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INSIDE<br />
Pifer Award to Living<br />
Landscapes, page 3<br />
Tannie Evita Comes<br />
to Town, page 4<br />
Stempels meet <strong>UCT</strong>’s<br />
Starr Scholars, page 6<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
<strong>Update</strong><br />
M a y 2 0 0 8<br />
<strong>UCT</strong> <strong>News</strong> <strong>Update</strong> is a twice<br />
yearly publication of the <strong>UCT</strong><br />
Fund that provides informa-<br />
tion about developments at<br />
the University of Cape Town to<br />
alumni and other friends of the<br />
University.<br />
Masterful Revival of Sizwe Banzi is Dead at BAM<br />
A defining work of South African theatre, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in early April, thanks<br />
to a revival by <strong>UCT</strong>’s Baxter Theatre Center.<br />
The 1972 play, written by acclaimed author and <strong>UCT</strong> alumnus Athol Fugard, together with John Kani and Winston Ntshona,<br />
was brought back to life by the Baxter Theatre in 2006. The revival re-united the original 1975 Tony Award-winning Best Actor<br />
duo of John Kani and Winston Ntshona.<br />
The production at BAM, directed by Aubrey Sekhabi and with lighting design by Baxter Director, Mannie Manim, offered<br />
theatre enthusiasts a unique theatrical experience. When Sizwe Banzi Is Dead premiered at Cape Town’s Space Theatre, it<br />
highlighted the personal bravery of two black men defying the rules of apartheid. The play tells the story of Sizwe Banzi, a rural<br />
worker who seeks employment in Port Elizabeth but is ordered to leave the district because his pass is not in order. In the<br />
words of John Kani, the play provides “a vivid portrayal of what it was like to have been black in South Africa at the time.”<br />
BAM performances gave New Yorkers the opportunity to see Kani and Ntshona in their final performances in the play’s 36year<br />
history. The presentation included several related events, such as a discussion on the play’s conception with Ntshona<br />
and Kani, who received an honorary degree from <strong>UCT</strong> in 2006.<br />
Both Kani and Ntshona also participated in a panel discussion on “Theater in South Africa: The New Millennium” with Mannie<br />
Manim, <strong>UCT</strong> graduate and playwright, Nadia Davids, Awam Amkpa of NYU’s Africana Studies Department, and Daniel<br />
Banks, from the Tisch School of the Arts.<br />
John Kani and Winston Ntshona perform Sizwe Banzi is Dead in Brooklyn, 36 years after the play’s controversial premiere<br />
in Cape Town
2 a l u m n i i n t h e n e w s<br />
Praise for Landsman’s The Rowing Lesson<br />
news of…<br />
Professor Jonathan Dorfan (BSc 1969),<br />
Director Emeritus of the Stanford Linear<br />
Accelerator Center, will be awarded an<br />
honorary doctorate from <strong>UCT</strong> in December.<br />
Award-winning piano duo Cara hesse (BMus<br />
2005) and laura Pauna (BMus 2005) have<br />
several concerts in New York in May.<br />
Former Director of the <strong>UCT</strong> GSB, mike Page<br />
(MBA 1986, PhD 1993) has been appointed<br />
Dean at McCallum Graduate School at<br />
Bentley College.<br />
Sociologist Devah Pager (MSocSc 1996)<br />
explores racial inequality in the U.S. criminal<br />
justice system in Marked: Race, Crime and<br />
Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration.<br />
In December 2007, <strong>UCT</strong> awarded the Doctor<br />
of Science in Medicine to Professor wulf<br />
utian (PhD 1970), a pioneer in women’s<br />
health and advanced reproductive technology.<br />
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According to a review in The Observer, Anne Landsman’s second novel, The Rowing Lesson, confirms her reputation as “a<br />
major new voice”. The novel has been praised equally for its innovative style, poetic imagery, and lyrical descriptions of South<br />
African landscape.<br />
The Rowing Lesson traces the life story of Dr. Harold Klein, who grows up in World War II South Africa, from the perspective<br />
of his daughter Betsy, a New Yorker who has flown home to be with him, as he lies dying in a Cape Town hospital. A secondperson<br />
narrative, the novel weaves together stories her father shared with her, as well as Betsy’s own memories and vivid<br />
imagination.<br />
Landsman (BA (Hons) 1980) moved to New York after graduating from <strong>UCT</strong>. She describes how, while writing The Rowing<br />
Lesson, she realized that “some portion of my heart will always beat in that opposite hemisphere, in the shadow of the<br />
Brandwacht mountains”.<br />
Tannie Evita’s U.S. Tour<br />
Earlier this year master satirist<br />
Pieter-Dirk Uys swapped his home<br />
in Darling, South Africa, for a tour of<br />
Los Angeles, Boston and New York.<br />
A writer and performer of more than<br />
