UWC is a research-led university responsive to the needs of a changing world through excellence in learning, teaching and research, and the generation and application of new knowledge.
Firmly anchored in its local and sub-regional context and inspired by its distinctive academic role in building a more equitable and dynamic society, the University continues to empower its students, staff and partners to advance its mission of serving the greater public good and searching for humane and sustainable solutions to the challenges of our time. This is pursued through high academic standards, intellectual rigour and productive partnerships and networks beyond the confines of disciplinary and geographic boundaries.
MESSAGE FROM THE CHANCELLOR
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Today, as we celebrate your achievements, we also recognise the determination and sacrifices that have brought you here. Take a moment to reflect on your journey, the nervous excitement of your first lecture, the long nights of study, and the challenges that tested your perseverance. There were times when the road ahead seemed uncertain, but you kept going. Now, you stand here, ready to step into the world as graduates of the University of the Western Cape (UWC).
The world you are entering holds both promise and complexity. Like much of the world, South Africa stands at a crossroads. Inequality, economic instability, and social injustice remain harsh realities for many. Yet, we are reminded that change begins when we refuse to be silent in the face of injustice. No one can be left out of the process. Too many voices in our society remain unheard, including women, children, the poor, and those pushed to the margins. The voices of the marginalised must be heard, their dreams shared, and their power reclaimed. As UWC graduates, you have not only gained knowledge but also the responsibility to be active citizens, to question, to challenge, and to lead with integrity. The true value of education is not measured by personal success alone but by how it is used to uplift others. Whether you enter boardrooms, classrooms, hospitals, or courtrooms, let your leadership create spaces where dignity and fairness prevail.
Our faith teaches us that there are no outsiders. All are welcome, regardless of race, background, gender, or identity. These are not just words; they are a call to action. In a world too often divided, let your success be defined by the inclusivity and justice you champion. Carry this commitment with you as you shape your future and the world around you. Hope has two beautiful daughters. One is anger at the way things are, and the other is the courage to change them. Let your courage be your guide. Speak out when you witness injustice, stand up for those who are silenced, and use your education to give others hope.
Wherever life takes you, remember this. Take pride in how far you have come but never lose sight of how far you can go. The world is waiting for you, not just as professionals, but as leaders who can make a difference.
Soos ons vandag u prestasies vier, erken ons ook die vasberadenheid en opofferinge wat jou tot hier gebring het. Vat ’n oomblik om op jou reis te reflekteer, die senuwees en opgewondenheid van jou eerste lesing, die laat nagte van studeer en die uitdagings wat jou deursettingsvermoë getoets het. Daar was tye wat die pad vorentoe onseker was, maar jy het aangehou. Nou staan jy hier, reg om die wêreld in te stap as ’n gegradueerde student van die Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland (UWK).
Die wêreld wat jy betree, hou beide belofte en kompleksiteit in. Soos ’n groot deel van die wêreld, staan Suid-Afrika op ’n kruispad. Onregverdigheid, ekonomiese onstabiliteit en sosiale onreg bly die harde werklikhede vir baie. Tog word ons daaraan herinner dat verandering begin wanneer ons weier om stil te bly in die aangesig van onreg. Niemand kan uit die proses gelaat word nie. Te veel stemme in ons samelewing bly ongehoord, insluitend vroue, kinders, die armes en dié wat opsy geskuif word. Die stemme van die gemarginaliseerde moet gehoor word, hul drome moet gedeel word en hul mag moet teruggeëis word. As UWK-gegradueerdes het jy nie net kennis gewerf nie, maar ook die verantwoordelikheid om ’n bydraende burger te wees, om vrae te vra, om uit te daag en om te lei met integriteit. Die waarde van onderwys word nie net alleen gemeet aan persoonlike sukses nie, maar aan hoe dit gebruik word om ander op te hef. Of jy nou raadskamers, klaskamers, hospitale of hofsale betree, laat jou leierskap ruimtes skep waar waardigheid en billikheid heers.
Ons geloof leer ons dat daar geen buitestaanders is nie. Almal is welkom, ongeag ras, agtergrond, geslag of identiteit. Dit is nie net woorde nie; dit is ’n oproep tot aksie. In ’n wêreld wat dikwels verdeeld is, laat jou sukses gedefinieer word deur die inklusiwiteit en geregtigheid wat jy bevorder. Dra hierdie verbintenis saam met jou terwyl jy jou toekoms en die wêreld rondom jou vorm. Hoop het twee pragtige dogters. Een is woede oor hoe dinge staan, en die ander is die moed om dit te verander. Laat jou moed jou gids wees. Praat uit wanneer jy onreg aanskou, staan op vir diegene wat stilgemaak word, en gebruik jou opvoeding om ander hoop te gee.
Waar ook al die lewe jou neem, onthou dit: Wees trots op hoe ver jy gekom het, maar moenie sig verloor van hoe ver jy kan gaan nie. Die wêreld wag op jou, nie net as ’n professionele mens nie, maar as leiers wat ’n verskil kan maak.
Baie geluk Klas van 2024!
ARCHBISHOP
THABO MAKGOBA CHANCELLOR
UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE
Dear Graduands,
MESSAGE FROM THE RECTOR
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At the University of the Western Cape (UWC), we believe that education is about more than acquiring knowledge, it is about personal growth and the ability to make a meaningful difference in society. Graduation is a powerful reminder of the hard work and determination that have shaped your journey. Today, we celebrate your success while also reflecting on the experiences you have gained along the way.
For many, this journey has been filled with challenges, some anticipated, others unforeseen. Yet, with each obstacle, you have adapted, persevered, and emerged stronger. Struggle may be your soil, but resilience is your flower. Like the Protea on our University’s emblem, you have thrived despite adversity. This is what defines a UWC graduate.
Our graduates are stepping into a world that is both full of promise and fraught with uncertainty. In this moment of transition, I encourage you to hold fast to the values that have guided you during your time here. Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you can go. Our country, our continent, and our world need critical thinkers, problem solvers, and leaders who are willing to create a more just and sustainable future. You have the knowledge and skills to do so, use them with purpose.
But remember, success is not measured by personal achievement alone. It is also found in service, lifting others as you rise and staying connected to the communities that have supported you. True academic wealth is not locked away, it is meant to be shared. The knowledge you have gained benefits you, but it is also a tool to help build a better world.
As you step into this new chapter, carry with you the integrity and sense of purpose that define a UWC graduate. No matter where life takes you, remember that you are part of a community that believes in social justice and the power of education to transform lives. Go forward with confidence, knowing that you are wellprepared to shape a future that is brighter and full of possibilities.
By die Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland (UWK) glo ons dat opvoeding meer is as net die verkryging van kennis; dit gaan oor persoonlike groei en die vermoë om ’n betekenisvolle verskil in die samelewing te maak. Gradeplegtigheid is ’n kragtige herinnering van die harde werk en vasberadenheid wat jou reis gevorm het. Vandag vier ons jou sukses, terwyl ons ook reflekteer oor die ervarings wat jy langs die pad opgedoen het.
Vir baie was hierdie reis vol uitdagings, vir party voorspelbaar, vir ander onverwags. Tog het jy, met elke hindernis, jouself aangepas, aangehou en sterker uit die stryd gekom. Struikelblokke mag jou grond wees, maar uithouvermoë is jou blom. Soos die Protea op ons Universiteit se embleem, het jy oorleef en gespruit, ondanks teenspoed. Dit is wat ’n UWKgegradueerde student definieer.
Ons gegradueerde studente stap in ’n wêreld wat vol is met beloftes en onsekerheid. In hierdie oomblik van oorgang, moedig ek jou aan om vas te hou aan die waardes wat jou gelei het gedurende jou tyd hier. Wees trots oor hoe ver jy gekom het en glo in hoe ver jy kan gaan. Ons land, ons kontinent en ons wêreld benodig kritiese denkers, probleem oplossers en leiers wat bereid is om ’n meer regverdige en volhoubare toekoms te skep. Dis ’n doel wat jy kan haal met die kennis en vaardighede wat jy bereik het.
Maar onthou, sukses word nie net gemeet deur persoonlike prestasie nie. Dit word ook gevind in diens, ander op te hef terwyl jy styg en om verbind te bly met die gemeenskappe wat jou ondersteun het. Ware akademiese rykdom is nie weggesluit nie, dit is bedoel om gedeel te word. Die kennis wat jy verwerf het, bevoordeel jou, maar dit is ook ’n hulpmiddel om ’n beter wêreld te bou.
Soos jy in hierdie nuwe hoofstuk begin, dra die integriteit en gevoel van doel wat ’n UWKgegradueerde student definieer. Maak nie saak waar die lewe jou neem nie, onthou dat jy deel is van ’n gemeenskap wat in sosiale geregtigheid en die mag van opvoeding om lewens te transformeer glo. Gaan vorentoe met selfvertroue, wetende dat jy goed voorberei is om ’n toekoms te vorm wat helderder is en vol moontlikhede.
Geluk!
PROF ROBERT J. BALFOUR RECTOR AND VICE-CHANCELLOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE
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HISTORIC MILESTONES
UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE
1960: The University College of the Western Cape opens its doors.
1970: The institution gains independent university status and is allowed to award its own degrees and diplomas.
1975: Prof Richard van der Ross is appointed as UWC’s first black Rector.
1978: UWC’s Cape Flats Nature Reserve is declared a National Monument (now known as a provincial heritage site).
1987: New Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Jakes Gerwel, declares UWC as the ‘university of the left’. The University deracialises and opens its doors to African students.
UWC inaugurates its longest-serving Chancellor, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who would serve for more than 25 years.
1990: UWC becomes the first university to award the late President Mandela an honorary doctorate upon his release from prison.
1994: Many academics from UWC join President Mandela’s government and are appointed to ministerial and advisory positions, including its Rector, Prof Gerwel, who became the Director-General in the Presidency.
