Tukkievaria 2013

1. TukkievariaJulie 2013 Volume 30 Nommer 3 July 2013 Volume 30 Number 3 Mosegamanye 2013 Kgatišo 30 Nomoro 3
Personeelnuusbrief Staff Newsletter Ditaba Tša Bašomi
www.up.ac.za
P4 Vivit Lingua
Latina P6 New Steinway piano
hand-picked for Musaion P8 UP’s Winter
Mini-Olympics
UP pays tribute to its donors
The University hosted a gala dinner
on 19 June to pay tribute to its donors
and friends whose contributions have
enabled the institution to reach new
heights of excellence.
UP has enjoyed the support of more than 400
corporations, trusts and foundations, as well as
15 000 individual donors, including alumni, staff
and friends of the University over the past year. The
donations and sponsorships provide bursaries to
students, help to expand and improve teaching and
learning facilities, develop winning teams in several
sports, enable work within communities and create
knowledge across a broad spectrum of disciplines.
The guests who were present at the dinner are
among UP’s substantial donors. These included,
among others, Mr Norman Mbazima, Chief
Executive Officer of Kumba Iron Ore, which donated
R18,8 million for the establishment of a Virtual
Reality Centre for mine design. Also present were
His Excellency Mr Yutaka Yoshizawa, Ambassador
of Japan, whose embassy has sponsored
equipment in the Faculty of Health Sciences; and Mr
Piet Naudé, Regional General Manager of ABSA,
which invested in chairs in the faculties of Law
and Natural and Agricultural Sciences as well as
community engagement projects on the Mamelodi
Campus.
The gala dinner, the first of its kind on UP’s calendar
of events, included live music by UP students
and staff, and messages from students who have
benefited from bursaries.
Mr Leo Haese, President of the UP Convocation, delivers a
message at the gala dinner.
New Vice-PRINCIPAL appointed
Prof Mosia was North-West University’s (NWU)
Institutional Registrar from 2008 until his
appointment at UP. During his tenure at NWU he
was appointed by the Minister of Higher Education
and Training as the Administrator of Tshwane
University of Technology and as a member of the
Independent Assessor Team for the University of
Zululand.
Earlier in his career, Prof Mosia lectured part time
at the University of the North (Qwaqwa Campus),
where he was appointed Assistant Registrar. As
Registrar of the Medical University of Southern
Africa (Medunsa) he was deeply involved with its
transformation, merger and restructuring processes.
In 2006 he was appointed as General Manager:
Professional Boards, Health Professions Council
of SA. He chaired accreditation visits for medical
education programmes in India, the United Kingdom
and the United Arab Emirates in 2007.
Prof Mosia’s main areas of research and scientific
publications are medical education, governance,
quality assurance, management and leadership. He
serves on various national committees, including
as a board member of the National Student
Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS). He has performed
five institutional audits for the Council on Higher
Education, one as chair, and he served as treasurer
and trustee of the Foundation of Tertiary Institutions
of the Northern Metropolis (FOTIM).
At UP, Prof Mosia’s portfolio will focus on all aspects
of the quality of student life. The departments of
Student Affairs
and of Residence
Affairs and
Accommodation
will report to him.
UP can benefit in
many ways from
the multiple skills
that Prof Mosia
brings. “Over
many years I have learned and continue to learn
how the DNA of a university is configured. I can
relate to academics, students, the administration
and external stakeholders in a manner that
advances the big picture and strategic goals of the
University,” says Prof Mosia.
“I would like to see a university that is becoming bigger and better and responsive to critical
challenges facing higher education. I would like to contribute to the quality of student learning
experiences working with all stakeholders of the University,” says Prof Themba Mosia, appointed as
UP’s Vice-Principal: Student Affairs and Residences from 1 July 2013.
Prof Mosia

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Universiteit van Pretoria • University of Pretoria • Yunibesithi ya Pretoria
Opedag 2013
lok weer talle
UP se jaarlikse Opedag bied aan Graad 12-leerders die
geleentheid om nader met die Universiteit bekend te raak.
Vanjaar het ook baie Graad 11- en selfs Graad 10-leerders
die Opedag besoek, die groot aantal uitstallings op die
Hatfieldkampus besigtig en die inligtingsessies van die
onderskeie departemente bygewoon. Daar was ook
uitstallings op die Aula-grasperk en die Piazza.
Die fakulteite Opvoedkunde, Gesondheidswetenskappe
en Veeartsenykunde het, naas inligtingstalletjies en
uitstallings op die Hatfieldkampus, ook dekaan- en
programinligtingsessies op hul eie kampusse aangebied.
