Gaudeamus - University of Cape Town

Gaudeamus
Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus,
Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus,
Post jucundam juventutem, post
molestam senectutem,
Nos habebit humus, nos habebit humus.
Ubi sunt qui ante nos in mundo fuere?
Ubi sunt qui ante nos in mundo fuere?
Vadite ad superos, transite ad inferos,
Quos si vis videre, quos si vis videre.
Vita nostra brevis est, brevi finietur,
Vita nostra brevis est, brevi finietur,
Venit mors velociter, rapit nos atrociter,
Nemini parcetur, nemini parcetur.
Vivat Academia, vivant Professores,
Vivat Academia, vivant Professores,
Vivat membrum quodlibet, vivant
membra quaelibet,
Semper sint in flore, semper sint in flore.
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National Anthem
Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika
Maluphakanyisw' uphondo lwayo,
Yizwa imithandazo yethu,
Nkosi sikelela, thina lusapho lwayo.
Morena boloka setjhaba sa heso,
O fedise dintwa la matshwenyeho,
O se boloke, O se boloke setjhaba sa heso,
Setjhaba sa South Afrika ± South Afrika.
Uit die blou van onse hemel,
Uit die diepte van ons see,
Oor ons ewige gebergtes,
Waar die kranse antwoord gee,
Sounds the call to come together,
And united we shall stand,
Let us live and strive for freedom,
In South Africa our land.
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made possible curriculum, staff and student transformation, improved student access to tertiary education, programmes that
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES – CEREMONY 1
ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS
Academic Procession.
(The congregation is requested to stand as the procession enters the hall and is
invited to participate in the singing of Gaudeamus)
The Chancellor will constitute the congregation.
The National Anthem.
The University Statement of Dedication will be read by a member of the SRC.
Musical item.
Welcome by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor T Nhlapo.
Professor Nhlapo will present John Anthony Higgins and Jeremy Robert Wanderer
(in absentia) for the Distinguished Teacher Award.
Professor Nhlapo will present the Social Responsiveness Award to Mohamed Adhikari.
The graduands will be presented to the Chancellor by the
Dean of the Faculty, Professor MP Ensor, assisted by the Acting Deputy Dean,
Associate Professor L van Sittert.
The Chancellor will congratulate the new graduates.
Professor Nhlapo will make closing announcements and invite the congregation to stand.
The Chancellor will dissolve the congregation.
The procession, including the new graduates, will leave the hall.
(The congregation is requested to remain standing until
the procession has left the hall)
The music for the recessional march has been composed by Professor Peter Klatzow.

DISTINGUISHED TEACHER AWARD
The Distinguished Teacher Award, given once only to an individual, recognises teaching at any or all levels by
a member of the faculty that has made a significant and lasting impression on students.
Previous recipients in the Faculty of Humanities and their years of award are:
1985: TL Dowdall (Child Guidance Clinic)
1986: DE Kaplan (Economic History)
1988: N Bakker (Education)
1989: HJ Snyman (Afrikaans en Nederlands)
1990: KM McCormick (English Language and Literature)
1992: L Marx (English Language and Literature)
J Parkington (Archaeology)
N Worden (History)
1993: W Mazamisa (Religious Studies)
G Solomons (Classics)
C Weare (Drama)
1995: M Adhikari (History)
1996: R Mendelsohn (History)
1999: D Benatar (Philosophy)
DH Foster (Psychology)
WR Nasson (History)
2000: JV Bickford-Smith (Historical Studies)
CJ Breen (Education)
2001: RS Edgecombe (English Language and Literature)
H Phillips (Historical Studies)
2002: AK Mager (Historical Studies)
2003: B Liebl (South African College of Music)
2004: HH Schomer (Psychology)
2005: PR Anderson (English Language and Literature)
Y Banning (Drama)
2006: Z Erasmus (Sociology)
E Mills (Drama)
2007: J Bennett (African Gender Institute)
2008: VM Everson (French Language and Literature)
2009: C Clarkson (English Language and Literature)
ME Steyn (Sociology)
2011: MI Campbell (South African College of Music)
SL Levine (Social Anthropology)
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DISTINGUISHED TEACHER AWARD
The following members of the Faculty of Humanities have been chosen for this award in 2012:
John Anthony Higgins
Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature
A statement in John Higgins’s teaching philosophy aptly describes the teaching philosophy of this Distinguished
Teacher: “Learning is a directed activity (the teacher is a kind of coach); but still an activity of the learner
(who is an intellectual athlete in the making)”. It becomes easy to understand why his teaching elicits responses
from students such as ‘excellent’, ‘brilliant, ‘systematic’,‘humorous’ and ‘patient’!
The Department of English Language and Literature has had the good fortune of having a teacher of the calibre
of John Higgins for approximately 3 decades. He has made significant contributions to teaching and curriculum
design in both under- and postgraduate spheres, with a particular strength in post-graduate teaching.
Honours students relate how his course had opened new intellectual vistas for them, allowing them to engage
meaningfully with other aspects of the programme and providing the conceptual springboard for interesting
new research projects. His innovativeness has led, over time, to the creation of new courses in linguistics,
theory and literary analysis in the department and a whole undergraduate programme - Theory of Literature -
in the Faculty. A new MA in Literary Studies created alongside J. M. Coetzee was another of John Higgins’s
contributions.
His brilliant seminars, as well as teaching academic content, are used as a tool used to increase selfconfidence,
knowledge and understanding amongst learners, and to contribute to their successful graduateness.
