AGM of Convocation and Alumni Association
THE CONVOCATION
The Annual General Meeting of the Convocation will be held on
Tuesday 14 December 2010 at 08h00 in
Lecture Theatre 2, Kramer Law Building
Agenda
1.
Register
2.
Minutes of the meeting held on 15 December 2009.
3.
Matters arising from the minutes.
4.
Address by the Vice-Chancellor
5.
[Guest speaker] [if so decided]
6.
Report of the President of Convocation
7.
[Motions] [if notice is given]
8.
Election of a member of Convocation to hold office for a two year term of office
Hugh Amoore
Secretary of Convocation
Date?
14 December 2010

AGM of Convocation and Alumni Association
The Annual General meeting of the Alumni Association will be held on
Tuesday 14 December 2010 immediately following the Convocation AGM (which starts at
08h00) in Lecture Theatre 2, Kramer Law Building.
Agenda
1.
Register
2.
Minutes of the meeting held on 15 December 2009
3.
Matters arising from the minutes
4.
Report of the Chair of the Alumni Association, Mr Mutle Mogase.
5.
[Motions] [if notice is given]
6.
Election of seven alumni to be members of the Alumni Advisory Board for the ensuing year.
Hugh Amoore
Secretary of Convocation
14 December 2010

AGM of Convocation and Alumni Association
Minutes of the Annual General meeting held on Tuesday 15 December 2009 at 08h10
Present: The President of Convocation, the Vice-Chancellor, the Secretary of Convocation and
45 alunmni/ae who signed the roll.
Apologies: Recorded in the roll.
1.
Seminar
Alumna Dr L F Platzky (1990-1975) together with Professor Thandabantu Nhlapo and Emeritus
Professor John Simpson gave a presentation showing how

Cape Town was ready to host World Cup 2010;

UCT would be involved in helping Cape Town to host the World Cup and visitors to Cape
Town in June July 2010.
(Dr Platzky leads the Province’s task team on 2010 in the office of the Western Cape premier;
Professor Nhlapo is UCT’s deputy Vice-Chancellor heading the UCT 2010 task team, and Emeritus
Professor John Simpson is working on UCT’s 2010 project.
2.
Minutes
The minutes of the meeting held on 9 December 2008 were confirmed and signed as circulated.
3.
Report on the chair of the Management Committee
Dr Saunders presented the attached report which was adopted.
[Annexure I]
4.
Adoption of a new constitution
The Association considered and adopted the attached amended constitution subject to the following change to clause 4.1.4: replace the sentence
“The person presiding at the meeting shall remind it of its responsibility to elect members representative of the demographic diversity of the country.” by the following:
“The person presiding at the meeting shall remind it of its responsibility to elect members representative of the diversity of the country and of the alumni/ae.”
5.
Elections
The Association elected the following to be members of the Alumni Advisory Board for the year to December 2010 in terms of clause 4.1.4 of the new constitution.
Mr Christopher Campbell, Ms Mandy Sauls ,Emeritus Professor Jennifer Thomson
Mrs Sylvia Hammond, Mr Paki Zandile, Mr Lionel Harpur, Mr Mutle Magase
There being no further business the meeting ended at 9.20am
Confirmed at the meeting on 14 December 2010 by ________________________________
Chair
Hugh Amoore
15 January 2010
14 December 2010

AGM of Convocation and Alumni Association
THE CONVOCATION
Minutes of the Annual General meeting of the Convocation held on Tuesday
15 December 2009, at 08h00 in the Kramer Law building.
Present: The President of Convocation, (Dr S J Saunders), the Vice-Chancellor (Dr M Price), the
Secretary of Convocation and 47 members of Convocation who signed the roll.
1.
The Register of members present was taken and apologies noted.
2.
Minutes
Convocation approved the minutes of the annual General meeting held on 9 December 2009 were confirmed and signed by the President.
3.
Report of the President of Convocation
The President gave his report, surveying the state of the University in 2009. He told
Convocation that
 the University was continuing to grow (enrolment was 23 400 in 2009), was inundated with applicants for 2010 (showing the extent to which UCT was a University of choice) and was involved in major capital projects (the middle campus was to have a new School of
Economics and a new student administration building; a building had been bought in the
Main road to house ICTS; and the University was shortly to sign a contract for a 850 bed residence in Observatory).
 the University was at the forefront of research in South Africa, graduating a record 175 PhDs in 2009, having over the one third of all postdoctoral research fellows at 22 South African universities, and having the highest number of NRF rated academics and of SARChI (South
African Research Chairs Initiative) Chairs; and
 although he could not get excited by systems of ranking universities, it was worth noting that the Times Higher and Shanghai rating systems placed UCT higher again.
Dr Saunders paid tribute to the Chancellor, Graca Machel, whose first ten-year term of office as
Chancellor was coming to an end and told the AGM that members of the Convocation would shortly be invited to nominate candidates for the election of a chancellor for the ten-year term
2010 to 2019.
The report was put and adopted.
As no motions had been submitted, the meeting ended at 08h10.
Confirmed and signed at the meeting held on 14 December 2010 ________________________
President of Convocation
14 December 2010