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1994: UWC’s leadership takes part in writing the higher education policy for the incoming government. The South African interim Constitution and final Constitution are drafted at UWC.
1995: UWC launches its first website – joining the internet age before other universities in the Mother City.
UWC launches the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) to engage in research, training, policy development and advocacy in relation to land reform, rural governance and natural resource management.
2002: Under the leadership of Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Brian O’Connell, UWC successfully resists being merged. Instead, its Dentistry Faculty is merged with that of the University of Stellenbosch, making UWC the only dentistry faculty in the Western Cape.
2010: 10 SARChI chairs awarded to UWC, the highest number awarded to any university in SA that year (as of 2018, UWC hosts 17 SARChI Chairs).
2012: UWC launches its Technology Transfer Office to help promote the development and protection of the intellectual property of the University’s research community, staff and students.
HISTORIC MILESTONES
UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE
2012: UWC is declared Africa’s Greenest Campus in the inaugural African Green Campus Initiative Challenge.
2013: UWC signs the Berlin Declaration on Open Access in the Sciences and Humanities, joining hundreds of institutions around the world dedicated to supporting the principles of open access and working to achieve openness in publicly funded projects.
2015: Prof Tyrone Pretorius is inaugurated as the new Rector and Vice-Chancellor.
2016: UWC’s Centre for Humanities Research is awarded the Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities by the NRF.
UWC is ranked number 1 in Physical Science – not just in South Africa, but for Africa as a whole – in the 2016 Nature Index.
2017: A group of UWC students, led by Prof Nico Orce, conduct the second major African-led experiment at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland.
UWC’s former Vice-Chancellor, Prof Brian O’Connell, receives the National Research Foundation’s highest honour, the NRF Lifetime Achievement Award.
2018: The Faculty of Dentistry launches a state-of-the-art video conferencing system that allows students to watch live surgeries in class or at home – a first for South Africa.
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2018: UWC Choir made its debut at the World Choir Games. The choir came first in its category, bringing home the gold medal and the titleWorld Champions.
2019: UWC Rugby makes its historical debut in the Varsity Cup, by becoming the first team from an historically disadvantaged institution to qualify for the competition.
2020: UWC’s South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), in collaboration with researchers from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), sequenced the first SARS-COV-2 genome in South Africa, providing a genetic “fingerprint” helped us understand - and contain - the spread of COVID-19.
UWC celebrates its 60th anniversary.
2022: Professor Russell H Kaschula is appointed as the Research Chair in Forensic Linguistics and Multilingualism – a first in Africa.
The UWC Main Hall is renamed the Jakes Gerwel Hall to honour this iconic leader.
2023: Professor Marion Keim is appointed as the UNESCO Chair for Sport, Development, Peace and Olympic Education – the first ever awarded UNESCO Chair in Sport in Africa
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UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE
2023: Four significant infrastructure projects are completed in 2022 and 2023, including the Education Faculty building on the main campus, the 2700-bed Unibell Residence complex in Belhar, the Centre for Humanities Research building in Woodstock, and the UWC Innovation Hub in Parow.
2024: The first year of the full implementation of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Programme, which provides full bursaries to 250 undergraduate and 250 Master’s students as part of a seven-year agreement.
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2024: UWC is the first and only university team to compete in the inaugural CAF Women’s Champions LeagueAfrica’s premier club competition for women’s football.
2025: Prof Robert John Balfour is inaugurated as the 8th Rector and Vice-Chancellor
OFFICE BEARERS
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE
CHANCELLOR
The Most Reverend Dr TC Makgoba (PhD, Doctorate of Divinity: Hon. Causa)
CHAIR OF COUNCIL
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Ms X Mpongoshe (Dipl. Juris, B. Proc, Cert in Compliance Management, Cert. CRO (Euromoney London))
RECTOR AND VICE-CHANCELLOR
Prof R Balfour (BA, BA (Hons), HDE, MA, PhD)
VICE-RECTORS AND DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLORS
Prof MK Ralarala (HDE (Arts), BA (Hons), MA, DLitt, PhD)
Prof J Frantz (BSc, MSc, PhD)
Prof M Madiba (BA (Paed), B.Ed (Hons), B.Ed (Hons), BA (Hons) (English), MA Linguistics (Applied Studies), PhD)
REGISTRAR
Dr N Lawton-Misra (BA, BEd, MEd (Educational Psychology), PhD (Educational Psychology))
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
Mr ME Magida (BProc, LLB, LLM)
Mr M Regal (BCom (Hons), CA (SA), M Dev Studies)
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Prof F Moola (BA Hons, MA, PhD)
DEANS
Prof A Padmanabhanunni (BA Hons (Psych), MA (Counselling Psych), PhD)
Prof V Yengopal (BChD, BSc (Hons), PGDip, MChD, PhD)
Prof MV Esau (BAdmin, BAdmin (Hons), MAdmin, PhD)
Prof R Govender (BSc; BSc Honours (Mathematics); MEd and PHD (Mathematics Education))
Prof JR De Ville (BCom, LLB, LLD)
Prof D Holgate (BSc, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD)
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
FACULTY OF DENTISTRY
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
FACULTY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
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OF PROCEEDINGS
1. Academic Procession
(THE AUDIENCE IS REQUESTED TO STAND AS THE PROCESSION ENTERS THE HALL)
2. The Chancellor / Vice-Chancellor constitutes the congregation
3. National Anthem
4. Prayer
5. Address: SRC
6. Address: Rector and Vice-Chancellor
7. Item in song
8. Presentation of Graduands to the Chancellor / Vice-Chancellor
9. The Chancellor / Vice-Chancellor dissolves the congregation
10. The Academic Procession leaves the hall
NB: THE AUDIENCE IS REQUESTED TO REMAIN STANDING UNTIL THE PROCESSION HAS LEFT THE HALL.
TIME AND VENUE
GRADUATION CEREMONY 12 SEPTEMBER 2025 (FRIDAY) UWC CAMPUS 09H30
Morena boloka setjhaba sa heso, O fedise dintwa le matshwenyeho, O se boloke, O se boloke setjhaba sa heso, Setjhaba sa South Afrika – South Afrika.
Uit die blou van onse hemel, Uit die diepte van ons see, Oor ons ewige gebergtes, Waar die kranse antwoord gee,
Sounds the call to come together, And united we shall stand, Let us live and strive for freedom, In South Africa our land.
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
DOCTOR’S DEGREES
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
DEBORAH MWINTIERONG BUMBIE-CHI
Department: LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Supervisor: PROF L KING
Thesis:
Evaluating library websites for usability and user satisfaction: The case of five Ghanaian academic libraries
Description:
Current students demand contactless library services, remote access to academic information and digital information at their fingertips. Five Ghanaian public university library websites were evaluated to determine their usability, conformance with standards, management and maintenance policies, communication ability, and lessons learned post-COVID. Technical aspects were rated using WAVE, GTmetrix, and SortSite, while user-centered aspects were examined using data collected from usability testing, surveys, focus group discussions, and interviews with various role players. Varying usability spanning website performance, structure, standards, security, errors, and accessibility for users with disabilities was recorded. The study provides practical recommendations to enhance usability, accessibility, digital infrastructure, communication strategies, resilience and adaptability.
TATUM
MARGO DAVIS
Department: ENGLISH
Supervisor: PROF F MOOLLA
Thesis:
Loving Children: Allegories of Family and Nation in Selected South African Texts
Description:
Almost 9000 children have been reported missing in SA in the past 10 years. This thesis assumes that children must be loved for the well-being of family and nation. It considers the consequences of children being missing from national conversation and consideration. The study critically reflects on the socially, historically and culturally located understanding of conceptions of the child, and is sensitive to gender distinctions between the experience of girl and boy children. It analyses a range of fiction set in the nation’s past in colonial slavery, through apartheid, into the present. The thesis finds that literature complicates ideas of what it means to love the child and that while children represent hope, they may also be loved into complicity with oppression and discrimination.
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
ALEXANDER DE SOETE
Department: LINGUISTICS
Supervisor: PROF Q WILLIAMS
Co-supervisor: PROF S SLEMBROUCK
Thesis:
The EMI content lecturer as a language policy broker: An interactional sociolinguistic analysis of context-sensitive multilingual practice in the engineering classroom
Description:
The study makes an important to the field of English as the medium of instruction (EMI) take up in universities across the world. It examines (1) how disciplinary differences influence lecturer’s and students’ linguistic preferences in EMI classrooms, (2) how EMI content lecturers implement, negotiate, or reshape institutional language policies in response to teaching realities, and (3) how they perceive the impact of international EMI programmess on professional development and classroom practice. The study also combines Michael Lipsky’s street-level bureaucracy and Erving Goffman’s frame analysis in a powerful framework to demonstrate how in two Flemish engineering classrooms lecturers do not simply follow institutional policies but actively adapt language selection, customise instructional needs and student’ learning preferences through EMI classroom practices.
The degree is awarded jointly by the University of the Western Cape and Ghent University.
ROBIN-LEA KARATING
Department: HISTORICAL STUDIES
Supervisor: PROF L WITZ
Thesis:
Unearthing presence in the artefacts of slavery at the Cape: The production of archaeological narratives in post-apartheid South Africa
Description:
Through examining a series of projects in the Western Cape this thesis analyses how historical archaeologists, since the 1990s, attempted to produce slave histories through excavation of sites, unearthing artefacts and constructing assemblages. Sites of slave memories included: Iziko (VOC) Slave Lodge, Prestwich Place burial ground, the South African Slave Church, the Castle of Good Hope, the Western Cape premier’s residence at Leeuwenhof, Vergelegen and Solms Delta wine estates, and Clifton beach. By employing the concepts absence and presence, the argument in the thesis is that an archaeological gaze emphasised material traces, reifying knowledge of the object as empirical fact. Methods of archaeology became the memory of slave pasts. Slavery and slaves as such became missing.
