof. Constanze Bauer as gasheer opgetree
vir ’n hoogs suksesvolle South African Association of
Political Studies (SAAPS) Colloquium. ’n Aantal akademici
uit die buiteland het dit bygewoon.
Die departementele voorsitter, prof. Heidi Hudson, is
verkies tot die uitvoerende komitee van SAAPS. Sy het in
April ’n referaat by die Vrede- en Sekuriteitskommissie op
die vierde Wêreldkongres oor Plattelandse Vroue in Durban
gelewer. Sy het ook die departement verteenwoordig
by ’n kurrikulumontwikkelingseminaar van die De par tement
van Buitelandse Sake se Foreign Service Institute
(FSI) waar vernuwende kursusse en programme bekendgestel
is met die oog op insluiting in die FSI se kadet opleidingsprogram
en beoogde meestersgraad.
Die departement het voortgebou op die uit ruil oor eenkoms
met die Instituut vir Politieke Studies in Bordeaux,
Frankryk. Twee Franse studente het tot dusver elk ’n jaar in
die departement deurgebring. Daar word gekyk na die
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Die UV en die CAH Dronten Professionle Landbou-universiteit in Nederland het sterk bande gesmee om samewerking op die terrein van landbou-ekonomie,
vee-, wild- en weidingkunde te bewerkstellig. By die ondertekening van die ooreenkoms was, van links, voor: dr Will Beckering van Dronten en prof.
Herman van Schalkwyk (Dekaan: Natuur en Landbouwetenskappe); agter: dr. Aldo Stroebel (Hoof: Internasionalisering) en prof. Izak Groenewald
(Direkteur: Sentrum vir Volhoubare Landbou).
Onderwysers kry steun van NIOB
Die Navorsingsinstituut vir Onderwysbeplanning (NIOB),
wat onderwysers van skole uit agtergestelde ge meen skappe
deur middel van kort geborgde kursusse beter bekwaam vir
hulle taak, het sulke kursusse ook in die Qwaqwa-gebied
aangebied. Die NIOB gebruik verskeie kundiges. Die
TRAC- gerekenariseerde weten skap labora torium speel in
dié verband ’n leidende rol. ’n TRAC-inisia tief is ook in
die Kimberley-omgewing geïnisieer vir die opleiding van
Skeinat-onderwysers in die Noord-Kaap.
Die NIOB werk nou saam met die nasionale Departement
van Onderwys en die departemente in die Vrystaat
en Noord-Kaap en doen ook projekte vir Mpumalanga.
Die instituut se bydrae ten opsigte van die indiensopleiding
van Vrystaatse onderwysers in Wis kunde, Wetenskap en
Tegnologie is so suksesvol dat die nasionale Departement
van Onderwys die tender vir 2008 vir die Vrystaat, Noord-
Kaap en Noordwes aan NIOB toegeken het.
Oor grense heen werk NIOB op die gebied van onderwysstatistiek
nou saam met die nasionale departement, die
Suider-Afrikaanse Konsortium vir die Monitering van
Onder wysgehalte (SACMEQ), asook die Internasionale
Insti tuut vir Onderwysbeplanning (IIEP).
US, NWU steek kers op by Rekenaardienste
Rekenaardienste het ondersteuning gebied aan die Universiteit
van Stellenbosch en die Noordwes-Uni ver si teit
in hul besluitnemingsproses rakende ’n gepaste elektroniese
dokumentbestuurstelsel en personeel dien ook op
die inter universitêre komitee wat die aangeleentheid
onder soek. Van Rekenaardienste se personeel is oorsee
opgelei in na vor singsbedieners soos Virtualisation en
doku menta sies kanderingstelsels (soos ImageNow). Die
UV is die eerste hoëronderwysinstellings wat ImageNow
in Suid-Afrika ge ïmple menteer het. Rekenaardienste
speel ook ’n deel ne mende rol in die besluit rakend die
South African Research Network (SANREN) en sluit in

