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Letter from the Editor Dear Tukkie reader, It is my pleasure and privilege to present to you the redesigned Tukkie, the University of Pretoria’s alumni magazine. The aim of this magazine is to keep you, our alumni family, in touch with your alma mater by publishing relevant, informative and exciting news. We value you and want to keep you in the loop at all times. In our 2019 edition we congratulate and get to meet Dr Hinner Köster, the new President of Convocation of UP. We hear from Prof Willem Fourie, Coordinator of the South African Sustainable Development Goals Hub – based at UP’s Hatfield Campus – about the work the organisation does. Dr Vukosi Marivate, the ABSA Chair of Data Science at UP and co-founder of the Deep Learning Indaba, schools us on machine learning. We have a report-back on the ViceChancellor’s international networking efforts, which saw Prof Tawana Kupe hosting alumni dinners in Australia and New Zealand. And of course we can’t forget the UP alumni and
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staff who made the M&G 200 Young South Africans list. Well done! We also congratulate Dr Solomon Ayele Dersso, an alumnus of the Centre for Human Rights, who was elected Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and salute two UP alumni, Prof Barend Erasmus, the new Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, as well as Prof Elsabe Schoeman, who recently became the first female Dean of the Faculty of Law.
Contributors: Masego Panyane Shakira Hoosain Primarashni Gower Samantha Castle Design & Layout Words’worth
University of Pretoria’s Alumni Relations Office Personnel Samantha Castle Senior Manager: Alumni Relations Tel: 012 412 3044 Email: samantha.castle@up.ac.za
This is definitely not all, though – there’s lots more news in the magazine, so enjoy reading it all!
Jacqui Pietersen Senior Alumni Officer Tel: 012 412 3702 Email: jacqui.pietersen@up.ac.za
We hope you enjoy this issue and, as always, we look forward to your feedback, along with story ideas for future issues. Drop us a line at alumni@up.ac.za.
Vuyo Ntloko Alumni Events & Protocol Coordinator Tel: 012 420 3912 Email: vuyo.ntloko@up.ac.za
Tebogo Menong
Henriette Minnaar Alumni Events Coordinator Tel: 012 412 3980 Email: henriette.minnaar@up.ac.za
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