Prof Cheryl de la Rey, Visekanselier en Rektor, het in haar
verwelkomingstoespraak genoem dat die verskeidenheid
opsies wat vir potensiële studente aan tersiêre instellings
bestaan, die speelveld vir leerders oopgooi. Sy het die
leerders daarop gewys dat UP, afgesien van sy puik
akademiese rekord, ook talle geleenthede in sport, kuns
en kultuur aan studente bied. “Ons doen moeite om julle ’n
holistiese opvoeding te bied sodat julle nie net intellektueel
nie, maar ook fisiek en emosioneel kan ontwikkel tydens jul
studietyd by hierdie instelling,” het prof De la Rey gesê.
Sy het die leerders gewys op die noodsaaklikheid daarvan
om hul aansoeke vroegtydig in te stuur. Aansoeke vir
toelating in 2014 sluit in September 2013.
Meer as 25 000 studente en hul familielede
en vriende het die Universiteit se Opedag op
Saterdag 18 Mei bygewoon.
’n Gedeelte van die groot aantal besoekers in die Amfiteater van die Hatfieldkampus by UP se Opedag.
Take four campuses of one university,
add in excess of 25 000 visitors and
2 000 employees and students and
what do you get? UP’s Open Day!
The University’s Open Day is organised annually
by the event coordinator of the Department
of University Relations, Ms Laverne Gardner,
assisted by Ms Senta Platzoeder. They start
with preparations just after Welcoming Day,
which precedes Open Day by four months. “The
thing with Open Day,” says Ms Gardner, “is the
sheer scope of organisation down to the level of
detailed logistics that must be arranged to pull it
off without hitches and glitches.”
University Relations coordinates this event
with the nine faculties and support services
departments, such as the Department of Student
Affairs, Client Services Centre, TuksRes,
Department of Library Services, Centre for the
Study of Aids, UP Arts and TuksSport.
Logistical arrangements for Open Day start with
procuring gazebos, tents, information booths,
tables, tablecloths (down to the colour required
by each exhibitor) and signage. It includes
décor in the Amphitheatre, electricity supply to
exhibition areas, and 2 000 T-shirts, printed and
packaged for groups according to individual
sizes.
University Relations packaged the 25 000 goody
bags themselves this year. Each included a
Client Service Centre (CSC) information booklet,
a pen, an application form for the bursary
draw (another item that must be managed on
the day) and an Open Day programme book.
A group of students worked for 36 hours over
a four-day period to package all the goody
bags. At times, the required packaging rate to
keep to the deadline was 17 bags per minute,
which the students managed to do. Paying the
student workers was another item that had to be
administered.
Once everybody had gone home after Open
Day, the suppliers returned to pick up plants from
the Amphitheatre, removed sound equipment
and packed up gazebos, information booths and
banners. Even that was arranged beforehand by
the University Relations team who cannot afford
not to think of everything.
BEHIND THE SCENES ON
OPEN DAY
Ms Laverne Gardner from the Department of University Relations, second from right, with students who helped to
pack 25 000 goody bags for Open Day.
Ground-breaking
surgery for
disadvantaged patient
Dr Cules van den Heever from the Department of Prosthodontics,
Faculty of Health Sciences, was a member of the team of
specialists who performed extensive maxillo-facial surgery on Ms
Mahkge who was born without a nose (congenital total arrhinia).
The team of specialists also included private medical specialists
Dr Hermann Kluge, maxillo-facial and oral surgeon, and Dr Johan
Kluge, ear, nose and throat specialist.
Apart from the specialists who contributed their expertise pro
bono, ASM Consultants sponsored the nasal implants and the
external prosthesis. The Rapid Prototyping Unit at the Central
University of Technology in Bloemfontein sponsored the pre-
operative facial models. These models were produced by a
process of three dimensional printing. Mediclinic Kloof donated
their facilities, which included the theatre and Ms Mahkge’s stay
in the critical care unit of the hospital.
Through Radio 702’s
‘Our birthday, your
wish’ campaign, the
Dis-Chem Foundation
sponsored Ms Mahkge’s
medication.
UP’s Department of
Prosthodontics and the
Gauteng Department
of Health established
one of a few centres
in the country where
specialised maxillo-
facial prosthodontics
services are offered to
state patients with facial
disfigurement.
The Operation Face to Face the World campaign,
launched by the Advancement Division in the
Department of University Relations, can help
disadvantaged patients with facial disfigurement
like Ms Ennica Mahkge, who underwent ground-
breaking surgery on 22 June.
Dr Cules van den
Heever shows one
of the pre-operative
facial models at the
media conference
after the surgery.

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TUKKIEVARIA
Three UP scientists receive
NSTF-BHP Billiton Awards
Prof Millar is the Director of the Mammal Research
Unit and the MRC Receptor Biology Unit and he
received the lifetime achiever Award for an individual
who has made an outstanding contribution to science,
engineering, technology and innovation (SETI) over a
lifetime.
