UCT News Update Update

Pifer Award for Living Landscapes Project
UCT scholars in the Clanwilliam-based Living Landscapes Project have won the Alan Pifer Research Award for
the second time. Named in honor of former Carnegie Corporation President and founding Chairman of the UCT
Fund, the Pifer Award is made annually to researchers whose work contributes to the advancement of disadvantaged
South Africans.
Drama Department Chair Mark Fleishman and Professor of Fine Art Pippa Skotnes received the 2008 Pifer Award
for their work in bringing local history, drama and art to the Clanwilliam community. Archaeologist John Parkington
initiated the community-based heritage and education project in the early 1990s. Parkington was recognized for
his contribution to the area with the Pifer Award in 1999.
Since then the Living Landscapes Project has taken root in the community. The project has established jobs in
catering, crafting and guiding, informed local school curricula, and helped return the rich heritage of the area to
the local community.
In the mid-1990s art workshops were offered to fewer than 100 pupils annually. Now about 500 children each year
complete workshops involving dance, storytelling, shadow puppetry, and arts and crafts. The program culminates
in the annual Spring Lantern Parade which re-interprets traditional San themes.
Goldman Sachs Supports Brown-GSB Partnership
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UCT’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) is among 16 prestigious U.S. and European
business schools selected as initial academic partners in a global initiative to increase the
number of underserved women receiving management education.
The five-year partnership between the GSB and Brown University is part of the $100
million project, “10,000 Women” funded by New York investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Brown and UCT will develop a course in technology innovation designed to build “entrepreneurship
capacity” by providing students with the skills to leverage technology to
create competitive businesses.
For the fourth consecutive year, UCT’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
schools in emergent markets such as Africa, India and China.
Global Administrative Law in Africa
NYU Professor Benedict Kingsbury, Judge Dennis Davis, Deputy Vice-
Chancellor Thandabantu Nhlapo, Minister Trevor Manuel, Professor
Dick Stewart of NYU, and Dean Hugh Corder at the UCT-NYU Global
Administrative Law conference
The procession during the annual Spring Lantern
Parade in Clanwilliam
In March UCT and New York University co-sponsored a conference on “Global
Administrative Law Issues in the African Region”, held in the UCT Law Faculty’s Oliver
Tambo Moot Court.
Dean Hugh Corder described the conference as a great success: “Both South African
and overseas delegates were challenged by views put forward in the papers, and a plan
was drafted for further research and co-operation between NYU and UCT Law. Adding
greatly to the significance of the event was the presence of South African Minister of
Finance, Trevor Manuel, who opened the conference, NYU President John Sexton who
was the riveting after-dinner speaker, and Kader Asmal who spoke on ‘Private Military
Security’.”