InspIrInG Greatness

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To be the Premier University of African Scholarship.

A truly South African university that is

academically excellent, innovative in research, critically engaged with

society and demographically representative, redressing

the disadvantages, inequities and imbalances of the past.

VISION

MISSION

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Howard College campus

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UKZN is recognised as one of the top three research-led universities in South Africa and is one of the largest universities in sub-Saharan Africa. The University is located in two cities (Durban and Pietermaritzburg) on five campuses:

Edgewood Howard College Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine Pietermaritzburg Westville.

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BUDGET UKZN’s total consolidated revenue in 2014 amounted to R3,78 billion. As at December 2014 the University had aggregate assets of R6,74 billion.

Howard College campus

Edgewood campus

Westville campus

Pietermaritzburg campus

Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine

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UKZN is organised on a College model. The four Colleges are:

The College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science The College of Health Sciences The College of Humanities The College of Law and Management Studies.

COllEGES

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UKZN is rated amongst the top 500 universities of the world according to the Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU) and is recognised as the third most productive university in South Africa in terms of research output. The University has international partnerships with institutions in 16 countries.

The University shall be a place where:

Research, Teaching, Learning and Scholarship are a vocation for all; Race and Gender Representation is evident in all structures; A socially cohesive and inclusive institutional culture thrives; Good modes of Governance are enshrined; The Right to Freedom of Expression in guaranteed; and Advancement of the transformation agenda is the responsibility of all.

A TOp UNIVErSITy TrANSfOrMATION ChArTEr

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) recognises UKZN scientists among South Africa’s top scholars. Professor Rob Slotow (centre) with, from left, Dr Nesri Padayatchi, Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Professor Dhayendre Moodley and Professor Sabiha Essack.

President Jacob Zuma congratulates Professor Salim Abdool Karim, for receiving the African Union’s annual Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Award in the field of Earth and Life Sciences.

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Players from UKZN Impi with Vice-Chancellor, Dr Albert van Jaarsveld.

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As one of South Africa’s pre-eminent research institutions, UKZN provides a dynamic environment for all facets of the research and innovation spectrum. Research activities span the natural and biomedical sciences, social sciences and the humanities.

Research income for 2014 was R599 988 million, this amount included R108 333 million raised by the UKZN Foundation in project-related grants. In terms of the weighted research publications, UKZN’s output of 1627.21 units was highest in the country and about 11.6% of the national total. UKZN was placed fifth in terms of book publication units.

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5thUKZN was placed 5th in book publication units

UKZN’s output of 1627.21 units was

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South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChi)The University holds the following 10 South African Research Chairs, an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation:

Systems Biology of HIV and AIDS Evolutionary Biology Quantum Information Processing and Communication Economic Development Fluorine Process Engineering and Separation Technology Gravitating Systems Land Use Planning and Management Rural Agronomy and Development Indigenous Healthcare Systems Research Applied Poverty Reduction Assessment

Research Focus Areas HIV and AIDS, TB and Health Promotion Social Development and Economic Studies Water, Environment and Biodiversity Biotechnology Agriculture and Food Security Energy and Technology for Sustainable Development Gender, Race and Identity Studies African Indigenous Knowledge Systems Maritime Studies

rESEArChResearch Focus Area:

African Indigenous Knowledge Systems.

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Research Centres include the:

African Vision Research Institute (AVRI) African Centre for Crop Improvement (ACCI) Centre for African Literary Studies Centre for Astrophysics and Cosmology Research Unit (ACRU) Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity (ccrri) Centre for Quantum Technology (CQT) Ujamaa Centre for Contextual Hermeneutics Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies Pollution Research Group (PRG).

Major HIV and AIDS Research Centres

info4africa (under the School of Applied Sciences) Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research In South Africa (CAPRISA) Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV and AIDS (K-RITH)

rESEArCh K-RITH Tower Building.

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fACT fIlE

TOp 500 UKZN is one of four African universities rated

amongst the top 500 universities of the world according to the Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU).

84% EMplOyMENT 84% of UKZN graduates are employed within

6 months of graduation.

K-rIThThe multimillion-rand KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS (K-RITH), an international centre of scientific research, is a groundbreaking partnership between UKZN and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States.

UKZN offers nearly 2 000 academic programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

2,000 prOGrAMMES

UKZN is the third most productive university in South Africa in terms of research output.

