NendilaNEWSLETTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VENDA

Creating future leaders

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“Your university qualification is an important currency - use it wisely to your benefit and to the benefit of society.”

So said Univen’s Vice Chancellor and Principal, Prof Peter Mbati at the recent autumn graduation ceremony where more than 1 600 students received degrees and diplomas.

“You will now join a growing number of proud Univen alumni who occupy positions of influence, not only in South Africa, but the world over in both the public and private sector.

“We are celebrating the achievements of our students, our sons and daughters, for successfully completing their academic programmes. We are confident that you have acquired the necessary skills and competencies to allow you to flourish in whatever career choice you pursue. This will allow you to contribute meaningfully to the socio-economic development of our communities and societies and to the nation at large,” he said.

“All of this is testimony to the rigour that we invest in both our staff and students, ensuring that critical enablers to academic success, such as infrastructure and appropriate policies, are in place.”

Of the total number of graduandi 57 percent were females and of the nine PhD graduates, five were female. Since its inception just over 30 years ago,

the university has produced more than 35 000 graduates. The best overall student , Mr Daniel Katanda, received the Senate gold medal.

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Your qualification is an important currency – use it wisely

Read insideR510 000 from Agriseta for mentorships 2BE THE BEST - Univen Zion Christian Church Students’ Fellowship support 2R3m from Domba Trust 2R1,2m for green economy 2Grade 12 learners benefit from Univen Career Expo 2Welcome to Science and Technology interns 2Buddy programme to link students 3The Univen Provident Fund is looking for you! 3Prof Mbati appointed chairperson of Higher Education South Africa’s Advisory Committee 3Proudly representing Univen 4Skills development the most powerful tool against unemployment – Minster Nzimande 4United Nations recognises Univen skills 4Take the future of Africa forward 5SABC Limpopo partners with Univen 5Hosken Consolidated Investment Foundation on campus 5Univen serves rural communities 5Continental honour for Prof Georges-Ivo Ekosse 6Chemistry for development and sustainability in Africa 6Univen’s brand-new Transdisciplinary E-journal launched 6Univen participates in HASI career exhibition 6

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Nursing students taking oath.

Hard work earns dividends - Mr Daniel Katanda, recipient of the Senate gold medal.

Lining up for a hard-earned PhD.

Celebration time led by the Univen choir.

Use your university qualification wisely - Prof Mbati.

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R3m from Domba Trust

BE THE BEST - Univen Zion Christian Church Students’ Fellowship support

Grade 12 learners benefit from Univen Career Expo

Univen has received R510 000 from the Agriseta for mentorship programmes. The money will be used to place unemployed agriculture graduates to train farmers in the Mopani and Vhembe districts in livestock production. The Chief Executive Officer of the Agriseta, Mr Jeremiah Madiba says R90 000 of the

money will be used for a baseline survey and for developing intervention strategies and programmes. The meeting was facilitated by the University of Venda Foundation and the proposal developed by Dr Baloyi and staff members of the Department of Animal Science in the School of Agriculture.

BE THE BEST, a Univen Zion Christian Church Students’ Fellowship project, is a supporting mechanism to ensure that learners make academic progress.

The project helps students to achieve good

results through relevant group discussions and motivational talks for secondary school learners.

The fellowship was founded by one of Univen’s alumni, Mr Mabatha in 1992 and is internationally recognised.

Hundreds of grade 12 learners from various secondary schools in Limpopo’s Vhembe region flocked to the Univen campus to apply and enrol for various careers at the recent University of Venda Career Exhibition.

Choosing a career, after matric is one of the difficult things a student has to face, but according to Nandipha Maluleke a grade 12 learner from Shirilele Secondary school near Malamulele, the expo helped me and other learners to know the careers and institutions to further her studies next year.

“I am planning to study Financial Accounting at the University of Venda next year and I am eager to pass my matric with flying colours,” said Maluleke.

