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Mei/May 2014
www.up.ac.za/juniortukkie
NEWSMAKER:
Renée Hlozek
Cosmologist is a science
role model for girls
TuksStoei:
TuksSport lewer stoeikampioene
van formaat.
FEEL GOOD: Getting involved with a charity
LOOPBAANFOKUS: Mondhigiëne
COMPETITION WINNERS: Who won the seed project?
JuniorTukkie:10 YEARS
in the making
EDITORIAL JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014
2014 in the 2014, a year of
JuniorTukkie Office celebration
T he University of Pretoria is
one of the best universities
in South Africa and offers vast
W ith 2014 in full swing, I
thought I would reflect on
some of the things that this year
opportunities to students. represents.
My dream with JuniorTukkie
(JT) to invest in the country's At the risk of being political, I will
future leaders became a reality start by acknowledging that 2014
in 2004, when we collaborated is South Africa’s fifth democratic
with the Space Programme in election year. This is, irrespective
Engineering and the National of political affiliation, an important
Youth Development Trust to milestone. It is significant
send two learners to National because the right for all races
Aeronautics and Space to participate in a free, fair and
Administration (NASA) in democratic election is a hard-
to start such a worthwhile
Houston. My dream has always been to invest in all-rounders with earned right: a right that we must
programme. We celebrate the
academic merit who have not had sufficient opportunities in the not only celebrate and treasure,
beneficiaries and participants of
past. Over ten years, the JT programme has developed rapidly but also make sure we exercise.
this wonderful programme. We
with the support of other partners and an exceptionally passionate For those who voted for the first
celebrate those who responded
team. One of its objectives is to enable a successful transition time, I hope you enjoyed it!
favourably to the programme’s
from high school to university. University is very different to school guidance and made best use of
– especially in terms of work load – and does not provide the This year also sees South
the opportunities it highlighted
same structure as school does. We have therefore encountered Africa celebrating 20 years of
and are very successful men and
top students who falter once they're at university, because they democracy. While challenges like
women today. Most importantly,
were not equipped to learn differently or create their own structure. poverty, unemployment, HIV/Aids
we celebrate the programme’s
Our services include evaluation and advice regarding appropriate and poor education continue to
ability to change lives, attitudes
study and career choices to counter the fact that approximately exist, much progress has been
and aspirations. Happy 10th
one-third of prospective students internationally drop out because made in this country – although
anniversary, JT! May the initiative
of incorrect study choices. Discipline, resilience, commitment and not always celebrated. So I urge
grow from strength to strength!
adaptability are key elements of success at university, along with you to take a moment to reflect
the ability to grasp opportunities. Another contributing factor to on our country’s journey over the
May the realisation that there is
success is living a balanced life. last 20 years. Identify everything
a lot to celebrate be a reminder
worth celebrating, big and small,
The academic success rate of the JT members, and the praise that sometimes it is the things we
and celebrate it. We must also
that the JT team has received from parents and students over the take for granted that represent
ensure that we do not rest on
years, shows that the JT programme has had a positive impact our blessings. These should be
our laurels, but consider our
on people's lives. In this regard I would like to acknowledge the counted every day. Whatever
role, whether as individuals or
hard work and dedication by Petrus Lombard, JuniorTukkie Project 2014 represents for you,
as a group of people, in making
Manager, and his very capable JuniorTukkie staff. acknowledge and celebrate it.
a meaningful contribution in our
We value and appreciate the support, vision and funding that we Be reminded that we cannot rest
communities, our society and,
receive from Investec and other partners. I would like to thank on our laurels and that we all
indeed, the world.
Setlogane Manchidi for his continued leadership, support and have a responsibility to inspire
contagious enthusiasm. His personal involvement over the years and empower others, just like the
This year, the JT initiative marks
pays tribute to his commitment to making a positive difference. JT programme continues to do.
10 years of existence. This is
Thank you for participating in the JT programme – I wish you only a milestone worthy of great
Wishing you all the best for the
the best in terms of the choices you make! celebration – especially when
months ahead.
one considers the programme’s
Dr Karen Lazenby intention and achievements. It
Regards
Director: Client Service Centre continuously inspires and instills
a sense of possibility in many.
We celebrate the visionaries Setlogane Manchidi
Published by: JuniorTukkie Office • Client Service Centre • University of Pretoria •
Jy kan ons kontak by:
who, back in 2004, not only Head
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convinced those around them Investment
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JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014 NEWSMAKER
Cosmologist
is a science role
model for girls
Have the universe at
your feet! See how Renée Hlozek is a young South African who works as a
STEM empowers girls
all around the world. cosmologist at Princeton University in the USA. She grew up in
Pretoria and matriculated at the Pretoria High School for Girls.
Her science teacher encouraged her to apply to participate
in the UP with Science programme, which aims to attract
students to science. She participated in the programme from
Grade 10, and consequently enrolled at UP to obtain a
BSc (Applied Mathematics) degree.
S
he moved into astrophysics
when she heard about the
True to her own Her other work focuses on Type Ia
supernova explosions. These are
National Astrophysics and experience, explosions of massive stars that act
Space Science Programme as standard candles in the universe
(NASSP) that was running in Cape
Renée lives by and allow scientists to measure the
Town at the time. There, Renée this rule: geometry of the universe.
completed her honours in applied
mathematics and did research Try things even But she is not only focused on doing
for her MSc through the Square
Kilometre Array (SKA) Human
if they scare research; she is an advocate for
girls and women working in science,
Capital Development Programme. you, because technology, engineering and
She then obtained her DPhil from mathematics (STEM). She promotes
the University of Oxford through a
if you don’t try, making science accessible to
Rhodes Scholarship with a thesis the answer will the general public and feels it is
entitled “Probing the early universe important to give back to society.
and dark energy with multi-epoch always be “no”. She is involved in several outreach
cosmological data”. After that, projects to let people know why
Renée accepted a postdoctoral her work is important and why
position at Princeton. they should invest in science and
Her senior Technology, aspiring scientists. To indicate how
A typical day in Renée’s life Entertainment important these causes are to
consists of writing a lot of and Design (TED) her, she co-founded the Hope
computer code and analysing fellowship gives her Scholarship in South Africa with
models. She measures light that the opportunity to some of her friends. The scholarship
has been around for 380 000 connect with people supports female students in STEM
years to understand the initial about her work and financially.
conditions of the universe and explain why science
how it is evolving over time. Her is so important. True to her own experience, Renée
data comes from the Atacama Renée attends TED lives by this rule: Try things even if
cosmology telescope, which is conferences and they scare you, because if you
located high up in the deserts of gives talks (check her don’t try, the answer will always be
Northern Chile. out on the internet). “no”.
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CAREER FOCUS JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014
Did someone say aah?
A career in dentistry or oral hygiene
Children smile about 400 times a day. Wouldn't it be great to
help keep those milk and other teeth in a great condition? With
dentistry and oral hygiene, you can. The University of Pretoria
offers these two exciting fields of study in its Faculty of Health
Sciences. Although they require hard work and dedication, the
rewards that these careers bring are worth it.