By embodying the links between research and teaching, John Higgins is helping to create a world-class graduate
culture in his department.
He has shared both his teaching, knowledge of curricula and staff development with the Universities of
Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand locally, and with overseas institutions in Germany and the United States,
and notably at Columbia University.
At the core of his teaching lies the commitment to ‘deep reading”: the combination of close textual analysis
with theoretical questioning and historical localisation. Combined these three lead – according to our
metaphorical ‘tennis coach’ - to ‘a certain practice of writing and argument’ that extends students’ academic
skills and prepares them both for further scholarship and many kinds of work in the ‘information economy’.
It’s hard work mastering that killer serve, but with good coaching, all students have a chance to realize their full
potential! John Higgins’s teaching is regarded by many a colleague and student alike as opening up for them
new ways of thinking and analysis.

DISTINGUISHED TEACHER AWARD
Jeremy Robert Wanderer
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
The Department of Philosophy has had the privilege of having on its staff a teacher of outstanding quality,
Dr Jeremy Wanderer. During his decade at UCT he has made a definitive pedagogical contribution to teaching
and learning at the undergraduate and post graduate levels. He inspires students to ‘think outside the box,’ and
as one student said, “Dr Wanderer taught me how to think.’
His areas of specialization include epistemology, moral psychology, and the philosophy of language.
One student noted that Dr Wanderer spent an entire lecture on the word, ‘ought.’ The ability to make magical the
process of discovery, the uncanny charisma to open up worlds, is the hallmark of excellent teaching. Professor
David Benatar, the head of the Philosophy Department writes, “I am able to distinguish between a very good
teacher and an excellent one. Dr Wanderer clearly falls into the latter category.”
He received his PhD in Philosophy at the London School of Economics in 2002 after having received a
Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Greenwich in 1996. In 2010 and 2011 he drew on
his expertise in education and taught undergraduate PGCE students a course titled ‘Philosophy of Education.’
For Dr Wanderer, ‘teaching will always be a form of work-in-progress’, something that he ‘wrestles with’.
In his own words; ‘My role as lecturer is not to act as a guide to the conversation of others but to teach-byexample,
in the sense that the lectures involve presentations of my own continued grappling with these issues.”
For stronger students who want to explore ideas in philosophy in more depth, Dr. Wander invented the concept
of an ‘Ideas Clinic.’
In all his undergraduate and post graduate courses Dr Wanderer opted to teach smaller amounts of philosophical
material rather than survey courses. He has the ability to help students grapple with the relationship between
reason and belief, between freedom and responsibility. And the nature and value of philosophy itself.
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SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS AWARD
The Social Responsiveness Award provides an institutional signal to members of the University that social
responsiveness is an important institutional priority.
Mohamed Adhikari
Associate Professor in Historical Studies
Against the Current: A Biography of Harold Cressy, 1889-1916
The most striking feature of this social responsiveness initiative is the commitment of this academic to using his
scholarship to sustain a grassroots project that benefited a school community in a wide variety of ways. For a
period of over two decades Mohamed Adhikari, an alumnus of Harold Cressy High School, put his considerable
talents as an historian at the service of his alma mater in the execution of heritage projects relating to that
institution. Most recently, drawing on decades of research, he produced an edifying and attractively illustrated
popular biography of Harold Cressy, the inspirational early twentieth century educationist after whom the
school is named.
Mohamed Adhikari has published extensively on coloured identity, including a book on the Teachers’ League
of South Africa, of which Harold Cressy was the principal founder. Because Cressy is central to these scholarly
concerns, he features prominently in Adhikari’s academic writing. Adhikari has also for many years taught on
the subject of coloured identity and politics.
Members of the Harold Cressy school fraternity were involved in the design and writing processes of the
biography from the beginning, and several provided source material for the book. This example of shared
planning and inclusive decision making resulted in a product owned by the school community rather than by the
author. An indication of this is that the biography is being integrated into the school’s curriculum, and Adhikari
has offered to conduct workshops on the subject with both teachers and pupils.
Adhikari has shown considerable imagination and initiative in carrying his scholarship beyond academia to serve
a broader social purpose. This biography not only explains, commemorates and celebrates the contribution of
a progressive Cape educator, but has become a vehicle for achieving wider communal goals. More practically,
it has served as an instrument for raising bursary funds for indigent but deserving Harold Cressy students.
Adhikari persuaded Juta and Company to finance the publication of 1,000 copies of the volume as part of its
corporate social responsibility programme. The immediate impact of this initiative is that the Harold Cressy
Bursary Fund will earn close onto R100, 000 from the sale of these books.
Although Cressy’s lifestory is meticulously researched, and the study meets the highest academic standards, it
is written in a lucid, accessible style that will appeal to lay readers and make sense to high school students. This
book not only provides an opportunity for learners to reflect on their own history but is also an eloquent reminder
to the Harold Cressy teachers, pupils, parents, and alumni of the school’s rich historical legacy. Importantly,
this innovative project has relevance beyond this constituency by serving as a model for ways in which other
schools too can celebrate their past, find inspiration in the present, and raise funding for future ventures.
Adhikari’s work represents an exemplary case of social responsiveness in that it is of mutual benefit to the
academic enterprise as well as an external community, is a product of shared planning and decision-making,
demonstrates excellence in knowledge production and dissemination, and harnesses professional practice in a
way that helps meet the needs of our society.