20 plays, Uys was awarded an honorary<br />
doctorate by <strong>UCT</strong> in 2003. In<br />
the past six years he has toured<br />
South African, talking frankly to over<br />
a million children about the seriousness<br />
of the AIDS pandemic.<br />
Uys’ staunch support for AIDS education<br />
also featured prominently in<br />
his recent U.S. performances. As<br />
Artist-in-Residence at the University<br />
of Southern California, he spoke<br />
on “Comedy, Activism & Aids in<br />
South Africa” and gave several performances<br />
of his political cabaret,<br />
Elections and Erections: A Chronicle<br />
of Fear and Fun.<br />
Uys opened Elections and Erections<br />
in Cambridge in April, returning to<br />
the Zero Arrow Theatre where he performed the phenomenally successful Foreign AIDS in 2005.<br />
Boston-area audiences delighted in Uys’ host of special guests, all of whom he performed with uncanny<br />
accuracy, including Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, Bill and Hillary, and the glamorous<br />
Evita Bezuidenhout.<br />
Evita’s U.S. sojourn ended on a high note in May in New York, with three gala performances at La<br />
MaMa. It was here that Uys received the OBIE Award for Foreign Aids in 2004.
Pifer Award for Living Landscapes Project<br />
<strong>UCT</strong> scholars in the Clanwilliam-based Living Landscapes Project have won the Alan Pifer Research Award for<br />
the second time. Named in honor of former Carnegie Corporation President and founding Chairman of the <strong>UCT</strong><br />
Fund, the Pifer Award is made annually to researchers whose work contributes to the advancement of disadvantaged<br />
South Africans.<br />
Drama Department Chair Mark Fleishman and Professor of Fine Art Pippa Skotnes received the 2008 Pifer Award<br />
for their work in bringing local history, drama and art to the Clanwilliam community. Archaeologist John Parkington<br />
initiated the community-based heritage and education project in the early 1990s. Parkington was recognized for<br />
his contribution to the area with the Pifer Award in 1999.<br />
Since then the Living Landscapes Project has taken root in the community. The project has established jobs in<br />
catering, crafting and guiding, informed local school curricula, and helped return the rich heritage of the area to<br />
the local community.<br />
In the mid-1990s art workshops were offered to fewer than 100 pupils annually. Now about 500 children each year<br />
complete workshops involving dance, storytelling, shadow puppetry, and arts and crafts. The program culminates<br />
in the annual Spring Lantern Parade which re-interprets traditional San themes.<br />
Goldman Sachs Supports Brown-GSB Partnership<br />
C a m P u s C o n n e C t i o n s 3<br />
<strong>UCT</strong>’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) is among 16 prestigious U.S. and European<br />
business schools selected as initial academic partners in a global initiative to increase the<br />
number of underserved women receiving management education.<br />
The five-year partnership between the GSB and Brown University is part of the $100<br />
million project, “10,000 Women” funded by New York investment bank Goldman Sachs.<br />
Brown and <strong>UCT</strong> will develop a course in technology innovation designed to build “entrepreneurship<br />
capacity” by providing students with the skills to leverage technology to<br />
create competitive businesses.<br />
For the fourth consecutive year, <strong>UCT</strong>’s GSB was ranked in the London Financial Times Global MBA Top 100. In the 2008 rankings the GSB is among the top five business<br />
schools in emergent markets such as Africa, India and China.<br />
Global Administrative Law in Africa<br />
NYU Professor Benedict Kingsbury, Judge Dennis Davis, Deputy Vice-<br />
Chancellor Thandabantu Nhlapo, Minister Trevor Manuel, Professor<br />
Dick Stewart of NYU, and Dean Hugh Corder at the <strong>UCT</strong>-NYU Global<br />
Administrative Law conference<br />
The procession during the annual Spring Lantern<br />
Parade in Clanwilliam<br />
In March <strong>UCT</strong> and New York University co-sponsored a conference on “Global<br />
Administrative Law Issues in the African Region”, held in the <strong>UCT</strong> Law Faculty’s Oliver<br />
Tambo Moot Court.<br />
Dean Hugh Corder described the conference as a great success: “Both South African<br />
and overseas delegates were challenged by views put forward in the papers, and a plan<br />
was drafted for further research and co-operation between NYU and <strong>UCT</strong> Law. Adding<br />
greatly to the significance of the event was the presence of South African Minister of<br />
Finance, Trevor Manuel, who opened the conference, NYU President John Sexton who<br />
was the riveting after-dinner speaker, and Kader Asmal who spoke on ‘Private Military<br />
Security’.”