The exhibitors comprised of the University of Venda, the Tshwane University of Technology, the University of Limpopo, Anglo American Platinum, the Capricorn, Vhembe, Waterberg, Lephalale and Jeppe Further Education and Training College, the Vaal University of Technology, the Department of Education, the Univers i t ies of Pretor ia, Witwatersrand, North-West and Johannesburg, the Rosebank college and the National Student Financial Aid Scheme.

Mr Steve Kekana, President of the Careers Exhibition and Information Association says the annual expo gives grade 12 learners an opportunity to get information about careers and entry requirements of institutions to further their studies.

The Career Expo Association was formed by various South African traditional universities, former technikons and the Department of Education about 30 years ago.

“We advise new students to apply in time to avoid the rush at universities in the beginning of the year. We also teach them the advantages of online registration which help them to avoid long queues that could result in a stampede,” said Kekana.

Officially opening the expo, Univen’s Director of Community Engagement, Prof Vhonani Netshandama said that collaboration between various institutions of higher learning was important to improve career choices for learners.

“One-on-one conversations with learners make their visions imaginable and inject hope about the future plans of learners. We believe that grade 12 learners will benefit.”

The Domba Trust has donated R3m for the development of a mining engineering programme at Univen. The Chairman of the trust, Mr Mashudu Ramano says this is an important development which should benefit the youth and the economy of Limpopo.

On the job training - Univen interns from the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation went through an orientation course recently.

“Do not be time watchers, be accountable, never go to bed without making a difference or without learning anything,” was Univen’s Deputy Vice Chancellor: Operations, Dr Jannie Zaaiman’s advice to the interns.

“The internship programme will expand your knowledge and skills, you will gain valuable advice from experienced people and you will develop your professional networks,” said mentor Mr Chakwizira.

The internship programme aims to attract and retain skilled human capital within the national system of innovation and transfer skills and competencies to the next generation of academic researchers in South Africa.

BE THE BEST – ensuring that Univen produces graduates who are not only job seekers but job creators.

Information is the key to choosing a career.

Welcome to Science and Technology interns

R510 000 from Agrisetafor mentorships

R1,2m for green economyThe paper ‘Towards green economy in the transport sector’, developed by Prof Odiyo and colleagues at the School of Environmental Sciences as part of the Univen Foundation’s resource mobilisation initiatives, earned the

university more than R1,2m from the Transport Education and Training Authority. Subject to signing of an agreement between the two parties, the money will be used to now implement a green economy project.

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Buddy programme to link students

The Univen Provident Fund is looking for you!

Univen’s buddy programme to l ink up with international students was recently launched – linking 87 Univen students with those from nine other countries.

The aim of the programme is for students to exchange ideas and learn from each other, enhancing intercultural exchanges in a leisurely environment. Participants, a mix of international and local students, are divided into small groups

which are facilitated by graduate mentors. The groups will meet regularly during the coming months. In the second semester they will share their interactive experience in a feedback workshop to showcase their encounters and cultural learning experiences.

Various cultures are represented in each group and in the first engagement they discussed diverse beliefs, languages and traditions, and later shared

experiences in a feedback session.

Students join in recreational mind-building activities which entail adventure and provide a novel way of raising students’ awareness of their history and cultural interconnectedness.

The programme is organised by the Student Representative Council and the Directorate of International Relations.

These staff members may qualify for a benefit payment in terms of the Pension Funds Second Amendment Act (the Surplus Act).

Members who passed away on or after 1 April 2003 do not have a claim. If you are listed or are in contact with any of the former members listed, please contact Mrs Zwane of Enigma Solutions on 011 793 4084 or e-mail ntombi@enigmasolutions.co.za to lodge your claim.