kontak in November 2007 om te verseker dat die UV deel
is van die nasionale inisiatief.
In Desember 2007 verteenwoordig mnre. Albert van
Eck en Sakkie van Rensburg die UV by die Third Scientific
Clustering Applications Workshop in Kaapstad. Mnr. Jeff
Chen van die Centre for High Performance Computing
(CHPC) het die UV geluk gewens met die totstandkoming
van sy High Performance Computer Unit vir navorsing en
het ander universiteite aangemoedig om die UV se voor beeld
te volg. Verskeie universiteite het ook by die UV kersopgesteek
oor PeopleSoft en sedertdien het die Uni versiteite
van Kaapstad en Pretoria PeopleSoft geïnstalleer.
Die Sentrum vir Ontwikkelingsteun in die Fakulteit Ekonomiese
en Bestuurswetenskappe het ’n goue toe ken ning vir
navorsing en ontwikkeling van die Vrystaatse Premier (Free
State Premier’s Excellence Awards) ontvang.
Vereer vir hul bydraes
Prof. Dave Lubbe het die Stalsprys vir Ekonomiese en
Bestuurs wetenskappe vir sy bydrae tot die uitbou van
Oudit kunde as dissipline ontvang. Hy is die eerste geoktrooi
eerde rekenmeester aan wie die prys toegeken is.
Prof. Lubbe is ook vir ’n verdere termyn van drie jaar as
buitengewone professor aan die Universiteit van Stel len-
A super computer was constructed by Computer Services.
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bosch en as besoekende professor aan die Universiteit van
Johannesburg aangestel. Hy is lid van die open bare sektorkomitee
van die Suid-Afrikaanse Raad van Ge oktrooieerde
Rekenmeesters en direkteur van die Vry staatse
tak van Business Against Crime.
Die sekondering van prof. Philippe Burger na die
Organisasie vir Ekonomiese Samewerking en Ont wik keling
(OECD) in Parys (Frankryk) om vir twee maande as
konsultant op die gebied van openbare-private-ven nootskappe
op te tree, span die kroon op die erkenning van die
ge haltenavorsing wat in die Fakulteit Ekonomiese en Bestuurs
wetenskappe onderneem word. Hy was op uit no diging
mede-outeur en finale redakteur van ’n amptelike
OECD-publikasie oor open bare-privaatsektor-ven nootskap
pe (PPPs).
In die jaarlikse MBA-beoordeling deur die Financial
Mail is die Bemarking- en Menslike Hulp bron be stuur modules
as die beste in die land aangewys, met Leier skap
tweede en Bestuur derde. In terme van beide kur ri kulumgehalte
en administratiewe ondersteuning aan studente
is die Bestuurskool tweede en ook tweede in terme van die
kweek van probleemoplossingsvaardighede.
Deur diensleer smee UV vennootskappe
Die Diensleer-afdelingshoof, dr. Mabel Erasmus, is deur
die Community-Higher Education-Services Partnership
(CHESP)-inisiatief van die Joint Education Trust (JET)
aangestel as eksterne konsultant vir die Universiteit van
KwaZulu-Natal en die Mangosotho Technikon as deel
van die nasionale Service Learning Capacity Building
Programme (SLCBP) wat deur JET befonds word. Sy is
genooi om werkswinkels oor diensleer aan te bied by die
Universiteit van Zululand, Walter Sisulu Universiteit en
Mangosuthu Technikon, en het ’n gaslesing by Wits
aangebied oor die institusionalisering van diensleer aan
die UV.
Vanweë die UV se uitgebreide deelname aan die nasionale
CHESP-inisiatief, het verskeie UV-personeellede,
-studente en vennote wat betrokke is by diensleer deelgeneem
aan die finale CHESP-evaluering wat deur die
Evalu ation Research Agency (ERA) van Stellenbosch
onderneem is.
Dr. Erasmus het in Mei 2007 die Indiana University-
Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) besoek en ook
twee werkswinkels aangebied by die 2nd International
Sym posium on Service Learning in Indianapolis, onder skeide
lik saam met prof. Robert Bringle en me. Julie Hatcher
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ties Com munity Engagement Alliance (AUCEA) se
konferensie wat in Alice Springs aangebied is.
Acta Theologica op gesogte ISI-lys
’n Groot eer het die Fakulteit Teologie se tydskrif Acta
Theologica te beurt geval toe dit opgeneem is in die Arts
and Humanities Citation Index van die Amerikaanse International
Scientific Index (ISI). Die ISI identifiseer en indekseer
die wêreld se mees invloedryke vaktydskrifte. Dié
organisasie evalueer elke jaar ongeveer 2 000 vaktydskrifte
waarvan slegs sowat 10% in een van die indekse opgeneem
word. Acta Theologica is die enigste Suid-Afrikaanse
teologiese vaktydskrif wat op die lys ingesluit is.
’n Besondere internasionale erkenning het twee do sente
van die fakulteit te beurt geval. Prof. Francois Tolmie,
hoof van die Departement Nuwe Testament en sekundusdekaan,
is aangewys op die redaksieraad van New Testament
Studies, een van die toonaangewende internasionale
tyd skrifte vir Nuwe-Testamentici, in Cambridge, Engeland.
Prof. Fanie Snyman, hoof van die Departement Ou
Testament, is deur die Old Testament Study Group van die
invloedryke Tyndale Fellowship, Engeland, genooi om
deel te neem aan ’n konferensie oor die boek Jesaja.
UFS expertise called in
In November 2007 Dr Fanus van Tonder of the Centre
for Higher Education Studies and Development visited
uni versities and attended an international assessment
con ference in Indianapolis, USA. He delivered, on invitation,
a workshop on the implementation of patchwork
text as an innovative assessment instrument for postgraduate
students.
For the second successive year Prof. ’Mabokang
Mapesela acted as visiting professor at Seton Hall Uni versity
in New Jersey, USA. She presented classes in the
Execu tive Doctorate in Educational Administration (Ed.
D.) Programme.
The Director Research Development, Prof. Frans
Swanepoel, has been appointed Visiting Professor at
Cornell University, USA, and was awarded a Fullbright
Scholarship to spend July to December 2008 at Cornell. He
was also commissioned by the national Department of
Agriculture to prepare a position paper for the 4th World
Congress of Rural Women (WCRW), hosted by the South
African Ministry for Agriculture and Land Affairs on
behalf of Africa in April 2007. He was appointed by the
HEQC to serve as an audit-panel member during the 2008/9
institutional audits.
The Head of Internationalisation, Dr Aldo Stroebel, is
Vice-President for Research of the Southern African
Research and Innovation Management Association
(SARIMA) and Programme Co-ordinator of the National
Programme for the Creation of Small Enterprises and Jobs
in the Second Economy. The latter programme forms part
of ASGISA (Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for
South Africa). Dr Stroebel is a member of various na tional
working groups, including the HESA Strategy Group for
Research; the National Task Team of the Agricultural Research
for Development (ARD) Initiative of the ARC and
ICRA, the Netherlands; and the Management Committee
of the International Educators’ Association of South Afri ca
(IEASA). He was a keynote speaker at the Second Agri-
BEE (Agricultural Black Economic Empowerment) National
Showcase; respondent at the Forum for Agricultural
Research in Africa (FARA) Annual General meeting; and
one of only four non-EU rural development experts to
evalu ate the EU’s rural development strategy LeaderPlus.
Regsgeleerdheid versterk voetspoor in Afrika
’n Baie trotse span van die Fakulteit Regsgeleerdheid het
met die eerste prys in die 16de All Africa Human Rightsskynhofkompetisie
in Senegal weggestap. ’n Eerste plek is
ook in die kategorie oor geskrewe voorleggings behaal. Die
UV-span het 70 spanne van regsfakulteite van Engels- en
Franssprekende Afrikalande geklop. Die span was ook
eerste uit die 61 Engelssprekende spanne. Qaqamba Vellem
en Lucy Nthotso was onder die vyftien topstudente vir hul
mondelingse argumente.
The Unit for Children’s Rights Trafficking Initiative in
the Faculty of Law hosted a conference on Trafficking in
Human Beings: National and International Perspectives.
Two hundred representatives from academic institutions,
the National Prosecuting Authority, the South African
Police Service/Scorpions, governmental organisations,
NGOs and others from around the country attended the conference.
Representatives were also present from Lesotho,
Mozambique, Zimbabwe and UNESCO.
Bande gesmee
Die Ambassadeur van Mexiko, mnr. Luis Cabrera, en die
adjunkhoof van die Mexikaanse Ambassade in Suid-Afrika,
kanselier Miguel Malvafon, het die Fakulteit Natuur- en
Landbouwetenskappe besoek. Moontlik hede vir samewerking
met soortgelyke universiteite in Mexiko is onder
meer bespreek. Die ambassadeur het ook turks vynavorsers
aan die UV ontmoet en ontwikkeling rondom die samewerk
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’n Vertaling van ’n oorspronklike werk uit die 17de eeu is in boekvorm deur die Fakulteit Regsgeleerdheid uitgegee. Hier ontvang appèlregter L.T.C. Harms
(links) ’n kopie van prof. Johan Henning, mede-ouditeur en dekaan van die Fakulteit.
Uni versiteit van Chapingo in Mexiko onderteken is, is
bespreek.
’n Projek van CePHMa het die Tegnologie-toekenning
vir 2007 van die nasionale Departement van Handel en
Nywerheid by die Nelson Mandela Metropolitaanse Universiteit
in Port Elizabeth gewen. Die toekenning erken
pioniersnavorsing wat deur die UV gedoen is op kenaf, ’n
Suid-Afrikaanse kommersiële vesel wat onder meer in die
motorbedryf gebruik word. Die navorsing is ses jaar gelede
deur die UV in samewerking met die Britse maatskappy
Sustainable Projects Development Group geïnisieer. Dit
word in samewerking met die Suid-Afrikaanse maat skap py
Sustainable Fibre Solutions voortgesit.
Die Instituut vir Grondwaterstudies het ’n werkswinkel
in Sri Lanka aangebied om te help met die evaluasie en
bestuur van grondwaterhulpbronne.
Drie personeellede van die Afdeling Hoër onder wysstudies
en -Navorsing het in die buiteland referate by
konferen sies gelewer, aan werkswinkels deelgeneem en
instel linge besoek. Prof. Annette Wilkinson het twee
kon fe rensies in Italië – by die College Teaching and
Learning Con ference in Padua en die jaarlikse kon ferensie
van die European Distance and E-Learning Network
in Naples – bygewoon.
Personeel van die departement Openbare Bestuur het
referate by nasionale en internasionale konferensies gelewer
en sewe geakkrediteerde tydskrifartikels gepubliseer.
Die Departement Ondernemingsbestuur bereik nuwe
hoogtes met die vyf nasionale en tien internasionaal ge keurde
referate deur proff. Rudolph van Buuren, Van Aardt Smit
en Kobus Lazenby, asook me. Liezel Kotze, drs. Johan van
Zyl en Orpha Lotz in onder meer Frankryk, Griekeland,
Finland, Mauritius en Namibië. Prof. Smit en me. Kotze het
saam drie pryse vir die beste referate ontvang.
Mnr. Ben Botma en me. Janine Allen-Spies van die
Departement Beeldende Kunste het referate by die ACASA
Triennial Symposium of African Art in Gainesville,
Florida, VSA gelewer.