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
DOCTOR’S DEGREES
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
MOHAMED REZA KHOTA
Department: HISTORICAL STUDIES
Supervisor: PROF P LALU
Thesis:
Tonalities: reframing histories of African guitar music
Description:
Reza Khota’s thesis historicises the arrival and migration of the guitar along the West African coast and how it functions as a medium for the transmission of local and worldly tonalities. Through the lens of tonality, it reframes a prototypical history of music in the region that ignores the more pernicious effects of slavery, abolition and colonisation. The thesis works at upending the relationship between empire and periphery by a method drawn from a musical practice of contrapuntalism. Khota presents an account of musical training from a phenomenological perspective, as a training of the senses and imagination, to answer the question posed by the Centre for Humanities Research at UWC of how an aesthetic education might enable a post-apartheid future in South Africa.
The degree is awarded jointly by the University of the Western Cape and Ghent University.
PETER OYEWOLE MAKINDE
Department: LINGUISTICS
Supervisor: PROF B ANTIA
Co-supervisor: DR L MAFOFO
Thesis:
Semiotic representation and consumption of indigenous and allopathic medicines in Nigeria: A multisemiotic discourse analysis
Description:
Makinde’s dissertation explores three interconnected issues: the meaning-making choices involved in naming, labelling, and describing two types of medicine sold in Nigeria –allopathic and indigenous; the channels through which these medicines are marketed and how messaging changes across different channels; and the effects of both on consumers, in such terms as their judgments of efficacy and their purchasing decisions. The branding of these medicines is analysed through the frameworks of multilingualism, semiotic remediation, geosemiotics, and audience response. The differences observed, but more broadly, the findings of this linguistic study of social pharmacy, have implications for drug administration.
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
CAITLIN LISA MARTIN
Department: ENGLISH
Supervisor: PROF D BROWN
Thesis:
Now what? Dystopian futures in South African perspective fiction
Description:
Caitlin Martin’s thesis explores the rapidly expanding field of speculative fiction in South Africa through an engagement with the novels Fever (2016) by Deon Meyer, Dub Steps (2015) by Andrew Miller, Triangulum (2019) by Masande Ntshanga, and The Raft (2015) by Fred Strydom. In engaging with these narrations of dystopian futures, the study explores the authors’ representations and conceptions of South Africa. The novels grapple with postapartheid South Africa’s relationship with its pasts, its memories, its failures, and its broken promises, and trace speculative narrative lines into imagined futures. Their future-directed narratives speak in compelling ways to our present conditions.
ADRIAN SERENO ROMEO
Department: PHILOSOPHY
Supervisor: PROF S BECK
Thesis:
An analysis and critique of the conceptual relationship between selfhood and narrative in philosophy
Description:
In his thesis, Adrian Romeo explores the notion of selfhood in prominent narrative theories of the self and personal identity. Theories of this kind suggest that we are constituted by our autobiographical narratives rather than by psychological or biological continuities. Romeo argues that such theories are incomplete in an important way. He contends that all narrative theories of the self require a more fundamental notion of the ‘experiencing subject’ to underpin their other claims, whether they recognize this or not. He does an impressive job of disentangling and bringing to the surface the philosophical assumptions and requirements of theories of the narrative self, and the thesis makes a valuable contribution to current debates around selfhood.
FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
DOCTOR’S DEGREES
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
BRIDGETTE LOCKETT
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Supervisor: DR J WILLEMSE
Co-supervisor: PROF R MARIE MODESTE
Thesis:
Development of a support intervention to improve immunisation adherence amongst caregivers of children up to 12 years in South Africa
Description:
Immunisation is cost-effective, yet preventable deaths persist due to parental forgetfulness, knowledge gaps, and access barriers. This sequential mixed-methods study, guided by the Integrative Learning Design Framework, included a systematic review, caregiver data analysis, and intervention design using the Nominal Group Technique. Key barriers identified were socioeconomic disparities, accessibility, hesitancy, and cultural influences. Five interventions were developed: mobile clinics, provider training, digital reminders, integrated education, and community champions. Ethics approval obtained. Acknowledgement: Aletta Lestrade’s role in supporting Bridgette Lockett.
LUBABALO MBEKENI
Department: SOCIAL WORK
Supervisor: DR S CARELSE
Co-supervisor: PROF C SCHENCK
Thesis:
An analysis of livelihoods of land and agrarian reform beneficiaries: Towards integrated and comprehensive post-settlement support programmes
Description:
In this qualitative case study Mr Mbekeni developed guidelines for integrated and comprehensive post-settlement support programmes for land and agrarian reform (LAR) beneficiaries in the Western Cape, South Africa. Utilising the Sustainable Livelihood Approach, he explored beneficiaries’ vulnerability context, their livelihood assets, the policies, and the institutions affecting their livelihoods. This research highlights that successful LAR necessitates more than just land redistribution. It emphasises the crucial role of post-settlement support, including infrastructure development and skills training, to empower beneficiaries to sustainably utilise their land and contribute to economic growth. This approach recognises that simply granting land rights is insufficient; effective LAR requires a holistic strategy that fosters self-sufficiency and broader social and economic development.
FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
ISAIAH DADA OWOEYE
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Supervisor: PROF J CHIPPS
Co-supervisor: PROF F DANIELS
Thesis:
Guidelines development for the use of digital education technology by nursing education institutions in Nigeria
Description:
In response to the exponential growth in the use of digital education technologies in education and nursing education, Mr Owoeye used a multi-method approach to develop Pedagogical, Technical, Administrative & Ethical digital education guidelines. Using the ESHRE guideline development process and a digital pedagogy framework, the research was informed by a survey of nursing students use of digital education technologies in Nigeria, qualitative interviews with lecturers, and a review of current use (including AI). Referring to a well-defined and well-executed piece of work, examiners commented that the guidelines were timely, and that it has potential for contributing meaningfully to nursing education which is in transition globally. Mr Owoeye thesis was by publication. Three of the 6 papers have been published, and two (2) have been accepted for publication in national and international accredited journals.
UNATHI MECIA PAUL-MOEKETSI
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Supervisor: PROF M BIMEREW
Co-supervisor: PROF P MAYERS
Thesis:
The development of an intervention programme to increase retention in care among HIV-positive mothers during the postnatal period in the Western Cape
Description:
Ms. Unathi’s doctoral study developed an intervention strategy to enhance retention in care among postnatal mothers living with HIV enrolled in the PMTCT programme in the Western Cape, with a focus on addressing high level of lost to follow up. Guided by the SocioEcological Model, the study employed an explanatory sequential mixed methods design, incorporating a cross-sectional survey, qualitative interviews, and a systematic review. Findings revealed complex socio-cultural barriers, including cultural beliefs, stigma, limited knowledge, and negative attitudes that impeded postnatal PMTCT service utilization. The resulting strategy aims to improve knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers, thereby strengthening postnatal retention in care.
FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
DOCTOR’S DEGREES
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
SIPHOKUHLE TINZI
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Supervisor: PROF M BIMEREW
Co-supervisor: PROF D PHETLHU
Thesis:
Developing strategies to enhance the sustainability of the PreP HIV prevention programme among adolescent girls and young women in Edendale Kwazulu-Natal
Description:
Tinzi’s doctoral study focused on developing strategies to enhance the sustainability of the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) HIV prevention programme for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Edendale, KwaZulu-Natal. Guided by the Sustainability Model, the study employed exploratory and contextual qualitative methods alongside Delphi techniques. Key systemic barriers to sustainability were identified, including limited community engagement, pervasive myths, and behavioural vulnerabilities among AGYW. The resulting strategy addresses these barriers to improve community involvement, dispel misconceptions, and support sustained PrEP programme implementation.
HEIDI KIM WITTEN
Department: PSYCHOLOGY
Supervisor: PROF S SAVAHL
Co-supervisor: DR S ADAMS
Thesis:
Exploring Adolescents’ Flourishing in the Western Cape, South Africa
Description:
Heidi Witten’s doctoral study explored the nature and extent of adolescent flourishing in the Western Cape. Using a multi-method approach, the research synthesised global literature, conducted a large-scale survey, and included an in-depth qualitative study of adolescents’ perceptions of flourishing. The findings show that flourishing is shaped by purpose, connectedness, and self-expression, and is influenced by both hedonic and eudaimonic well-being traditions. Her study makes a significant contribution to advancing youth wellbeing research in South Africa and the Global South.
FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
COSMOS YARFI
Department: PHYSIOTHERAPY
Supervisor: PROF A RHODA
Co-supervisor: DR N ASIAMAH
Thesis:
The Structure, Processes and Outcomes of Stroke Rehabilitation in Ghana
Description:
Differences exist in the provision of stroke rehabilitation services in conventional and complementary medicine settings. Cosmos Yarfi’s thesis investigated and explored the structure and processes of rehabilitation for stroke patients attending these settings in Ghana. The study found differences in the structure of rehabilitation as it related to health professionals between the settings. Both settings, however, had a positive impact on patients’ outcomes. In terms of outcomes post-stroke, patients in the conventional medicine setting experienced a reduction in motor and cognitive impairments from the baseline to the follow-up assessment. However, for participants in the complementary medicine setting, there was a notable improvement in cognitive function as well as their activities and participation levels.
FACULTY OF DENTISTRY
DOCTOR’S DEGREES
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
NATALIE ANNE GORDON
Department: COMMUNITY DENTISTRY
Supervisor: PROF N MYBURGH
Co-supervisor: PROF A RHODA
Thesis:
Re-conceptualising primary oral health of a substructure in the Cape Health Metro District
Description:
The rhetoric of South African Health system reform promises universal access to health including oral health through re-engineered PHC but it is unclear if this intention is reaching communities. This study examined oral health care in the Klipfontein and Mitchells Plain substructure of the Cape Metro. It found POHC is not integrated into the rPHC approach or accessible across the life course for this community. Its implementation follows a medical model and this needs to change across the health system. The findings concur with international research highlighting the lack of attention to oral health in health system reform. If the aim is to promote universal access to health care including oral health, then this study offers valuable guidelines to better align POHC with rPHC.