Dentistry Dentists also apply science in many diseases, injuries and defects
Dentistry is a rewarding career practice. It is a scientific industry that in the head, neck, face and jaws.
that allows you to apply science challenges dentists to look for new • Orthodontists treat patients with
and change lives, all in a day’s ways to care for and fix people’s teeth. incorrect positioning of the teeth
work. The School of Dentistry at If you like to work with your hands when the mouth is closed. Have
the University of Pretoria is widely and interact with people, and you are you ever heard of an over- or
respected and can help make your interested in science, this career might under-bite?
dream of becoming a dentist come be just for you.
• Paediatric dentists are dedicated
true. to the oral health of children and
Which skills do I need?
teenagers.
• Willingness to learn and make
What is dentistry? • Periodontists specialise in the jaw
sense of science
Dentistry is the science of preventing, and gums.
diagnosing and treating diseases • Good skill and coordination when
using your hands • Prosthodontists are experts in
and disorders of the mouth. This
repairing and replacing teeth.
includes removing or repairing • Good sight and colour vision
They make smiles look beautiful
decayed teeth, replacing absent • The ability to offer advice and and function the way they should.
teeth and treating gum diseases. A educate others
dental specialist also does surgery in • Oral pathologists diagnose and treat
• The ability to work in a team oral and dental diseases.
the mouth, aligns crooked teeth and
relieves pain. • Excellent people skills Have you ever heard of gum
disease?
Why study dentistry? Which career opportunities can I • Dental radiologists take dental X-
Dentists can change people’s lives. look forward to? rays of the teeth. Dental X-rays are
They can give someone a radiant • Endodontists work on the inside of pictures of the teeth, bones and
smile and help boost their confidence. teeth. soft tissues around them to help
The joy of changing a person’s life • Oral and maxillofacial surgeons treat find problems.
cannot be measured.
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JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014 LOOPBAAN-
FOKUS
Mondhigiëne
Mondhigiëne is ’n uitstekende keuse
vir ’n beroep. Dit is ’n uitdagende
’n Mondvol
werk, maar bied goeie werksekuriteit,
werksbevrediging en ’n goeie inkomste. met ’n mondhigiënis
Wat is mondhigiëne? Carina van Wyk is ’n mondhigiënis by Intercare Woodhill. JuniorTukkie het
Mondhigiëne behels die versorging van met haar gesels oor wat sy doen vir ’n lewe.
tande en tandvleis. Die mondhigiënis
speel ’n belangrike rol in die evaluering,
voorkoming en behandeling van Hoe verloop jou dae
mondsiektes.’n Mondhigiënis se dag gewoonlik?
word grootliks aan voorkomende Ons spring gewoonlik weg met
behandeling spandeer. Hulle motiveer ’n “BANG”. Pasiënte in en uit, in
pasiënte en leer hulle van mondhigiëne. en uit... Omdat omstandighede
Die werk sluit ook die poleer van tande, so onvoorspelbaar is moet ’n
die aanwend van fluoried, en die mens maar altyd gereed wees
verseëling van gaatjies in. Fluoried is ’n vir enigiets. Nie een dag is
mineraal wat in baie soorte kos, sowel dieselfde as ’n vorige nie. Dit
as water voorkom. Dit help om tande is ’n uitdaging maar ook baie
te beskerm teen die skade wat plaak, bevredigend.
bakterieë en suiker veroorsaak.
behan del een Wat was jou gunsteling-
an Wyk
Hoekom studeer mens Carina v asiënte. vakke op skool?
rp
mondhigiëne? van haa Ek het baie gehou van Wiskunde,
Die beroep is so lonend omdat dit baie Biologie en Afrikaans.
bevredigend is. Dit is ’n edele werk
Hoekom het jy besluit om ’n
en jy kan daarna uitsien om elke dag Is daar enigiets wat jy dink jy
mondhigiënis te word?
baie verskillende mense te ontmoet sou kon doen om beter voor
As kind het my ouers ons altyd
en jou kennis te gebruik om mense te te berei vir jou studies?
na ons tandarts en mondhigiënis
help. Wat is meer bevredigend as dit? Ek dink ek kon soms bietjie harder
geneem vir ons ondersoeke. Die
Mondhigiëniste speel ’n belangrike rol gewerk het op skool, want dit is tog
werksomgewing het altyd vir my so
in die samelewing omdat hulle mense jou voorbereiding vir jou studies. As
aanloklik gelyk, veral die feit dat als
van goeie mondhigiëne leer. jy gewoond daaraan is om hard te
klinies en skoon is. Dis seker omdat
ek ’n perfeksionis is en daarvan hou werk op skool sal jy vir seker ook
Watter vaardighede moet hard kan werk op universiteit.
as die omgewing om my skoon en
ek hê?
netjies is. Ek is ook mal daaroor om
• Goeie mensekennis Enige wyse woorde as
met mense te werk en hulle te help.
• ’n Spontane persoonlikheid motivering vir voornemende
Dis verrykend om ’n verskil te kan
• Baie geduld mondhigiëniste?
maak in ander se gesondheid en
• Baie goeie kommunikasie- Dié woorde van Theodore Rubin
lewens.
vaardighede beteken nogal vir my baie:
• Verantwoordelikheidsin “Happiness does not come from
Wat is die gunstelingdeel van
• Die vermoë om uitdagings aan te pak doing easy work, but from the
jou werk?
Die beste deel van my werk is dat ek afterglow of satisfaction that comes
Watter werksgeleenthede after the achievement of a difficult
met soveel mense in aanraking kom.
is daar? task that demanded your best.”
Ek leer elke dag iets nuuts by my
• ’n Mondhigiënis kan werk by ’n
kollegas en pasiënte.
algemene tandheelkundepraktyk kry.
• Spesialiste soos ortodontiste,
periodontiste en prostodontiste stel Toelatingsvereistes
ook mondhigiëniste aan.
(Nasionale Senior Sertifikaat met toelating vir graaddoeleindes)
• Daar is werk vir mondhigiëniste
in die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Minimum vereistes vir 2015
Studieprogram Prestasievlak
Weermag (SANDF) en die regering TPT
Engels Wiskunde Fisiese Wetenskap
se gesondheidsdiens. BChD – Baccalaureus
5 5 5 35*
in Tandheelkunde
BMH – Baccalaureus in
4 4 4 25*
Mondhigiëne
Het jy geweet? Daar Vir keuringsdoeleindes word die som van die uitslae in ses vakke, insluitend Engels, Wiskunde en Fisiese Wetenskap
bereken.
word beweer dat Keuring is gebaseer op akademiese meriete, die Nasionale Normtoets (NBT) en die Toegevoegdewaarde-vraelys.
goeie mondhigiëne die Die studieprogramme in tandheelkunde en mondhigiëne het ’n streng keuringsproses, aangesien die aantal studente
beperk word. Kandidate word op grond van hul akademiese prestasie gekeur.
risiko van bloedklonte *Lewensoriëntering word nie by die berekening van die TPT ingesluit nie.
en hartsiektes kan
verminder.