Prof Venter, Director of the Zoonosis Research Unit
at UP and the Centre for Respiratory Diseases and
Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable
Diseases in Johannesburg and Prof Sinha,
Director of the Carl and Emily Fuchs Institute for
Microelectronics at UP, both received the TW
Kambule Award for individuals who have made an
outstanding contribution to SETI through research
and its outputs over the last five to ten years. The
award is sponsored by the National Research
Foundation (NRF).
Eight UP scientists were finalists in the NSTF-BHP
Billiton awards this year.
Prof Robert Millar, Prof Marietjie Venter and Prof Saurabh Sinha were among the
scientists who received National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards for
2013. The annual awards are hosted in partnership with BHP Billiton and the winners
were announced on 27 June.
Prof Mike Wingfield, Director of the Forestry and Agricultural
Biotechnology Institute (FABI) in the Faculty of Natural and
Agricultural Sciences, received the prestigious African Union (AU)
Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Award in the Life and Earth Sciences
category in Addis Ababa on 25 May 2013.
This awards programme aims to boost and popularise science
and technology in Africa through empowering African scientists,
celebrating their achievements and promoting all efforts to
transform scientific research into economic growth.
Prof Wingfield was elected to serve as the next President of the
International Union of Forestry Research Organisations (IUFRO)
early in June. He is the first ever African to be elected to this
prestigious position. He received honorary DSc degrees from the
University of British Columbia (Canada) in November 2012 and
the North Carolina State University (USA) in May 2013.
In this photo: Prof Mike Wingfield and Prof Nabil Ibrahim,
a Professor in Textile Chemistry and Technology, who won
the Award in the Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation
category, were photographed at the statue of former President
Kwame Nkrumah in front of the AU Building in Addis Ababa.
Prestigious
African Union
Science Award
for Prof Mike
Wingfield
Prof Don Cowan
kry A-gradering
Prof Don Cowan, ’n internasionale navorser van faam en die Direkteur
van sowel die Institusionele Navorsingstema in Genoomnavorsing as die
Sentrum vir Mikrobiologiese Ekologie en Genomika (CMEG) van die
Universiteit van Pretoria, het onlangs ’n A-gradering van die Nasionale
Navorsingsinstituut ontvang.
UP-geboue
vereer met
toekennings
Twee van die nuwe geboue op die
Hatfieldkampus het die Suid-Afrikaanse
Vereniging van Eienaars van Eiendom
(SAPOA) se prestigeryke Toekenning
vir Uitstaande Innovering ontvang.
Die toekennings is op 15 Mei tydens die 45ste
jaarlikse SAPOA Internasionale Eiendomskonvensie
en -uitstalling by Sun City gemaak. Die toekenning
gee erkenning aan ontwikkelings wat hul omgewing
op geïntegreerde wyse verbeter en wat die
uitdagings van ʼn stad, asook enige direkte impak
wat dit op gemeenskappe en die omgewing mag
hê, effektief identifiseer en aanspreek.
UP se Ingenieurswese 3- en Parkade-projek wat
deur ARC-argitekte ontwerp is, het die toekenning
vir ontwikkelings met gemengde benutting ontvang.
Hierdie projek, wat die nuwe Aula- en Musaion-
foyer insluit, het onder meer ’n kommersiële
ontwikkeling van R1,35 biljoen in Kaapstad die loef
afgesteek.
Die Thuto-gebou was die ander UP-ontwikkeling
wat vereer is. Hoewel daar nie ’n wenner in die
kategorie Ander Ontwikkelings aangewys is nie, het
die gebou ’n spesiale merietetoekenning ontvang.
Die Thuto-gebou het ’n spesiale merietetoekenning ontvang .
Prof Robert Millar Prof Marietjie Venter Prof Saurabh Sinha

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Universiteit van Pretoria • University of Pretoria • Yunibesithi ya Pretoria
Vivit Lingua Latina!
Prof Hennie Stander, Visedekaan van die Fakulteit
Geesteswetenskappe, het me Schumann van
die Departement Antieke Tale vir die Erepenning
genomineer. Volgens prof Stander het geen ander
dosent in Latyn nog ooit vermag wat me Schumann
vir Latyn in Suid-Afrika gedoen het nie.
Me Schumann is in 1984 aangestel as dosent in
Regslatyn. As gevolg van haar navorsing oor die
lewensvatbaarheid van Latyn op primêre, sekondêre
en tersiêre vlak, het sy Schola Scripta ontwikkel
wat aan leerders van Graad 6 af, asook studente
en volwassenes (die oudste kursusganger is 82),
die geleentheid gee om Latyn te ontdek en kennis
te maak met die Klassieke Wêreld. Hierdie projek
moet gesien word teen die agtergrond van Latyn se
verdwyning as skoolvak en weglating uit verskeie
universiteitskursusse oor die afgelope paar dekades.