MASHAIL MAHMOUD MAHGOUB HAMID
Department: ORAL MEDICINE AND PERIODONTOLOGY
Supervisor: PROF M CHETTY
Co-supervisor: PROF T ROBERTS
Thesis:
Clinicopathological profile of ameloblastoma among Sudanese patients
Description:
This dissertation represents a pioneering comprehensive investigation of ameloblastoma in Sudanese patients, bridging critical gaps in knowledge regarding the clinical, histological & molecular characteristics of this aggressive odontogenic tumor. Through the application of multiple diagnostic modalities, the study highlights significant inconsistencies in histological classification and underscores the limitations of immunohistochemistry when compared with molecular approaches. By addressing the inherent diagnostic complexities of ameloblastoma, the research provides novel insights into its biological behavior and establishes the value of integrating molecular profiling within conventional diagnostic frameworks. This work makes a substantial contribution to enhancing diagnostic accuracy, informing treatment strategies and advancing the broader understanding of ameloblastoma in regional and global contexts.
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
NANA AGYEMAN-PREMPEH
Department: DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Supervisor: PROF A BAYAT
Co-supervisor: DR A BASHIR
Thesis:
Optimising supply chain innovations and sustainable health service performance of tertiary hospitals in Ghana
Description:
The researcher explored factors enabling the adoption of supply chain innovations and their subsequent effect on the sustainable health service performance of Ghanaian tertiary hospitals. Technological factors were not significant in predicting supply chain innovation adoption, whereas organisational and environmental factors were significant. Additionally, supply chain innovation adoption led to sustainable economic performance but not social and environmental performance. Moderators between supply chain innovation adoption and economic performance, namely supply chain integration and process innovation, were found to influence economic sustainability, but facilitating conditions did not moderate this relationship. A framework that enhances overall sustainable health service performance was proposed.
RENIER DONOVAN GROSCH
Department: DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Supervisor: PROF Z NYANDORO
Thesis:
Business Models: Obstructer or driver of early-stage entrepreneurial businesses in the West-Coast District Municipality, South Africa? A model for change
Description:
This doctoral study investigated how business models act as either enablers or constraints for early-stage entrepreneurial businesses in rural South Africa. Using qualitative research with entrepreneurs in the West Coast District Municipality, the study revealed how limited resources, regulatory hurdles, and skills gaps obstruct growth, while adaptability, learning orientation, and dynamic capabilities enable innovation. Through in-depth thematic and cross-case analysis, the research advanced a contextualised framework for business model development, emphasising strategic vision, resource allocation, and environmental awareness. The study contributes to business model innovation theory in marginalised contexts and provides practical recommendations for mentoring, training, digital skills, and policy support to strengthen rural entrepreneurship ecosystems and enhance inclusive economic growth.
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
FLORIAN JOHANNES KROLL
INSTITUTE FOR POVERTY, LAND AND AGRARIAN STUDIES
Supervisor: PROF A DU TOIT
Thesis:
Conundrums of Food Governance in South African Metropoles
Description:
Kroll’s dissertation explores how the discourse of food systems governance both enables and constrains effective responses to food insecurity in South Africa. Drawing on a Foucauldian lens Kroll investigates how city officials in Cape Town Metro mobilise strategies and instruments to ameliorate hunger and address its causes. Through detailed empirical and theoretical work, he shows howattempts to govern food systems are shaped and constrained by broader state formation processes, institutional fragmentation, and competing logics within governance. Rather than offering prescriptive solutions, the thesis illuminates the complex and often contradictory conditions under which food governance emerges, and explores the possibility for a revitalised statecraft.
SHINGIRIRAI
MASHURA
Department: ECONOMICS
Supervisor: PROF F FODERS
Thesis:
Services trade liberalisation, manufacturing productivity and inclusive growth in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
Description:
The study investigated the effects of regulatory restrictions on services exports, downstream productivity and inclusive economic growth in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. First it applied the trade gravity model with the Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood estimator and found that they negatively affect exports of business, financial, insurance, telecommunication and transportation services. Secondly, the productivity growth model was used to show that regulatory restrictions have a negative effect on downstream productivity Finally, the study engaged the Blundell-Bond/Arellano-Bover system generalised method of moments to examine the nexus between services trade regulatory restrictions and inclusive economic growth revealing a strong nexus between them.
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
LESLIE NCUBE
Department: DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Supervisor: DR N SIBINDI
Thesis:
The nexus between public-sector entrepreneurship and the performance of Zimbabwean parastatals: a case study of Ministry of Transport parastatals in Zimbabwe
Description:
This doctoral research examined how public-sector entrepreneurship can transform stateowned enterprises through innovation, proactivity, and responsible risk-taking. Focusing on the National Railways of Zimbabwe and the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe, the study explored how entrepreneurial leadership, technological adoption, and public-private partnerships influence efficiency and service delivery. Despite the challenges of bureaucracy, resource scarcity, and institutional rigidity, the research developed a model that emphasizes leadership development, organisational flexibility, and innovation centers. The study contributes to policy reform by offering strategies that embed entrepreneurial thinking into governance, ensuring sustainable improvements in parastatal performance and service delivery for national development.
CHARITY NYASHA RUSERE
INSTITUTE FOR POVERTY, LAND AND AGRARIAN STUDIES
Supervisor: DR P ZAMCHIYA
Co-supervisor: PROF R HALL
Thesis:
Agrarian Change and Social-Differentiation after Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme: A Comparison between Beneficiaries and Non-Beneficiaries
Description:
The thesis makes an important contribution to critical agrarian studies by interrogating how Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Program reshaped rural livelihoods and patterns of social differentiation by comparing A1 resettlement farmers and communal households. The study demonstrates that land reform improved production and accumulation for many, but also generated new inequalities shaped by class, gender, and generation. Drawing on Marxist political economy, Chayanovian theory, and the sustainable livelihoods framework, the study develops a new five-category model of farmer differentiation beyond the conventional “poor–middle–rich” classifications. This original framework deepens our understanding of agrarian transformation and contributes to global debates on the agrarian question.
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
SHIHAAM SOLOMON
Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Supervisor: PROF M DU PLESSIS
Thesis:
Precarious employment of Academics in Higher Education Institutions in South Africa
Description:
This thesis by publication explores experiences of contract academics in South African Higher Education Institutions through four sub-studies using qualitative evidence synthesis and interviews with stakeholders. The research reveals that precarious employment practices negatively impact work experience, well-being and career progression. Challenges include lack of job orientation, last-minute contract offers, vague contract terms, lack of benefits and rights, unfair work demands, and lack of HR support. Findings show misalignment between role expectations of stakeholders, leading to exploitation and dehumanising experiences. The study recommends clarifying stakeholder roles, customising HR procedures for contract employees, and developing policies for equitable work.
SITHANDIWE SYBIL YENI
INSTITUTE FOR POVERTY, LAND AND AGRARIAN STUDIES
Supervisor: PROF R HALL
Thesis:
Land, livelihoods and belonging on redistributed land of former labour tenants in South Africa
Description:
Amidst crises of social reproduction, what does it mean to people to have land? Grounded in feminist and Marxist political economy and critiques of racial capitalism, Sithandiwe Yeni studied Mhlopheni in KwaZulu-Natal where former labour tenants reclaimed a white-owned farm as their own. Defying the state’s vision of exclusive private property for accumulation, land here is treated as a social endowment of intangible value to be shared and redistributed to relatives, friends and outsiders in need. This reveals how the fixation on production fails to account for the realities of people whose lives and labour are rendered surplus under neoliberal capitalism. New emancipatory possibilities arise. Having land enables belonging through which people can reclaim their humanity.