NAMES OF GRADUANDS/
DIPLOMATES
An asterisk * denotes that the degree or
diploma will be awarded in the absence
of the candidate.
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Dean: Professor M P Ensor
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
Ayesha Abrahams
Kelly Abrahams
Caterina Teresa Aldera
(with distinction in English
Language & Literature and the
degree with distinction)
Kaylene Anne Amon
Wesley Anderson
Tamsin Leigh Andrews
Alexandra Sarah Appelbaum (with
distinction in History and the degree
with distinction)
Alyssa Chante Arendse
Samantha Brooke Aronson
*Juan Allan Aspeling
Adam Ayache
*Andrew Michael Badham
Lindsay Balfour
Sarah-Paige Banner
*Sarah Julie Barraclough (with distinction
in Spanish)
Kendal Olivia Barrett
Lara-Ann Beal
Warda Beckles
Elroy Martin Bell
*Greg Cameron Beyer
Noxolo Edna Bhengu
*Prinesh Bikhani (with distinction in
Psychology)
Stephanie Michelle Biza
Marianne Jurine Blankenberg
Nicholas Guy Bodenstein
James Richard Bone
Beki Boneni
Terri-Leigh Boonzaier
Adri Anne Borman
Carren Enslin Bost
Rachel Botsis (with distinction in Xhosa
Communication)
Jamie-Leigh Brandes
*Geoffrey Neil Brink
Candice Tersia Brinkhuis
*Shannon Natascha Bristow
Freda Brown
Nina Brown (with distinction in Film &
Television Studies)
Stephanie Anne Burtenshaw
Megan Claire Bybee
Lyndall Mary Cain
Lori Claire Cape
Josh John Carew
Grethe Carr
Alex Robert Catton
Raphael Lazar Chaskalson (with
distinction in French
Language & Literature and
History and the degree
with distinction)
Thandiwe Ciara Chefa
Tendaiishe Chitima
Monique-Ann Classen
Michael Sinclair Collocott
Tatum Condon
Suzanne Danielle Cruger
Chido Vanessa Dandajena
David Geoffrey Davies
Kirsten Jessica Davies
*Kandis De Iongh
Katherine Anthea de Klerk
Gabrielle Pascale Demblon (with
distinction in English Language
& Literature)
Kyle Fitzgerald de Villiers
Reneva Carla Doman
Rachel Gillian Doyle
Thomas Frederik Dreyer (with distinction
in Film & Television Studies and
English Language & Literature
and the degree with distinction)
Sarah Shana Duncan
Ghia Erica du Plessis
Zimasa Dzingwa
Lee Enfield
Odendaal Esterhuyse
*Amy Catherine Farish
Fotoula Fatouros
Fiona Laura Alexandra Fehrsen
*Claire Jane Fitzgerald
Simone Cheri Franks
Chireez Jade Fredericks
Rebecca Elizabeth Freund (with
distinction in Philosophy)
Carryn Gadri Gabriels
*Warren Dean Galley
*Makeeda Keitumetsi Gamedze
Kelly Garcia
*Andrew John Giliam (with distinction in
English Language & Literature)
*Sven Hans Glietenberg
Colleen Edzai Goko
Lara Goldin
*Zachary Don Goldin
Rosanne Lynn Gorven
Adam Nathan Gray (with distinction in
English Language & Literature)
Chevon Julaire Janis Griffiths
Roberto Grové
Daniela Mai Gutstadt
Dela Buhle Gwala
Jennifer Mary Hanbury
Jessica Ann Handley
Lucienne Yoram Haupt
*Matthew Bryan Healy
Pasqua Siobhan Heard
Ulfa Hendricks
Rone Herbst (with distinction in
Drama and Music and
the degree with distinction)
Judith Hibbin (with distinction in Xhosa
Communication and English
Language & Literature and the
degree with distinction)
Danielle Hitchcock
Andrew Mark Hodge
Bruce Frederick Holt
Megan Anjelica Holt
*James William Hutton (with distinction
in Film & Television Studies and
History)
Simon Bryan Hyslop
Alexander Raymond Inggs
Tasneem Jakoet
Susanna Maria Janse van Vuuren
Herschel Christo January
Chantelle Tamara Jennings
Taryn Leigh Joffe
Stephnie Simone Jordan
*Melissa Kahn
Phumlani Bulelani-Bandile Kango
Khadija Karjiker
Naadira Kathrada
Kim Taryn Kay
Michelle Leigh Kent
Aimee Belle Klass
Claire Elizabeth Knoetze
Megan Zara Korber
Amber Kriel
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Anique Sarah Kruger (with distinction
in English Language &
Literature and French Language
and Literature and the degree
with distinction)
*William Henry Kuun
Kerry Lee Langschmidt
Joanna Valentine Le Clezio
*Sujin Lee (with distinction in Linguistics
and Spanish and the degree with
distinction and the recipient of the
UCT Council Scholarship)
Timothy Ian David Lester
Jessica Lyndsay Levetan (with distinction
in English Language &
Literature and Psychology and
the degree with distinction)
Ian Alexander Stewart Linsell
Tanya Little (with distinction in Spanish)
Romidee Lockitch
Phillipa Ashleigh Lodge
Dale Alexandra Lombard
Chante Ventl Losper
Edward Tietze Love
Tracey-Lee Lusty
Thomas Lytwynchuk
Phumuzile Kudzai Mabasha
Rohan Magerman
Amani Khensani Manganyi
Jessica Kate Lobban Mann