Surname & initials University of Venda employment date

Badenhorst L 01.09.1994

Cloete M 25.02.2000

Fourie MC 01.10.1994

Grobler M 15.09.1992

Jafta LD 01.07.1993

Janse van Rensburg CW 01.01.1994

Jansen van Rensburg HM 01.01.1994

Lubisi MR 01.05.1991 or 01.01.1994

Malgas PM 01.05.1993

Mbedzi M 01.11.1996

Moagi KT 01.05.1995

Mohanlal Y 01.10.1994

Moloto CR 01.01.1996

Moodley K 01.04.1996

Motapanyane V 01.07.1993

Mphahlele LH 16.05.1994

Nembudani ND 01.03.1999

Phuluwa MJ 01.07.1995

Pretorius GP 01.05.1994

Rathogwa NC 01.07.1994

Raphalalani ND 01.07.1995

Sikakana IQ 01.03.1995

Van Deventer SE 01.01.1994

Viljoen JH 01.07.1985

Following group interactions and formal programmes, Buddy programme members interacted socially and forged friendships across their diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds during a braai.

“We seek to create a spirit

of Ubuntu”

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Prof Mbati appointed chairperson of Higher Education South Africa’s Advisory CommitteeUniven’s Vice Chancellor and Principal, Prof Peter Mbati has been appointed as the chairperson of Higher Education South Africa’s (HESA) Higher Education Leadership and Management Programme (HELM) Advisory Committee.

The other committee members are the Vice Rector: External Relations at the University of the Free State, Dr Choice Makhetha, the Deputy Vice Chancellor:

Research at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Prof Thoko Mayekiso and Prof Roelf Stumpf and Ms Nasima Badsha, both HESA research

fellows. Ms Berene Kramer is the ex offcio member.

HESA promotes strategically planned leadership and management development for middle and senior managers in all higher education institutions in South Africa.

To build and strengthen capacity and and support individual and institutional leadership it has developed and implemented the Higher Education Leadership and Management Programme. The mandate of the Advisory Committee is to drive the development of the sector-wide programme.

Leisure and recreation students from the Centre for Biokinetics, Recreation and Sport Science on their academic trip at the Lesodi Hiking Trail for hiking and Debengeni Water Falls.

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Proudly representing Univen

Showing Minister Nzimande the fruits of training.

Over the Easter weekend, the University of Venda participated in one of South Africa’s fastest growing sports – basketball.

The Univen team entered the annual Mamelodi basketball tournament where South Africa’s finest teams from around the country came to compete in girls and guys basketball.

With the tournament being close to some of the world’s best basketball players like the NBA’s Kyrie Irving visiting Johannesburg through Basketball without Borders, the passion for the sport was palpable in the Gauteng air.

The Univen team competed against teams with multiple professional athletes and years of experience - equal to the age of some students on Univen’s campus.

Yet, through it all, the Univen team competed from beginning to end with both the girls and

guys reaching the quarter finals. Some of the highlights were stellar 3 pointers, defensive blocks and a relentless pursuit for rebounds. Many fellow participants remarked about the camaraderie between the girls and guys teams due to the intense cheering.

As the team travelled back they discussed plans for the future. Some players want to organise better strategies for man-to-man offenses and defences. Others want to hold weekend clinics for local schools to promote the sport in Limpopo. A few even want to organise their own tournament in the province as a way to bring new competition and experience.

The trip was a success and the University of Venda will stand as a place of knowledge for a sport not yet known to many in the area. Viva

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Skills development the most powerful tool against unemploy-ment – Minster Nzimande“Education and ski l ls development are the most powerful tools to tackle the challenges of unemployment, poverty and inequality,” says Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande.

Launching the Vhembe Skills Development Project and career expos, Nzimande said the government will continue to provide the necessary support in partnerships of this nature, to ensure that people are delivered from economic bondage.

“Communities must get more skills though the development programmes initiated by this project, enabling young people to get training in the careers of their choice.

“We are particularly concerned about the 3,5 million young people between the ages of 15 and 24 who are unemployed. Such people are obviously disillusioned and deprived of a purpose in life.”