Haar inisiatiewe het ook ’n groot rol gespeel in
die suksesvolle implementering van kursusse in
Latynse terminologie vir mediese en regstudente
aan UP. Me Schumann werk nie net saam met ander
departemente en fakulteite by UP nie, maar ook met
ander universiteite. Me Schumann het in 1992 die
kursus Mediese Terminologie (MTL) geloods en toe
het 19 Veeartsenystudente ingeskryf. MTL het vinnig
uitgebrei na die mediese kampus en vandag deurloop
1 200 mediese studente in agt programme die kursus.
Studente in Menslike Bewegingskunde en Biologiese
Wetenskappe volg ook die kursus. Daar word ’n
sertifikaatkursus in Regslatyn (SSLaw) aangebied
vir studente wat LLB, BA (Regte) en BCom (Regte)
studeer. Vir nagraadse teologiestudente word die
kursus SSTheol aangebied.
“Corrie Schumann is nie net ’n incognito-dosent
in een of ander klas iewers op kampus nie; haar
teenwoordigheid maak ’n verskil. Die impak van
Corrie Schumann se pogings om Latyn in hierdie
land te vestig, sal nog vir baie jare gevoel word, selfs
nadat sy die Universiteit van Pretoria verlaat het,”
skryf prof Stander.
Me Corrie Schumann-Bosman het vanjaar ’n Besondere Erepenning van Die Suid-
Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns ontvang as erkenning van 25 jaar se
inisiatiewe, projekte en kursusse om Latyn as vak aan UP en elders te propageer.
Me Corrie Schumann
HUBERTE RUPERT-PRYS
VIR PROF WIM VILJOEN
Prof Viljoen is ’n alumnus van die universiteite van Pretoria en Kaapstad waar hy die BMus-, MMus- en DPhil-
grade behaal het. Hy het sy orrelstudie vir twee jaar in Parys voortgesit onder die bekende Franse orrelis,
Marie-Claire Alain. Hy het al as orrelis in Engeland, Frankryk, België, Nederland, Duitsland, Oostenryk,
Switserland en die Tsjeggiese Republiek opgetree. Prof Viljoen lewer landswyd ’n belangrike bydrae tot die
verhoging van die standaard van orrelspel en -onderrig.
Die Huberte Rupert-prys vir Klassieke Musiek roteer jaarliks en word elke derde jaar aan kunstenaars wat
klawerbord of strykinstrumente bespeel, toegeken. Die ander twee jaar word die toekennings gemaak aan
kunstenaars wat blaasinstrumente bespeel en aan komponiste of opleiers van klassieke kunstenaars.
Prof Wim Viljoen, Hoof van die Departement Musiek, het vanjaar die Huberte Rupert-
prys vir Klassieke Musiek van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns
ontvang. Dit is ’n toekenning van hoë onderskeiding aan prof Viljoen en is ’n gepaste
erkenning van sy bydrae tot klassieke musiek in Suid-Afrika.
Prof Wim Viljoen
Prof Gerrit Olivier
awarded the 2013
Stals Prize
Prof Olivier is a former ambassador and academic who heads the
Unit for Euro-African Studies at the University. The 2013 Stals Prize
for Political Science was awarded to Prof Olivier for his outstanding
contribution to the development of political science as a field of study.
Prof Olivier holds a doctorate from UP. Since the late 1960s, he has
held academic positions at the universities of Zululand, Pretoria and
Johannesburg (formerly the Rand Afrikaans University). As a career
diplomat, he served as South Africa’s first diplomatic representative
in the former Soviet Union and subsequently as South Africa’s first
ambassador in the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan.
Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en
Kuns awarded the 2013 Stals Prize for Political
Science to Extraordinary Professor in Political
Sciences, Prof Gerrit Olivier.
Prof Andries Breytenbach, emiritus professor
en voormalige Adjunkdekaan van die
Fakulteit Teologie is ook op 27 Junie vereer
met die Ds Pieter van Drimmelen-medalje
deur die SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en
Kuns ter erkenning van sy bydrae ten opsigte
van die Afrikaanse Bybelvertaling.
Die Akademie het prof Breytenbach vereer omdat
hy tans ’n onvervangbare bydrae lewer tot die
nuwe vertaling van die Bybel in Afrikaans en
vir sy betrokkenheid by die jongste Afrikaanse
Psalmberyming. Hy het ’n reuse bydrae gelewer tot die
finale isiNdebele Bybel as projekleier en brontaalkenner.
Die Departement Ou-Testamentiese Wetenskap in die
Fakulteit Teologie het vroeër vanjaar, op 15 Maart, ook
hiervoor akademiese erkenning aan prof Breytenbach
gegee.
SA Akademie vereer prof
Breytenbach

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TUKKIEVARIA
Lesolokwalakwatšo la
Woolly Winter le dira
diphetogo
Lesolokwalakwatšo le le thakgotšwe mathomong a Mopitlo bjalo
ka maikarabelo a Yunibesithi ya Pretoria go šomela setšhaba ka
go thuša ditšhaba tša tikologo. Setšhaba sa Yunibesithi ka thušo
ya maloko a setšhaba, se neelane ka mapai a go feta 700, dijo le
diaparo gammogo le tšhelete ya go lekana R45 925.
