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Faculties of Law and Health Sciences graduation ceremony – 12 December 2019 at 10:00
12 December 2019 | Video Nico Badenhuizen. Photo Brenton Geach.The first ceremony of the last graduation season for 2019 took place at 10:00 on Thursday, 12 December in the newly named Sarah Baartman Hall, and saw 260 graduands of the faculties of Law and Health Sciences capped.
Guest speaker at the ceremony was cardiac surgeon Professor Peter Zilla of the Chris Barnard Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. He urged graduands to develop the life mantra, “curious with purpose”.
Among the well-wishers in the Sarah Baartman Hall for the morning ceremony were Golden Graduates from 1969, celebrating 50 years since their own graduations.
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December graduation 2019
The University of Cape Town will be celebrating the graduation of 1 960 of its students over six graduation ceremonies on 12, 13 and 23 December, which include the conferral of three honorary doctorates and the presentation of the UCT Book Award and the UCT Creative Works Award. This graduation season, we also bid a fond farewell to our chancellor, Mrs Graça Machel, who has been the titular head of the university for the past 20 years. Her compassionate and dedicated service to the university will be deeply missed.
Full ceremony recordings
Farewell Chancellor Graça Machel
Our stories: inspirational graduates
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‘Education was my only hope’
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‘I refused to be called a failure’
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Swimming upstream – the second-chance graduand
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Burn the boat to win the island
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Dream big and apply yourself fully
Musa Kika arrived at UCT to study for an LLM, but his master’s was upgraded and he will be graduating in December with a PhD.
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Graduation speakers