4 a l u m n i & F r i e n D s e v e n t s<br />
30th Year Reunion in Los Angeles<br />
Last December a group of 1977 graduates met up at the South African-owned Mozambique restaurant in Laguna Beach for an informal Reunion.<br />
Thanks to Rob Verkroost for the photos.<br />
1977 Electrical Engineering class photo<br />
Inaugural Happy Hour in D.C.<br />
Cambridge Alumni<br />
enjoy Evita’s<br />
“humor therapy”<br />
Pieter-Dirk Uys joined Alumni and<br />
Friends for conversation after a performance<br />
of Elections & Erections, during<br />
which Uys recalled his <strong>UCT</strong> student<br />
days as a formative time in his life.<br />
The newly-formed D.C. Alumni and Friends Society held their first<br />
networking event in January. Organized by Katie Irvin (MPhil 2006),<br />
the gathering attracted <strong>UCT</strong> alumni from classes ranging between<br />
1947 and 2006, former study abroad students and other friends of<br />
<strong>UCT</strong> in the D.C. area. Katie hopes that this is just the start of regular<br />
get-togethers.<br />
(l-r) Francesca Pascolini, Nick Constantinides (BSc ElecEng 1977), Andre<br />
Ohland (BSc ElecEng 1977), Paul Buck (BSc 1977), Reva Wright, Robert<br />
Verkroost (BSc ElecEng 1977), Christina Hattingh.<br />
Pieter-Dirk Uys with Jinny Sagorin (l-r) Liam and Penny Ratcliffe with Paul Malherbe and Rachel Seidel
Vice-Chancellors’ Visit<br />
several alumni and Friends gatherings were held in april, during a visit to the u.s. by vice-Chancellor njabulo<br />
ndebele and vice-Chancellor Designate, Dr. max Price. Dr. Price will become uCt’s 10th vice-Chancellor in July.<br />
New York<br />
Out-going Vice-Chancellor Njabulo Ndebele reflected on the growth of <strong>UCT</strong>’s research<br />
profile and international reputation at a cocktail party at the Harvard Club<br />
of New York City. Over 60 alumni from six decades (1954 through 2004) joined<br />
the Vice-Chancellor in welcoming Dr. Max Price to the <strong>UCT</strong> community.<br />
Max Price talks with Lyn Wilson, with Yasmin von Schirnding in the background<br />
(l-r) Hertzie Clain, Vice-Chancellor Njabulo Ndebele, David Clain, and Ian<br />
Anderson<br />
(l-r) Fiona Jack, Oliver Link, Guto Barra, Maxine Lubner, VC-Designate Max<br />
Price, and Janine le Sueur<br />
Philadelphia<br />
a l u m n i & F r i e n D s e v e n t s 5<br />
Dr. Michael Ezekowitz, Vice President of the Lankenau Institute for Medical<br />
Research hosted a welcome reception for Vice-Chancellor Designate, Dr. Max<br />
Price, in Wynnewood.<br />
Dr. Price addressed the challenges facing <strong>UCT</strong> and South Africa<br />
Rodman Ward talks with Dr. Max Price<br />
(l-r) Andrew Ezekowitz, Alan Ezekowitz (MBChB ’77), Mike Ezekowitz (MBChB<br />
’70), Andrew Swinney, Alexander Friedlander (BA ’74), David Metz, Max Price<br />
and Jacques G. Losman
6 u C t F u n D G r a n t s at w o r k<br />
Stempels Praise Starr Scholars<br />
During a recent visit to Cape Town, Director of the Starr Foundation, Mr. Ernest Stempel and his wife,<br />
<strong>UCT</strong> graduate Brendalyn Stempel, had the opportunity to meet many of the students who benefit from<br />
C.V. Starr Scholarships at <strong>UCT</strong>.<br />
The Starr Foundation has endowed C.V. Starr Scholarship Funds at more than 100 colleges and universities<br />
and selected secondary schools. A total of 18 students at <strong>UCT</strong> were awarded C.V. Starr Scholarships<br />
in 2007.<br />
“I’m pleased to come here. <strong>UCT</strong> is a wonderful institution,” Mr. Stempel told the students. He said he was<br />