Setheo sa Kagišo ya Bana sa Tshwane se amogetše mapai a 200,
dijo le diaparo gore ba di phatlalatše le mekgatlo ya go fapafapana
ya leago ka seleteng se. Go la Mamelodi, Legae la Batšofadi la
Mamelodi le senthara ya tlhokomelo ya bana di amogetše mapai.
Molaodi wa lenaneo le wa Tuks FM, Dewald Noel, o boletše
gore ba ikopantše le maloko a setšhaba sa Mamelodi go
tseba ka dinyakwa tša bona gomme go kgethilwe gore ka
lesolokwalakwatšo le go thušwe Legae la Batšofadi la Mamelodi.
“Ke thabile kudu go bona Tuks FM e kgethile protšeke ya go dira
phapano go batho ba bagolo, bao e lego sehlopha seo ka mehla
se sa hlokomelwego. Ka ge Letšatši la Mandela le batamela, ke
ipiletša go setšhaba sa Yunibesithi gore se tšee karolo go dira
phapano setšhabeng sa ga borena”, gwa realo Prof De la Rey.
Mapai ao a kgobokeditšwego ke baithuti le
bašomedi ba Yunibesithi ya Pretoria bjalo ka
karolo ya Lesolokwalakwatšo la Woolly Winter a
neetšwe badudi ba Legae la Batšofadi la Mamelodi.
Lesolokwalakwatšo la Woolly Winter le be le
sepetšwa ke Tuks FM, ka thekgo ya go tšwa go
Motlatšamokhanseliri le Hlogo ya Yunibesithi, Prof
Cheryl de la Rey.
Centre for Study of
Governance
Innovation (GovInn)
launched
The Centre for the Study of
Governance Innovation (GovInn)
– UP’s new research institution
in the Faculty of Humanities –
was launched at the International
Studies Association (ISA)
conference in San Francisco in
the United States of America
on 6 April.
The global launch took the form of an
international roundtable with distinguished
speakers. Participants included Dr Mzukisi
Qobo, Deputy Director of GovInn; Dr Luk van
Langenhove, Director of the United Nations
University Institute on Comparative Regional
Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges;
Prof Andrew Cooper, Distinguished Fellow
at the Centre for International Governance
Innovation (CIGI) and Professor of Political
Science at the University of Waterloo; Dr
Elena Lazarou, Head of the Centre for
International Relations at the Getulio Vargas
Foundation (FGV), Brazil; Dr Tomas Weiss,
Head of the Department of West European
Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles
University in Prague; and Dr Nicoletta Pirozzi
of the Italian Institute of International Affairs.
In South Africa, the Centre was launched
on 20 May. The keynote address, ‘Their
crisis, our solutions’, was delivered by Dr
Susan George, author of Whose crisis?
Whose future? Dr George is a Franco-
American political scientist, writer and
social activist. She is the President of the
Transnational Institute and the Honorary
President of ATTAC (Association for the
Taxation of Financial Transactions and Aid
to Citizens). The launch event was followed
by Governance Innovation Week, a week-
long series of seminars, conferences and
roundtable discussions that explore new
frontiers of governance, hosted by GovInn at
the University of Pretoria.
GovInn is the first research institution entirely
dedicated to governance innovation in Africa.
It focuses not only on cutting-edge research,
but is also an ‘innovation laboratory’ capable
of generating new thinking about governance
processes and attracting governance
innovators from all over the world.
GovInn’s Director is Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti,
Jean Monnet Chair in Regional Integration
and Governance Studies and associate
professor of Political Science at the
University of Pretoria. He is a senior fellow
at the Centre for Social Investment of the
University of Heidelberg and at the Hertie
School of Governance (Germany), and is
an associate fellow at the United Nations
University Institute on Comparative Regional
Integration Studies (Belgium).
Bagaši ba Tuks FM le Prof Cheryl de la Rey ba le Legaeng la Batšofadi la
Mamelodi le ba bangwe ba badudi
Dr Susan George, left, who delivered the keynote
address at the launch of GovInn, speaks with a
guest at the event.
PROF ROBIN CREWE: first UP recipient
of HARRY OPPENHEIMER FELLOWSHIP
Prof Robin Crewe received the
prestigious Harry Oppenheimer
Fellowship Award for 2012, making him
the first UP recipient of the Award and
the thirteenth since its inception in 2001.
This announcement was made by the
Board of the Oppenheimer Memorial
Trust on 9 May.
The Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Awards were
initiated to commemorate efforts to support human
and intellectual development, advance scholarship
and encourage ideas. The Fellowship has a
monetary value of R1 million and is considered a
special investment to encourage and acknowledge
excellence in scholarship in all its forms.