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Ontwikkelinge by die Universiteit van die Vrystaat sou nie moontlik gewees het sonder
die toewyding van sy personeel nie. Dit geld personeel in die akademie en in
steundienste op al sy kampusse.
As deel van sy verpligtinge teenoor sy personeel het die UV in besonder aandag gegee
aan die instelling van ’n holistiese welstandsprogram. Die Welstandskomitee en Welstandsforum
het ’n belangrike rol gespeel in die implementering en bestuur van welstandsprogramme om ’n
gebalanseerde leefstyl onder UV-personeel te kweek. Dit sluit in die fisiese, psigologiese, sosiale
en geestelike gesondheid van personeel.
Aanbiedinge is in ooreenstemming met per so neel be hoef tes
gedoen en neem ’n proaktiewe en voorkomende be na dering
tot personeelwelstand. Die program het 21 sessies op
die Hoofkampus aangebied en 1 412 personeellede het die
sessies bygewoon. Twaalf sessies is op die Qwaqwakampus
gehou en 495 personeellede het dit bygewoon.
Aanbiedinge is positief ervaar en dit blyk dat personeel ’n
be hoefte het om algemene veerkragtigheid te verhoog.
Lewenstandaard so verbeter
UV-personeel het sedert 2000 elke jaar verhogings on tvang
wat groter was as die inflasiekoers. Die gesamentlike, kumu
latiewe verhoging bokant inflasie – wat ’n reële ver be tering
in die lewenstandaard van personeel impliseer – beloop
reeds amper 22%.
Salarisonderhandelinge het vlot verloop met die toepassing
van die Meerderjarige, Inkomsteverwante Vergoedings
verbeteringsmodel, wat tydens die Draaistrategie
deur die bestuur ontwikkel is en deur vakbonde aanvaar
is. Strategieë rondom die onderhandelinge het daartoe
gelei dat ’n salarisooreenkoms vanjaar weer sonder enige
ar beidsonrus bereik is. Die ooreenkoms is vroegtydig
gesluit sodat die inplementering op 1 Januarie 2008 in
wer king kon tree.
Die vergoedingsmodel en die suksesvolle onder han deling
is ’n besondere prestasie in die hoër onder wys om gewing.
Die goeie verhoudinge van die bestuur met die twee
er kende vakbonde by die UV het ’n groot rol gespeel om
die prestasie moontlik te maak.
Al die personeellede van die Vista-kampus, wat in
2004 by die UV geïnkorporeer is, is ten volle belyn, met
die uitsondering van sewe. Die groeperings wat nog nie
belyn is nie het die saak reeds in Januarie 2006 na die
Arbeidshof verwys nadat die Kommissie vir Ver soen ing,
Be middeling en Arbitrasie (KVBA) volgens hulle nie die
kon flik voldoende kon oplos nie. ’n Datum waarop die
saak by die Arbiedshof sal voorkom, word nog afgewag.
Die posisie van verskeie kategorieë van personeel is
aansienlik verbeter. Onder hulle tel personeel op die laags
betaalde vlakke en professore nadat verskeie strukturele
aan passinge gemaak is. Uitgebreide meriete-skale is ook
beskik baar vir mense in die akademie en onder steu ningsdienste.
Uitgebreide bevorderingsgeleenthede bestaan en
beskikbare fondse is nie ’n belemmering.
Significant growth in staff numbers
The UFS showed a significant growth in staff num bers.
The SLEs for academic staff increased with 23% from
500 in 2000 to 613 in 2007. In the days of rationalisation
and the Turnaround strategy in the 1990s the SLEs were
480.
The same increase has occurred in support staff. Many
capacity bottlenecks have been and are being addressed.
As with the academic staff, the UFS is concerned
about various issues affecting support staff. Among them
are staff overload and new or remaining capacity bottlenecks
and problems with service orientation and/or percep
tions of service levels. Modernisation and pro fes sionalisation
of sup port and administrative systems are much
better, but the pro cess is not completed. Support-staff
development is still in sufficiently supported.
Fokus verskuif na prestasiebestuur
Gedurende 2007 is die Prestasiebestuurstelsel van die UV
op ’n nuwe baan geplaas deur dit meer eenvoudig en
prakties uitvoerbaar te maak. Prestasiebestuur is een van
die mees komplekse stelsels om te implementer.
Die implementering van werksooreenkomste vanaf die
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Baie geboue op kampus is opgeknap en heringerig.
gin. Weeklikse opleidingsessies het plaasgevind om per soneellede
in die prestasiebestuurstelsel op te lei en behulpsaam
te wees met die samestelling van werks oor eenkomste.
Die implementering van die Prestasiebestuurstelsel het
by topbestuur, dekane/direkteure en hoofde van de par temente
begin. Altesaam 238 personeellede is opgelei en bygestaan
om hul prestasieplanne te voltooi. ’n Totaal van 75
in di vi duele en groepsessies is aangebied. Die imple men tering
van die Prestasiebestuurstelsel sal in 2008 voortgaan.
Die Prestasiebestuurstelsel word gebruik om ont wikkelingsgeleenthede
te identifiseer om kwaliteit op in di vidule
en institusionele vlak te verbeter. Die stelsel identifiseer
prestasie-uitkomste/-take wat deel van ’n werknemer se
werk vorm. Hierdie uitkomste/take is gekoppel aan elke
individu se vaardigheidsontwikkelingsplan, en voldoen
dus aan die Nasionale Kwalifiserende Raamwerk se ver-
eistes in terme van kwaliteit. Die uitrol van die Pre stasiebestuurstelsel
verskaf ’n basis waarvolgens kwaliteit en
uitmuntendheid bereik kan word.
Die UV strewe na ’n klimaat waar kwaliteit en uit muntendheid
in die werksomgewing nie net ondersteun word
nie, maar ook bevorder word.
Die Departement Menslike Hulpbronne het ’n belangrike
rol gespeel met die identifisering van die verskillende
posvlakke, die samestelling van werkladingsooreenkomste
van Steundienspersoneel, en die aanbieding van die
opleidingsessies aan fakulteite en steundiensdepartemente.
Development of staff encouraged
Various areas for staff development were addressed during
2007. The UFS Board funds academic qualifications in the
form of bursaries for staff. Funds were also made available

Construction on a new computer lab. The facility will provide access to more than 800 additional computers.
to attend national and international conferences. A total of
37 staff members applied for funding to attend international
conferences and eight attended national conferences in
2007. A total of 1 388 employees attended career-de ve lopment
training sessions on the Main Campus. Sixty sessions
were held between January and December 2007.
The development of staff at the Qwaqwa Campus is also
a priority and, to ensure knowledge, behaviour and skills development,
34 sessions were held and 583 staff members
attended. A total of 16 staff members attended two per formance-management
sessions on the Qwaqwa Campus.
In addition staff of the Department of Cleaning Services,
Physical Resources, attended training on HIV issues
and how to protect themselves against HIV in the work
situation, as well as on destigmatisation. These workshops
were done with small groups that allowed good interaction
and stimulate the members to ask questions.
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The UFS spent R538 550 on career-development initiatives
in 2007.
Mentorskapprogram help personeel
Die mentorskapprogram van die Fakulteit Gees tes wetenskappe,
wat in 2005 ingestel is, staan nuwe personeel by in
hul aanpassing in ’n nuwe departement en ondersteun hulle
met die inlywing by die akademiese milieu van die UV. In
2007 was 26 mentors en 31 mentorlinge by hierdie program
betrokke. Twee ontwikkelingsgeleenthede is vir hulle aange
bied. Mentorlinge en mentors het op gereelde grondslag
formeel en informeel gesprek gevoer en hulp en ondersteuning
is deurgaans aan mentorlinge verleen.
Prof. Willfred Greyling (Engels) het ’n in no ve rende
men tor skap stelsel ontwikkel, gebaseer op die ver trek punte
van persoonlike konstruksielkunde. Hy het die proses in ’n
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The information Centre on Thakaneng Bridge. Students from about fifty countries study at die UFS.
Uni versiteit van Pretoria by die Higher Education Learning
and Teaching Association of Southern Africa (HELTASA)kon
fe rensie in Bloemfontein aangebied. Kon struk siel kunde
onder soek persoonlike betenisgewing van individue en
mense in groepe en moedig hulle aan om met nuwe betekenisse
te eksperimenteer om meer optimale bydraes tot
hul eie en andere se werklikhede te maak.
Mentorlinge het laat blyk dat hulle veral baat gevind
het by die mentorskapprogram en geen negatiewe terugvoering
is ontvang nie. Mentors het ook positiewe terugvoering
gegee, alhoewel die oorvol ladings van akademici
genoem is as ’n bekommernis, omdat hulle graag meer by
die mentorlinge betrokke sou wou wees, maar dat hulle
bloot net nie die tyd daarvoor kon vind nie.
Interaction to be more effective, humane
To ensure that UFS academic staff make their interactions
not only more effective, but more humane, the Staff De ve-
lopment and Performance Management Division planned
and organised the implementation of a professional de velopment
programme for 2008.
The programme is based on the work of Parker Palmer
of the Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching
at the Miami University in Ohio and Steven Brookfield,
distinguished professor from the University of St Thomas
in St Paul, Minnesota. The UFS will work in association
with the FLC Consortium, in Miami, USA. Judith Kamber
from the Northern Essex Community College will present
a train-the-trainer programme for selected UFS academic
staff during 2008. The programme focuses on establish ing
teaching-learning communities and leadership development
for academic staff.
An annual training report and Workplace Skills Plan
(WSP) was submitted to the ETDP SETA during May.
The WSP describes the main skills-development activities
planned for the coming year. The training report is a follow-