The National Skills Fund has invested R 26,7 million in the project.

Beneficiaries are being trained in skills such as plant production, animal production, bricklaying and plastering, finance management, the Farm Together programme, road construction, welding, pipe fitting, plumbing, mentorship, conflict resolution, communication and negotiations.

The project is implemented by the University of Venda in partnership with the Vhembe District Municipality and the Vhembe Further Education and Training and Madzivhandila College of

Agriculture. More than 200 learners that were trained, have already graduated.

The minister said the bursary funding for seven technical and vocational education and training colleges in Limpopo increased from more than R47m in 2009 to over R193m in 2014. In addition, R2,5 billion has been made available towards the construction of 12 new campuses and the refurbishment of two existing campuses.

“The Department of Higher Education and Training has disbursed R10 million towards the project from the R 26,6 million committed by the National Skills Fund.”

Univen’s Vice Chancellor and Principal, Prof Peter Mbati said as a result of the training, some of the students have already formed groups that resulted in the establishment of 18 companies, which are receiving support from the Small Enterprise Development Agency.

“I call on the minister to approve the development of agricultural, mining and technology engineering programmes at Univen, as well as the provision of infrastructural funding for engineering laboratories.

“The introduction of these programmes will ensure that rural-based higher education and training institutions offer highly sought-after and relevant skills and robust collaboration and articulation between career-focused programmes offered at technical and vocational education and training colleges and the University of Venda.”

United Nations recognises Univen skillsExpertise at the University of Venda’s School of Agriculture was called upon and utilised at an international level recently.

Prof Eastonce Gwata was invited by the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency / Food and Agricultural Organization to contribute as a technical co-operation expert in the training of young up-coming African plant breeders in the specialist area of mutation breeding.

The training workshop, held in Tsumeb, Namibia consisted of both theoretical lectures and practical field demonstrations. The participants were selected from 13 African countries - Algeria, Benin, Cameroon, the Central Africa Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.

Mutation breeding is a tool used by plant breeders to create novel crop varieties that can withstand

var ious environmental stresses or adverse conditions, ranging from insect pests and fungal diseases to drought and flooding. It requires the exposure of seed to controlled atomic radiation or chemicals to induce useful, safe mutants with new gene combinations that the breeder selects after about five reproduction cycles or generations.

Currently, crop scientists across Africa are working hard to develop crop varieties that can cope with the ever increasing frequency and severity of droughts - hence the intervention by the UN to equip scientists with this technology. With sufficient expertise, the technology can achieve the desired results in a relatively short period, compared to conventional methods.

Gwata is supervising two master’s students who are working on the genetic improvement of tepary bean, obtained originally from the dryland area of Sekhukhune in Limpopo.

Prof Gwata examining the pollen viability of cassava plants.

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SABC Limpopo partners with Univen

Take the future of Africa forward

Hosken Consolidated Investment Foundation on campus

Univen serves rural communities

The SABC Limpopo Provincial General Manager, Ms Tshamano Makuya and Univen’s Vice Chancellor, Prof Peter Mbati agreed that a memorandum of understanding between the two organisations should be reached sooner than alter.

During a recent campus visit by Makuya, Mbati said Univen makes huge investments into skills devel-opment and education needs of the communities around Limpopo and the country at large.

“We recently invested more than R30m in infrastructure development in the School of

Agriculture and from this year, we introduced a South African Institute of Chartered Accountants accredited BCom Accounting degree.

“Our flagship community engagement projects include the Vuwani Science Resource Centre and the Mukondeni Women Pottery project.

“With a memorandum of understanding in place, both organisations could work closer together on projects like careers exhibitions, science week and internship programmes for media studies students,” said Mbati.

“The effort that all of us put into the liberation struggle inside South Africa and in Africa should not be in vain,” says the High Commissioner of Tanzania, Ms Radhia Msuya.