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
MASTER’S DEGREES 2025
MASTER OF ARTS
DAVIDS JULIANA
Thesis:
The Evolution of Feminist Politics: The Life and Times of a Rape Crisis Organisation
Department: WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES
Supervisor: DR M HAMES
Co-supervisor: PROF D LEWIS
JAMES CHARLES ZANOXOLO
Thesis:
Sesotho immigrant minority group and language rights in South Africa: A case study
Department: AFRICAN LANGUAGE STUDIES
Supervisor: PROF R KASCHULA
MATAAR YUSUF
Thesis:
Are first-year students linguistically ready for further studies: A needs analysis of English for academic purposes at King Saud University
Department: ENGLISH
Supervisor: DR S NTETE
Co-supervisor: PROF V MCGHIE
ISAACS ISMA-EEL
Magna Cum Laude
Thesis:
Problems and strategies in translating legal texts from Arabic to English
Department: FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Supervisor: PROF T MOHAMMED
Co-supervisor: DR M SAIDI
MAGUGU MANDILIVE
Magna Cum Laude
Thesis:
Fast foodscapes, brand identity positioning strategies and consumption: A multisemiotic discourse analysis of selected Nando’s stores in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Department: LINGUISTICS
Supervisor: DR L MAFOFOI
NGCAMLA KHUSELO
Thesis:
Overcoming language barriers in the teaching of history at High Schools: A case study of Ulwazi High School and Ntsonkota Secondary School. Ukoyisa imiqobo yolwimi ekufundiseni isifundo sezeMbali kwizikolo samabanga aphakamileyo i-Ulwazi High School kunye neNtsonkota Secondary school
Department: AFRICAN LANGUAGE STUDIES
Supervisor: PROF R KASCHULA
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
MASTER’S DEGREES
MASTER OF ARTS
RICHARDS LAUREN TAMSYN
Thesis:
Exploring the perceptions and attitudes of households towards solid waste management in Fisantekraal, Cape Town
Department: SOCIOLOGY
Supervisor: DR S SPICER
Co-supervisor: PROF C SCHENK
AM VUYISANANI
Thesis:
Family stories: re-imagining family photography through Zanele Muholi’s lens
Department: HISTORICAL STUDIES
Supervisor: DR P MNYAKA
WILLIAMS VERONIQUE
Cum Laude
Thesis:
Investigating Kaaps multimodal literacy interactions at a township primary school in Cape Town, South Africa
Department: LINGUISTICS
Supervisor: PROF A PECK
RHODE MIKAYLA
Thesis:
Archives of apartheid-era economic crimes and legacies of socioeconomic violence: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ‘forgotten’ voices in the present, and open secrets
Department: HISTORICAL STUDIES
Supervisor: DR B VAN LAUN
VERGHESE BENJAMIN
Thesis:
Mapping MAPP: jazz pedagogies and praxes of freedom
Department: HISTORICAL STUDIES
Supervisor: DR A ERASMUS
Co-supervisor: PROF H GRUNEBAUM
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
MASTER’S DEGREES 2025
MASTER OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES
MAJAVU UYANDA
Thesis:
Assessment of literacy programme for children and young adults at public libraries
Department: LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Supervisor: DR O SALUBI
Co-supervisor: PROF L KING
NEPAYA HILENI NDINELAGO
Thesis:
The use of information and communication technologies for knowledge sharing by IT Librarians: A case study of the University of Namibia
Department: LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Supervisor: DR N MOMOTI
MASTER OF THEOLOGY
SIMMERY JEROME FRANCO
Thesis:
Liberation and reconciliation in postapartheid South Africa: Exploring Per Frostin’s notion of metanoia from a Black Theological perspective
Department: RELIGION AND THEOLOGY
Supervisor: PROF D SOLOMONS
MNQWAZI ZENANDE
Thesis:
Analysing the relationship between undergraduate students’ information needs and collection development: A study of an academic library in the Western Cape
Department: LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Supervisor: DR O SALUBI
MAJOLA NOZIPHO
Thesis: Information seeking behaviour of undergraduate Visual Communication Design students at the Durban University of Technology
Department: LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Supervisor: PROF L KING
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
HONOURS’
DEGREES
BACHELOR OF ARTS HONOURS
HANNIE ERIN
MASEMOLA REITUMETSE
Cum Laude
ABDELAAL MAHA
ABDOOROFT MOGAMMAD AMEEN
ARRIES ERIN
BOTHA ELIJAH GAFFLEY FRANK
DAWOOD AZIZA
FARMER BEVERLY JANE
ISAACS MATTHEW
JEFFERIES THAAKIERAH
MAGADLA MZWABANTU
MOLEFE TLOTLEGO EMMELDA
MTHIYANE YAMKELA
NKOPANE FAITH SELLENG
NOORDIEN-ISAACS AZIZA
ROMAN GLORIA MARLENE
SIDINILE PHUMEZO
SINGH NAZIMA
SWARTZ JAY-DEAN ILSE-LEE
VAN BOVEN FHARRON
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
DIPLOMAS 2025
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LANGUAGE PRACTICE
PASQUALLIE LINCOLN NOEL
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES
NOMBAMBA SIMPHIWEWATTS ANTENIA BERENISE
BACHELOR OF ARTS
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
ABRAHAMS RAGMA
AGYEI ZINTLE
BAADJIES DAWIDA KASHIDA
JEFFRISIA
BIXA BUNONO YONELISA
BOTHA QUEENEE YANELISA
DAVIDS NIVEN
DIPHU ASANDA
DOMINGO LAUREN NICOLE
DON JONELLE ANDOLINE
DYANTYI QHAMA
FRANCKE ASHLEIGH CAITLIN
GIQO INGA
GOJANA AHLUME
HARMSE DANIELLE JACQUELINE
HARRIS ACHMAD SHAFEE
HLONGWANE TEBOHO ICE
JAFTHA MIKYLE FERDINAND
JOHNSON KIRSTEN MONA
JOKO SESETHU
JONES SANCHIA JADA
KANNEMEYER LAEQAH
KETILE LIZIWE
KGAGARA KAGISO
KLEINHANS NICOLE JO
KONJALO MOUTIKA
KUPAKUWANA TINASHE SIHLE
LAWRENCE FARREN
LAWRENCE GIA TERRY
LEKEBA MEIPONE
LEUKES KATE-LYNN JANE-ANN
LIWANI LOYOLA
LUNGU OPHOLA
MAILA RETHABILE
MASIA MUNEIWA
MASINA PAMELA CHARLEEN
MAYEKISO BONGIWE SAMANTHA
MC KIE ERIN-LEE
MEYERS TAMIKA MAIKEITHA
ZURAIDA
MINI THIMNA KHANYISA
MLABA LUNGELO
MLOLWENI LIKHANYISE
MNDIYATA THIMNA
MNGANISE ANOVUYO
MNYUTE THEMBELA GIFTY
MOLAPO KOKETSO
MONYAISA PONTSHO CHRISTINE
MOPHUTHING REABETSWE
MQOLO MARIA
MSIMANG APHIWE LWAZI
MTHOBENI MINENHLE
MULLER BETHANY HELÈNE
MULLER DEMI
NAIDOO BRYCE
NDOU CHARMAINE
NDZULE ANELISA
NGQAKAVU LIMNANDI
NGQULANA ATHANDWE
NINI ZIZIPHO
NKOSI MIRIAAM JABULILE
OPPELS PRESTON
PIENAAR SHALEM
QHASHU ANDA MANGALISO
QOBONGOSHE ZANDA
RUITERS DANEIL AREN STEFFI
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
BACHELOR OF ARTS
RUNEYI ZENANI TRACEY
SAMSODIEN NUHAA
SAMUELS CONNER
SHANGE SANDILE
SIKO JO-ANN
SIMELANE THANDI
SMITH OVAYO
SOTONDOSHE SIBULELE
TAPE AZRAH
THEART MICHAELA LEE
TSHANGANA SIBONAKALISO CWENGILE
TYOPO ZIMKHITHA AFIKA
VAN REENEN PAIGE
VETENI SINOVUYO SIPHOSETHU
VILLET CAITLIN MARY
WILLIAMS MALDWIN DONN
WILLIAMS NABEELAH
XAMANE ANELISIWE
BACHELOR OF THEOLOGY
CHIHANA MELODY
GOMA BORNFACE
KAMBOLE LUTANDA
LESA PATRICK MANDEFU
MPUNGA WILLIAM
SINKALA ALBERT
SIWILA VINCENT
WAGENAAR JUNIOR DANIELL
FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
MASTER’S DEGREES 2025
MASTER OF ARTS IN SPORT RECREATION AND EXERCISE SCIENCE
GOPHE MYOLISI
Thesis:
Stakeholders’ perceptions of the role of social media in sport for development: an exploration of the media coverage in Cape Town, South Africa
Department: SPORT RECREATION AND EXERCISE SCIENCE
Supervisor: PROF S TITUS
Co-supervisor: PROF M YOUNG
MANTHATA KEABETSWE PHETA
Thesis:
Changes in the anthropometric and physical fitness characteristics of club level netball players in South Africa during a competitive season
Department: SPORT RECREATION AND EXERCISE SCIENCE
Supervisor: PROF A TRAVILL
Co-supervisor: PROF S BASSETT
MASTER OF ARTS IN PSYCHOLOGY
CUPIDO ERIN
Thesis:
Exploring and understanding the effects of stress on primary caregivers of children in early childhood within lowincome households
Department: PSYCHOLOGY
Supervisor: DR A PEDRO
Co-supervisors: PROF S SAVAHL, PROF C ERASMUS
MAVATA THOLAKELE
Thesis:
Women’s experiences of posttraumatic stress symptoms/disorder following a medically complicated pregnancy: A systematic review
Department: PSYCHOLOGY
Supervisor: PROF M BOTHA
OLANIYI IFEOLUWA AYOOLUWA JESULOBA
Thesis:
Exploring university students’ subjective experiences of stress, coping, perceived social support, and psychological well-being in the context of teaching and learning during COVID-19
Department: PSYCHOLOGY
Supervisor: PROF N SOMHLABA
2025
FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
MASTER’S DEGREES
MASTER OF ARTS IN CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES
LEIBRANDT VIVIAN LUCAN
Thesis:
The role of family functioning on the social and emotional competence of preadolescents
CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES OF CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND SOCIETY
Supervisor: PROF C ERASMUS
PIETERSE JOCELYNNE MELISSA
Thesis:
The relation between children’s daily activities and subjective well-being: A national population-based study
CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES OF CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND SOCIETY
Supervisor: PROF S SAVAHL
Co-supervisor: DR S ADAMS
MASTER OF NURSING
FRANS SHANE LEIGH
Thesis:
Investigating the use of social media use amongst nursing students at a nursing school in the Western Cape
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Supervisor: PROF J CHIPPS
Thesis:
Surgical site infection prevention at a private and a public hospital in Windhoek, Namibia
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Supervisor: PROF J CHIPPS
Co-supervisor: PROF M BIMEREW
MTIKI TANDEKA HAPPINESS
Thesis:
Medication adherence of mental health care users attending Community Healthcare Centres in the Western Cape Metropole region
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Supervisor: DR J WILLEMSE
Co-supervisor: PROF P MARTIN
MDANA NOMATSHAWE SWEETNESS
Thesis:
Job satisfaction, work commitment and turnover intention amongst nurses working at Psychiatric Hospitals in the Western Cape
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Supervisor: DR J WILLEMSE
Co-supervisor: MR T NONCUNGU
AMBUNDA HERTHA NDAKULILWA
FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
MASTER’S DEGREES 2025
MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT
DONDASHE DUMISANI ESHELY
Thesis:
An Exploratory Study of the Development of Women Boxing Clubs at selected Higher Education Institutions
Department: SPORT RECREATION AND EXERCISE SCIENCE
Supervisor: PROF S TITUS
Co-supervisor: DR R MULAUDZI
MASTER
OF PSYCHOLOGY
BASSON WILLEM JOHANNES
Thesis:
A cross-sectional study of the mental health status of male mental healthcare professionals working with trauma in South Africa
Department: PSYCHOLOGY
Supervisor: PROF A PADMANABHANUNNI
Co-supervisor: MR K JACKSON
FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
MASTER’S DEGREES
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH
MCDOUGALL ROBYNNE VALERIE ERRINGTON
Thesis:
Managing chronic pain in public health facilities: The experiences of healthcare providers in the Northern Cape
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Supervisor: DR L TSOLEKILE
DLAMINI GABISILE
Thesis:
Exploring factors that influence acceptance and uptake of malaria prevention interventions in at risk communities in Eswatini
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Supervisor: DR W AMDE
BUIS MICHELLE
Thesis:
Experiences of health care workers utilising the Departmental Employee Wellness Programme (EWP) at two tertiary hospitals in the Western Cape Province
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Supervisor: DR V MATHEWS
GBADEGESIN JANET TEMITOPE
Thesis:
Knowledge, attitudes and preventive practices of Human Papilloma Virus among female undergraduate students in a Nigerian University
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Supervisor: PROF O AKINTOLA
Co-supervisor: DR J SUMANKUURO
FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
MASTER’S DEGREES 2025
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH
GOLIATH-MANTIS ADORÉE WENONAH
Thesis:
The association between body size and physical fitness amidst the Covid 19 pandemic: a South African naval personnel retrospective longitudinal study
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Supervisor: PROF J MCHIZA
Co-supervisor: DR C VAN WIJK
MBASA AMANDA
Thesis:
Accountability as a core value: Perceptions and practices of mid-level management at a tertiary hospital in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Supervisor: DR W AMDE
OKAIYETO FLORENCE
Thesis:
Determining the prevalence and risk factors of non-communicable diseases among firefighters in the City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue Service
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Supervisor: DR V MATHEWS
Co-supervisor: DR J RAS
KALIMASHE MONALISA NOMHLE
Thesis:
Trends in diabetes markers among HIV patients between 2018 and 2022 in the Northern Cape province
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Supervisor: PROF O AKINTOLA
Co-supervisors: DR T KUFA-CHAKEZHA, DR B MANSFIELD
MKHIZE NOBUHLE LYNETTE
Thesis:
Geospatial analysis of severe acute malnutrition cases in children under five years in a district municipality, KwaZulu-Natal Province
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Supervisor: DR V MATHEWS
OYAGA CHRISTOPHER ASIMWE
Thesis:
Assessment of prescribing practices in community pharmacies in Windhoek, Namibia: A focus on antibiotics
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Supervisor: DR H BRADLEY
FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
MASTER’S DEGREES
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN NUTRITION
MCALLEN LUCRECHIA ELOISE
Thesis:
The knowledge and utilisation of nutritionrelated preconception care amongst women and health care workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review
Department: DIETETICS AND NUTRITION
Supervisor: PROF EC SWART
Co-supervisor: MRS J WILKENSON
MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK
PATHER KARUSHA
Thesis:
Ayurveda as a model of intervention in treating substance use disorders in adults: A systematic review
Department: SOCIAL WORK
Supervisor: DR S CARELSE
VALENTINE MALCOLM AMBROSE
Thesis:
The needs of unmarried fathers in possession of a court ordered parenting plan: the perceptions of social workers in family mediation
Department: SOCIAL WORK Supervisor: DR A HUMAN-HENDRICKS
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN PHYSIOTHERAPY
Thesis:
Long-term respiratory and health-related quality of life outcomes of COVID-19 pneumonia patients discharged from a regional hospital in Gauteng, South Africa
Department: PHYSIOTHERAPY
Supervisor: DR F KARACHI
Thesis:
The epidemiology of covid-19 ICU patients and the evaluation of the impact of in-hospital physiotherapy management in Johannesburg, South Africa
Department: PHYSIOTHERAPY
Supervisor: DR F KARACHI
CADER SAARAH
VAN ROOYEN CASEY-LEIGH
FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
HONOURS’ DEGREES 2025
BACHELOR OF ARTS HONOURS IN SPORT RECREATION AND EXERCISE SCIENCE
VAN BILJON JOHANNES JACOBUS
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE HONOURS IN BIOKINETICS
APPELGRYN CHENY GRABE ELANDRE
FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
DIPLOMAS 2025
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT
ISMAIL RAMEEZ
MGUGA CHUMA
OBISI PETUNIA
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN NURSING EDUCATION
HUDSONBERG PORTIA REBECCA
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES
MTWA AND’AMAXESIBE SIBULELE
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MIDWIFERY
NDAMASE KHANYISA
WESSIE DEIRDRE LETICIA
MATLAPENG TSHIAMO MBALI
2025
FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES
UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN SPORT RECREATION AND EXERCISE SCIENCE
CEBINDEVU NTSIKELELO
MANO HILTON RODNEY
MBANA ABULELE PETERS CHUMASANDE
BACHELOR OF NURSING
BAILEY MEGHAN JANE
FOURIE ALEXANDER
LANGA LELETHU
MAGAGULA TLANGELANI
MAGWEVANA SIBABALWE
MPAWENAYO
NDIWENUMRYANGO MARIE-CLAIRE
NTILINI ATHINI
SKOSANA SIPHESIHLE LUCIA
VANANDA HLUMELA PORTIA
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCE
DE LANGE LOUAN
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN DIETETICS
DAVIDS SAARAHMADUNA NHLANHLA
FACULTY OF DENTISTRY
MASTER’S DEGREES
MASTER OF DENTAL SURGERY
FAKIR YASEEN
Thesis:
Clear Aligner Usage among Orthodontists and General Dentist in South Africa
Department: ORTHODONTICS
Supervisor: PROF A SHAIKH
JOHAN CHRISTIAN
Cum Laude
Thesis:
Assessing orthodontic treatment outcome of patients treated by orthodontic registrars – using the peer assessment rating index
Department: ORTHODONTICS
Supervisor: PROF H BELLARDIE
Co-supervisor: PROF A HARRIS
MAKKA ASHAY
Thesis:
Analysis of Cervicofacial Necrotising Fasciitis at Tygerberg Oral Health Centre
Department: MAXILLOFACIAL AND ORAL SURGERY
Supervisor: PROF J MORKEL
Co-supervisor: DR F TITINCHI
JULYAN
FACULTY OF DENTISTRY
MASTER’S DEGREES
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN DENTISTRY
BAILIE KEANÉ CATT
Thesis:
Racemisation of Aspartic Acid from Dentin for Chronological Age Estimation in a South African Population Using HPLC with UV Detection
Department: CRANIOFACIAL BIOLOGY ORAL PATHOLOGY AND RADIOLOGY
Supervisor: PROF M CHETTY
Co-supervisor: DR L NGODWANA
NDWANDWE SIZAKELE
Thesis:
Microscopic effect of polishing techniques and abrasive agents on teeth: A comparative in vitro study
Department: PROSTHODONTICS
Supervisor: PROF R MULDER
Co-supervisor: MS N GORDON
VAN ZYL ALBERT MARK
Cum Laude
Thesis:
Comparison of GOSLON yardstick and cephalometric analysis in non-syndromic unilateral cleft lip and palate patients
Department: ORTHODONTICS
Supervisor: PROF H BELLARDIE
MALHERBE TAYLA
Magna Cum Laude
Thesis:
Prevalence and Survival rate of adenoid cystic carcinoma at Tygerberg Hospital
Department: MAXILLOFACIAL AND ORAL SURGERY
Supervisor: PROF A AFROGHEH
Co-supervisor: PROF J MORKEL
AMANI
Thesis:
Dental aberration of osteogenesis imperfect: A systematic review
Department: ORAL MEDICINE AND PERIODONTOLOGY
Supervisor: PROF M CHETTY
Co-supervisor: DR I ROOMANEY
MAKI MARWA
Thesis:
Evaluation of the dental age of children born with unilateral cleft lip and palate within a Western Cape population
Department: ORTHODONTICS
Supervisor: DR N POTGIETER
Co-supervisor: PROF H BELLARDIE
SHNAIBA
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN DENTISTRY
ALI MARWA IZZELDIN MOHAMED
Thesis:
The knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of nursing staff and medical doctors in South Africa on the relationship between T2DM/DM and Periodontal diseases
Department: ORAL MEDICINE AND PERIODONTIOLOGY
Supervisor: PROF A JEFTHA
FACULTY OF DENTISTRY
MASTER’S DEGREES
FACULTY OF DENTISTRY
DIPLOMAS
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IMPLANTOLOGY
KHAN AMIEN
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN DENTISTRY
QOBOSHIYANE MANDLA
Cum Laude
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
MASTER’S DEGREES
MASTER IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
JEFTHA HAZEL PATRICIA
Thesis:
Rethinking local economic development (LED) in the Covid19 era. A case study of Worcester, Breede Valley Municipality, Western Cape
SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
Supervisor: PROF G RUITERS
JOSEPHS EZRA MARK
Thesis:
Exploring ‘agency-level budgetary performance incentives’ as an effective tool to improve policy outcomes: A case study of the Western Cape Government budgeting system
SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
Supervisor: DR M OKBANDRIAS
MOTTIE MERCIA
Thesis:
Low cost housing implementation in Joe Slovo residential area, in Cape Town: Its challenges and possibilities
SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
Supervisor: PROF G DAVIDS
NDENGU TINASHE
Thesis:
An analysis of the political Performance Management System’s impact on organisational effectiveness: A case study of the Democratic Alliance in the Western Cape Provincial government
SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
Supervisor: DR M OKBANDRIAS
Thesis:
Analysis of the role of government in the regulation of the Burial Societies sector in South Africa
SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
Supervisor: DR M OKBANDRIAS
SOBETHWA ATHANATHI JENIFFER
Thesis:
Exploring Factors Contributing to Youth Unemployment in Khayelitsha with specific reference to Skills Development
SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
Supervisor: DR F KHAILE
MOYANA AMOS MIKE
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
MASTER’S DEGREES
MASTER IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
TSENGWA SANELISIWE
Thesis:
Public participation processes in local economic development initiatives.