JuniorTukkie 5
JT NEWS JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014
UP and JuniorTukkie just L VE
rewarding their students’ success
The UP and JT initiative sees the transition from high school to
tertiary education as a key priority and therefore focuses on
the students’ success.
Committed to
excellence:
Priyanka
Ramgoolam is
heading straight
for success.
Priyanka is
this year’s top
JuniorTukkie
ies arrive at the achiever.
What a special day! JuniorTukk
rs' Fun ction. She was awarded the
JT Welcoming and Achieve
Edu-Loan bursary to the value
of R11 000 at the JuniorTukkie
S
Welcoming and Achievers’
tudents are encouraged to The following achievements were Function, which came as no
continue to be hardworking, acknowledged: surprise because Priyanka has
well-balanced individuals who always been a top achiever.
• The Vice-Chancellor’s special awards
are committed to education
• The Grade 11 Empowerment Week Being honoured as your school’s
after they have finished school, and
(2012) achievement awards Dux Learner twice really is an
these values are encouraged in the
• The Grade 12 Preparation outstanding achievement. With
institution’s top achievers.
Conference (2013) awards a total of nine subject awards,
The JuniorTukkie Welcoming and • The Grade 12 Dux learner awards Priyanka was the Dux Learner at
Achievers’ Function for new first-year • Top achievement awards (90%+ Greytown Junior School in 2008
students is one of the opportunities average) and again at Pietermaritzburg Girls’
that UP and JT have to show their • Edu-Loan bursary High School in 2013, where she also
appreciation for their students’ hard • UP Mastercard Foundation achieved nine subject distinctions.
work. Scholars' Program
Priyanka is focused and goal-
The annual function was initiated in Top achieving students were driven. The crowning glory of
2009 in acknowledgement of students encouraged to join student societies like her scholastic career was being
who excelled academically in the end the JuniorTukkie Student Society and placed third nationally, fourth
examination of their final school year. the JuniorTukkie Alumni and to become in her province and first in the
The University of Pretoria offers various involved in the interesting activities Umgungundlovu District of
achievement awards and bursaries to offered by Student Affairs. Participating KwaZulu-Natal at the end of her
qualifying students, and a number of in things like Student Culture, TuksFM, matric year in 2013. She has also
these were presented at this year’s faculty and day houses, TuksSport, been representing KwaZulu-Natal
prestigious event. In 2009, the function Student Support and TuksAlumni is an in South African debating for the
was attended by only 40 achievers. important step to take when aspiring past three years.
This year, more than 400 achievers to make a big difference to the next
After being offered places to study
attended the function. generation of leaders in South Africa.
medicine at many universities,
On this very special occasion, UP and JT wish to congratulate their Priyanka chose the University
Prof Themba Mosia, Vice-Principal: top achievers on their considerable of Pretoria because of its
Student Affairs and Accommodation, results and encourage them to uncompromising high standards,
addressed the students on behalf of the continuously strive for excellence. the recognition that it afforded her
Vice-Chancellor and Principal. achievements and the warm way in
which she was received.
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JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014 JT-NUUS
Verrykingskamp slyp studente
Tydens die jaarlikse JuniorTukkie-studentevereniging se
Verrykingskamp van 11 tot 13 April 2014 is 134 studente van
die JuniorTukkie-studentevereniging se lewens verander.
D
ie JuniorTukkie (JT)-kantoor wil het die studente geleer hoe om verduidelik en het die studente
graag sy studente op verskillende ’n vereniging te struktureer en aangemoedig om deurlopend
maniere bemagtig. Hierdie jaar verantwoordelikheid vir die hard aan hulle huidige projekte te
se kamp het die studente uitgedaag om JT-studentevereniging te neem. Na werk. Dr Martina Jordaan en haar
eerder aan ander te dink as aan hulself. ’n spanbou-oefening het die studente Gemeenskapsprojekmodule (JCP)-
Die studente het na voorleggings oor die geleer van die belangrikheid van die studente het ook hulle ervarings van
werkplek, sowel as betrokkenheid by die JT-alumni, waarby lede van die hulle projekte gedeel (sien bladsy 20).
gemeenskap geluister. JT-studentevereniging reeds in hulle Soos gewoonlik was mnr Wallace Isaacs,
Dr Pieter Clase, Senior Bestuurder: derde studiejaar kan aansluit. Adjunk-direkteur: Studentewerwing
Studentewerwing en Retensie, het ’n Calvin Maodi van die JT-studente- en Retensie, en mnr Petrus Lombard,
motiverende aanbieding oor die tema vereniging se Uitvoerende Komitee JT-projekbestuurder, se voorleggings
“Baas of Klaas” aangebied en die het ’n inspirerende aanbieding van sy groot treffers. Die studente het hulself in
studente het ook aan ’n opleidingsessie reis na Mosambiek, ’n JT-uitreikprojek, komitees verdeel en die res van die jaar
oor entrepreneurskap deelgeneem. gedoen. Londiwe Mahlangu van beplan. Al die studente het saamgestem
Cyan Brown, Curlitzia se Primaria, die Universiteit se Departement dat die Verrykingskamp hulle gehelp het
en Enwee Human, Voorsitter van die Gemeenskapsbetrokkenheid het die om te fokus op hulle doelwitte.
Verteenwoordigende Studenteraad (VSR), rol van gemeenskapsbetrokkenheid
Die JuniorTukkie-bestuur se betrokkenheid het ’n belangrike rol in die Verrykingskamp se verrigtinge gespeel. Dr Pieter Clase,
Senior Bestuurder: Studentewerwing en Retensie, mnr Petrus Lombard, JuniorTukkie-projekbestuurder, en mnr Wallace Isaacs,
Adjunk-direkteur: Studentewerwing en Retensie, het die studente aan hulle lippe laat hang tydens hulle afsonderlike sessies.
JuniorTukkie 7
VOEL GOED JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014
Gee vreugde, ontvang vreugde
Werkloosheid. Armoede. Hongersnood. HIV/Vigs. Hulpelose diere.
Hierdie is slegs ’n paar van die uitdagings wat baie Suid-Afrikaners ervaar en dit vererger
daagliks. Ten spyte van die feit dat baie mense van hierdie uitdagings bewus is, is baie
jong mense huiwerig om hulle geld of tyd aan liefdadigheidsorganisasies te skenk.
