Smuts Hall celebrates 80th anniversary

Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng writes to the UCT community about the passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu (90).

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who has died at the age of 90, leaves a legacy as a towering figure in the theology of compassion.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has passed away at the age of 90.

Was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission truly a failure? Journalist Pippa Green reflects on this historical event, based on the testimony of 13 commissioners.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who was born on 7 October 1931, turns 84 today.

It fell to the Faculty of Health Sciences to stage the opening ceremony in UCT's December 2011 graduations, capping, on the morning of Monday, 12 December, the first band of the around 5 250 students who will graduate this week.

It took UCT seven years to award the second Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Leadership in Africa - a reminder not only of the prestige of the accolade, but also of how few and far between worthy recipients have been.

UCT will honour Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu with the Graça Machel Chancellor's Award for Continental Leadership at a graduation ceremony on 12 December.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has joined UCT students and staff, local civil organisations and high-profile individuals to create It Gets Better - Cape Town and voice their support for sexual minorities.

Caught up in the demands of their studies, students are often slow to volunteer for extra-curricula activities. To counter this, the university's student leadership hosted a week-long drive to foster a sense of social responsibility among their peers.

Not surprisingly, the national media gravitated in their reports to the more headline-grabbing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu's remarks at A Moral Imperative to Speak, a panel discussion hosted at UCT on 24 August.

UCT students are slow to volunteer for things, which prompted the university's student leadership to host a week-long drive to foster a sense of social responsibility among their peers.

Apartheid damaged the humanity of all South Africans, black and white, said Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu at the recent Beyond Reconciliation Conference round table, organised at UCT.

Nobel Prize Laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has called for a compassionate, caring and ethical world that follows the rules, and where people matter more than things.

UCT honorary graduate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu received the US's highest civilian honour, its Presidential Medal of Freedom, from American President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony on Wednesday, 12 August.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said it is easy for students to forget how brutally the apartheid system had divided South Africans.

In his valedictory lecture at UCT's medical school on 13 February, Professor Solomon Benatar of the Department of Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences, stated that the health of whole populations - in South Africa and globally - is <i>the</i> major crisis and challenge for humanity in the 21st century.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu remembers the occasion in 1972 when he was travelling through Nigeria, flying from Lagos to Jos in the country's north.

With workmen in the background reminding guests of the newness of the hosting Wolfsohn Pavilion, the mood at the IIDMM headquarters was festive last Wednesday as Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and his wife Leah arrived to open an HIV centre there named in Tutu's honour.