*Dina Manne
Philip Rutland Manners
Mogamat Manuel
Charlotte Georgia Marais (with
distinction in Gender Studies
and the degree with distinction)
Cleopatra Anna Marcopoulos
Ruschka Masoet
Itumeleng Matlare
Philippa Lauren Mc Cann
Olivia Jane McCarthy
*Amy McConaghy
Jonathan Ian McInerney
Catherine Anne McIntosh
Katherine Anne McLean
Kirsten Michelle McLennan
Geraldine McMeekin
*Thandolwethu Mene
*Kristen Eleanor Meyer
Samkelo Mgobozi
Lauren Michele Midgley (with
distinction in English Language
& Literature and Law and the
degree with distinction)
Joanne Claire Mills
Silindile Romancia Mngwengwe
Diane Elizabeth Moalem
Safia Modak
Kelesitse Mokgatlhe
*Kirsten Sarah Morey
Michael Jaffee Moss
*Jodi-Cash Mossman
Thandeka Crystal-Anne Mujati
*Simon Eric Mukasa
Daniel Muhumuza Mushega
*Primrose Paidamoyo Muzah
Chitalu Hilda Mwanakatwe
Simone Nefdt
Elelwani Netshifhire
Kethi Wangeci Ngari
Sibongokuhle Awande Ngcobo
Amanda Chuma Ngumbela
Edna Cynthia Rutendo Ngwenya
*Kristin Veronique Nielsen
*Samantha Tiyanjane Nkhata
*John Sebastian Noble
Lwando Nteya
Gabriel Thomas Nugent
*Dylan Oblowitz
Diana Atieno Ocholla
Shakeela Omar (with distinction in
Arabic)
Graeme Kappel Palmer
Tara Nadine Panday
Ruby Parker (with distinction in English
Language & Literature and the
degree with distinction)
Thomas William Parker (with distinction
in Film & Television Studies)
Ana Zita Pascual Serratosa (with
distinction in Spanish)
Aimee Annette Pasierbek
Ra’eesa Pather
Kaylynn Angela Petersen
Todd Colin Petersen
Gugu Camgca Phandle
Simon James Phillips
Sorrel Claire Pitcher (with distinction in
Psychology and English Language
and Literature)
*Michael Grant Pote
*Schalk Potgieter
Cindy Jean Powrie (with distinction in
Linguistics)
Neroli Nomvuyo Mawrgan Price (with
distinction in English Language
& Literature and History and the
degree with distinction)
Pearl Matichengeta Babongile Pswarayi
Juliet Lauren Ransom
Jennifer Faith Raubenheimer
*Kate Rethman
Kean Sarah Reynders
*Theresa Christine Robb
*Abby Alexandra Roberts
Tamara Michelle Roberts
Alexander van Zyl Rous
Jay Salmon
Lakita Cathy Scharnick
Bianca Leigh Schmitz
Matthew Sam Schrire
Amy Catherine Scott
Mufaro Sengwe
*Cara-Leigh Shepherd
Edward Sherrington
Masivuye Sithole
Kelsey Slingers
Linea Smidt
Maroefah Smith
*Angela Mary Smythe
Swelihle Zamanzuza Sokhela
Litha Buhle Zukile Sokutu
Liesl Sonnenberg (with distinction in
History)
*Nicola Ashleigh Sprawson
*Michael David Leonard Stack
*Tarryn Francis Steenekamp
*Kevin James George Stewart
Niell Strydom
Alexander Anthony Rhodes Teggin
Anke Salomie Theron
Nikita Simone Thomas
Robyn Ruth Thomas
Carrie-Leigh Timlin
Katherine Lindsay Timoney
Thina Pearl Lucia Tladi
Zoe Leigh Townsend
Amelia Clare Trigg
Anna Catharina Truter
Tygue Turner
Sarah May Utton
Amani Lenny Vallihu
Isabella Karin van Breda
Bryce Kendall van de Laar
Jamie Rhys van der Riet
Melissa van der Scholtz
Ibtisaam van der Schyff
Yusri van der Schyff
Werner Karl van Rooyen
*Shaun Michael van Wyk
Nicolas van Zyl
Phumzile Thandeka Vella
Inga Vika
*Hermann Buhr Vivier
*Stephanie Ann von der Heyde
Olivia Kirsten Wainwright
Kate Lauren Walker
Stephan John Walker
*Simon Michael Wallington
Lyndwill Radne Wareley
Tara Weber (with distinction in English
Language & Literature and
Visual & Art History and the
degree with distinction)
Heidi Jennifer Wells

Kirsten Jane Whitehead
Sean Peter Whitehead
Lucy Maree Wileman
Elizabeth Catherine Windell
Zhenyi Yang
*Swaliah Zadneprovsky
Nokuzola Lerato Zingithwa (with
distinction in Film &Television
Studies)
In Film and Media Production:
Jody Abel
Laylaa Adam
Meghan Adams
Kate Macqueen Ahrends
Iman Allie
Thakirah Ayesha Allie
Francesca Rose Annenberg (with
distinction in Studies in Film &
Media Production and Film &
Television Studies and the degree
with distinction)
Danielle Andrea Barnes
Carla Joy Bernardo
Shani Mallory Bodill
*Robin Stuart Brink
Chantel Clark
Alexandra Catherine Cloete
Ineke Coetzee
*Emma Joy Conolly
Michellé D’Almeida
Lorna Rae Daniel
Etienne Jean Daniels
Luke Buchanan de Kock
Helene Demetriou (with distinction in
Studies in Film Media
Production)
Alexandra Catherine Dunsford-White
Bonita du Plessis
Amy Roseanne Dyamond (with
distinction in Studies in Film &
Media Production and English
Language and Literature and the
degree with distinction)
Abigail Elaine Edwards
Loreta Cathrine Epnaar
Hayley Jane Hurst
Mogamat Shuabe Jacobs
Iman Sigrid Latief
Jessica Helen Lewer