We prepare students for a career in the outside world.
up on the WSP, as it reports on the education and training
interventions that were delivered in the previous year.
These combined plans enable the UFS to gain access to
the available levies as specified in the Skills Levies Act.
The ETDP SETA confirmed the acceptance of the reports
according to legislative requirements. Grants have been
disbursed on levies.
Nuwe dissiplinêre beleid kry gestalte
Die nuwe Dissiplinêre Beleid en Prosedure en die
Dissiplinêre Kode en Voorgestelde Aksie is in Maart 2007
deur die UV-Raad goedgekeur. Die grootste verandering in
die beleid is die skuif van ’n akkusatoriese na ’n inkwisatoriese
benadering in die hantering van dissipline. Die
inkwisatoriese benadering belyn die UV meer met die
bepalings en gees van die Wet op Arbeidsverhoudinge.
’n Paneel van voorsittende beamptes is deur die Raad
goedgekeur. Dié panel bestaan uit interne sowel as ekster ne
kundiges in arbeidsreg en arbeidsverhoudinge.
Die toepassing van die nuwe Dissiplinêre Beleid en
Prosedure is deur die afdeling Arbeidsverhoudinge ge-
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fasiliteer. Gesprek is ook met vakbonde gehou oor die
organisatoriese regte wat volgens wetgewing aan vakbonde
verleen word. Die UV-Raad het in November goedgekeur
dat toegang tot die werksplek, soos deur die Wet op
Arbeidsverhoudinge beskryf, aan vakbonde met ’n 10%verteenwoordiging
van werknemers gegee sal word. Verder
het die Raad goedgekeur dat erkenningsooreenkomste
slegs met vakbonde met ’n 20%-verteenwoordiging gesluit
sal word.
Qwaqwa management must be applauded
The management of the Qwaqwa Campus deserves to
be applauded for the work they are doing under very
trying circumstances. The key challenge remains the
sustainability of the campus. Proposals for the
strategic reconfiguration of the campus were submitted
to the national Department of Education and this
matter is receiving urgent attention.

Facilities and high-quality
campus to be proud of
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The management takes seriously the need to create an enabling physical environ ment
for staff and students to perform at their best. Several initiatives in 2007 are proof of
this. Among them are the Chemistry Building, the Computer Lab, the Examination
Centre, Jolkol, the astro-hockey fields, the parking project and the developments on
the West Campus of the UFS. The UFS is a growing university with a huge capacity for space
and physical infrastructure. As recently as five years ago the condition of the buildings and
campus showed a major backlog. This challenge was addressed with major upgradings,
refurnishings and building initiatives. Expenditure on physical facilities to address campus
needs increased significantly over the past five years.
R280 miljoen bestee op hoëgehalte-fasiliteite
In 2002 was die jaarlikse besteding op fisiese hulpbronne
(kapitaalprojekte en onderhoud aan kapitaalbates) ongeveer
R12 miljoen. Vanaf 2003 was die jaarlikse besteding
ge middeld vyf keer groter, op ongeveer R55 miljoen per
jaar. In 2007 is projekte van R82 miljoen deur die Direktoraat
Fisiese Hulpbronne bestuur. Dié patroon sal waarskynlik
vir die volgende vyf jaar voortduur, aangesien die
behoeftes van die kampus steeds groei.
Altesaam R280 miljoen is die afgelope vyf jaar op
fisiese opgradering en ontwikkeling bestee, die meeste hiervan
is op akademiese fasiliteite. Groot moeite is gedoen om
fisiese beplanning goed te belyn met akademiese priori tei te
en strategieë. Daar is ook intensief gebruik gemaak van
deskundige spanne, onder meer personeel van die De partement
Argitektuur. In alles is die gehalte van argitektoniese
ontwerp en sensitiwiteit vir die beboude omgewing vooropgestel
om die tipiese patroon van burokratiese kam pusontwerp,
wat so baie kampusse ontsier, om te keer.
Die resultaat is ’n merkbare verbetering in die fisiese
toestand en voorkoms van die kampus en geboue. ’n
“Nuwe” kampus is geskep. Die nuwe voetgangerpaaie dra
geweldig by om die kampus voetganger-vriendelik te maak
en nooi studente as’t ware om langer op die kampus te bly
en te kuier. Besoekers aan die kampus is beïndruk met die
skoon uitleg en netheid van die kampus en geboue. Eerste
indrukke dra baie by om die boodskap oor te dra dat die UV
in alles wat hy doen ernstig oor kwaliteit is.
Om hierby aan te sluit het die “nuwe” Hoofgebou die
toonaangewende Nasionale Meriete-toekenning van die
Suid-Afrikaanse Instituut van Argitekte ontvang. Hierdie
soort erkenning van die geboue op die kampus is ’n
belangrike element in die ontwikkeling van ’n nasionale
profiel van die universiteit die afgelope vyf jaar.
Die groter Weskampus van die UV het verdere aandag
gekry. Daar is ver gevorder met die bepaling van makro-
sonering, wat voorsiening maak vir areas vir sportfasiliteit-ontwikkeling,
landbounavorsing en -demonstrasie en
moont like kommersialisering. Dit is deurslaggewend om
’n basis te lê vir goeie toekomstige kampusontwikkeling.
Die voorstelle sal ná verfyning voorgelê word vir goedkeuring
en dan lei tot die verpakking van verskillende kleiner
ontwikkelingsprojekte, insluitende bate-ont wik kelingsprojekte.
Studente kry nuwe plek om te jol
Fasiliteite waar studente bymekaar kan kom vir vlotbou
en ander jool-aktiwiteite en tydens intervarsities en vir
ander sosiale studente-bedrywighede is al lankal ’n behoefte.
Die Jolkol op die Weskampus is die gevolg van ’n
lang be planningsproses deur die afdeling Fisiese Hulpbronne
in samewerking met die afdeling Studentesake om
die regte soort fasiliteit op die regte plek en teen bekostigbare
koste te kry. Absa het ’n bydrae tot die oprigtingskoste
van meer as R6 miljoen gemaak.
Die Jolkol – met as kern ’n robuuste sinkkonstruksie
wat herrinner aan ’n Vrystaatse plaasskuur – is toegerus
met ’n verhoog en kleedkamers vir optredes van kunstenaars,
kombuise, ’n kroeg, kleedkamers en stoorplek vir
verskeie doeleindes. Meer as ’n duisend mense kan hier
aan akti witeite deelneem. Rondom die saal is permanente
staan plekke vir die bou van vlotte en vir ander studenteakti
witeite ingerig. Dit is ook veilig omhein. Ondanks
studente se aanvanklike weerstand teen verandering, is ’n
baie suksesvolle geïntegreerde en baie sosiale jool in 2007
gehou, sonder die fragmentasie wat in ’n vorige bestel
ontstaan het waar elke koshuis apart sy vlot gebou het. Die
fasiliteite sal mettertyd verder ontwikkel word.
’n Nuwe voetgangerroete wat wes van die UV Sasolbiblioteek
begin en tot by die parkeerterrein van die Jolkol
strek, is gebou om studente binne tien minute se stap veilig
en gerieflik vanaf Thakaneng-brug tot by die nuwe Jolkol
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Astro hockey fields were constructed at a cost of about R16 million. The facilities help to retain good hockey players for the UFS and the Free State. The
project is in co-operation with schools in Bloemfontein.
Millions pumped into new facilities
and upgrading
Notable current academic projects are the new Computer
Lab building of R19 million and the complete refurbishment
and extention of the Chemistry Building to the amount of
R51 million. The new Examination and Test Centre is an
important project completed in 2007, adding to the quality of
the university’s assessment process. The old student centre
was refurbished for this purpose. The centre can accommodate
a thousand students.
The new Computer Lab will be equipped with 815
computers and is the first new building on the Main Campus
in Bloemfontein since the construction of the Thakaneng
Bridge Student Centre in 2003. The Computer Lab is in
addition to other existing computer labs on campus and
will assist students in programmes where they will need
computers to a greater extent.
A new computer laboratory on the Qwaqwa Campus
was also commissioned in 2007. The laboratory, with 57
computers, is used by staff and students. The Dell Foundation
donated the computers to the UFS in March 2007.
Repair work is also done on the Chemistry Building
after a fire broke out in one of the laboratories. It had an
influence on the completion date of the Chemistry Building,
which is now only expected to be in 2009.
Die UV se Raadsaal is vir die eerste keer sedert die
gebou in die 1970’s opgerig is, verbeter. Dit was veral
nodig om beter voorsiening te maak vir tolking en om
die kop peling van rekenaars by elke plek moontlik te
maak ter onder steuning van die UV se elektroniese
vergaderingstelsel.
Groot opgraderingswerk is aan die lugversorgingstelsel
in die UV Sasol Biblioteek onderneem. Die stelsel in die
gebou, wat in 1983 in gebruik geneem is, het nie meer
doeltreffende gewerk nie. Tydens konstruksiewerk het ’n
beperkte brand tot die dood van twee van die kontrakteur se
werkers gelei. Dit was vir die almal by die UV ’n groot skok.
Die insident het gelei tot ’n vertraging van die projek.