Elke bietjie help na mense in nood uit te reik. Al wat
Wanneer jy geld skenk, help dit om jy hoef te doen is om ’n projek te kies Inkopielys vir projekte
dit te sien as meer as net ’n paar note waaraan jy wil deelneem. Kyk gerus na
* JuniorTukkie organiseer elke
en munte. Jou donasie kan ’n paar ons projeklys vir idees.
jaar Hope4Hatfield, YASCOM-
kilogram mieliemeel vir ’n honger gesin
koop of ’n skool help om beter onderrig
kosblikprojekte, Mandeladag
Tel jou sente en Downsindroomskoolprojekte.
aan toekomstige leiers te voorsien. Jou As jy van plan is om geld te skenk,
donasie aan ’n navorsingsorganisasie * Tydens die JCP-module pak
moet jy eers ’n begroting uitwerk om te
kan wetenskaplikes help om ’n siekte, individue of groepe tweede-
sien hoeveel jy kan spandeer. Die gee
waaraan jy dalk ’n geliefde verloor het, van geld en tyd is ’n persoonlike keuse. en derdejaarstudente in die
te genees. Miskien is jy al self deur Jy moet besluit hoeveel jy bereid is Fakulteit Ingenieurswese,
liefdadigheidswerk gehelp en wil jy om te gee (volgens jou begroting) en Bou-omgewing en
graag ander mense help om dieselfde hoe jy dit wil gee. Party mense spaar Inligtingtegnologie verskillende
blydskap te ervaar. gedurende die jaar ’n sekere bedrag en liefdadigheidsprojekte aan
ander gee maandeliks. Onthou, daar is wat minderbevoorregtes
Daar is baie redes waarom mense baie ander maniere waarop jy kan help. help, aan. Gedurende hierdie
aan liefdadigheidsorganisasies skenk.
projekte gee studente hulle
Die belangrikste is om een te kry wat
vir jou werk. Doen navorsing oor ’n Gee meer as jou geld tyd en vaardighede aan die
saak waarvoor jy omgee om jou te Baie organisasies het ondersteuning gemeenskap. Die Universiteit
help om ’n liefdadigheidsorganisasie eerder as geld nodig. Sommige ondersteun die studente se
of projek te kies. Jy ontdek dalk ook projekte het net donasies soos ou klere projekte finansieel.
sommer ’n nuwe perspektief oor nodig en ander benodig net jou tyd en * TuksJool is ’n nie-winsgewende
dinge wat jy gedink het jy verstaan. vaardighede. Jou vrywillige bydrae is ’n organisasie wat graag ’n
Hierdie ontdekkings kan jou dan help baie belangrike deel van liefdadigheid
verskil in die lewens van
om ander mense om jou aan te spoor wat jou die geleentheid bied om ander
minderbevoorregtes in ons
om betrokke te raak. Om ander te passievolle mense te ontmoet en
samelewing wil maak.
help kan jou lewe nuwe betekenis en sommer ’n paar nuwe dinge in die
proses te leer. Hulle reël langtermyn-
tevredenheid gee.
gemeenskapsdiensprojekte
in die koshuise en daghuise.
Voordat jy inspring, dink eers mooi Daag jouself uit en kyk hoe jou bydrae
’n verskil in ander se lewens en jou eie Hierdie projekte word deur
Kies iets waaroor jy sterk voel. Die
kan maak. fondsinsamelings soos die
JuniorTukkie-klub, die Universiteit se
Gemeenskapsprojekmodule (JCP), en TuksJool-debutanteprogram en
Reik uit en Gee (Jool) is altyd reg om die Jooloptog ondersteun.
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JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014 FEEL GOOD
Be an agent Africa
has rich natural re-
sources and stunning
wildlife, but it also faces
of change in Africa
many problems. Mozam-
bique, for ex-
ample, is home
to some 4.5
million or-
phans and
helpless
During December 2013, chil-
Nokukhanya Siboto, a dren.
member of the JuniorTukkie
Student Society, went to
Mozambique as an agent
of change. The trip was
made possible by the
JuniorTukkie Student Society
and the University of Pretoria
chapter of the Association
of Students in Economic
and Commercial Sciences
(AIESEC). Nokukhanya was
one of 27 AIESEC interns
involved in the project.
A bus took these interns to Maputo,
Mozambique, to join the Love Thy
Neighbour campaign. This campaign
forms part of the student exchange
Global Community Development
Programme (GCDP) and is designed
to unite Africans, have them learn from
each other and bring about change on
the continent as a team.
Children in Mozambique
As part of the Love Thy Neighbour
campaign, the interns contributed to the children created vision boards to After the workshops in December,
Millennium Youth Impact Week. This remind them to focus on their goals. a Millennium Youth Impact Week
project aims to develop the potential of The children showed great zeal for showcase was held on 11 January 2014.
children between the ages of 10 and making their vision boards and they The showcase gave the children a
14. It discusses topics like children’s were eager to share their hopes and chance to show what they had learnt
rights, setting and achieving goals, and dreams. during the workshops and to teach other
the importance of basic knowledge, children through their own experiences.
willpower and hygiene. The AIESEC • The Love Yourself workshop was all
team partnered with Reencontro, a about establishing and developing The Love Thy
children's home that is able to reach a culture of hygiene and self- Neighbour
4 468 children in Maputo, and was awareness among the children by campaign is
excited to launch a programme that teaching them the basics of health designed to
would add to Reencontro’s great work. and self-esteem. unite Africans,
The team designed three workshops have them learn
called Dream Big, Love Yourself and • The Rights are Real workshop from each other
Rights are Real. taught the children how and where and bring about
• The Dream Big workshop focused to apply their rights and made them change on the
on helping the children realise their aware of instances where their continent as a
full potential. In its main event, the rights would be violated. team.
JuniorTukkie 9
NATURAL AND JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014
s l d
AGRICULTURAL
SCIENCES
Growing your own
was fun, right?
I
n the November 2013 edition of If you are interested in a career in the agricultural, food and
JuniorTukkie, JuniorTukkie, the consumer industries, check out the study programmes offered by
Produce Marketing Association
the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
(PMA) and the South African National
Seed Organisation (SANSOR) invited
in the following table:
JuniorTukkie members to participate Study programme APS
in the exciting “Go Green” grow-your-
BSc (Food Management) 30
own-salad competition. Participants
BSc (Food Science) 30
had to set up their micro-gardens in
BSc (Nutrition)
a 1 m by 1 m square and sow the • Nutritional Sciences 30
seeds provided to them in December, • Public Health Nutrition
January, February and March. BScAgric (Food Science and Technology) 30
BScAgric (Agricultural Economics/Agribusiness Management) 30
The competition ran from BScAgric (Animal Science) 30
1 December 2013 to 1 May 2014. BScAgric (Animal Science/Pasture Science) 30
Participants had to post a number of
BScAgric (Plant Pathology) 30
photos on the JuniorTukkie Facebook
BScAgric (Applied Plant and Soil Sciences) 30
page and finalists were interviewed to
BConsumer Science (Clothing: Retail Management) 28
ensure that all the rules were followed.
BConsumer Science (Foods: Retail Management) 28
Participants also had to include their
home-made salad recipes. BConsumer Science (Hospitality Management) 28
For more information regarding admission requirements, please visit www.up.ac.za.