A case study of Mbhashe Local Municipality, Eastern Cape
SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
Supervisor: PROF I ILE
MASTER OF ARTS
AHMED HAFEEZ
Thesis:
Qualitative insights into employee motivation during crisis periods such as the coronavirus disease 2019: A case study at a retail organisation in the Western Cape
Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Supervisor: DR D HAMMAN-FISHER
ROSANT KYLE
Thesis:
Stress and coping mechanisms of police officers in the Bellville Metropole in Cape Town
Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Supervisor: DR D HAMMAN-FISHER
NIKELO SABELISIWE
Thesis:
Economic Freedom Fighters: Understanding their approach to race
Department: POLITICAL STUDIES
Supervisor: PROF F ANCIANO Co-supervisor: PROF C AFRICA
SIZANI ZINTLE
Thesis:
Factors affecting the retention of an intergenerational workforce within the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Industry
Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Supervisor: DR T BALOGUN
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
MASTER’S DEGREES
MASTER OF COMMERCE
BOKS GONITE LEE-ZAIN
Thesis:
The Impact Of Organisational Changes On Psychological Contracts And The Employee’s Intention To Turnover In South Africa’s Public Sector
Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Supervisor: DR O OLABIYI
KONJWA AZOLA LAWRENCE
Cum Laude
Thesis:
Understanding the survivalist entrepreneurship behaviour of waste pickers: A classical theory of income and employment perspective
Department: DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Supervisor: PROF CG IWU
Co-supervisor: MS L LLORENTE QUESADA
MAMPURU PUSELETSO
Thesis:
Examining activities of youth informal entrepreneurs in South Africa: An analysis using SESE data
Department: ECONOMICS
Supervisor: DR M NACKERDIEN
Co-supervisor: DR S MUROZVI
MITCHELL CHERIE JEAN
Thesis:
The impact of job crafting on job satisfaction – A systematic review
Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Supervisor: DR T BALOGUN
MAGENUKA-HESHU LINDIWE
Thesis:
Navigating the virtual transition: An examination of the perceived online readiness, self-efficacy, and anxiety in shaping the psychological well-being of first-year undergraduate students
Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Supervisor: DR T BALOGUN
RUMUTSA NORMAN
Thesis:
Interest rates, saving and investment in South Africa, 1990 to 2020
Department: ECONOMICS
Supervisor: PROF M OCRAN
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
MASTER’S DEGREES
MASTER OF COMMERCE
VALENTINE MATTHEW WAYNE
Thesis:
Predicting factors that influence late delivery of sports apparel products in supply chain
Department: INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Supervisor: PROF O JOKONYA
MASTER OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
SOEKER MOGAMAT ARDIEL
Thesis:
The transformative potential of social protection programmes: A case study of the Labon Foundation in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town
INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Supervisor: PROF A KARRIEM
ZUSAKHE MZILIKAZI
Thesis:
The effectiveness of Social Policies and Social Development during COVID-19 in aid of people with special reference to Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain
INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Supervisor: PROF M BAYAT
Co-supervisor: PROF A KARRIEM
ZIKHALI KHANYISILE
Thesis:
Using the water,energy and food nexus to build resilient home gardens in Gugulethu, Cape Town
INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Supervisor: PROF A KARRIEM
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
MASTER’S DEGREES
MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN POVERTY, LAND AND AGRARIAN STUDIES
MOLEPO SIENNE MAKGOMO
Thesis:
A chief without a chieftaincy? Struggles over subjecthood and territorial control in Bakgatla ba Mmakau, South Africa
INSTITUTE FOR LAND, POVERTY AND AGRARIAN STUDIES
Supervisor: PROF R HALL
Co-supervisor: DR G MUDIMU
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
HONOURS’ DEGREES 2025
BACHELOR OF ADMINISTRATION HONOURS
DLULANE ROBERT SIMPHIWE
GWIJA MDUDUZI
MANI COLLEEN LUNGISWA
MANUEL KENDRA
MRAWUZELI SIYAKHOLWA
BACHELOR OF ARTS HONOURS
MANYABA ANATHI
NGOMA ZANELE ARETHA PLAATJIES CARMEN RENÉ
TOM BEAUTY ANDISWA
TSHAKA BANGAPHI JOHN
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE HONOURS IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
HANNIBAL FRANCIOS KEITH
MAGERMAN THARWAT
QALA RIGHTEOUSNESS
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
HONOURS’ DEGREES
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE HONOURS IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
BALENI JOSEPH THABANG
CAESAR JUREAUX
DE VRIES CAITLIN
HAUPT MEGHAN JANINE
STEVENS DILLAN ARTHUR
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE HONOURS IN FINANCE
DZIBA GCOBISA MANDISA
KHARWA LUQMAAN
KOLI SIBONGILE
MOKOENA CAROLINE MAMELLO
MOOI KHANYA
MUPEDZA VIMBAI
TAKANE SIBABALO LINAKHO
TCHITEMBO MIREILLE
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE HONOURS IN MANAGEMENT
MAHUHUSHI MBHALENHLE PRECIOUS
BACHELOR OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES HONOURS
ALLANAH IFEANYI ELIAN
LEKATA QHAYISA
MATOMELA NKOSINATHI
BACHELOR OF ECONOMICS HONOURS
ADAMS ANGELIQUE
BALISO PUMELELA
BOJABOTSEHA DINEO AMILCAR
GETYENGANA AMAHLE KEVIN
KOMSANA SISIPHO LIKHETHA ROTONDWA
MAYABA AVUYILE SOLAMI ANATHI
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES DIPLOMAS
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN POVERTY, LAND AND AGRARIAN STUDIES
LAZENBY EMILY
MAQEBA MZAMO SHERPARD
MATSHO JIM
MONNAPULE INGRID SUSAN
MTHEMBU SBUSISO DERICK
ZUMA MBALI
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
CONRADIE ARLENE
LWANA OKO
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN E-SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
MASANGO LINDIWE CYNTHIA
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN FINANCE
MAZWI AVUYILE
MOTLHATLEGO AMOGELANG
RAMANDH RYAN
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND MEDIA APPLICATION
CERFF HAYDEN
Cum Laude
MASENGO LUYANDA
DLAKAVU SIPHOSETU JELE KANYISA
KGALADI PHETOLO
Cum Laude
BHAXA YANGA
BROWN LAUREN AMANDA
DELIWE KHANYA
LUPONDO LULUTHO
MOON CONSTANCE
SIKILONGO LONWABO
VELEBAYI YOLISA SENDIE
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES 2025
BACHELOR OF ADMINISTRATION
DAMONS AYDEN
ISMAIL QIARA
JOHNSON SIMTHANDILE
LEBOTSE OMPHEMETSE
LOSPER AAKIFAH
MADONSELA SANELISIWE
MANXIWENI BUHLE HLONELA
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE
ADAMS LAUREN
ALLY SUHAYL
ANWARY MUHAMMAD BURHAAN
BALOYI RIFUWO
BOOI UVIWE MIVUYO
BOSCH GABRIELLE ALICIA
CUNTU LERATO
DU TOIT RALTHON ANDREW
FINIZA KAMVALETHU
GEDULD JUSTIN JAMES
GUMBI ASANDA SPHESIHLE
HARTLEY QAASIM MOHAMMED
HENDRICKS CLEON LINDSAY
HENDRICKS ZAIDA
JACKALS TSHENOLO
JAPPIE THAAKIRAH
JOHNS SALMA
JOHNSON DEVRON
KARRIEM ASMAA
KENTE ZUKANYE
KHAN ASIF
KHOTHATSO LEBOHANG PRUDENCE
MAZULA OLWETHU
NKULANA ANDISWA
NTINGISO ASANDA
ROSSIE ISRAA
MANTYI SIYANDA
TOORN SANWILL CADIAN
YAMILE BOMKAZI LUCIA
KLAASEN KHENSANI KEISHA
LANDU SANELISIWE
LIEDEMAN MONIQUE
LUPONDO ATHENKOSI LIVE
LUVHIMBI SHENELDA PHUMUDZO
MABIRIMISA BRIAN TSHEDZA
MAKHELE UNATHI
MALEKA LESEDI REARABILWE
MAVELA ASEZA
MAYEKISO YANELA ANGEL
MBILI BANELE MANDY
MJOJELI SUTHUKAZI ASISIPHO
MKHWANAZI ZANDISILE PORTIA
MOELESO MOTLALEPULE
MTIMKULU ABONGILE
MZOBE WANDISILE NOMTHIMBA
NAMNTU ANDILE CHASE AMOS
NDALANI LEMOGANG GIVEN
NETSHIKWETA NDIVHO ALEX
NTLEKI COLLIE
NTUANE RENEILWE ITUMELENG
NYATHI NANDI
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE
OMAR UTHMAAN
PETERS LOGAN
PRINS MICHAYE ROXANNE
RONOTI LWANDILE
SAMLA TANDOKAZI
SELONYANE RETABILE
SLINGER LUKE MARK
SMITH GRANT PETER
SONGCA QIQA SIHLE NOSIPHO
TAYLOR ABDUL-BAASIT
TONISI CIKISWA
TSHUNGULWANA SOMILA
WILLIAMS SHANE
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE IN ACCOUNTING
BITKEU DE BITNGA MODELE ESPOIR
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE IN FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
