contact  // 29 Apr 2022

Professor Danwood Chirwa

Professor Danwood Chirwa has been the dean of the Faculty of Law since 1 January 2019.

contact  // 19 Apr 2022

Sidney van Heerden

Sidney van Heerden is the acting executive director of the Development and Alumni Department (DAD). DAD is a key role player in advancing the objectives of the university by aligning institutional advancement (fundraising and alumni strategies) with the university’s strategic plan (Vision 2030). DAD ensures that both fundraising and alumni relations strategies yield adequate resources to support the university’s mission at a time when higher education funding streams face significant challenges.

contact  // 19 Apr 2022

Miriam Hoosain

Miriam Hoosain was appointed as executive director of human resources (HR) from 1 January 2011.

Hoosain has many years of experience in management and human resources at UCT. She started in the university’s HR Department in 1999, when she was employed as an employment equity officer. She rose steadily up the ranks over the years and served as senior HR advisor to the Faculty of Health Sciences after June 2004. In August 2010 she took over as acting executive director of HR.

page  // 19 Apr 2022

News and media

UCT News is the University of Cape Town's (UCT) home for daily news, campus communications, media office and electronic publications.
article  // 07 Mar 2022

Trailblazing decent work, decent pay research

She almost left. Feeling a tension between her values and being in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Cape Town (UCT) almost drove Professor Ines Meyer to give up her job at the institution at one point.
article  // 09 May 2022

Ventilation

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