Prof Crewe, a NRF-rated scientist, is a founder
member of the Academy of Science of South Africa,
and a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa,
the Royal Entomological Society of London and the
World Academy of Science. He serves as a council
member of the Academy of Science of the Developing
World and chairs the Board of the Network of African
Science Academies. He retired from his position as
acting Senior Vice-Principal at the end of June to
return to work on honeybee research and direct the
Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at UP.
The Award will enable Prof Crewe to produce a
monograph on the life history of the honeybee Apis
mellifera in collaboration with Prof Robin Moritz of
the University of Halle-Wittenberg. The Social Insect
Research Group at UP will continue with its research
on social parasitism in southern African honeybees
with a view to resolving a persistent problem in the
apicultural industry.
Prof Robin Crewe with his wife, Mary and son, Alastair, after the
announcement of the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award.

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Universiteit van Pretoria • University of Pretoria • Yunibesithi ya Pretoria
Mr Raymund Königk, a lecturer in Interior
Architecture in the Department of Archi-
tecture, was invited by the International
Federation of Interior Architects/Design-
ers (IFI) to act as a judge at the 2013
edition of WING Global Student Design
Competition and Award. The theme for
WING 2013 is ‘Think/Work’.
Mr Königk is a design studio master and teaches a
number of technical, theoretical and postgraduate
courses.
His master’s dissertation, titled ‘Interior design as
architecture’s “Other”’, investigated interior design
as a discipline and defined it as a profession. He
developed the professional framework and proposed
four registration categories for interior design in South
Africa. He is currently undertaking research for his
doctoral thesis titled ‘Interior design’s methods of
cultural production: Towards a phenomenographic
method for constructing identity’. His thesis
investigates interior design’s contributions to the
cultural system by analysing iconic representations of
interior design artefacts.
WING is a worldwide educational endeavour involving
interior architecture/design workshops. It is endorsed
by IFI and sponsored by IFI supporters.
On 8 April, Prof Wim Viljoen, Head of the Department of Music and Dr Charl du
Plessis, a Steinway Artist, travelled to Hamburg, Germany, to select the new Steinway
piano for the Musaion.
Prof Viljoen said that each piano is still made by hand at the Steinway factory. They had three hours to choose
from six pianos. To aid their decision, they followed the process of both playing the same pieces on all six
pianos. The pieces that they chose were representative of all style periods from the Baroque era onwards, as
well as contemporary works, as the new Musaion piano had to be versatile enough to cope with all of these.
In the 20th century, concert halls had grown bigger and pianos are now made to cope with the size of such
halls. Prof Viljoen said that each one of the six pianos that they considered had its own personality. One piano
was eliminated early on as it was too loud for a hall the size of the Musaion. The piano that they eventually
chose was delivered to the University within two weeks.
The new piano was inaugurated with a concert on Friday, 24 May, entitled ‘UPSO and All that Jazz’, where
Dr Du Plessis was the soloist in Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F. Prof Viljoen explained that although the
Musaion pianos belong to the Department of Music, they are also used for concerts and student events. The
Department of Music uses them each week – as part of their academic programme, music students perform in
front of fellow students and lecturers.
New Steinway piano
hand-picked for Musaion
Lecturer
invited
to judge
international
competition
Mr Raymund Königk
Prof Wim Viljoen at the new piano after its delivery from Germany.
Dr Gerald
Ouma
joins UP
Dr Gerald Ouma was
appointed as Director
of Institutional Planning
with effect from 1 July.
Dr Ouma has lectured
the last three years at
the University of the Western Cape and was
a visiting lecturer in the Higher Education
Management Programme at the Graduate
School of Public and Development Management
at the University of the Witwatersrand in the
same period.
Dr Ouma holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town and
BEd and MEd degrees from Kenyatta University. His research
interests span various aspects of education and he has
published extensively in internationally refereed journals.
Dr Ouma says he would like to make a meaningful contribution
to the realisation of UP’s strategic goals as set out in the UP
2025 Strategic Plan. He adds that his entire academic life has
been spent on studying universities and university systems.
“I trust that this experience and expertise will be of use to the
University of Pretoria”.
Dr Gerald Ouma
Die doel van die nuwe Leerstoel is onder meer
om navorsings- en leeruitkomste ten bate van
Harmony, die Universiteit en die land in die breë
te lewer. Daar sal ook produkontwikkeling op
die gebied van rotsmeganika gedoen word en
sagteware ontwikkel word ter ondersteuning van
numeriese modellering.
Daar word beplan om ’n nagraadse kwalifikasie
in rotsmeganika aan te bied. Die uitbreiding
van voorgraadse onderrig in rotsmeganika en
numeriese modellering, spesifiek na aanleiding
van nuwe navorsing wat aangepak word, sal ook
’n belangrike funksie van die leerstoel wees.
