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360º PERSPECTIVES | ISSUE 7 | 2020/2021
2020 in a nutshell
Dental care programme aims to help more children with special needs
Vincent Morta bids farewell to UWC – with decades of fond memories More than four decades after joining the University of the Western Cape (UWC), campus legend Vincent Morta officially retired in January 2020 as the Director of Quality Assurance and MI in the Institutional Planning Office.
An old tennis ball or bicycle handles can help children with special needs take care of their teeth. The ball assists a child with poor upper arm coordination and strength to develop an enlarged, yet flexible grip, while the bicycle handles encourage a strong grip on toothbrushes. These are some of the innovative ideas used in the Sparkle Brush programme – an internationally recognised collaborative community engagement programme between UWC and the University of KwaZulu-Natal which provides children with special needs with effective dental health care and maintenance.
Astronomy in isiXhosa: Translating and transforming science Although South Africa has 11 national languages only two have an advanced scientific vocabulary. UWC’s Department of Xhosa and the interUniversity Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA) have joined forces in a project that translates astronomy resources written in English into other South African languages.
UWC Rugby star earns a Stormers call-up UWC Rugby star Lyle Hendricks continued his impressive rise in rugby when he was named in the DHL Stormers squad for the 2020 Vodacom Super Rugby campaign, the second UWC player to make the team.