Speaking at a recent public lecture at Univen, Ms Musuya said South Africa and Tanzania shared political ideas during the struggle for liberation.

“South Africans must stand firm and take the future of Africa forward.”

In his welcome address, Univen’s Vice Chancellor and Principal, Prof Peter Mbati said the university collaborates successfully with Tanzanian academic institutions.

“These include linkages with the Nelson Mandela African Institute for Science and Technology in Arusha and the Moshi University College of Cooperative and Business Studies. This is in line with our vision to become the centre of tertiary education for rural and regional development in Southern Africa,” he said.

The programme was directed by Univen’s Dean of Agriculture, Prof Ainamensa Godwin Mchau, who is a Tanzanian national. The lecture was co-hosted with the Office of the Limpopo premier.

The Hosken Consolidated Investment Foundation met with bursary recipients on campus recently.

In his welcoming address. Univen’s Vice Chancellor and Principal, Prof Peter Mbati thanked the foundation for making bursaries available.

“Large numbers of people world-wide are unable to access education, largely due to a lack of funding. Barriers to basic and higher education, particularly

in developing economies, include high levels of poverty and unemployment, a lack of physical infrastructure and of properly trained teachers, poor management and governance.

“Industrialisation and the economic growth and development of any country are dependent on factors like natural resources and an appropriately skilled human workforce,” said Mbati.

“Univen is ensuring that the noble ideas that you dreamt about the future of the aMandebele community are nurtured,“ says the Dean of the Univen School of Human and Social Sciences, Prof Mokgale Makgopa.

Speaking at the 34th King Si lamba annual commemoration celebration in Bronkhorstspruit recent ly, Makgopa reminded the K ing of aMendeble, His majesty King Makosonke11, that the memorandum of understanding s igned between Un iven and the aMandebele Royal Council in 2011 is bearing fruit.

“Since then, many students have graduated and presently 43 students are registered from undergraduate to postgraduate studies in different schools. Four are doing master’s degrees, four are registered for honours, ten are in their third year, 19 are in their second year and one is doing level one.”

The memorandum of understanding creates opportunities for the aMandebele community to learn IsiNdebele formally at an institution of higher learning and it promotes the IsiNdebele language, tradition, culture and heritage.

It also enhances the development of teachers and researchers of the IsiNdebele language, culture and tradition. Furthermore, it preserves the indigenous knowledge systems and history of aMandebele.

“An MA student in the history department is doing research on the history of the Amandebele. This study seeks to rewrite the history of aMandebele,” said Makgopa.

and now… Makgopa addressing the aMandebele.

“The liberation struggle should not be in vain” - Radhia Msuya.

A memorandum of understanding will benefit the SABC and Univen – from left Mr Takalani Dzaga, Prof Peter Mbati, Ms Tshamano Makuya and Mr Muvhango Netshitangani.

Bursary funders and bursary holders meet.

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Continental honour for Prof Georges-Ivo Ekosse

Chemistry for development and sustainability in Africa

Univen participates in HASI career exhibition

Univen’s brand-new Transdisciplinary E-journal launched

The Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences elected the Univen Director of Research and Innovation, Prof Georges-Ivo Ekosse as Secretary General of the Governing Council of the African Academy of Sciences.

Ekosse is one of four members of the management committee of the academy – the others being the President, Prof Kuku, the Treasurer, Dr Karuiki and the Executive Director Prof Abegaz. He is also a member of the membership advisory committee of the academy on geological, earth and environmental sciences. He will serve for a term of three years.

Prior to his election as Secretary General, Prof Ekosse served in the Governing Council of the Academy as the representative for Southern Africa.

The African Academy of Sciences is a Pan-African Academy established in 1985. It promotes the growth of the scientific community in Africa by recognising, supporting and promoting excellence in scientific research by African scientists.