Prizes proudly sponsored by:
Scientific masterminds recognised
S
cience is what makes the Prize for the most promising Actuarial the Department of Physics Prize for
students of the Faculty of Science graduate, the Prudential the best first-year student in Physics,
Natural and Agricultural Prize for the best student in Actuarial the Jan F Cilliers Book Prize for the
Sciences tick. The Faculty’s top Mathematics, the Momentum Group best first-year student in Geology,
students were recognised at its Prize for the best student in Life and the Department of Chemistry
Annual Top Achievers’ Function at the Insurance, as well as the Discovery Prize for the best first-year student in
University of Pretoria on 8 May 2014. Holdings Prize for the best honours Chemistry.
research project.
Brendon Thorpe scooped up the most Werner Pansegrouw received the
awards at the event. He received the Lukas Radman de Soto received Outsurance Prize for the most
Professional Provident Society (PPS) three prizes at the event. He received promising Actuarial and Financial
Mathematics graduate and the Vice-
Chancellor and Principal’s Medal
for Excellent Undergraduate
Academic Achievement as
the best student in the Faculty
of Natural and Agricultural
Sciences. He obtained his
BSc (Actuarial and Financial
Mathematics) degree in April,
with an average of 92% over his
three years of study.
Brendon Thorpe and Ms Marli Venter, Head of the
iever, Werner Pansegrouw,
The Faculty’s overall top ach Department of Insurance and Actuarial Science.
Hee rde n (Outsurance).
and Mr Herman van
10 JuniorTukkieJuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014 COMPETITION
FEEDBACK
COMPETITION RESULTS
Ruan Serfontein On the first day, there were only a
couple of small dark seeds in my hand
Ruan’s lettuce salad:
Salad ingredients
1st prize: Tablet worth R5 000 that looked like sand. I learned that
• Lettuce: cut into strips
your piece of land does not have to be
I enjoyed the • Rosa tomatoes: cut in half
large; in fact, there are many different
project, as • Strawberries: diced
ways to undertake vegetable growing
it was my • Avocado pear: diced
without any land at all. I grew my lettuce
first of this • Green pepper: diced
in a plastic container. After a few weeks
kind. The • Cucumber: diced
of care the result was a green shine of
daily care, • White chocolate: coarsely grated
lettuce plants. It took about eight weeks
watering, • Feta cheese: crumbled
before I could actually harvest the
removal of Salad dressing
first lettuce and use it in my salad. We
weeds on Woolworths’ Crema con “Aceto
had so much lettuce that we decided
a regular Balsamico di Mondena PGI”
to cook some of the lettuce up into a
basis and Method
“marog” (or spinach mixture). Overall,
covering • Lightly mix salad vegetables.
I enjoyed the project, as it showed me
with • Sprinkle crumbled feta cheese
that if you want something in life, you
netting to and grated chocolate on top.
have to make a positive decision to do
prevent the birds from destroying the • Drip salad dressing on top.
it, care for and maintain it and only then
micro-garden was a full-time job. can you expect to reap rewards. Serve immediately.
From seed to salad...
Vicus Engelbrecht
2nd prize: Gift voucher worth R1 000 to buy seeds from this winner’s closest nursery
My micro-garden is constructed from rejected truck tyres
and self-made compost. I also developed a watering
system and built tables for my tyre-gardens. My plan was to
add a tyre once every month until I had a grand total of four
tyres. The plants continued to grow very well after planting
new seeds in a new tyre every month.
Masenamela Kgotlelelo
3rd prize: JuniorTukkie gift pack surprise
worth R500
My micro-garden has helped me to contribute to the go-
green movement. Because of this competition, I was
able to contribute a little to reducing the CO2 levels in the
atmosphere and tackling the issue of global warming.
To plant a garden, is to believe in tomorrow.
– Audrey Hepburn
JuniorTukkie 11HUMANITIES JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014
Be a trendsetter,
study a degree in humanities
With its 18 different academic departments and two teaching units, the Faculty of Humanities is one
of the most diverse Humanities Faculties in the country. Here, you will find many degree choices in
languages, visual and performing arts and social sciences to suit your needs. Don’t believe us? Here are
a few testimonials from some of the Faculty’s best graduates:
Nakampe Simon-Peter Lebeya: that you can use in everyday life and succeed academically in a field that I
Sport Science the study programme is challenging love. The Department of Psychology
I’m a Sport Science graduate who is on many levels. My dream job is to enabled me to participate in many
currently studying an honours degree be a part of a theatre company that community programmes, which
in Recreation and Sport Management, tours the world. Another dream is to allowed me to experience the working
while doing an internship at the be a well-known producer, director life of a psychologist. My dream job
University of Pretoria Football Club. or cinematographer for South African is to have a community centre for
So far, my greatest opportunity films that are exported to the rest of children and young adults where I can
has been a trip to the USA for the the world. help them prepare for the future. With
International Scholar Laureate the knowledge provided to me by the
Programme (Business Delegation Joyce Keitumetse Modise: Faculty, I believe that my dream can
2012). In the future, I hope to realise African Languages come true.
my dream of becoming the Vice- Studying an African language as part
President of the South African Football of my study programme has helped Bronwen Blackbeard: Music
Association (SAFA) and an active me acknowledge and understand the I loved the diversity of the Faculty of
member of the Confederation of deeper cultural context of Sepedi. Humanities! I began my BA (Music)
African Football (CAF). Now I can confidently say that I can degree in 2010. My weekly lessons
be creative and reason in my mother with my piano lecturer, Prof Ruth
Ignatius Wishes Mashamba: tongue. I can use these basic skills to Goveia, truly challenged me as a
Social Work build second-language skills. musician and as a person. In 2012, I
I’m a student from Zimbabwe who obtained my BA (Music) degree cum
studied towards a Bachelor of Social Marlene Murphy: Law laude. I am currently busy with my
Work. It has been an honour to study The Faculty of Humanities expands Postgraduate Certificate in Education
at UP’s Faculty of Humanities. During your horizons. It introduces you to as a Grade 4–6 Mathematics and
my studies at the University, I have new ideas and teaches you to think English teacher.
grown professionally and personally. and reason. I studied BA (Law) and it
The diversity and openness in the is a stepping stone to a bright future Tendai Mupfumira: Industrial
Faculty and the Department of and offers an introduction to many Sociology and Labour Studies
Social Work and Criminology have disciplines. After completing my I’m studying an honours degree in
supported me throughout my studies. BA (Law) degree, I applied for an LLB Industrial Sociology and Labour
My dream is to assist Africa in curbing degree. I dream of being a partner in Studies in the Faculty of Humanities.
unemployment, poverty and inequality. a corporate law firm with international What I like most about the Faculty
experience, but for the moment, my is the variety of degree choices, as
Tarryn-Tanille Prinsloo: Drama focus is on completing my degree and well as the many leadership and
I love the fact that Humanities is such passing the board exams. community-based opportunities. I see
a diverse faculty with a variety of myself working for the International
wonderful, inspiring and challenging Yeshanka Naranswami: Psychology Labour Organisation (ILO) in the
courses and study programmes. I love Being part of the Faculty has made future. I’ve always been passionate
studying Drama because it’s more me proud to be a student at UP, as about people and have always felt the
than just a degree. It teaches you skills it has given me the opportunity to need to help those in need.