Calvin Liang
Vuyiswa Thembelihle Lupuwana
*Caitlin Hayley Macleod (with distinction
in Studies in Film & Media
Production)
Nicole Dominique Malherbe (with
distinction in Studies in Film &
Media Production and
Film & Television Studies and
the degree with distinction)
Lola Amukelani Mashabane
Dineo Mathole
Kirsten-Anne McLennan-Smith
Marli Meyer
Annzra Denita Naidoo
Meli Mthabisi Ncube
Panankosi Nyati
Tholoana Phoshodi
David Asher Platt (with distinction in
Studies in Film & Media Production
and Film & Television Studies and
the degree with distinction)
Kelly Samantha Powell (with distinction
in Studies in Film & Media
Production and Film & Television
Studies and the degree with
distinction)
Larissa Hugo Isabella Mariana Pringiers
Tembakazi Trudy Rozani
Lailah Ryklief (with distinction in Studies
in Film & Media Production and
Film & Television Studies)
Alexander Forrest Searle
*Lapologang Vivian Sekgwama
Diann Christine Shantell Selman
Danielle Sher (with distinction in
Hebrew Language & Literature and
Film & Television Studies and the
degree with distinction)
Nicole Shrosbree
Kaylin Dorothy Simmons
Charne Mary Simpson
Romi Lara Stoch
Olivia Terblanche
*Devaksha Krishna Vallabhjee
Johannes Ferdinand van Zyl (with
distinction in Studies in Film &
Media Production)
Katherine Verhoeven
Lauren Maria Voges
Tanya Jean Wagner
Colt David Wentworth-Browne
Karmen Danielle Wessels
Meghan Wallis Whyte
Nicole Wilcox
*Kaye Ann Williams
Amy Zaaiman
DEGREE OF BACHELOR
OF ARTS (HONOURS)
In African Languages and Literature:
Elvis Vuyisile Dyosi
Ayanda Lloyd Hlalele
In Archaeology:
Lesa Swart
In Art Historical Studies:
*Hope Meredith de Klerk
*Sally Elizabeth Johnson
Mikaela Franchesca Kaplan
*Carmen Nicole Kosterman
In Classical Studies:
(First class) Gregory David Martyn
Bridgman
In Development Studies:
Hangala Siachiwena
In Diversity Studies:
Rianne Sujeewa Cornelia Elisabeth Laan
In English Studies:
*Heidi Barends
Daniella da Camara
(First class) Chantal Katherine d’Offay
*Liam Kruger
Tara Juliette Corinna Leverton
Na’eemah Masoet
Sandhya Mathura
Olivia Jean Maurel
*Matthew David Muir
*(First class) Nasrin Olla
(First class) Anneke Hilletje Rautenbach
(First class) Leo Jonathan Schoots
(recipient of the De Villiers Smuts
Scholarship)
*Christiaan Emile Straeuli
Anton Howard Taylor
*(First class) Sarah Thackwray
(First class) Xavier Irah van der Zandt
In Environmental and
Geographical Studies:
Victoria Elizabeth Kitley
Raykie Martin
*Samantha Hayward Watts
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In Film Studies:
Gabriella Pereira Achadinha
(First class) Orli Barnett
*(First class) Nicole Lisa Beale
*James Matthew Brown
*Rachel Mary Winefride Cohen
(First class) Kristina Graour (recipient of
the De Villiers Smuts Scholarship)
*Michelle Lindsey Madden
(First class) Cayley Joyce Mitchell
(recipient of the De Villiers Smuts
Scholarship)
Fikile Lisemelo Mthwalo
*Michaela Anne Shurrie
Luke Slade
In French Language and Literature:
Mia Everson
Yara Catsuki Lamelas Silva
(First class) Amy Ruth Wawn
In German Language and Literature:
*(First class) Thorsten Egner
In Heritage and Public Culture:
Clement Mweso
In Historical Studies:
*Robert Edwards Attwell
*Nabila Bana
Luke Farrell
Aimee Augustine Jenner
*(First class) Thomas Keegan
Pancras Malani
*Inez Katherine McGregor
Kylie Rae O’Brien
Andrew John Harry Lindsay Snelling
(First class) Jessica Stillerman
*(First class) Olivia Rose Walton
(First class) Sarah-Jane Walton (recipient
of the De Villiers Smuts Scholarship)
*Jonathan Wilkinson
*Adam Alexander Young
In International Relations:
*Carly Samantha Collins
Neerali Gajjar
*Matthias Werner Krönke
Emmeline Genevieve Maria Luc
Nokuthula Moyo
Pretty Mubaiwa
Carmel Rawhani
In Justice and Transformation:
Claire-Anne Louise Lester
*Rik Bauke Rudolfo Moors
*(First class) Irene Pampallis
In Latin Language and Literature:
(First class) Camilla Rose Christie
In Linguistics:
(First class) Simon Martin Abbott
(recipient of the De Villiers Smuts
Scholarship)
*(First class) Alwin-Jon Hills (recipient of
the De Villiers Smuts Scholarship)
(First class) Mouad Kamal Khateb
Beatrice Jean-Marie Miller
In Media Theory and Practice:
*(First class) Christina Maria Antonites
Kim Barlow
Liezl Geldenhuys
*(First class) Lauren Grace Green
(First class) Mila Rose Heneck
Paul Timothy Herman
(First class) Kim Alexa Johnson
Rhynhardt Krynauw
*Vera Longwe
Mologadi Welhemina Makwela