Lugversorging is ook in die Teologiegebou geïnstalleer
en opgraderingswerk is aan die Winkie Direko-gebou gedoen.
Die fasiliteite van Kovsie voorligting en die ou Kovsiesportgebou
is opgradeer om voorsiening te maak vir die
nuwe afdeling vir Studenteontwikkeling en Sukses (Student
Development and Success) (SDS) en verbetering van
fasiliteite vir studentevoorligting en ander steundienste.
New parking policy and gates make life easier
In a major step forward, following the explosion of student
numbers and especially the number of student cars, a new
parking policy was accepted after a long process of
planning, by the departement of Physical Resources,
utilising urban planners and traffic engineers as well as
internal consultation with e.g. staff unions and students.
The main objective of this strategy, as approved by the
Executive Management, was to remove conflict between
staff and students. Booms were erected to demarcate
parking to people who qualify for it, and for visitors. In this
way, specific areas were reserved for staff, removing a
major element of frustration and conflict. Before this was
done, however, hundreds of new parking spaces where
made available to students within a five-minute walk to the
central campus.
As part of the integrated traffic planning, the transport
network on campus was improved with new gates at DF
Malherbe Avenue (at the Agricultural Building) and
opening of other gates for longer periods to improve traffic
flow. Guard houses for security staff were also erected at
these gates.
Die grootste gedeelte van die UV se rekenaarnetwerk
is gedurende 2007 vervang en/of opgegradeer. Die beskik
baarheid van die netwerk het sodanig verbeter dat
dit vergelykbaar met bedryfstandaarde is. Die “Virtualisation”
van netwerkbedieners gaan voort op die
VMWare-stelsel en die UV het die eerste uni ver siteit
geword om sy stelsel volledig op Dell-bedieners te
implementeer.
Die High Performance Computer Unit (HPCU) is
uit gebrei met die nuutste tegnologie van Dell. Verskeie
Entrances to the campus and signage were vastly improved.
UV se Rekenaarnetwerk opgegradeer
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departemente het ’n bydrae gemaak tot die uit brei ding
van die HPCU. Die meeste voorbereiding en opstelling
is in 2007 afgehandel. Die HPCU sal ’n bydrae
lewer tot verhoogte navorsingsuitsette.
Kampusontwikkelinge, die koppelling van al hoe
meer rekenaars en lugversorgingstelsels het tot gevolg
gehad dat noodsaaklike opgraderingswerk aan die
elektri si teits hoog span nings netwerk gedoen moes word.
Die projek is sedert 2006 in fases aangepak en verlede
jaar voortgesit.

New developments in
student life and sport
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A First-year Success Week takes place in the final week of
orientation. The aim of the programme is to help new
students to make the transition from high school to higher
education.
Department helps students with development,
success
A notable project that has already proceeded well is that
launched by the newly-created department of Student Development
and Success, with Dr Francois Strydom as
Director. Projects to be proud of are such as the New
Academic Tutorial Programme (NATP), the new firstyear
orientation programme, the new orientation material
and book lets, the exciting student portal on the UFS web,
and more.
The NATP aimes to develop a new generation of tutors
that can contribute to teaching and learning innovation at
the UFS, create a new approach to the support and
development of student learning to maximise throughput
and success rates; and integrate and contextualise cutt ingedge
international, electronic resources and teaching and
learning approaches, through the development of a student
success portal, into the training and development of tutors.
It aims also to contribute to the development of a new
generation of future academics that are skilled in teaching
and learning.
It is hoped that the impact of this new department and
its programmes on student success rates will become visible
soon and be sustained into the future.
Admission requirements change
Admission requirements were revised on account of the
new education policy for schools which was phased in at
Grade 10 level at the beginning of 2006. Up to now the
UFS required a Senior Certificate with Matriculation
exemp tion/endorsement plus a minimum M Score of 28
points based on achievement symbols/percentages in
school subjects (HG A= 8 points, SG A= 6 points, HG B=7
points, SG B= 5 points, etc.) as well as faculty spe cific
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A
new orientation programme was designed, for implementation in 2008, to ensure
that students get the most effective and efficient orientation to university life. This
programme embodies the belief of the University of the Free State that proper
orientation is the best opportunity to introduce a strong learning environment, one
that is built on the foundations for academic success, welcomes students and families to the
campus community, promotes students’ interactions with staff, and convey the values and
traditions of the new institution.
ad mission requirements and selection for certain programmes.
From 2009 the UFS will use an Admission Point (AP)
system which reflects the same level of subject achievement
of the previous system. Faculty specific admission
re quire ments basically remained the same except for the
changing of subject names to be in line with the new school
system’s subject terminology.
The UFS does not plan to set additional admission
requirements. Proficiency tests are not utilized as additional
admission requirements (except for Health Sciences),
but to channel students who underperformed in
aca demic pro ficiency/literacy tests to applicable de velopment
modules which form part of their curriculum for a
specific qualification.
The new school subjects Life Orientation and Mathematical
Literacy will also be accommodated. The UFS
also provides for students who do not meet the minimum
admission requirements by means of extended degree programmes,
a bridging programme, and recognition of prior
learning.
First-years assisted with adjustments
To assist first-year students in the residences to adjust to
the university life, peer counsellors were appointed for
each residence and trained in, for instance, communication,
decision making and conflict-management skills. Housecommittee
members were also trained in the same skills. A
total of 42 peer helpers were trained for the Bloemfontein
Campus and nine, as well as wardens and sub wardens, on
the Qwaqwa Campus.
A career open day was presented on 3 and 4 May, a
practitioner’s day on 8 May, a job-hunting workshop on 17
May and a financial-planning workshop on 15 March.
Kovsie Counseling is still involved in the training of
intern psychologists and psychometrists. Each year, three
intern psychologists receive training which involves psycho
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Daar is baie geleentheid om te kuier op kampus.
sentations, discussions and observations. Intern psychometrists
come from the Department of Psychology and
Industrial Psychology and 37 have been trained. A total of
54 house-committee members were also trained to assist
with the first-year Language Proficiency Testing.
To help a diverse group of students, a Sesotho speaking
psychologist has been appointed as from 1 November 2007.
An arrangement has been made with the Department of
Psychology to provide the unit with a Sesotho speaking
intern psychologist every year.
UFS continues to accommodate international students
whose first language is neither English nor Afrikaans. A
number of international students was tested for language
proficiency and referred to the Department English for a
language course in order to give them the opportunity to
study at this university.
A total of 5 000 students were seen in therapy sessions,
and 164 for career counseling. Architecture students also
received debriefing after the suicide of one of the fellow
students.
Kommunikasie meer vaartbelyn
Een van die hoogtepunte van 2007 was die imple mentering
van ’n Studenteportaal op die UV se webblad. Die projek is
’n gesamentlike poging van Webdienste en Studente
Ontwikkeling en Sukses. Die Studenteportaal bied aan
studente relevante inligting op een sentrale plek.
Die selfdiensfasiliteit op die Studenteportaal, wat met
’n gebruikersnaam en wagwoord beskerm word, bied aan
studente vertroulike inligting, insluitende hulle eksamenuitslae
en finansiële state. Die sukses van die Studenteportaal
word weerspieël in gebruikerstatistiek, wat aandui dat daar
tot 14 000 besoeke per dag was.
’n Selfoonnavraagstelsel is ook ontwikkel om studente
in staat te stel om deur middel van hulle selfone onmiddellik
toegang te kry tot hulle eksamenuitslae en finansiële state.
Webdienste het ook ’n SMS-stelsel uitgerol. Hierdie
webgebaseerde stelsel, wat van PeopleSoft-data gebruik
kan maak, stel UV-personeel in staat om, teen ’n goedkoop
tarief, maklik met studente te kommunikeer.
Pogings om studentelewe aantrekliker te maak
Oor die afgelope paar jare is talle projekte aangepak om studente
lewe by Kovsies meer aantreklik te maak en te be lyn
met die visie van die universiteit. Hieronder val die inrigting
van studentefasiliteite (veral Thakaneng-brug) teen ’n koste
van R26,5 miljoen, die student- en voet ganger vriendelike
kampus, wandelpaaie, opgradering van hoof kampus se
sportfasiliteite (soos die astrohokkievelde in 2006-7), die
verbetering van die sportfasiliteite op die Qwaqwa-kampus,
die skepping van meer inklusiewe jool akti witeite, veral
aangehelp deur die nuwe Jolkol op die Weskampus, ’n meer
inklusiewe intervarsity en ander sport aktiwiteite en die
diversiteitsproses wat in die koshuise aangepak is.
Kovsies skitter op die sportveld
Die UV het in 2007 talle suksesse in sport gehad, te veel
om te noem. In rugby en netbal het die UV nasionaal en
internasionaal die instelling se naam hoog gehou.
Talle voormalige Shimlas was deel van die seëvierende
Springbok-wêreldbekerrugbyspan, en dr. Derik Coetzee
van die Departement Menslike Bewegingskunde het naam
gemaak as kondisioneringsafrigter van die Springbokspan.
Burta de Kock was die afrigter van die Protea-netbalspan.
’n Hele aantal Kovsies het ook Proteakleure verwerf.
Die UV se netbalspan het ook in nasionale universiteitskonteks
uitgeblink as die onbetwiste beste span.
Best structure for rugby scrutinised
An investigation was launched into the organisational
structure of Kovsie Rugby and the Shimla Foundation to