Mnr Graham Briggs, uitvoerende hoof van
Harmony, sê om die veiligheid van elke
mynwerker te verseker, is Harmony se
topprioriteit. “Daarby is dit belangrik vir
die bedryf dat Suid Afrika as leier op die
navorsingsgebied gesien word, met spesifieke
verwysing na die voorkoming van rotsverwante
sterftes en beserings.”
Mnr Graham Briggs, uitvoerende hoof van Harmony,
oorhandig die skenking vir die leerstoel aan die
Visekanselier en Rektor, prof Cheryl de la Rey. Links
staan die Dekaan van die Fakulteit Ingenieurswese, Bou-
omgewing en Inligtingtegnologie, prof Roelf Sandenbergh
en heel regs is prof Ronny Webber-Youngman, Hoof van die
Departement Mynbou-ingenieurswese.
Mynbourotsingenieurswese-
inisatief geloods by UP
Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (Harmony) het ’n skenking van
R4,7 miljoen oor drie jaar aan UP gedoen vir ’n leerstoel in rots-
ingenieurswese en numeriese modellering in die mynbedryf. Die Harmony-
leerstoel in die Departement Mynbou-ingenieurswese is op Donderdag
13 Junie geloods.

7. 7
TUKKIEVARIA
Fine arts students create artwork
for Engineering Study Centre
Fine arts students in the first and second year were
commissioned by Anglo American, donor of the
new Engineering Study Centre, to produce artworks
for the new building. The first-years produced two-
dimensional paintings for a designated wall in the
building while the second-years conceptualised
installation pieces to be suspended from the ceilings.
As the building is a landmark for its innovation in
being eco-friendly, a large part of the project brief
required the students to research and incorporate
nature and the concept of a wetland into their work.
Each student received a stipend from the sponsor
for production cost of the artworks created. This
commission gave students the opportunity to work
with a client and to engage with different areas of
expertise, such as engineering, mining, botany and
landscape design.
The students completed the projects in February and
March 2013 and the artworks will be installed upon
completion of the building.
Prof Schalk Claasen, building project manager, said
the building was completed by the end of May. The
Study Centre will be open for use by students at the
start of the second semester, but a date has not yet
been set for the official opening.
The two-dimensional work above is a collection of various works made by first-year
students which will be installed as a wall-piece in the Study Centre.
Installation piece by Maggie Botha
The keynote address, delivered by Dr Engela van
Staden, Chief Director: Academic Planning and
Management Support from the Department of Higher
Education and Training, was entitled ‘The Process
and Status of a Central Application Process and
Service’.
Other topics which were discussed included:
• principles underpinning service culture in
academic administration
• electronic management of student records and
integration with the student administration system
• best practice for verification of final results to
award a degree/diploma (by Ms Hettie Kirstein of
UP)
• central applications office in KZN and how it
serves Higher Education (HE) institutions
• best practice for applications, admissions and
registrations in the new college structure at the
University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)
• call centre management within institutions – best
practice and The Consumer Protection Act and its
impact on the contract with students
The University of Pretoria had 22 representatives
attending the conference. During the team building,
one of the UP teams came second in a fun general
knowledge quiz.
Ms Sisana Machi from Academic Administration was
elected as a member of the Management Committee
for 2014 and 2015.
HEFAF converges on the
fairest Cape
The 2013 Higher Education Faculty Administrators Forum (HEFAF) conference took
place in Milnerton, Cape Town, on 23 and 24 May. It was attended by 216 delegates
from 22 universities and Further Education and Training (FET) colleges from the
Southern African region.
The group of representatives from the University of Pretoria who attended the 2013 Higher Education Faculty Administrators
Forum conference in Cape Town.
Dipresidente
tša pele tša
Afrika ka Aula
Poledišano ya Segwera sa Bopresidente bja Afrika ke
lenaneo la Senthara ya Bopresidente ya Afrika kua
Yunibesithi ya Boston, USA, gomme foramo e swerwe ka
tšhomišano le UP.
Dipresidente tša pele tšeo di kgathilego tema mo Foramong
ke Barena Raila Odinga (tonakgolo ya Kenya go tloga ka
2008 go fihla ka 2013), Pedro Pires (mopresidente wa
Cape Verde go tloga ka 2001 go fihla ka 2011), Joaquim
Chissano (mopresidente wa Mozambique go tloga ka 1986
go fihla ka 2005), Ali Hassan Mwinyi (mopresidente wa
Tanzania go tloga ka 1985 go fihla ka 1995), Rupiah Banda
(mopresidente wa Zambia go tloga ka 2008 go fihla ka
2011), Karl Auguste Offmann (mopresidente wa Mauritius
go tloga ka 2002 go fihla ka 2003), Dr Amani Abed Karume
(mopresidente wa Zanzibar go tloga ka 2000 go fihla ka
2010), Frederick Tluway Sumaye (tonakgolo ya Tanzania
go tloga ka 1995 go fihla ka 2005) le Nicéphore Dieudonné
Soglo (tonakgolo ya Benin go tloga ka 1990 go fihla ka 1991;
gape ebile mopresidente go tloga ka 1991 go fihla ka 1996).