Lungile Moyo
(First class) Chisanga Mukuka
(First class) Brian Michael Muller
Uvania Naidoo
(First class) Natasha Nel
*Megan Amy Pilditch
*Roxanne Averil Rhode
Kirsten Vanessa Smit
Gareth David Stevens
Sarah-Annique Struben
*Daniella Toscano
(First class) Stephanie Nicole Venter
In Philosophy:
*Joseph Andrews Loxton
In Philosophy, Politics and Economics:
Maxine Boon
In Political Communication:
Helen Elizabeth Blaine
Sisanda Bukeka Mcimeli
Colin Wardle
In Politics:
Rustum Fortune
In Public Policy and Administration:
*Duduetsang Keabetswe Thatohatsi
Mokoele
In Religious Studies:
Mohamed Reza Ismail
Karin Ann van Wyk
In Social Anthropology:
*Kefiloe Sello
*(First class) Murray Stanford
In Spanish:
(First class) Aaron Cumpsty (recipient of
the De Villiers Smuts Scholarship)
In Television Drama:
Andrea Roberta Bennett
Michael Anthony Charles
Mohammed Shadley Desai
(First class) Michal Jozef Malek
*Ceara Margaret McEvoy
*Craig Andrew Mulligan
*Benjamin Peter Holm Rycroft
Frances Caroline Stephens
Eden Angy Theron
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
(HONOURS) TEACHING FRENCH AS
A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Massamba Rolly Ngaliema Atipo
DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
In Clinical Psychology:
Fairuz Begum Gaibie
Maura Lappeman
*(With distinction) Tariro Accillia Marufu
(With distinction in the dissertation)
Colleen Grace Sturrock
In Creative Writing:
Cayleigh Joy Bright
Alison Jill Budge
(With distinction) Richard St John Higgs
*Jennifer Marie Leonard
*Sunil Shah

In Historical Studies:
*Mino Kim
*Megan Voss
In Language, Literature and Modernity:
(With distinction) Luz-Maria Gasser
Nicola Claire Lazenby
(With distinction in the dissertation)
Brittani Reniece Nivens
*Benike Rosianne Palfi
Ivy Musekiwa
In Linguistics:
(With distinction in the dissertation)
Frieda Coetzee
*Shanali Candice Govender
In Media Studies:
Samantha Nicole Griffiths
(With distinction) Silke Haßreiter
Bernadine Laura Jones
In Media Theory and Practice:
Dylan John Culhane
Marc Dey
Daniel David Herman
(With distinction in the dissertation)
Mareike Anette Kramper
Chilombo Mbenga
(With distinction) Marija Anja Venter
In Organisational Psychology:
Pumla Hako
In Political Communication:
Pierrinne Vignette Leukes
In Political Science:
(With distinction) Rorisang Nikiwe
Lekalake
In Psychological Research:
*Nancy-Jeanne Malgas
*(With distinction) Inge Marie Wessels
In Sociology:
*(With distinction) Natalie Irene Zeno
DEGREE OF DOCTOR
OF PHILOSOPHY
In Afrikaans:
William Frank Thomas Minnaar
Thesis Title: ‘n Herwaardering van Olga
Kirsch se oeuvre: identiteit, moederskap
en ballingskap aan die hand van die
psigoanalitiese teorieë van onder andere
Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan en Julia
Kristeva
William Minnaar has a BA
(Communication), a BA (Languages),
BA(Hons) in Afrikaans and an MA
(Afrikaans) from the University of
Johannesburg. He has been studying at
UCT in the School of Languages and
Literatures since 2009. During this time he
has been working full-time whilst writing
his thesis.
William Minnaar’s PhD thesis
investigates the works of Jewish Afrikaans
poet, Olga Kirsch, who is celebrated as
among the first Afrikaans poets to defy
the National Party’s racist policies. Using
psychoanalytical theories, he gleans
insights from her poetry written in the
1940s as well as from her second creative
period in the 1970s and 1980s, especially
regarding her identity as a subject between
cultures. He reveals her problematic
relationships with her mother and
daughters and explores the drives behind
her writings: her flight from the phallic
mother, her loss of the paternal love object,
her longing for wholeness, and her selfactualisation
through the creative process.
Whereas Sigmund Freud’s basic tenets and
their further development by Jacques Lacan
provide the underlying structure of his
thesis, William Minnaar employs extensive
insights from the theoretician Julia Kristeva
to counterpoint the masculine views of
the former two psychoanalysts. His thesis
includes some of Kirsch’s rediscovered
poems and comments by her family
members thus adding to our understanding
of the poet and her work. The thesis also
considers how a canonisation process has
established Kirsch’s value and durability as
an Afrikaans poet, thus permitting William
Minnaar to conclude that Kirsch is an
indispensable part of the Afrikaans literary
canon.