Studente bly die hart waarom alles by die Universiteit van die Vrystaat draai.
ascertain whether the current structure – where the rugby
club functions as a more or less autonomous legal body
with its own constitution and executive committee
“controlling” rugby at the UFS – is reconcilable with
modern demands of good governance and ac countability.
A consultant audited the rugby structure and produced a
comprehensive report. The report served as a basis for the
creation of task teams that would focus on specific areas
such as the amendment of the rugby-club constitution.
Discussions between the Rector and the Cheetahs
Company on strategic cooperation continued. History was
also made with the appointment of Jaco Swanepoel as the
first fulltime head coach for rugby.
Commercialisation of sport gets a boost
A strategic Sports Plan was accepted in 2002 and a Sport
Commercialisation Plan in 2005. The implementation of
the Sports Plan was managed for some time with outside
consultants. This has not worked very well, although
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important groundwork has been laid. Part of the reason for
the lack of progress has been the absence of co-ordination
and synergy between the different sport divisions –
KovsieSport, the Centre for Exercise and Sport Science
Services (CESSS) and Sport Commercialisation (in its
infancy).
Another has been the absence of a full-time, dedicated
manager who could take the Sports Plan and the Sport
Commercialisation Plan further, given new and changing
circumstances. Also required was someone with the
necessary business contacts and entrepreneurial expertise
to generate more funding and sponsorships. It could help
the sport to be liberated from the budgetary constraints that
it will always face at an academic institution.
Mr Mickey Gordon, who has taken early retirement
from North-West University, was appointed as head of a
consolidated sport cluster for a period of five years.
KovsieSport, the Sport Commercialisation Division, and
CESSS will report to him.

Gesonde finansies
die sleutel
11

Die vernaamste eienskappe van die huidige situasie is die
volgende:
• ’n Gesonde balans tussen sleutelelemente van vol houbaarheid
en die finansiering van hoë-gehalte akademie
en steundienste.
• ’n Gesonde bestedingspatroon – een van die vernaamste
doelwitte van die Draaistrategie.
• Genoeg besteding op duur en kapitaalitems, soos die biblioteek,
inligtingstegnologie en persoonlike rekenaars,
toerusting, geboue en fasiliteite.
• Personeelbesteding en lopende besteding is goed onder
beheer en daar is geen sistematiese oorbesteding meer
nie. Hiervoor verdien die betrokke bestuurders en lynhoofde
groot lof.
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Na die afloop van die Draaistrategie handhaaf die UV steeds ’n volhoubare beste dingsvlak
en -patroon. Die UV het steeds elke jaar aanwendbare fondse/surplusse van
meer as R100 miljoen vir strategies belangrike prioriteite. Dit maak ’n groot ver skil
aan die kwaliteit en funksionering van die universiteit.
Toekennings vir die bereiking van strategiese doelwitte.
Bogenoemde toon die mate waarin die UV sy finansiële
verpligtings ten aansien van sy strategiese posisionering
kon nakom.
Verskeie probleme bestaan egter steeds. Die vlakke
van die UV se derde inkomstestroom (10% van sy totale
Strategiese doelwitte - finansiële bydraes vir 2007
Pilare van ’n gesonde begroting R ‘000
Inligtingsbronne 18 890
IT-infrastruktuur 3 767
Duur navorsingsapparaat 6 297
Navorsing 15 741
Kapitale besteding en instandhouding 62 700
Rekenaarlaboratoriums 3 148
110 543
Spesifieke strategiese prioriteite R ‘000
Gehalte en uitnemendheid 12 980
Billikheid, diversiteit en
gelykberegtiging
2 000
Streeksbetrokkenheid 1 295
Finansiële volhoubaarheid 5 534
Ander 16 000
37 809
Groot totaal 148 352
Die besonderhede van hierdie bestedings vir 2007.
inkomste) vergelyk swak met dié van ander soortgelyke
uni versiteite wat 25% tot 35% van hulle inkomste op hierdie
manier kry. In ’n tydperk van subsidie- en in skry wingsbeperkings
impliseer dit ’n ongemaklike wurggreep op die
UV se vermoë om betekenisvol verder te verdiep en gehalte
te verbeter.
Investering in menslike hulpbronne
’n Belangrike uitdaging vir die UV is om voldoende fondse
beskikbaar te maak sodat deurlopend in gehaltepersoneel
belê kan word. In dié opsig kon daar in die afgelope aantal
jare daarin geslaag word om personeelvergoeding in reële
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In onderstaande tabel word bogenoemde tendens aangetoon.
Hierdie vergelyking sluit nie die effek van be vorderings,
skaalvorderings en die uitbreiding van diens voordele
soos pre stasie bonusse, behuisingstoelaes, toelaes
van de par te mentshoofde, programdirekteure, ensovoorts
in nie.
Die Korporatiewe Skakelkantoor, wat fokus op die
generering van derdestroominkomste vir die UV, was
uiters suksesvol. ’n Bedrag van R7 970 125 is ingesamel.
Die grootste skenkings is ontvang van die Loteryraad
(R2 miljoen vir sportfasiliteite op die Qwaqwa-kampus),
Salarisaanpassing vergelyk met Infl asie
VPI Salarisaanpassings
Jaar % Indeks Indeks % Jaar
2000 5,3% 100,0 100,0 5,20% 2001
2001 5,7% 105,7 111,8 11,80% 2002
2002 9,1% 115,3 124,1 11,00% 2003
2003 5,8% 122,0 137,6 10,88% 2004
2004 1,4% 123,7 146,3 6,31% 2005
2005 3,5% 128,0 155,1 6,00% 2006
2006 4,7% 129,5 154,9 5,90% 2007
2007 7,1% 137,1 166,7 7,52% 2008
Die aanpassing van salarisse bo die VPI
Albert Wessels Trust (R720 000), SSACI (R560 000),
Sanlam (R250 000), die Ikwezi Bloemfontein Community
Trust (R250 000) en die Absa-stigting (R320 000).
’n Hele aantal erflatings is ook aan die Kovsie
Erflatingsvereniging beloof. ’n Werkwinkel oor erflatings
en boedelbeplanning is aangebied.
Wat internasionale fondswerwing betref, het die UV
reeds vir ’n geruime tyd fondswerwingstatus in die Verenig
de State van Amerika. Daadwerklike stappe word geneem
om dieselfde status in die Verenigde Koninkryk te
bekom.
Research strengthens the pockets
External research funding assisted in strengthening the
UFS’s financial capacity. The UFS received almost R20
million in National Research Foundation (NRF) funding in
2007, a 14,2% increase from R17,5 million in 2006. This
includes further funding in 2007 by the National Equipment
Programme of the NRF for equipment of R2,5 million. The
total 2007 allocation signifies an increase of more that
170% in NRF funding since 2002.
Research funding from the UFS’s side also increased
significantly during 2007. Central research funds allocated
in 2007 amounted to R26 million, confirming the UFS’s
commitment to research.
Progress has also been made with contract research, the
marketing of intellectual property (IP) and research com mercialisation.
A candidate attorney from Phatshoane Henney
Inc. has been assisting with contract management. The acting
Director for Entrepreneurship and Special Projects con tinued
his duties and a process has been initiated to appoint a
manager to spearhead research com mer ciali sa tion. The
Policy for the Management of Intel lectual Pro perty has been
approved for implementation and legal representatives have
been contracted to handle UFS patents.
Natwet trek baie fondse van buite
Die Fakulteit Natuur- en Landbouwetenskappe se doelwit
om sy navorsing en onderrig met beter toerusting en fondse
te ondersteun, het ’n paar hupstote gekry. Biopad het R13,5
miljoen in Biochemie geïnvesteer. Beurse van R900 000 is
deur die Departement vir Wetenskap en Tegnologie aan die
Sentrum vir Rampbestuur toegeken en ’n ooreenkoms van
R600 000 per jaar is tussen die Departement Wiskundige
Statistiek en Eskom vir navorsing aangegaan.