E be e le bona diboledi hlogotabeng ya “2k63: Bokamoso bja
temokrasi ka Afrika”.
Foramo e file baithuti sebaka sa go kopana le baetapele
ba bokgoni le maemo a ka go botšiša baetapele ba ba pele
dipotšišo.
Dipresidente tša pele tša Afrika tše senyane
di kgathile tema go foramo ya poledišano ya
segwera ka Aula, Khamphaseng ya Hatfield ka
la 5 Phupu.
Derdejaarstudente in Musiekgeskiedenis kon op 22 Mei luister na ’n
praatjie deur die gevierde Suid-Afrikaanse sopraan, me Mimi Coertse,
oor haar lewe en loopbaan. Me Coertse het die praatjie aangebied in
die Mimi Coertse-kamer in die Ou Merensky-gebou. Die Mimi Coertse-
kamer met memorabilia van haar loopbaan maak deel uit van die Suid-
Afrikaanse Musiekversamelings.
Mimi Coertse
praat in Coertse-
kamer

8. 8
Universiteit van Pretoria • University of Pretoria • Yunibesithi ya Pretoria
SPORT
UP’s Football Club, affectionately known as AmaTuks, ended the first
season in the Absa Premier Soccer League (PSL) in the top eight.
Following eight wins, six losses and sixteen draws in the first season, AmaTuks has
attained 40 points in the PSL.
UP’s Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Prof Cheryl de la Rey, hosted the team and its staff on
27 May. She said that the AmaTuks’ journey motivated many young South Africans aspiring
to be football professionals.
She thanked the players and acknowledged different role players who ensured the team’s
success. She assured the team of continued support from the University’s management.
The head coach, Mr Steve Barker, said that the University’s support had given AmaTuks
confidence in the field during their matches.
AmaTuks lauded for first
Absa Premiership season
From left to right: UP Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Prof Cheryl de la Rey; AmaTuks
captain, Mr Tebogo Monyai; AmaTuks head coach, Mr Steve Barker; and Executive
Director responsible for sport (among other responsibilities) at UP, Prof Antonie de Klerk.
TuksGholf-
oefensentrum
amptelik geopen
By die amptelike opening van TuksGholf se nuwe oefensentrum op 16 Mei was, van
links, mnr Johan Steyn, Programhoof, TuksGholf; prof Cheryl de la Rey, Visekanselier
en Rektor; dr Piet Botha, ondervoorsitter van die UP Raad en me Nobuhle Dlamini,
TuksGholfspeler wat op 8 Mei haar sewende titel van die seisoen ingepalm het toe sy
die Gauteng 54-putjie Match Play-titel gewen het.
UP’s Winter Mini-Olympics
Soccer, netball, volleyball and table tennis were among the many activities on offer at the second UP Wellness Mini-Olympics,
held on the Groenkloof Campus. The Zumba dance proved a popular activity as it helped keep everybody warm on a chilly June
afternoon.
UP’s second Mini-Olympics event of the year took
place on Friday, 7 June at the Groenkloof Campus.
Approximately 600 staff members attended the fun-filled
wellness afternoon. Participants registered for a wide
range of team sports activities, such as soccer, volleyball,
netball, table tennis and the fun team relay race.
Spectators and participants all had fun and entertainment
with wellness games such as ‘count the matches’, tyre
shuffle and musical chairs. The Zumba dance attracted
many participants and many spectators at the sport
matches did the Zumba dance when there was reason to
celebrate.
There was an array of stalls providing life-changing
information on exercise, health, nutrition and stress
management, while UP’s health partners hosted
testing kiosks that offered assessments of glucose
and cholesterol levels, visual screening and basic gait
assessment.
The winning sports teams received many great prizes.
The best dressed team was Groenkloof Student
Administration, runner up was the Department of
Information Technology and the team with the best team
spirit was the Faculty of Education “Aventura” team.
The next Mini-Olympics event will be on Spring Day
on 18 September.
UP-Tuks 1 het op Saterdag 15 Junie met ’n telling van 43-14 met Oostelikes/Eagles in die Carltonbekenliga
afgereken. Op die foto staan die UP Tuks 1-kaptein, Rudolph Smit, met die beker. Links van hom staan mnr
Sias van den Bergh, voorsitter van TuksRugby, regs van Rudolph staan prof Antonie de Klerk, Uitvoerende
Direkteur van UP verantwoordelik vir sport en mnr Kobus van der Walt, Direkteur van TuksSport. (Foto:
Jaco Joubert)
UP-TUKS wen die
Carlton-beker