Supervisor: Professor J Hambidge
(Languages and Literatures)
In English Language and Literature:
Robert Peter Macdonald
Thesis Title: Reading restitution in District
Six: law, discourse and ‘governmentality’
Robert Macdonald has a BA from the
University of South Africa and a MA from
UCT where he has been studying, in the
Department of English, since 2008. During
this time he has worked as the Head of the
Ministry for Social Development in the
Western Cape while also writing his PhD
thesis.
Robert Macdonald’s PhD thesis
offers an interdisciplinary textual analysis
of the legal documents (primarily contracts
and court documents) used to negotiate and
fix the terms of the statutory land restitution
process in District Six, Cape Town, from
1996 to 2012. It traces the interweaving
of restitution’s legislative concepts with
heterogeneous political and cultural
discourses emanating from District Six’s
unique history. It argues that the hybridised
configurations of discourse generated by
this encounter serve as new instruments
of power in the space of the restitution
project, generating certain unintended and
sometimes paradoxical material outcomes.
Situating his analysis within the broader
context of South African land restitution,
Robert Macdonald argues that the District
Six case illustrates the vulnerability of the
post-apartheid legal and administration
regime to micro-political appropriation, in
spite of the highly prescriptive nature of
the legislation involved. He argues further
for the importance of close textual analysis
of existing restitution cases as a means to
inform future policy debate and formulation
around restitution and the ‘land question’ in
post-apartheid South Africa.
Supervisor: Professor J Higgins
(English Language and Literature)
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In Linguistics:
Kirsten Lee Morreira
Thesis Title: Social change, class
formation and English: a study of young
black South Africans with “Model C”
school backgrounds
Kirsten Morreira has been studying
Linguistics at UCT since 2000, completing
a BA, BA(Hons) and MA. She has tutored
in Linguistics since 2002 and lectured there
since 2006. The work which comprises
her thesis contributes to and is part of a
larger research project being undertaken by
members of the Linguistics Section.
Kirsten Morreira’s PhD thesis
examines accents in English, and attitudes
towards use of English versus their home
language, among young black South
Africans educated within the former white
(ex ‘Model C’) school system. Using
qualitative analysis of recorded interviews,
she argues that, although there is variation
in the attitudes of the speakers, there are
also many commonalities, e.g. commitment
to South Africa; intentions, where possible,
to bring up any future children as bilingual;
code-switching, particularly with peers;
and a sense of identification with an
‘ethnic’ identity based on the young
people’s own home language, even where
their proficiency in that language is not
high. Kirsten Morreira provides acoustic
analysis of speakers’ vowel systems
in English. Her comparison of these
findings with those emanating from her
interview data shows that there are some
correspondences between the attitudes,
upbringing and education of speakers
with particular vowel variants. Yet, she
concludes, there is no readily discernible
means to predict correspondence between
speakers’ accents and their attitudinal and
biographical characteristics; nor is there
a unified ‘Model C’ accent amongst these
young people.
Supervisor: Professor R Mesthrie
(African & Gender Studies, Anthropology
and Linguistics)

MISSION STATEMENT
UCT aspires to become a premier academic meeting point between South Africa, the rest of Africa and the world.
Taking advantage of expanding global networks and our distinct vantage point in Africa, we are committed, through innovative
research and scholarship, to grapple with the key issues of our natural and social worlds. We aim to produce graduates
whose qualifications are internationally recognised and locally applicable, underpinned by values of engaged citizenship and
social justice. UCT will promote diversity and transformation within our institution and beyond, including growing the next
generation of academics.
Foundation statement underpinning the mission statement
Our research-led identity is shaped by a commitment to:
• academic freedom as the prerequisite to fostering intellectual debate and free injury;
• ensuring that research informs all our activities including teaching, learning and service to the community;
• advancing and disseminating knowledge that addresses the key challenges facing society – South African,
continental and global;
• protecting “curiosity driven” research;
• nurturing and valuing creativity in the sciences and arts including the performing and creative arts;
• stimulating international linkages of researchers and research groupings.
We strive to provide a superior quality educational experience for undergraduate
and postgraduate students through:
• providing an intellectually and socially stimulating environment;
• inspired and dedicated teaching and learning;
• exposure to the excitement of creating new knowledge;
• stimulating the love of life-long learning;
• the cultivation of competencies for global citizenship;
• supporting programmes that stimulate the social consciousness of students;
• offering access to courses outside the conventional curricula;
• attracting a culturally and internationally diverse community of scholars;
• guaranteeing internationally competitive qualifications;
• offering a rich array of social, cultural, sporting and leadership opportunities;
• providing an enabling physical and operational environment.
In advancing UCT as an Afropolitan university, we will:
• expand our expertise on Africa and offer it to the world;
• extend our networks on the continent, along with our global connections and partnerships;
• promote student and staff exchanges and collaborative research and postgraduate programmes;
• engage critically with Africa’s intellectuals and world views in teaching and research;
• contribute to strengthening higher education on our continent.
We strive to provide an environment for our diverse student and staff community that:
• promotes a more equitable and non-racial society;
• supports redress in regard to past injustices;
• is affirming and inclusive of all staff and students and promotes diversity in demographics, skills and backgrounds;
• offers individual development opportunities to all staff;
• is welcoming as a meeting space for scholars from Africa and around the world.