Prof. Sakkie Pretorius, Renée Prins, ’n geaffilieerde
kol lega, en Lesley Boyd van die John Innes Instituut in
Engeland, het befondsing vir vier jaar vanaf die Bio technology
and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK)
(BBSR) in samewerking met die Department for International
Development (UK) (DflD)-program gekry. Die
totaal is £610 466 (sowat R8,5 miljoen) waarvan £209 042
(sowat R2,9 miljoen) aan die UV geskenk word. Die projek
is gerig om die genetika van roesweerstand in Afrikakoring
te ondersoek.
’n Bemarkingsbestuurder vir die fakulteit is in 2007
aangestel om veral te help met die skryf van besigheidsplanne
en voorstelle en die bemarking daarvan aan eksterne
investeerders. Onmiddellike sukses is reeds hiermee bereik
met twee kontrakte wat met Suider-Afrikaanse Ontwikkelingsgemeenskap
(SAOG) gesluit is en ’n verdere
een met die Mangaung-munisipaliteit.
Die Fakulteit Geesteswetenskappe slaag daarin om uit
sy SLE-toekenning personeelbesparings te weeg te bring.
Uit die besparings is die fakulteit in staat gestel om verdere
akademiese aktiwiteite te bevorder, onder meer by wyse
van bykomende toekennings vir navorsings assistensie.
Fondse is ook beskikbaar gestel om meer studente-as sistente
aan te stel om akademici te ondersteun.
Benewens die sentrums en eenhede wat in ’n groot
mate selfversorgend moet wees, poog individuele departemente
ook om finansieel volhoubaar te wees deur geldgenererende
dienste te lewer. So lewer die tolkbeen van die
Departement Afro-Asiatiese Studie, Gebaretaal en Taalpraktyk
’n finansieel-volhoubare diens, nie net binne die
UV nie, maar aan buite-instansies. Die meeste dienste word
na buite gelewer.
Benewens die volgehoue studentegroei op sowel voorgraadse
as nagraadse vlak wat tot die finansiële vol houbaarheid
van die Departement Drama en Teaterkuns bygedra
het, het die departement ook daarin geslaag om
der de stroomgeld te bekom. ’n Beurstoekenning van
R60 000 vir voorgraadse en R27 000 elk vir vier nagraadse
stu dente is van die Departement Kuns en Kultuur bekom en
R74 000 is vir die departementele diensleerprojek onder
leiding van nagraadse studente in Heidedal bewillig. Uit
die Lotto-befondsing is ongeveer R90 000 oor om vir twee
pro duksies in die 2008-siklus oor te dra en in 2007 is meer
as R43 000 se winste teruggeploeg in opleiding en instandhouding
van teaters.
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Skool vir Geneeskunde
Na aanleiding van verskeie gesprekke tussen die mediese
dekane op nasionale vlak, die Tesourie, asook die nasionale
Departement van Gesondheid is ’n plan goedgekeur
om die finansiële volhoubaarheid van mediese skole te
verseker. Toekennings ten bedrae van R15,7 miljoen vir
2008 en R23,5 miljoen vir 2009 is reeds goedgekeur.
Nederlandse instansies dra by
Die Afdeling: Afrikaans en Nederlands was ook in staat om
’n beduidende hoeveelheid fondse van buite te ge nereer.
Toekennings is ontvang vanaf die Stichting Neerlandia, die
Noordelike Kennisnetwerk, die Suider-Afri kaanse Ver eniging
vir Neerlandistiek, die Vlaamse Pro ductiefonds en die
Nederlandse Taalunie. Hierdie toe kennings is ontvang op
grond van die nasionale en inter nasionsale profiel van die
departement.
Die Departement Antropologie slaag daarin om alle
navorsing self te befonds, meestal met buitelandse fondse.
Winterskole, kursusse ingespan
Ook die Departement Maatskaplike Werk het geld ge genereer
om sy hulpbronne uit te brei en onderrig en leer te
verbeter. Dit is gedoen deur die aanbieding van ’n winterskool
vir maatskaplike werkers. Kursusse is aangebied in
onder meer avontuurgebaseerde terapie, toesighouding en
bestuur, groepwerk en verlies en trauma.
Ten opsigte van Diensleer is nuwe riglyne vir die
befond sing van diensleermodules saamgestel en goed gekeur.
Ge sprek ke is gevoer om insette van dekane en lede
van fakulteite se Samelewingsdienskomitees te verkry. Befondsingsaansoeke
vir 2008-diensleermodules is deur fakul
teite ingestuur as deel van die sentralebegrotingsproses.
Aangesien hierdie be fond sings proses nou in plek is, word
allerweë aanvaar dat die aanbied van diensleermodules aan
die UV nou finansieel vol houbaar is sodat geen verdere
onsekerheid bestaan oor die mate van toewyding wat die
instelling teenoor Diensleer openbaar nie. In die lig hiervan
kan vennootskappe met die oog op vol houbare samewerking
met diensleervennote aangegaan word.
Die bemarking van diensleeraktiwiteite om toegang te
verkry to derdestroom-befondsing het in 2007 in intensiteit
toegeneem, met enkele suksesse tot dusver.