proud of the university’s reputation and the students’ achievements. “It is wonderful to see that the student<br />
body is well-balanced in all respects.”<br />
(l-r): Starr Foundation Scholars Babalo Ntlebi, Anelisa Hlongwane, Zolani Buba, Lulama Mboji, Luwi<br />
Mathenjwa, Natasha Magengelele, Goodonough Makhoba, Sibusiso Nyoni<br />
Front (l-r): Professor Njabulo Ndebele, Mr. Ernest Stempel and Mrs. Brendalyn Stempel<br />
New Health Sciences Scholarship<br />
Medical student Moses Matlhadisa is the first recipient of the Hamilton Naki-MESAB-<br />
United Therapeutics Scholarship, which was made possible by a grant to the <strong>UCT</strong> Fund<br />
by U.S. bio-technology company, United Therapeutics.<br />
The award was presented to Mr. Matlhadisa in September 2007 by Dr Louis Sullivan,<br />
founding President of Morehouse School of Medicine and former U.S. Secretary of<br />
Health and Human Services.<br />
Mr. Matlhadisa plans to work in his home town, Bochum in the Limpopo Province, to<br />
serve his community and be a role model for local scholars.<br />
The Scholarship is named in honor of Hamilton Naki, a former <strong>UCT</strong> teacher and surgical<br />
assistant who was awarded an honorary degree in Medicine by <strong>UCT</strong> in 2003.<br />
starr scholars in their own words…<br />
Sibusiso Nyoni, one of five siblings, is<br />
pursuing a medical degree at <strong>UCT</strong>.<br />
“Medicine chose me. I have always<br />
been overcome by compassion for<br />
those who are ill and suffering, especially<br />
the poor. Though my efforts<br />
might just be a drop in the ocean, I still<br />
want to play my part in alleviating human<br />
suffering”.<br />
Goodonough Makhoba recently completed<br />
the second year of his BSc<br />
Audiology.<br />
“I am determined to make a difference<br />
in my field, and I want to make sure<br />
that I graduate as an Audiologist to<br />
serve South Africa’s people”.<br />
Dr. Louis W. Sullivan awards the first Hamilton Naki-MESAB-United<br />
Therapeutics Scholarship to medical student Moses Matlhadisa
Thank You for Supporting <strong>UCT</strong><br />
t h a n k s t o o u r s u P P o r t e r s 7<br />
The <strong>UCT</strong> Fund is grateful to our many supporters who help maintain and build on the quality of the <strong>UCT</strong> education.<br />
We would like to thank the following <strong>UCT</strong> Fund donors for their generous support of <strong>UCT</strong> during the period 2006 – 2007.<br />
inDiviDual ContriButors<br />
Chancellor’s Circle<br />
Klaus-Jurgen Bathe<br />
John M. Graham<br />
Robert & Sally Huxley<br />
E. Neville Isdell<br />
Vincent & Anne Mai<br />
David M. Stein<br />
Ernest E. & Brendalyn Stempel<br />
Vice-Chancellor’s Circle<br />
Robert Forman<br />
Shannon & Trevor Norwitz<br />
President of Convocation<br />
David Rockefeller<br />
Dean’s Circle<br />
Ginny & Sean Day<br />
Susan C. Del Pesco<br />
Arthur Forman<br />
William R. Jacobson<br />
Andrew Jones & Claire Jaffray<br />
Judy Klein<br />
Paul Kumleben<br />
Miles L. Marsh<br />
David J.P. Meachin<br />
Craig Mullett<br />
Gordon R. Parker<br />
Stephen S. Rabinowitz<br />
Don M. & Carol E. Randel<br />
Phillip J. & Tracey G. Riese<br />
Gale & Bobby Shifflet<br />
Benefactor<br />
T. Maxfield Bahner<br />
Kerrin & Stephne Behrend<br />
Peter & Barbara Cohen<br />
Alan Drabkin<br />
Dyan de Napoli<br />
James R. Frank<br />
Nona C. Flores<br />
Anthony R. Hall<br />
Graham Hopper<br />
Vivienne Isaacson<br />
Paul Malherbe<br />
Noel Mancherje, M.D.<br />
Gordon Marsa<br />
Leigh B. Middleditch<br />
Liam Ratcliffe<br />
Domeena Renshaw<br />
Hyman & Shirley Shwiel<br />
Friend<br />
Anonymous<br />
Angela S. Barber<br />