12 JuniorTukkieJuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014 LAW
Learners
excel
at the International
Moot Court
Competition in the
Netherlands
Participants who excelled in
I dream of being a lawyer
the Third National Schools Joyce Dube, a 15-year-old girl from Soshanguve fighting a life-
Moot Court Competition in threatening lung disease, dreams of becoming a lawyer. TuksLaw
2013, hosted by the Faculty of and the Reach for a Dream Foundation partnered to give Joyce
Law, were invited to compete a glimpse of a day in the life of a law student and a lawyer.
against their international
O
n Thursday, 7 April 2014, After lunch at the Law Clinic, Joyce’s
counterparts in the 2014 dessert consisted of a hunt for easter
Joyce’s jam-packed day started
High School Moot Court off with a visit to the North eggs. Frans Haupt, Director of the
Competition in The Hague, the Gauteng High Court where she sat in Law Clinic, and Edna Pitsi, attorney
Netherlands, in January. on the Oscar Pistorius trial. This visit at the Law Clinic, explained the Law
was made possible through the kind Clinic's functioning and the quality
T
MO OT permission of Judge-President Dunstan legal services it provides to those who
his competition,
COU Mlambo and Deputy Judge-President would otherwise have been excluded
presented for the RT
Aubrey Ledwaba. Joyce’s next stop from equitable justice, as well as its
second time by the
was at the Student Recruitment and clinical legal education programme,
Justice Resource Centre in partnership
Retention Division of UP, where she which exposes final-year law students
with the City Hall of The Hague,
received information on law study to law in action. Joyce received a
provided participants with a remarkable
programmes and applicable admission number of gifts, including a cell-
opportunity to engage in civic education,
requirements. phone, as part of her dream package.
increase their knowledge of the
application of the law, explore the Joyce met with the Deputy Dean of A tired, but happy Joyce conveyed
possibility of a legal career and gain the Faculty of Law, Prof Anton Kok, her appreciation for what she
insight into international relations. and Executive Committee members of described as one of the best days in
the Faculty’s student body, and Law her life, and is more determined than
Learners competed in multiple ever to beat her cancer and graduate
House gave her a tour of the Faculty’s
elimination rounds against fifteen from TuksLaw one day to become a
facilities. Joyce also observed and
international teams. The final round successful lawyer.
judged law students preparing for
was hosted at the Peace Palace and
moot court competitions.
was adjudicated by prominent judges
from the International Criminal Court Joyce with the Law House EXCO.
(ICC) and the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The
hypothetical case focused on “blood
diamonds” and was argued using the
ICC rules and laws.
Anri Erasmus, Palesa Ramanamane
and Caton Schutte proceeded to the
final round and the South African
prosecution team obtained second
place overall.
Joyce judges law students.
Sam Musker,
from Redhill
High School in
Johannesburg,
walked away
with the best
oralist laurels
for the defence. Joyce shows off her brand new
smart phone. JuniorTukkie 13OPVOEDKUNDE JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014
Kreatiewe
rt o
Talita Delp
gemeenskapsdiens
Talita Delport, ’n vierdejaar-onderwysstudent aan die Universiteit van
Pretoria, se wenresep kombineer haar liefde vir kinders, onderwys en
plaaslike gemeenskapsdiensprojekte. Sy is ’n lid van Tuks Kreatief en is een van die ontvangers
van die Golden Key International Honours Society se Gemeenskapsdienstoekenning.
D
ie toekenning erken lede praktiserende lede van die Kobus mense om haar sal aanspoor om ook
wat meer as 100 ure Neethling-Breindominansie-instrument gemeenskapsdiens te lewer en sy hoop
se gemeenskapsdiens en hulle is opgelei as fasiliteerders. dat mense die vreugde sal ervaar wat
gelewer het. Tuks Kreatief is ’n sy voel wanneer sy ’n verskil in iemand
studenteorganisasie wat uit sowat Volgens Talita is dit wonderlik om se lewe maak. Vir haar gaan dit nie oor
100 studente, waarvan die meeste by die gemeenskap betrokke te die erkenning nie, maar oor mense.
onderwysstudente is, bestaan. wees en oor dié toekenning voel sy Haar slagspreuk vir 2014 is: “Maak ’n
Tuks Kreatief gee Talita die kans dankbaar en beskeie. Tuks Kreatief verskil.”
om met kinders en hulle ouers en gee studente die geleentheid om na
ander volwassenes te werk. Tuks die gemeenskap uit te reik en ’n diens Tuks Kreatief deel glimlagte by die
Kreatief is 'n studenteorganisasie aan minderbevoorregtes te lewer. volgende plekke uit:
wat studente oplei om verskillende Tydens hulle betrokkenheid by die • Bramley-kinderhuis
nuwe vaardighede te bemeester en vereniging leer studente waardevolle • Street Children’s Home in
in die praktyk toe te pas, en Talita vaardighede wat hulle help om beter Sunnyside
kon haar vaardighede oordra aan in die buitewêreld te funksioneer. Tuks • Kalafong-hospitaal
die nuwe lede. Daar is weeklikse Kreatief was hierdie jaar al by drie • Loerie-kinderhuis
opleidingsessies in rolspel, projekte betrokke en hulle wil graag • Ons Tuis-versorgingsoord
dramatisering, storievertel, gesigverf, nog drie voor die einde van die jaar • Oeboentoe-kinderhuis
kulkunsies, mimiek, ballonvou, voltooi. Talita hoop dat die toekenning • Lion’s Haven-versorgingsoord
kreatiewe aktiwiteite, kommunikasie,
nieverbale kommunikasie, kreatiewe
denkvaardighede, innoverende
denke, “breingym”, breindominansie
en gemeenskapsprojekte.
Dertig studente word jaarliks
geborg om twee internasionale
kreatiwiteitskonferensies (agt dae) by
te woon waar hulle ook geleentheid
kry om kreatiewe probleemoplossing
aan te bied. Die bestuur kry ook
geleentheid om te kwalifiseer as
Wat ons vir onsself doen, sterf saam met ons. Wat ons vir ander
en die wêreld doen, is blywend en onsterfklik.– Albert Pine
Regs bo: Bejaardes by ’n versorgingsoord geniet lekkernye en Tuks Kreatief se vermaak.
Onder: Tuks Kreatief maak ’n verskil in talle mense se lewens.
14 JuniorTukkieENGINEERING, JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014 JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014 THEOLOGY
BUILT ENVIRON-
2013
MENT AND
Climbing the academic ladder
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
What’s the deal with
doctoral degrees?
Have you ever wondered what a doctoral degree is, and why
another successful year for JCP, it is so important?
and here is why… UNDER-
GRADUATE
L
et’s look at a typical academic
career. Once you’ve finished
matric, you can study towards a
A PhD student also has to make new
discoveries related to the subject. It
takes a lot of commitment and sacrifices.
degree in a field you find interesting.
