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UJ’s Vice- Chancellor and Principal - Prof Letlhokwa Mpedi 1 6 Message of the outgoing Registrar
VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE 1 Message from Prof Tshilidzi Marwala PRESIDENT OF CONVOCATION MESSAGE 2 Message from Prof Boitumelo Diale UJ NEWS 5 UJ team wins 3rd place at the Intervarsity Brewing Competition 5 UJ implements blockchain-based certificates for graduates 6 ABE Bailey Trust awards UK-SA bursary to UJ student 7 School of Tourism and Hospitality Plaque Initiative: Creating world-class facilities for the next generation 8 UJ filmmaker and academic wins Zonta prize at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 11 UJ Doctoral Student Awarded Life-Changing Fulbright Scholarship EVENTS VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE 1 UJ’s Vice-Chancellor and Principal – Prof Letlhokwa Mpedi THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF CONVOCATION 2 Executive Committee of Convocation – Profiling the new Exco of Convocation MESSAGE FROM THE REGISTRAR 6 UJ’s Outgoing Registrar - Prof Kinta Burger UJ NEWS 7 The new Chancellor – Dr Phumzile Mhlambo-Ngcuka 8 The New Chair of Council – Ms Xoliswa Kakana 9 Celebrating outstanding individuals with Ellen Kuzwayo and Alumni Dignitas awards 11 UJ, TUT and Department of Communications and Digital Technologies launch AI Institute of South Africa EVENTS 14 WILL event with PPS 15 Convocation AGM 17 UJenius event 19 Western Cape Chapter launch and Faculty of Humanities Affinity group launch 21 Retired academics luncheon FACULTY OF EDUCATION SHOWCASED 25 Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education – Prof Nadine Petersen 27 Department of Science and Technology – VARSTEME Prof Umesh Ramnarain may be the game-changer in youth unemployment 29 Department of Education Leadership and Management - Role modelling provides students with inspiration: An alumni’s reflection 13 Learning to thrive in the “new normal” of post-COVID-19 14 Applied Information Systems Alumni Affinity Group launch 13 Law Faculty launches Law Affinity Group 15 UJ launches Zimbabwe alumni chapter 17 Technology drives Generation Z, a generation that wants to be heard 18 Faculty of Health Sciences Affinity Group launch 19 The School of Management open their Alumni Affinity Group 20 Bringing young people on board is important 21 Creating connections and building for the future: Faculty of Education Alumni Affinity Group launch 22 Solving complex security problems in the cybersecurity space FACULTY OF HEALTH SECTION 25 Prof Seheem Khan – building a strong workforce to serve the nation 27 Reimagine the future of medicine and education in the 21st Century of digital technology 29 Prof Heidi Abrahamse appointed to National Health Research Committee 30 Department of Podiatry moving leaps and bounds into the 4th Industrial revolution 32 Technology advances but patients remain at the centre 35 Health innovation makes big strides in 2022 37 Discovery of a two-million-year-old fossil vertebrae 38 Daniella Da Silva, Biomedical Science PhD candidate at the Laser Research Centre, UJ 39 Dr Eric Aniogo an alumnus with a passion for groundbreaking research 30 Department of Education Leadership and Management: Growing its own timber 31 Teaching and learning for an inclusive society as UJ launches Neurodiversity Centre 32 Teaching for learning in a fast-changing world ALUMNI MOVERS AND SHAKERS 35 Forbes 30 under 30 article – UJ Alumni 38 Linford Molaodi 40 Dr Jaco van der Merwe 41 Xolani Sedibe 42 Gift Somakwabe 43 Tommie Meyer 45 Salome Baker 47 Celimpelo Ndebele 49 Musetta Vander HONORARY DOCTORATES 53 UJ honours iconic figures during the 2022 Summer Graduation series INSIGHTS 57 ALUMNI MOVERS AND SHAKERS 41 UJ makes the NYDA board shine 44 Celebrating our alumni’s excellence through the years 79 Nessisa Ngwenya, Nurse educator and Ms Universe Africa 2019 80 Bernard Zipfel, curator of fossil and rock collections 81 Yalekile Lusibane, CFO at South African Diamonds and Precious Metals Regulator 82 Lt Col Lucky (Nhlanhla) Zuma, Officer Commanding 80 Air Navigation School 83 Masonwabe Fuma: Marketer, Social Entrepreneur and Multi-award winning businessman 85 Anele Sikakana, co-founder and CEO of The Iconic Beverage Company 86 Gcina Nomsa Dlamini: Senior International Trade Manager: Europe & UK at WESGRO HONORARY DOCTORATES 88 UJ Confers Doctorate degree on British sociologist, Prof Michael Burawoy INSIGHTS 90 DSI/NRF/Newton Fund Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation, the 4th Industrial Revolution and Sustainable Development 92 We rise by lifting others, by Dr Tebogo Mashifana SPORT 95 Former Banyana Banyana player and alumna appointed Assistant Coach for UJ Women’s Senior Football Team 96 Two UJ women’s football maestros called for national Under-17 camp Decolonisation of knowledge and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) 59 Electric vehicles are the future of motorised transport, but South Africa is still stuck in a carbon past 61 Free trade is necessary to increase Africa’s economic development SPORT 64 UJ trio speak on maiden COSAFA Cup experience, first caps for Banyana Banyana 65 Bongiwe Msomi, Caitlin Rooskrantz shine at 2022 Momentum gsport Awards 66 Michelle Moganedi, Ryan Mphahlele crowned 2022 UJ Sportswoman, Sportsman of the Year
8 The New Chair of Council - Ms Xoliswa Kakana
49 Musetta Vander: A glamorous gipsy in the limelight
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