DE KLERK EMELIA MICAELA
DITHEBE TEBOHO LETTIE
GREYBE BLANCHE GEORGENA
KIYANG CASSIEM
MAGATYA LIHLE
MANGQANGWANA AMAHLE
MANUEL MOGHAMED RASHAAD
MASILELA EMPRESS MOKETE
MC GREGOR MICAELA JOY
MOELA TSHEPANG MAHLAKO
POONAWASSY KEERAN
SHOSHA LILITHA
VALLEY LAAIQAH
VAN WYK ZENECA ZAYGEN
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE IN LAW
MALULEKA LIHLE ENOCENTS
BACHELOR OF ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
NONGOGO INDIPHILE
FACULTY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
MASTER’S DEGREES
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENVIRONMENT AND WATER SCIENCE
MSESANE QAWEKAZI
Magna Cum Laude
Thesis:
Spatial modelling of the hydrogeological connection between groundwaterdependent ecosystems and aquifers in the Kruger National Park, South Africa
Department: EARTH SCIENCE
Supervisor: PROF T DUBE
Co-supervisor: DR S GXOKWE
HONORARY DEGREE AWARDEES
1983
S. Motsuenyane, Doctor Commercii
M.C. O’Dowd, Doctor Commercii
1984
E. Theron, Doctor Legum
1987
B. Breytenbach, Doctor Litterarum
R.E. van de Ross, Doctor Educationis
1989
J.C. de Villiers, Doctor Scientiae
G.A.M. Mbeki, Doctor Philosophiae
1990
N.R. Mandela, Doctor Legum
O.R. Tambo, Doctor Legum
1991
R.E. Alexander, Doctor Commercii
G.S. Machel, Doctor Legum
D. Mitterand, Doctor Litterarum
D. Zihlangu, Doctor Educationis
1993
G. Boonzaaier, Doctor Litterarum
B. Head, Doctor Litterarum (posthumous)
A. Ibrahim, Doctor Litterarum
E. Mancoba, Doctor Litterarum
1995
G.J. Gerwel, Doctor Educationis
P.M. Sonn, Doctor Legum
1996
G.H. Brundtland, Doctor Legum
T.N. Chapman, Doctor Commercii
J.J.F. Durand, Doctor Philosophiae
P. Gorvalla, Doctor Commercii
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1997
B. Davidson, Doctor Litterarum
E.L. King, Doctor Theologiae
I. Mohamed, Doctor Scientiae
F.B. Naude, Doctor Theologiae
J.N. Scholten, Doctor Legum
R. Turner, Doctor Educationis
1998
J. Derrida, Doctor Litterarum
M. Nuttall, Doctor Theologiae
M.A Oduyoye, Doctor Theologiae
J. Reddy, Doctor Educationis
2001
V.H. Faigle, Doctor Theologiae
G. ‘t Hooft, Doctor Scientiae
P.N. Langa, Doctor Legum
A. Small, Doctor Litterarum
2002
W.H. Gray III, Doctor Philosophiae
C.L.R.Hirschsohn, Doctor Philosophiae
T. Manuel, Doctor Commercii
D. Philip, Doctor Litterarum
M. Philip, Doctor Litterarum
D.M.B. Tutu, Doctor Legum
2003
K. Mokhele, Doctor Scientiae
T. D. Fredericks, Doctor Educationis
P.D. Uys, Doctor Educationis
2004
K. Asmal, Doctor Legum
E. de Keyser, Doctor Commercii
G. Fitzgerald, Doctor Litterarum
A. Omar, Doctor Legum (posthumous)
A. Sachs, Doctor Litterarum
A. Sisulu, Doctor Curationis
W. Sisulu, Doctor Legum (posthumous)
HONORARY DEGREE AWARDEES
2005
A. Achmat, Doctor Philosophiae
C.J Bundy, Doctor Philosophiae
E.K.M. Dido, Doctor Litterarum
T. Jones, Doctor Philosophiae
J. Fagan, Doctor Legum
I. Mahomed, Doctor Legum (posthumous)
2006
F. Ginwala, Doctor Administrationis
2007
E. Abrahams, Doctor Philosophiae
E. Braune, Doctor Philosophiae
A. Chaskalson, Doctor Legum
D. Jordaan, Doctor Philosophiae
R. Kadalie, Doctor Litterarum
P. Mlambo-Ngcuka, Philosophiae Doctor
Y. Mokgoro, Doctor Legum
V.G. Shubin, Doctor Philosophiae
2008
W.E. Morrow, Doctor Educationis
2009
P. Govender, Doctor Legum
2010
A. Adebajo, Doctor Philosophiae
M.S. Dien, Philosophiae Doctor (posthumous)
B.L. Fanaroff, Doctor Philosophiae
P. Olumfemi-Kayode, Doctor Philosophiae
R. Simonsen, Doctor Philosophiae
P.K. Tergat, Doctor Philosophiae
D. Tulu, Doctor Philosophiae
2011
S.B. Biko, Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous)
S.B.A. Isaacs, Doctor Educationis
P. Magrath, Doctor Litterarum
M. Shear, Doctor Philosophiae
M. Temmerman, Doctor Philosophiae
R.B. Wolf, Doctor Philosophiae
2012
B. Gawanas, Doctor Legum
E. Moosa, Doctor Legum
R.E. Reddock, Doctor Philosophiae
H. Shaper, Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous)
A. Sheiham, Doctor Philosophiae
2013
H. Howa, Doctor Philosophiae
T. Jones, Doctor Philosophiae
J. Matthews, Doctor Philosophiae
G. Merino O.P, Doctor Theologiae
2014
A. Haron, Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous)
2015
A. Jedaar, Doctor Philosophiae
2016
H. Adams, Doctor Philosophiae
F. Robertson, Doctor Philosophiae
M. Tsedu, Doctor Philosophiae
2017
M. Lapsley, Doctor Philosophiae
2018
Z Skweyiya, Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous)
2021
Z. Wicomb, Doctor Philosophiae
A.A. Boesak, Doctor Philosophiae
W. Kentridge, (jointly awarded with Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University)
2022
K.K. Prah, Doctor Philosophiae
I. Sooliman, Doctor Philosophiae
HONORARY DEGREE AWARDEES
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2023
C. Hani, Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous)
D.E. Moseneke, Doctor Philosophiae
S.Z. Zotwana, Doctor Philosophiae
2024
M.Y. Choi, Doctor Philosophiae
H. Kummeling, Doctor Philosophiae
C. Pauwels, Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous)
2018
Ebrahim Rhoha
2021
AB Mahomed
Derek Joubert
Peter Takelo
HEADER SUB-HEADER 2018-2024 GOLD MEDALISTS
2022
Sean Patrick Lance
Peter Wilson
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
2024
Albert Lois Sachs
UWC GRADUATION ATTIRE
MEANING AND SYMBOLISM
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The three proteas symbolise Teaching, Culture and Education.
The stepped pattern represents the steps that lead to the Greek temple. This is the international symbol for academia and our recognition that we are a part of it.
The laurel leaves indicate competition and victory.
The diamond-shaped protea petal represents strength of character, ethics and faithfulness to oneself and others.
The continuous pattern that extends from the front to the back speaks to Respice Prospice, which means to look back, to look forward. Take what is good from the past and build the future.
The beaded effect is meant to reflect African craft and creativity.
The colours that make up the band are derived from those that represent the seven Faculties that make up the University.
CAP Black John Knox cap with silver tassel.
Peony red edged with silver trim.
THE CAP
Black John Knox cap with gold tassel. BACK OF THE YOKE
Black edged with gold trim.
THE SLEEVE
Open sleeves, looped up with gold cord and lined with gold satin.
THE GOWN
Black with full facings of gold and trimmed yoke.
Black John Knox cap with silver tassel.
Black edged with silver trim.
SLEEVE
Open sleeves, looped up with silver cord and lined with empire blue satin.
GOWN
Black with full facings of empire blue.
GRADUATION ATTIRE
AND HOODS GOWN
1 THE GOWN
Black (all degrees, diplomas and certificates, except Doctoral degrees)
Arts and Humanities
Community and Health Sciences
Dentistry
Economic and Management
Sciences
Education
Law
Natural Sciences
THE MOTIF
Black, edged with symbolic print in the Faculty colour.
THE COWL
Trimmed based on the type of qualification being conferred.
THE NECKBAND
The neckband emblazoned with the protea in the Faculty colour.
THE HOOD
Full hood in black.
2
CERTIFICATES AND DIPLOMAS
(NQF LEVEL 5 AND 6)
Black, with gold and blue strips.
GRADUATION ATTIRE
HOODS
3 BACHELORS
(NQF LEVEL 7)
Black, edged with symbolic print in the Faculty colour; the neckband emblazoned with the protea in the Faculty colour.
Degrees: BA, BSc, BCom, BAdmin, BA (SRES), BSc (Complementary Health Sciences), BOH, PGCE
5
ADVANCED BACHELORS
(NQF LEVEL 8)
Black, edged with symbolic print in the Faculty colour and trimmed on the cowl with cord in platinum colour; the neckband emblazoned with the protea in the Faculty colour.
Degrees and Diplomas: All Honours degrees and Postgraduate Diplomas
4
PROFESSIONAL/SENIOR BACHELORS
(NQF LEVEL 8)
Black, edged with symbolic print in the Faculty colour and trimmed on the cowl with cord in gold colour; the neckband emblazoned with the protea in the Faculty colour.
Black, lined with the Faculty colour, edged with symbolic print in the Faculty colour and trimmed on the cowl with cord in the Faculty colour; the neckband emblazoned with the protea in the Faculty colour.