This degree is called a bachelor’s Now, you might ask why some people
degree and it mostly involves learning decide to do a PhD if it is so difficult.
The University of Pretoria’s JCP module involves second- and third-year GRADUATE a wide range of theory. If you want These are a few reasons why people
students from the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information to study further and your marks are do PhDs:
Technology (EBIT) in community engagement projects. These students high enough, you can enrol for an • They want to become academics.
honours degree. An honours degree Most major universities require
commit themselves to projects that relate to their fields of study and involves more work than a bachelor’s members of their faculties to have a
find innovative ways to complete their 40 to 70 hours of community degree and you might start doing PhD and do research to make sure
HONOURS
engagement. some research. After completing an they can teach advanced courses.
honours degree, some people decide • They are very ambitious. Some
to study towards a master’s degree. A people feel that a PhD challenges
T
master’s degree involves research on a them and helps them to push
he JCP module provides topic that you’ve chosen and it’s more themselves to new heights. But
students with the opportunity to THE OWL AND BAT HOUSE PROJECT AT THE NATIONAL MASTER'S difficult than an honours degree. remember, if you do not have a
get involved in real-life situations PhD, it doesn’t mean you are not
where their skills are applicable, while ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS OF SOUTH AFRICA After a master’s degree, a doctoral ambitious.
also giving back to the community. It is degree is the highest qualification • They have a thirst for knowledge.
a very enriching and fulfilling module Stuart Blackbeard, Nico van der Merwe, Marco da Silva and
to be earned in academia. It is also Those who are curious about the
that teaches students how to develop Jaco Kruger, all second-year mechanical engineering students
known as a Doctor of Philosophy world make great researchers.
their awareness of personal, social and at UP, constructed three different owl and bat boxes for the National PhD (PhD). This degree consists of a lot People who feel a driving force
cultural values. Zoological Gardens of South Africa for their community engagement project.
of research as the student aims to pushing them to explore and learn
These boxes were made to endure the natural elements for at least five
expand his or her knowledge of the new things may love research, and
A remarkable growth can be seen in years and were mounted to the bat and owl cages. The group also worked
chosen subject. a PhD is perfect for them.
the participation in the JCP module with students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who
since its inception in 2005. Originally, visited UP.
only 238 students were involved, but by
2013, more than 1 500 students worked Theology rocks doctoral degrees
on 574 different projects.
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria proudly
Below are a few highlights
from 2013: conferred two special doctoral degrees on 25 April.
Reverend Solomzi Ferguson Sotobe, who is an ordained pastor of the Assemblies of God,
• The owl and bat house
received his PhD at the age of 85. Reverend Sotobe did his research on the emotional
project at the National
effects that counselling has on pastors who have to counsel families.
Zoological Gardens of
South Africa.
Prof Corneliu Simuţ from Romania, who also did
• The Good Hope Centre research in the University’s Faculty of Theology, DID YOU KNOW?
project in Mataffin near received the Faculty’s first doctoral degree by means In the context of academic
Nelspruit. of publication. This means that he published various degrees, the term "philosophy"
articles in academic journals and received his PhD does not refer solely to the
that way. Usually, students who study a PhD have field of philosophy, but is
• The rhino ball project at to submit one long script in which they publish their used in a broader sense in
the National Zoological research. Prof Simuţ is a Professor of Historical accordance with its original
Gardens of South Africa. JCP students with students from the Massachusetts Institute of and Systematic Theology at Emanuel University Greek meaning, which is
Technology
who visited UP. of Oradea, Romania, where he currently acts as "love of wisdom".
Principal in charge of academic affairs.
20 JuniorTukkie JuniorTukkie 1510 YEARS OF JuniorTukkie • May 2014 JuniorTukkie • May 2014 10 YEARS OF
EXCELLENCE EXCELLENCE
What happened with JuniorTukkie (JT) in the past 10 years?
From 2012: Postcard data collection for JT membership 2013: JT membership application on cellphones
From 2009: JT e-magazine
From 2012: JT Quick Response-(QR-code) that links directly to the JT website 2014: JT online application form integration
2013: First JT e-newsletter
JT COMMUNICATION From 2009: Bulk SMS invitations and From 2009: Online invitation system with UP online application system (in progress)
AND notifications to JTs through JT website
PUBLICATIONS: From 2004: Paper application
forms for JT membership 2004: Invitations and letters posted to learners and school From 2006: First JT magazine From 2009: Online JT membership From 2014: JT/Faculty of Economic and Management
(2004–2008) principals or delivered by hand to schools in close proximity From 2012: JT/Faculty of Natural and Agricultural
application on the web. Sciences Open Day for grades 10, 11 and 12 learners
Sciences Open Day for Grade 9 learners
From 2014: JT/Faculty of
From 2013: Tutor classes for first-years Veterinary Science Open Day for
From 2008: Dux Scholar Financial Award Function in the JT Student Society in Chemistry, grades 10, 11 and 12 learners
JT PROJECTS: From 2011: JT/Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences/Produce From 2012: JT Enrichment Camp for JT Student Society
Physics, Mathematical Statistics and
From 2009: JT Grade 12 Preparation Conference Marketing Association Agri-Food Career and Bursary Fair members (first- to final-year students)
Statistics From 2014: 10 Minutes With...
From 2007: JT Grade 11 (an educational website for
From 2009: JT and Dux Bursary From 2011: JT/Faculty of Health Sciences Open Day for Grade 12 learners career information)
Top Achievers’ Function From 2013: E-learning programmes in
Holders’ Welcoming Function Mathematics and Physical Science for
From 2012: JT Welcoming and Achievers’
grades 10 and 11 From 2014: Integration of the
Function for first-year students
JT online application form with
2005-2006: Top Grade 12 event From 2012: Information From 2013: E-learning programme the University of Pretoria’s online
on Open Day From 2010: JT/Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information session for grades 10 and 11 in Calculus Mathematics for first-year application system (PeopleSoft)
From 2007-2009 & 2010: JT Grade 11 Development Technology Open Day for grades 10, 11 and 12 learners learners and their parents students for admission to study
Week (2007–2009) – changed to Empowerment
Week from 2010
From 2013: Sci-Enza
From 2004: JT collaborated with the From 2009: Investec (from 2009)
Space Programme in Engineering and the From 2014: 10 Minutes With... partnership – an international video
National Youth Development Trust to send From 2009: Dimension Data platform and website designed to help students with career information
two learners to NASA (Houston).
From 2013: Hatfield Christian Online School From 2014: Study Trust
From 2009: Chameleon Adventures -
From 2007: LectorSA Lab-on-line Reading Skills From 2010: Spec-Savers/Ster-Kinekor partnership –
becomes Free Trust Adventures from 2013
Development free eye screening and donation of free spectacles From 2013: MasterCard Foundation
for selected JT projects From 2012: Johnson & Johnson Bridge to Employment (BTE) Project Scholars’ Program
JT PARTNERS: From 2009: Proverto
From 2007: PACE – Career Centre study guides
11 October 2012: JT received a Marketing, Advancement and Communication
in Excellence (MACE) Award (first place) in the Internal Campaign and Student
2010 & 2011: JT magazine, the magazine was placed in the top six by the South African Communication category for the JT Grade 12 Preparation Conference.
