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Professor Tyrone B Pretorius

Inauguration as Rector & Vice-Chancellor

of the University of the Western Cape

16 February 2015

F R O M H O P E T O A C T I O N T H R O U G H K N O W L E D G E .

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N A T I O N A L A N T H E M

SHORT bIOGRAPHy OF PROFESSOR TyRONE PRETORIUS

EXCERPTS FROM THE RECTOR AND VICE-CHANCELLOR’S ADDRESS

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P R O G R A M M EThe audience will rise as the procession enters the Main Hall and will remain standing until the National Anthem

is sung, after which the Chancellor will take his seat. The audience will then be seated.

National anthemChancellor, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, constitutes the congregation

PrayerChairperson of Council, Mr Mthunzi Mdwaba, announces the Rector and Vice-Chancellor

which is followed by the robing of Prof Tyrone Pretorius

Musical interludeProf Tyrone Pretorius delivers his Inaugural Address

Musical interludeCongratulatory messages:

Chairperson of Council, Mr Mthunzi Mdwaba Senate representative, Prof Jose Frantz

President of Convocation, Mr brian WilliamsChairperson of Nehawu, Winnifred Roos

SRC President, Mr Vuyani Sokaba

Musical interludeDeputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Mr Mduduzi Manana

Former President, Mr Kgalema Motlanthe

The Chancellor, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, closes proceedings.The audience will stand as the Creative Arts Choir leads the procession out of the Main Hall

Guests are invited to enjoy refreshments on the Main Square after the ceremony.

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N A T I O N A L A N T H E M /V O L K S L I E D / U M H O b E W E S I z W E

NKOSI SIKELEL’ IAFRIKA

MALUPHAKANyISW’ UPHONDO LWAyO,

yIzWA IMITHANDAzO yETHU,

NKOSI SIKELELA, THINA LUSAPHO LWAyO.

MORENA bOLOKA SETJHAbA SA HESO,

O FEDISE DINTWA LE MATSHWENyEHO,

O SE bOLOKE, O SE bOLOKE SETJHAbA SA HESO,

SETJHAbA SA SOUTH AFRIKA – SOUTH AFRIKA.

UIT DIE bLOU VAN ONSE HEMEL,

UIT DIE DIEPTE VAN ONS SEE,

OOR ONS EWIGE GEbERGTES,

WAAR DIE KRANSE ANTWOORD GEE,

SOUNDS THE CALL TO COME TOGETHER,

AND UNITED WE SHALL STAND,

LET US LIVE AND STRIVE FOR FREEDOM,

IN SOUTH AFRICA OUR LAND.

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Short biography of

PROFESSOR TyRONE PRETORIUS

Professor Tyrone brian Pretorius is appointed as the 7th Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the

Western Cape (UWC).

His career history speaks of an individual with extensive leadership experience in higher education. At UWC he

moved through the ranks from being an Academic Assistant, to being appointed as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer,

Associate Professor, Professor, Head of Department, Senior Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Community

and Health Sciences. In 2001 he was appointed as Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic, a position which he

held until 2005.

His leadership experience and qualities were also recognised by others and, following his career at UWC, Prof

Pretorius was appointed as President and Pro Vice-Chancellor of Monash South Africa, the local campus of

Monash University, Australia. In 2013 the University of Pretoria appointed him as Vice-Principal (Academic),

responsible for Teaching and Learning as well as planning and resource allocation.

Prof Pretorius is a behavioural Psychologist by training who earned his bA, bA (Honours) and Master of Arts

(Psychology) degrees from UWC. He has published extensively in respected national and international journals

in the fields of career psychology, coping, stress, statistics and research methodology. In addition he has

served as a journal editor, and authored and co-authored a number of books, monographs and chapters in

books. He has been honoured by the Psychology Society of South Africa for his contribution to the discipline

He also participated in the yale Southern Africa Fellowship programme (yale University) and completed a

Strategic Leadership Programme at Oxford University. In addition, he holds two Doctoral degrees,

a DPhil from UWC and a PhD from the University of the Free State.

Tyrone Pretorius was born in Sterkspruit in the former Transkei and

grew up in King Williams Town. He is an Emeritus Professor at Monash

University in Australia. He is also President of University Sport South

Africa and Chairman of the board of University Sports Company.

Professor Pretorius is blessed with two daughters and in his spare time

he enjoys reading, watching sport and listening to music.

He returns to UWC with a career in higher education that spans 33

years, of which almost 26 has been spent in a range of senior lead-

ership positions. His deep understanding of UWC, its history, achieve-

ments and challenges is supported by his broad experience at other

institutions, which prepared him for his return to his alma mater as its

Rector and Vice-Chancellor.

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EXCERPTS FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR’S ADDRESS

How do we build on our strengths to develop UWC’s intellectual project and the strategic vision necessary for us to play our role with distinction as a public South African university in the current national and global contexts?

Universities are only dynamic in so far as they are engaged with their context in time and space and are responsive to it.

For research, teaching and learning to be functionally interdependent we have to undertake them in the context of engagement.

In 1978 the University Council rejected the ideological basis upon which the university had been founded, providing the basis for developing a university-wide partnership of staff and students, which gradually (and at times painfully) found its form over the next 15 years.

As the old ways of knowing and understanding are being contested and reinterpreted, persistent, unsettling and very, very rapid change continues in the physical world, society and the economy.

What was good for yesterday may not be good for today. We have to adapt or go under in a very dynamic environment.

Science and technology are vital drivers of human progress, but it is also vital to think critically and imaginatively about the challenges of our time and place.... Arts and science are complementary and I ask colleagues and students to commit to enriching the perspective of their disciplines by making connections with other areas of knowledge.

To get where we need to be as a nation, we have to deal appropriately with the question of access [to higher education]. However, for access to be real, there can be no compromise on the aspiration to excellence. We need to tone up our whole higher education system so that no student or academic is left feeling that second rate is good enough.

Transforming the apartheid landscape by appropriately developing the [railway marshalling yard between UWC and bellville station as a modern city centre] has remarkable potential. It would revitalise the bellville CbD,

bring three universities and TVET colleges within walking distance of one another, vastly improve the educational experience of 60 000 students [each year], and, through stimulating innovation, build the regional economy and improve the lot of surrounding communities.

We need to ignite our collective imagination, take a long-term view of what our universities can be, and plan accordingly. We may find ourselves running against forms of planning that are obsessed with immediate gratification in compliance with performance reporting regimes. We must take that risk.

In the absence of an external challenge we tend to turn in on ourselves, with UWC gaining publicity for all the wrong reasons. We cannot afford to have that happening. It is a mark of failure not to take imaginative hold of the huge challenges of our country and world, and of the large opportunities which our standing as a research-based institution presents.

An ongoing and pressing challenge is to attend to the scale and quality of our research and educational environment so that it supports deeper national and international collaboration and is conducive to attracting the scale of investment needed.

No single university research team, however good, can hope to match the productive capacity of an excellent multilateral international partnership.

Society has entrusted us, you and me, collectively with a special university. It is our duty to future generations to pass on the gift we have received in an even better state than it was in when we received it.

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