Conclusion: robust
foundations and the
diversity challenge
12

The growth in general research output during the past five
years also shows that the underlying research base of the
university has deepened tremendously, with a growing
cohort of young, female and black researchers adding to
one’s optimism that a robust academic capacity will
continue to develop. New projects like the continued rollout
of the blended learning model and the new academic
orientation of first-year (and senior) students are likely to
be decisive for the teaching-learning performance of the
UFS in the future. Our leadership in community engagement
continues to excite.
New initiatives such as a possible engineering faculty
adds to the sense of excitement about the future. The
regeneration of the arts departments and the “new” Odeion
String Quartet, and partnership projects like the Mangaung
Strings Programme are a source of pleasure and hope. Sport
commercialisation and development seem to be on the eve
of great things.
Compared to the financially depressing 1990s when
few people saw a university or academic career at the UFS
as an attractive option, a new era of hope appears to have
dawned in the hearts of our academic staff as well as
support staff. There is also a new sense of taking
responsibility for their own future visible amongst staff.
One can only be thankful for this change of attitude and the
new creativity that is apparent at the moment.
In general, taking a five-year perspective, a large
number of the building blocks of being a very good university
were systematically reconfigured, boosted and
modernised. The approximately R100 million of discretionary
funds for strategic application that became available
annually as a result of the financial Turnaround strategy,
was absolutely instrumental in this process – aided by welldisciplined
budgetary processes and financial management.
As surveyed in Chapter 1, the projects cover many
dimensions of the university in faculties, in support service
departments, and in student life. Most of the backlogs of
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Looking back at the year 2007 and the many splendid achievements by the staff of this
University in such diverse areas of expertise, as well as in the support services, it clearly
was a good year for the UFS. Especially the progress with the conceptual design and
launch of the strategic academic clusters, and the significant number of academics
from many departments and centres already involved in them, bode well for the future. One
hopes that a growing number of academics will be drawn to the clusters, and that a growing
inflow of third-stream income will see these clusters develop into engines of academic growth
and robustness.
the financially depressing 1990s have been eliminated and
significant new advances made.
Today we are better off in almost all aspects of the
university than ever before, evidenced by the increasing
number of staff coming to the UFS from the large
universities, including the large English universities. This
also includes the remuneration of staff, where significant
real increases (above inflation) have been achieved since
2000, largely eradicating our earlier competitive dis advantages
vis-à-vis large metropolitan universities (despite
lower costs of living in Bloemfontein). And, of course, we
have grown from approximately 12 100 students in 2000 to
approximately 24 700 in 2007. And these students have
access to learning facilities as well as sports and leisure
facilities never available to students before.
We have indeed been blessed. And I wish to thank all
the staff and members of management who contributed to
the necessary change processes of the last five years.
Alongside the “academic project”, the other major
endeavour of the UFS has been comprehensive trans formation.
For many years the UFS has earnestly been tackling
this complex issue, taking the lead nationally in many
respects. The sequence of steps in this mega-project in the
past number of years was described in earlier chapters of
this review. Three major milestones were reached in 2007:
the draft Institutional Charter, the fourth-phase
Transformation Plan, and the breakthrough Employment
Equity Plan.
I wish to thank and recognise all the individuals who
worked hard to produce and finalise these documents. We
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sincerely on the path of ‘high-quality transformation’ that
we have chosen, I am optimistic that out of the people of
this university will emerge an innovative and extraordinary
post-transformation university – perhaps a model for others
struggling with the complexities of diversity in the context
of a painful, divided past.
Transformation and diversity: the residence
diversity challenge
Given how many grounds we have to be optimistic – and,
yes, idealistic – about transformation and shaping a new
university and a new society, one cannot but end this review
of the year 2007 on a note of profound sadness. A unique
opportunity to create a new residence culture for the youth
to really empower them to function as liberated persons in
a world of rich diversity – a new model based on a
sophisticated policy – was all but squandered by the
resistance of the traditionally white residence students.
What is a great cause of concern is the outside
interference of a political party, with its own national
political agenda, that became the main force behind this
well-organised and well-financed resistance. More than
perhaps ever before, senior management was sincerely
involved in the development of and consultations regarding
the new residence policy and its educational rationale.
However, political agendas closed the ears and minds of a
particular group of students and their leaders to the
Gegewe die sensitiwiteit van integrasie in ’n steeds
verdeelde samelewing, was dit nie onverwags dat
teenstand teen die Raadsbesluit geopper is nie. Maar
hierdie was ’n gulde geleentheid om ’n nie-rassige
koshuisbedeling, gebaseer op billikheid en ge balanseerd
heid en waar daar ook plek sou wees vir die wit
Afrikaanse student, te help skep. In plaas daarvan wou
die wit studenteleiers die besluit afwater, vertraag of
omkeer. Die geleentheid is verspeel.
In die proses is ’n beeld geskep van die wit Afrikaanse
Kovsiestudent as rassisties – ’n beeld wat veral
in die Suid-Afrikaanse en wêreldgeheue drama ties
vasgelê is toe die berugte Reitz-video, wat in September
2007 gemaak is om opposisie teen die plasingsbeleid
te demonstreer, in Februarie 2008 be kend geraak het.
Dit is iets wat dalk later, of selfs gouer, nadelige
Terugblik op die koshuise
necessity, logic and benefits of the new policy that was
approved by the management and the Council in mid-2007
for implementation in 2008.
An unfortunate side-effect of the events surrounding
the residences – also those early in 2008 when the infamous
Reitz video became public – followed by a national and
international outcry, was that it ruptured much of the
healing and mutual trust that had begun to develop between
black and white on the campus.
Despite several possible shortcomings in policy design,
implementation management capacity and implementation
detail, my management team and I believed that it was
entirely possible to implement this Council policy
successfully – it was thirteen years after 1994, after all. But
this required everybody to co-operate in good faith and
support the policy free from political interference within
the context of a true commitment to a non-racial South
Africa.
In hindsight it appears that the Council and management
underestimated the depth of resistance to such change – or
at least the degree of skepticism about the workability of
our diversity model – amongst many white students and
parents (and alumni). Despite the discussion and adoption
of all manner of transformation documents and related
policy documents in many inclusive task teams and
decision-making forums, and many policy speeches re-
gevolge kan inhou vir die posisie van Afrikaans as
onderrigtaal en as bestuurs- en admini stratiewe taal
aan die UV. Die weerstand teen diversiteit in koshuise
laat die argument vir parallel-medium onderrig net te
veel klink soos ’n argument vir segregasie eerder as
een vir veeltaligheid. Net die tyd sal leer of diegene
wat alles wou behou, alles sou verloor.
Net so kan tradisionele koshuise dalk ook in die slag
bly. Dit kan wees dat die enigste werkbare model nou
een is waar koshuise amper soos woonstelle bestuur
word deur ’n professionele bestuurspan. Dalk sal daar
vir die tradisionele koshuis met sy tradisies en gebruike
wat gerig was op homogenisering en konformering –
wat in wit én swart koshuise die voorkeur was – nie plek
wees op ’n kampus wat die verdeeldheid van die verlede
en die hede waarlik wil oorbrug nie.

ported in the media and university publications, the reality
of the implementation of the approved policy appeared to
be a shock to many.
These dynamics would continue to play out in the
traumatic events of early 2008 and what followed –
eventually leading to my stepping down as Vice-Chancellor
due to excessive executive stress. This flowed mainly from
the political divisions, on campus and in the University
Council, that were brought about by the implementation of
the new placement policy and, ultimately, the Reitz incident
as a bizarre symbol of the controversy surrounding the
Council’s new placement policy.
These divisions, and the polarisation that developed,
unfortunately suggest that in terms of diversity management,
the UFS in 2007 was still far from robust, despite so much
hard work over many years. It is small comfort that all
South African universities, through Higher Education
South Africa (HESA), acknowledged in March 2008 that
they all still struggle with diversity, racism, ethnicity,
intolerance and discrimination, and that the Reitz incident
could have happened on any campus.
Perhaps “diversity robustness” was too much to ask for
in 2007, given our historical and stakeholder context. After
all, social change is a process, not an event.
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But who knows what good might come out of this
trauma? Whatever the course of the implementation of the
new residence policy in 2008 and thereafter, bravely (if
belatedly) crossing this bridge will in all likelihood
permanently affect the institutional culture of the UFS. In
this sense 2007 may prove to be a watershed year in the
history of the UFS. History will judge whether the new
residence placement policy was a good transformation step
or a moment of folly.
But perhaps not even history will achieve a consensus
view. Such is our society.
My God in his wisdom guide and bless the people of this
University in this and all other endeavours.
Modimo o hlohonolofatse yunivesithi ena.
Prof Frederick CvN Fourie
Rector and Vice-Chancellor

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