Publication Forum in the category: Small budgets.
JT COMPETITIONS
AND
5 October 2011: JT received a Marketing, Advancement and
ACHIEVEMENTS: 2010: JT magazine received three excellence awards in the South
Communication in Excellence (MACE) Award (first place) in the Social
African Publication Forum’s annual competition for magazines. 2014: JT
Responsibility category for the JT Grade 11 Empowerment Week.
celebrates
its 10th
anniversary
JT MEMBERSHIP:
From 2010: JT Student
From 2013: JT Alumni
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Society formed for first- to
2012
2013
2011
2010
From 2004: JT Club formed for final-year students for third- to final-year
grades 10, 11 and 12 learners students formed
2004
2014
2004
2014
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2012
2013
2011
2010
What happened
27 April 2014:
Wow! 20 Years of
in the world?
15 Feb 2005: YouTube, the popular Internet
March democracy
site where videos may be shared and
2006: Twitter We’ve been 3 May 2013: A for South
viewed by others, is launched in the USA. 20 Aug 2012:
was started a part of history! South Africa two-year-old US Africa
by Jack 2009: 15 Jan 2011: becomes the girl became the
29 Jun 2007:
4 Feb 2004: Dorsey, Evan WhatsApp Inc. Wikipedia, the top-ranked test first child born
2006: The film Tsotsi, The first-
Facebook was Williams, Biz was founded 2009: Desmond free internet
27 Jan 2007 - generation Jun/Jul cricket nation with HIV to be
founded by Mark Stone and directed by South Mpilo Tutu received encyclopedia,
Oprah Winfrey iPhone was in 2009 by 2010: after defeating cured
Zuckerberg with his Noah Glass. African Gavin Hood, the Presidential turns 10 years old.
Leadership released. Americans The 2010 England
college roommates By July 2006, won the 2006 Medal of Freedom
Academy for 4 Nov 2008: Brian Acton FIFA World
and fellow Harvard the site was Academy Award in 2009, among
Girls established Barack and Jan Koum Cup was
University students launched. for Best Foreign others, and became
(also the CEO), staged at
Eduardo Saverin, What a Language Film and in South Africa.
The school
Obama
becomes the both former the first black South
ten venues
was nominated for African Archbishop
Andrew McCollum,
Dustin Moskovitz and
journey! the Golden Globe started with an first African- employees of
Yahoo! of Cape Town
across
nine South Source: http://www.wikipedia.org/ and http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/2004
for Best Foreign enrolment of American and bishop of the
Chris Hughes. 150 pupils. President of African
Language Film in Anglican Church of
the USA. cities.
2006. Southern Africa.
16 JuniorTukkie JuniorTukkie 18ENGINEERING, JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014 JuniorTukkie • Mei/May 2014 THEOLOGY
BUILT ENVIRON-
2013
MENT AND
Climbing the academic ladder
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
What’s the deal with
doctoral degrees?
Have you ever wondered what a doctoral degree is, and why
another successful year for JCP, it is so important?
and here is why… UNDER-
GRADUATE
L
et’s look at a typical academic
career. Once you’ve finished
matric, you can study towards a
A PhD student also has to make new
discoveries related to the subject. It
takes a lot of commitment and sacrifices.
degree in a field you find interesting.
This degree is called a bachelor’s Now, you might ask why some people
degree and it mostly involves learning decide to do a PhD if it is so difficult.
The University of Pretoria’s JCP module involves second- and third-year GRADUATE a wide range of theory. If you want These are a few reasons why people
students from the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information to study further and your marks are do PhDs:
Technology (EBIT) in community engagement projects. These students high enough, you can enrol for an • They want to become academics.
honours degree. An honours degree Most major universities require
commit themselves to projects that relate to their fields of study and involves more work than a bachelor’s members of their faculties to have a
find innovative ways to complete their 40 to 70 hours of community degree and you might start doing PhD and do research to make sure
HONOURS
engagement. some research. After completing an they can teach advanced courses.
honours degree, some people decide • They are very ambitious. Some
to study towards a master’s degree. A people feel that a PhD challenges
T
master’s degree involves research on a them and helps them to push
he JCP module provides topic that you’ve chosen and it’s more themselves to new heights. But
students with the opportunity to THE OWL AND BAT HOUSE PROJECT AT THE NATIONAL MASTER'S difficult than an honours degree. remember, if you do not have a
get involved in real-life situations PhD, it doesn’t mean you are not
where their skills are applicable, while ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS OF SOUTH AFRICA After a master’s degree, a doctoral ambitious.
also giving back to the community. It is degree is the highest qualification • They have a thirst for knowledge.
a very enriching and fulfilling module Stuart Blackbeard, Nico van der Merwe, Marco da Silva and
to be earned in academia. It is also Those who are curious about the
that teaches students how to develop Jaco Kruger, all second-year mechanical engineering students
known as a Doctor of Philosophy world make great researchers.
their awareness of personal, social and at UP, constructed three different owl and bat boxes for the National PhD (PhD). This degree consists of a lot People who feel a driving force
cultural values. Zoological Gardens of South Africa for their community engagement project.
of research as the student aims to pushing them to explore and learn
These boxes were made to endure the natural elements for at least five
expand his or her knowledge of the new things may love research, and
A remarkable growth can be seen in years and were mounted to the bat and owl cages. The group also worked
chosen subject. a PhD is perfect for them.
the participation in the JCP module with students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who
since its inception in 2005. Originally, visited UP.
only 238 students were involved, but by
2013, more than 1 500 students worked Theology rocks doctoral degrees
on 574 different projects.
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria proudly
Below are a few highlights
from 2013: conferred two special doctoral degrees on 25 April.
Reverend Solomzi Ferguson Sotobe, who is an ordained pastor of the Assemblies of God,
• The owl and bat house
received his PhD at the age of 85. Reverend Sotobe did his research on the emotional
project at the National
effects that counselling has on pastors who have to counsel families.
Zoological Gardens of
South Africa.
Prof Corneliu Simuţ from Romania, who also did
• The Good Hope Centre research in the University’s Faculty of Theology, DID YOU KNOW?
project in Mataffin near received the Faculty’s first doctoral degree by means In the context of academic
Nelspruit. of publication. This means that he published various degrees, the term "philosophy"
articles in academic journals and received his PhD does not refer solely to the
that way. Usually, students who study a PhD have field of philosophy, but is
• The rhino ball project at to submit one long script in which they publish their used in a broader sense in
the National Zoological research. Prof Simuţ is a Professor of Historical accordance with its original
Gardens of South Africa. JCP students with students from the Massachusetts Institute of and Systematic Theology at Emanuel University Greek meaning, which is
Technology
who visited UP. of Oradea, Romania, where he currently acts as "love of wisdom".
Principal in charge of academic affairs.
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