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OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY
OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY
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Chancellor
Graça Simbine Machel, BA Lisbon LLD(hc) UWC DU(hc) Essex PhD(hc) Cape Town
DLitt et Phil(hc) RAU DHL(hc) Massachusetts
Vice-Chancellor
Max Rodney Price, MBBCh Witwatersrand BA Oxon MSc London Dipp Occ Health
Witwatersrand
Chairman of the Council
Njongonkulu Winston Hugh Ndungane, GCOB BD MTh AKC (Associate Kings College)
FKC Fellowship Kings College PhD(hc) Cape Town DD(hc) Rhodes DD(hc) Virginia
DHumLet(hc) Worcester Massachusetts DSocSc(hc) KZN DTh(hc) Stell DD(hc)
Episcopal Divinity School Massachusetts DLit(hc) Unisa DHumSci VUT PhD Walter
Sisulu
President of Convocation
Maria Macdiarmid Ingouville Burton, OLS Member of the Order of Disa BA DSocSc(hc)
Cape Town
Deputy Vice-Chancellors
Thandabantu Nhlapo, BA(Law) UBLS LLB(Hons) Glasgow DPhil Oxon DUniv(hc) Glasgow
Sandra Klopper, BA(Hons) Witwatersrand MA UEA PhD Witwatersrand
Crain Arthur Soudien, BA(Hons) MA PGCE (Sec) Cape Town BEd Unisa EdM PhD SUNY Buffalo
Daniel Petrus Visser, B Iuris LLB LLD Pretoria Dr Iuris Leiden Advocate of the High Court
Fellow of the University of Cape Town
Deans of Faculties
Commerce: Don Ross, BA MA PhD Western Ontario
Engineering & Francis William Petersen, PrEng BEng MEng PhD Stell MSAIChE
the Built MSAIMM
Environment:
Health Sciences: Marian Eslie Jacobs, MBChB DCM Cape Town FCP SA
Humanities: Paula Ensor, BSocSc Natal BA(Hons) Cape Town CEd London DTEd Unisa
MSc PhD London
Law: Pamela Jane Schwikkard, BA Witwatersrand LLB LLM Natal LLD Stell
Science: Anton Powter Le Roex, BSc Stell BSc(Hons) PhD Cape Town
Dean of Higher Education Development
Nanette Yeld, BA Rhodes HDE(PG)Sec MEd PhD Cape Town
Director of the Graduate School of Business
Walter Remi Juliaan Baets, BSc MSc Antwerp PhD Warwick
Registrar
Hugh Theodore Amoore, BA Cape Town

UCT VALUES
UCT Values
The University is a community of scholars, students and staff. A community implies the
shared acceptance by its members of common values. The concept of values implies not only
rights but also obligations, for the community itself and for its individual members.
This Statement of Values provides a framework that informs and governs what is considered
by the University community to be appropriate and acceptable behaviour. The Statement also
serves as the foundation for a range of University policies and guides the management of
particular aspects of University life.
As a value-based community, we aspire to an encompassing ethos which:
• Promotes academic excellence and the attainment of the institutional goal of becoming a
world-class African University.
• Preserves what is valuable in the history of the institution and of this country, and responds
to the challenges posed by past injustices and unfair discrimination.
• Achieves social transformation, empowerment and participative governance.
• Affirms and protects the fundamental human rights enshrined in the Constitution.
• Encourages the institution and all its members to accept responsibility for the welfare of the
community and for behaving in accordance with these community values.
Values:
We commit ourselves to:
• Truth, fairness, consistency and integrity in both academic and other work, and in all
personal and institutional relationships.
• Compassion, generosity and concern for the needs and aspirations of others, and in
particular for the challenges faced by the less privileged in our society.
• Respect and tolerance for cultural, religious, political, and other differences and
acknowledge of the value of diversity in society.
• Respect for the individual privacy, dignity and the right to personal choice.
• Intellectual honesty, vigour in debate, openness to alternative ideas and respect for other
views, beliefs and opinions.
• Commitment to high standards, personal fulfilment and the pursuit of excellence.
• The protection and responsible use of the University’s assets and resources.
Actions:
In the context of our recent history, we recognize the importance of affirming this ethos and
promoting these shared values. Accordingly, we undertake collectively and individually:
• To promote and protect academic freedom.
• To oppose and take steps to prevent racial, gender or other forms of unfair discrimination,
harassment, violence or abuse.
• To actively promote social justice and equity.
• To nurture a culture of learning which are supportive of students, scholars and teachers.
• To refrain from speech or conduct that demeans or humiliates others.
• To encourage our members to enjoy life, to laugh, to love, to appreciate and take full
advantage of the wealth of opportunities available to use in academic endeavour, in making
friends, and in social, cultural and sporting activity.
• To advance the principle of open governance and to be fully accountable for our actions,
decisions, and the stewardship of the University’s resources and mission.
• To nurture and empower our members.
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Welcome, Wamkelekile, Welkom ± today is not the end of your relationship with the university
but the beginning of a new phase in your continuing relationship with UCT, one that
you share with the UCT community of over 100 000 alumni.
Diverse as this community is, the shared experiences of a critical academic ethos
and a spectacular campus make for a strong network that has a wide footprint,
not only in South Africa, but across the continent and the globe.
We set great store by our links with our alumni, and indeed the links alumni have with
each other. We promise that we will be in touch, and ask you in turn to let us know
not only your current contact details but also, from time to time, something
of your lives and where you are in your careers.
Updates can be done on the web ± http://www.uct.ac.za/dad/alumni/update/
± or by writing to the Alumni Office, UCT, PB X3 Rondebosch, 7701
or by contacting us on (27) (21) 650 3746.
Your alma mater looks forward to welcoming you back,
whether to a public lecture, a leadership forum, your class reunion,
or just an informal call!