It is the largest academy on the continent with over 260 fellows, representing 37 African and seven non-African countries. It has a strategic relationship with the African Ministerial Council of Science and Technology and the African Union Commission.

The secretariat of the academy is based in Nairobi, Kenya. The Democratic Republic of Congo has recently appointed the academy as the implementing body for the newly announced continental prize on discovery and innovation.

Chemists from Botswana, Brazil, Tanzania and Kenya and from South African institutions like the Universities of Cape Town, Johannesburg and KwaZulu-Natal, the CSIR, and academics and students from the Department of Chemistry and the School of Environmental Sciences of Univen gathered at the campus for the joint Eastern and Southern Africa Environmental Chemistry Conference and the 10th Theoretical Chemistry Conference in Africa.

Themed ‘Chemist ry for Deve lopment and Sustainability in Africa’, the conference was held in South Africa for the first time – on the Univen campus.

Univen academics contributed a good number of presentations. For the environmental chemistry component - mostly from scientists and students of the School of Environmental Sciences - the presentations highlighted research and

collaborations with other institutions in the country and abroad.

For the theoretical/computational chemistry component, the conference marks a broadening of the scope as computational research is no longer limited to specialists. It expands to interface with other research areas and projects, to which it can contribute significant information.

The conferences started as theoretical chemistry workshops in Africa, initiated by Prof Geoffrey Kamau of the University of Nairobi and Prof Liliana Mammino, to promote the development of theoretical/computational chemistry in Africa. It is still a scarce skill on the continent, absent from many countries despite its importance in fields like drug-design, the design of new substances of industrial relevance and the new fast-growing field of nano-sciences. The first conference was held in Nairobi in 1995.

“ Ind igenous knowledge sys tems can add tremendous value to the higher education sector in South Africa,” says Prof Yonah Seleti, Chief Director for Science Missions at the Department of Science and Technology and a fellow of the African Renaissance Institute at Unisa.

Speaking at the launch of Univen’s Transdisciplinary E-Journal and a special issue of the African Journal for the Physical, Health Education, Recreation and Dance, Seleti said the interfacing of indigenous knowledge systems in higher education will promote cognitive justice.

“Cognitive justice asserts the diversity of knowledge and the equality of knowers. We need a higher education system where all forms of knowledge are valid and should co-exist in a dialogic relationship to each other. Cognitive justice strengthens the ‘voice’ of marginalised communities in the vicinity of the university,” he said.

Quoting American author Louis L’Amour, Deputy Vice Chancellor: Academic, Prof Jan Crafford said “Knowledge is like money, to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value,” and Buddah, “There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.”

“The launch of the two journal issues is indeed a way to ensure that knowledge does circulate and hopefully does increase in value, including poverty alleviation,” said Crafford.

Univen’s Vice Chancellor and Principal, Prof Peter Mbati said the new e-journal is a capacity building platform to ease graduates and young aspirant authors into the art of academic writing.

“By providing a platform to mentor, coach and support young and rising stars, the Transdisciplinary E-Journal will be a catalyst in improving the quality of work at postgraduate level and help increase outputs of honours, research masters, doctoral graduates and postdoctoral fellows,” he said.

More than 350 matriculants from the Tshivhase, Milton Mpfumedzeni, Tshidimbini, Ligege and Ntevhedzeni secondary schools attended the HASI career exhibition at the Thohoyandou indoor sports centre recently, to learn more about the different fields of study and financial opportunities at tertiary level.

The Thulamela Municipality, Eskom, Exarro and the National Youth Development Agency were represented at the expo.

Prof Georges-Ivo Ekosse new Secretary General of the African Academy of Sciences – from left Prof Ekosse, Prof Gerdes, outgoing Vice President for Southern Africa and Prof Makinde newly elected fellow.

“Cognitive justice strengthens the voice of marginalised communities” - Prof Yonah Seleti.

Chemistry puts smiles on delegates’ faces.

Learning what Univen has to offer.