Ruanne V. Barnabas<br />
Tina Barsby & Andrew Sillen<br />
Brian S. Behrens<br />
Marlene & Georges Belfort<br />
David M. Bichunsky<br />
John R. Blake, M.D.<br />
Peter D. Bonafede<br />
Cesar D. Candari<br />
Catherine E. Carr<br />
Virginia Castner<br />
Misha Charles<br />
Christopher Coetzee<br />
Andrew Cohen<br />
Kathleen M. Coleman<br />
Cecilia C. Crofts<br />
John Deighton<br />
Charles & Pamela Delaney<br />
Adrian Deneys<br />
Cynthia Edwards<br />
Clement A. Erbmann<br />
Andrea V. Fliakos<br />
Myrna L. Frank<br />
Michael W. Friedlander<br />
Sarah M. Gates<br />
Bernard J. Gersh<br />
M. Philippa Goold<br />
Toby I. Gottheiner, M.D.<br />
Virginia E. Green<br />
Beryl J.N. Greig<br />
Barbara A. Harris<br />
Trevor S. Harris<br />
Bessie & William Hodes<br />
Daryl M. Isaacs, M.D.<br />
Alan H. & Marilyn C. Jacobs<br />
Irene N. Jacobson<br />
Gerry Kaufman<br />
Norma Kriger<br />
Herbert N. & Irene B. Lape<br />
Abraham M. Lenhoff<br />
Allan Lichtenstein<br />
Maurice H. Lipper<br />
Maurice H. Luntz<br />
Calvin L. Lutrin<br />
Richard & Michelle Malone<br />
Brendan McKenna<br />
Grant Morris<br />
Akintunde A. Okupe<br />
Aisling R. O’Shea<br />
George Parent<br />
John G. & Karin L. Pieper<br />
Peter H. Pritchard<br />
Alayne Reesberg<br />
Deborah C. Richman<br />
Marjorie S. Robinson<br />
Elizabeth M. Saunder<br />
Adrian Shandling<br />
Michael H. & Sandra R. Silber<br />
Julian Sinai<br />
Robert N. Sladen, M.D.<br />
Julia H. Stanton<br />
Peter D. Stein<br />
Basil Taibel<br />
Horacio C. Teran & Kristin Tuchman<br />
Sam Tharp<br />
Gordon E.R. Troy<br />
Wulf Utian<br />
Jon van Heerden<br />
Timothy A. Warner<br />
Christian Williams<br />
Tjalling J. Ypma<br />
FounDations<br />
The Baird Foundation<br />
Judy & Howard Berkowitz Foundation<br />
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation<br />
The John E. Fetzer Institute<br />
The Starr Foundation<br />
CorPorations<br />
Bergeson LLP<br />
Davis Polk & Wardwell<br />
United Therapeutics<br />
ComPany matChinG GiFts<br />
Microsoft Giving Campaign<br />
Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts<br />
The Phelps Dodge Foundation<br />
The Williams Companies<br />
Donor Giving Levels<br />
Chancellor’s Circle<br />
$10,000 and above<br />
Vice-Chancellor’s Circle<br />
$5,000 – $9,999<br />
President of Convocation<br />
$2,500 – $4,999<br />
Dean’s Circle<br />
$1,000 – $2,499<br />
Benefactor<br />
$500 – $999<br />
Friend<br />
Up to $499<br />
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Please accept our apologies for any<br />
omissions and misspellings, and advise<br />
us of errors.
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Major New Grant from Carnegie Corporation<br />
The Carnegie Corporation of New<br />
York recently awarded <strong>UCT</strong> a<br />
three-year grant of $2 million for<br />
institutional transformation and<br />
employment equity.<br />
A long-standing donor to <strong>UCT</strong> libraries,<br />
scholarships and capacity-building<br />
programs, Carnegie<br />
will now support an over-arching<br />
transformation project to develop<br />
emerging faculty.<br />
PRSRT STD<br />
U.S. POSTAGE<br />
PAID<br />
S. DEERFIELD, MA<br />
PERMIT NO. 8<br />
During the past 18 months <strong>UCT</strong><br />
has developed plans to nurture a<br />
critical mass of black people and<br />
women among the academic staff. The plan seeks to give relief to new and invariably younger members of<br />
staff from heavy teaching loads, so that they can complete PhDs, conduct research, or deliver conference<br />
papers; in short, to assist them to make an impact in their departments.