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Another award for UWC Prof Representing their community for the Bishop Lavis Urban Node Upgrade, are front from left, Badroedien Smith (education), Peter Johnson (arts and culture), Thakeera Kamaar (informal traders), Basil van der Linde (civics) and Lorenzo Williams (physically challenged and vulnerable group). Back: Winston Faulmann (sport), Lee Chalken (youth), Walter Absalom (safety and security), Carlo Battis (faith-based - Christian) and Jawaad Kootbodien (formal business).PHOTO: GARY VAN DYK
Bishop Lavis to be upgraded GARY VAN DYK @gvdcapejazz
There’s a buzz in Bishop Lavis following the announcement that upgrades are in line for the suburb. Rose Rau, chairperson for subcouncil 5, has confirmed the tender for the planning of the Bishop Lavis Urban Node Upgrade was awarded to ARG Design and a steering committee from the area has been elected. She said this phase of the project is expected to take about 18 months in collaboration with the consultant team that include ARG Design, public participation professionals, civil and transport engineering, and a safety analyst. The project manager for the City of Cape Town is Bronwen Jillings. “On Tuesday 18 August the members of the consultant team met at ward councillor Asa Abraham’s office and did a walkabout
of the core area. “This walk started at the civic centre, moved on through the town centre itself, crossed over on the route to the Lavistown Station and came back through the sports facilities, continued up to the park between Kasteelberg and Vygie Roads and returned to the councillor’s office. “This visit enabled the team members to engage the community and experience firsthand the current status of the area and the existing facilities.” Rau also pointed out that another important step in this process was the establishment of the project steering committee. This committee comprises representatives from arts and culture, civic association, faith based (Christian and Muslim), education, youth, sport, safety and security, formal business, informal traders, physically challenged and vulnerable group, as well as NGOs.
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Another award is in line for a Professor cal disease research programme - the at the University of the Western Cape. Glossina Functional Genomics Network Professor Alan Christoffels, who is the (GFGN) as part of the International GlosDirector of the South African Bioinfor- sina Genome Initiative. matics Institute and the National SAROver the past four years, the team has Chi Chair in Bioinformatics and Public been predicting new drug targets for tuHealth Genomics, has already received berculosis and predicting the effect of three national and international awards DNA modifications on the ability of a pathis year. tient to metabolise TB drugs. Christoffels Last week he received his fourth and his team were awarded a MRC flagaward, the National Research Council ship award in 2013 to undertake research Hamilton-Naki Award from the South Af- focussing on developing methods that inrican National Research Foundation in clude the identification of new tuberculorecognition of his role in sis drug targets. This transforming science work has culminated in through cutting edge rethe funding of a multisearch and capacity disciplinary research building. team comprising reBorn in Kensington searchers at the Univerand growing up in sities of Benin, KwaZulu Bridgetown, Athlone, Natal, Stellenbosch, the 44-year-old is flying Cape Town and Western the South African flag Cape. high with the Medical For the past six years Research Council Silver Christoffels was a coMedal, HUGO-Africa principal investigator on a multi-disciplinary Prize International award, and a Fulbright PEPFAR project funded Fellowship for six by the Centre for Disease months in Boston, USA, and Control, USA to the which he plans to take up value of $70,000 per year. in February 2016. His team was funded to In Boston he plans to Professor Alan Christoffels develop an innovative work on tuberculosis “How to be a health acgenomes. tivist” tuberculosis intervention for Christoffels, a first generation univer- schools. In collaboration with education sity graduate in his family, holds a PhD partners and eight pilot schools from hisin Bioinformatics from UWC and com- torically disadvantaged communities, pleted a three-year postdoctoral study in they developed a resource in English and Singapore in the laboratory of Dr Byrap- Afrikaans comprising a book for pa Venkatesh and Nobel Laureate Dr Syd- learners, an accompanying teachers ney Brenner. He established a research guide, an interactive DVD and an interaclab at Temasek LifeSciences Laborato- tive website (www.skill4life.org). ries (TLL) in Singapore before returning Christoffels says: “Connecting bio-reto South Africa. sources from Africa and Europe and proIn 2009 he was appointed the Depart- viding adequate technology will revolument of Science and Technology/Nation- tionise how we perform research. al Research Foundation Research Chair “The easy-to-use technical solutions in Bioinformatics and Public Health Ge- will allow the participation of research nomics. Since then he has coordinated ge- from different regions regardless of their nomics training on the African continent level development and networking capafor the World Health Organisation- tropi- bilities.”
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On the ball: Women’s rugby has found
a flyer in Caryn Klassen from St Andrews High in Elsies River. She was chosen for the WP Youth Training Centre’s u.16 team. Playing at centre, she first represented WP during the June holidays in Oudtshoorn and more recently at a Women’s Day game in Pretoria. With her is Jowheel Laban, convenor of a development programme in Elsies River and Grant Adams, who coaches at the school. PHOTO: GARY VAN DYK