Watch the UCT Annual Awards 2021

06 December 2021 | Ceremony Directors Evan Zerf & Roxanne Harris. Ceremony Video Edit Oatmeal Productions. Photos Lerato Maduna & Je’nine May.

On Monday, 06 December, Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng hosts the UCT Annual Awards 2021, which serves to honour and celebrate exceptional individuals at UCT for their contributions through excellence and dedication in research, teaching and service.

The celebration acknowledges 266 staff receiving Long Service Awards and the recipients of the Distinguished Teacher Awards, the Alan Pifer Research Awards and the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence. The evening also recognises those staff members who have received ad hominem promotions this year.

Follow the celebration on YouTube and Twitter via #UCTAwards2021.

Commissioned by UCT’s Communication and Marketing Department

Video Credits:

Produced by
The Communications and Marketing Department, UCT

Directors
Evan Zerf
Roxanne Harris

Ceremony Edit
Oatmeal Productions

Ceremony Videographers
Evan Zerf
Ashwin Marescia
Lyal Fillies

Graphic Designer
Gregory Hendricks

Researcher & Production Coordinator
Rozanne Engel

Musical Medley by Carla Stokes Music
with UCT Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies
in collaboration with Brigitte Reeve Dance Connection
at Harrington’s Cocktail Lounge, Cape Town

Carla Stokes Music Band:
Tenor sax/bandleader – Carla Stokes
Vocals – Anathi Mobo
Trumpet – Christin Rohl
Guitar – Arianna Carini
Bass – Tracey Johannes
Piano – Nobuhle Ashanti
Drums – Chante Phillips

UCT Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies
Choreography by Brigitte Reeve-Taylor & Lisa Wilson
Dancers: Bran-Leigh Challens
Bjorn Cupido
Unathi Makhambi
Lusanda Ngcobo
Carla Scholtz
Donnlyn Fischer

Director
Akona Matyila

Producer
David Leite

Production Manager
Caroline Gray

Videographers
Akona Matyila
Kyle Trytsman

Makeup
Jessica Le Los
Sharon

Data Wrangler & Editor
Motsiba Sesiu

Gaffer
Paul Chunkason

Spark
Wilson Ningpuanye

Best Boy Grip
Sive Lolo

Chair of Council video message

Director
Charles Meadows

Videography & Edit
Incubate Productions

Average White Band’s “Pick up the Pieces”
performed by Carla Stokes Music with lead singer Aimee George
at UCT’s Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town

“Boogie Wonderland”
performed by Carla Stokes Music with lead singer, Aimee George
at UCT’s Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town

“Maputo”
performed by Carla Stokes Music
at UCT’s Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town

Carla Stokes Music Band:
Tenor sax and bandleader – Carla Stokes
Vocals – Aimee George
Trumpet – Shaw Komori
Guitar – Bradley Prince
Bass – Luke Verezzen
Piano – Brathew Van Schalkwyk
Drums – Lilavan Gangen

Director
Mahmood Osman

Videographers
Mahmood Osman
Moghamad Ameen Shaik
Luqmaan Gierdien

Makeup
Candy Links

Production Assistant
Jibreel Wafai

Lighting
Gearhouse

Long Service Awards video inserts

Directors
Roxanne Harris
Rozanne Engel

Videography
Jayson Bayard
Jarryd Kleinhans

Edit
Kamvelihle Stemela

Photo Montage Editor
Nico Badenhuizen

Distinguished Teacher Awardee Dr Marlon Swai insert
Alan Pifer Awardee Prof Catherine Ward insert
Alan Pifer Awardee Prof Ambroise Wonkam insert

Director
Michael van Ryneveld

Videography & Edit
Ryno Productions

Distinguished Teacher Awardee Dr Bodhisattva Karr insert

Director
Roxanne Harris

Videography & Edit
Carbon Visuals

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UCT Annual Awards 2021

On Monday, 6 December, Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng hosted the UCT Annual Awards 2021, which serve to honour and celebrate exceptional individuals at UCT for their contributions through excellence and dedication in research, teaching and service.

The celebration acknowledges staff receiving Long Service Awards and the recipients of the Distinguished Teacher Award, the Alan Pifer Research Award and the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence. The evening also recognises those staff members who have received ad hominem promotions this year.

The UCT Annual Awards 2021 event premiered on this page, as well as on UCT’s social media channels, from 18:00 to 19:30 on Monday, 6 December 2021. The ceremony recording and individual video segments are now available on this page, along with written stories about some of the award winners.

The Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards

There is an appreciation from the Vice-Chancellors’ Excellence Awards committee that teamwork, collective action, collaboration and leadership have contributed towards the health and wellbeing of colleagues and ensured the sustainability of the university. Awards are made in the three categories: global citizenship, service excellence and transformation.

News Transforming society through theatre

The Baxter Theatre Centre is the winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s Transformation Award.

06 Dec 2021 - 7 min read

News UCT Libraries recognised in VC’s Service Excellence Awards

UCT Libraries are being recognised for their role in ensuring that the UCT community has had uninterrupted access to learning materials throughout the pandemic.

06 Dec 2021 - 8 min read

News Health Sciences Faculty Research Office receives VC Service Excellence Award

The exceptional commitment of UCT’s Health Sciences Faculty Research Office received acknowledgement when it won the Vice-Chancellor’s Service Excellence Award.

06 Dec 2021 - 5 min read

News VC’s Global Citizenship award for SGBV work

Anne Isaac, the project manager of UCT’s Tribunal for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, has won a Vice-Chancellor’s Global Citizenship Award for her work in countering SGBV.

06 Dec 2021 - 10 min read

News Liesl Hermanus dedicates Global Citizenship Award to ‘formidable’ team

For her outstanding work in service of the Hanover Park community, Liesl Hermanus has received the 2021 UCT Vice-Chancellor’s Global Citizenship Award.

06 Dec 2021 - 9 min read

Distinguished Teacher Award

The Distinguished Teacher Award is the highest accolade awarded to teaching staff at all levels within the university. Through the award, the University of Cape Town acknowledges the primary place of teaching and learning in the university’s work.

‘Teach disagreement in a consensus-ridden climate’

The primary task of a history teacher is to encourage disagreement in a consensus-ridden climate, said DTA winner Dr Bodhisattva Kar.

29 Sep 2021 - 10 min read

‘Teaching is a civic duty’

For his versatile, flexible and creative approach to teaching and learning, UCT has honoured Dr Marlon Swai with a Distinguished Teacher Award.

29 Sep 2021 - 7 min read

Alan Pifer Award

This award is the vice-chancellor’s annual prize in recognition of outstanding welfare-related research. It highlights UCT's strategic goal of promoting socially responsive research, and honours a UCT researcher whose outreach work has contributed to the advancement and welfare of South Africa’s disadvantaged people.

Alan Pifer Award: A hat-tip to geneticist Professor Ambroise Wonkam

UCT’s Prof Ambroise Wonkam is one of two recipients of the 2020 Alan Pifer Award.

03 Aug 2021 - 7 min read

Prestigious Alan Pifer Award for Professor Cathy Ward

Growing up during apartheid, Professor Cathy Ward became aware of the systemic nature of violence in South Africa and its devastating effects on society at a young age.

14 Jul 2021 - 6 min read

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