3rD IN rESEArCh

OUTpUT

UKZN is the only university in South Africa to offer a degree in Agricultural (Bioresources) Engineering that is fully accredited by the Engineering Council of South Africa.

BIOrESOUrCES DEGrEE

100 yEArS The University enjoys over a century of

academic advancements.

International partnerships with institutions in 16 countries provide an opportunity for global academic exchange that enhances scholarship.

rESEArCh SUCCESS The Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research

in South Africa (CAPRISA) located on the Medical School campus is among the largest and most successful research institutes in Africa.

TOp 2.4 - 3% UKZN is ranked within the top 2.4 - 3% of the

World’s Universities by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the QS World University Rankings, and The Times Higher Education Ranking.

UKZN is one of the largest universities in sub-Saharan Africa.

lArGE UNIVErSITy

The Times Higher Education Ranking placed UKZN “within the top 400 for the first time”.

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The Academic ranking of World Universities ranked UKZN 3rd in Africa & 3rd in South Africa.

3rD IN AfrICA

16 COUNTrIES

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As at 2014 UKZN employed 3 183 permanent and long-term contract staff, of whom 1 396 (44%) were academic and 1 787 (56%) support staff. Women constituted 1 712 (54%) of staff. Several women occupy senior leadership positions at the University.

UKZN has developed equity strategies and programmes, including the Equity Acceleration Programme, UKZN’s key mechanism for nurturing and developing the next generation of academics.

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46% 54%

56% 44%staffSUppOrT ACADEMIC

staff

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35%

20%

6%4%

Staff by ethnic group (2014)

1 128● AFRICAN1 112● INDIAN

625● WHITE136● COLOURED

181● OTHER

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academic and Support Staff breakdown (2014)

1 787● SUPPORT1 396● ACADEMIC3 183TOTAl

Staff by gender (2014)1 471● maLe1 712● femaLe3 183TOTAl

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Of the 45 579 students registered at UKZN in 2014, 11 653 (26%) were postgraduate students. Women made up (58%) 26 539 of the student body.

Alternative access programmes cater for learners from socially and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and who are academically under-prepared. A total of 580 disabled students were registered at the University in 2014. The Disability Unit has developed and facilitated a range of services for the special needs of disabled students.

STUDENTS

Student head count by coLLege (2014)

18 103● COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES11 431● COLLEGE OF LAW & MANAGEMENT STUDIES

9 843● COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING & SCIENCE6 202● COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES

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14%

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StudentS by ethnic group (2014)

30 583● AFRICAN 67%11 437● INDIAN 25%

2 458● WHITE 5%

977● COLOURED 2%

124● OTHER 1%

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Education Leadership, Management and Policy graduates.

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undergraduate

poStgraduate 26%74%

Graduates

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In 2014, out of all the awards made to students, 55% was made to females, 78% to African students and another 73% to undergraduates.

R269 514 512 (R269 million) was awarded to students in terms of LOANS (National Student Financial Aid Scheme of South Africa [NSFAS] administered, including final-year student funding and UKZN Loan funding); an amount of R365 419 857 (R365 million) in BURSARIES (Corporate’s, NSFAS Administration, Social Responsibility, Deceased Estates) and an amount of R108 187 699 (R108 million) for SCHOLARSHIPS (UKZN, National Research Foundation and Deceased Estates).

STUDENT fUNDINGCollege of Humanities students Mr Mondli Ntshingila (left) and

Mr Sandile Zulu who won the UKZN Prestige Sports Scholarships.

Student funding breakdown (2014)

burSarieS r365 millionSchoLarShipS r108 million

LoanS r269 millionFuNdING

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The University is a multicultural environment. In 2014, it was home to 2 972 international students from 83 countries. While the majority of our full-time students are from the South African Development Community (SADC) region and the rest of Africa, UKZN attracts full-time students from China, India, Europe, the USA, and other parts of the world.

The University’s international partnerships in 16 countries provide an opportunity for direct interface and global academic exchange that enhances scholarship and the student experience.

The major exchange partners are:

University of Tampere – Finland, University of Calgary – Canada, University of Erlangen, Nuremburg – Germany and Pitzer College – USA.

The Major exchange partners have been identified because of a high number of exchange students that we send abroad and the amount of students we receive. The exchanges are also active.

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AlUMNIThe University has one of South Africa's largest groupings of alumni across 120 countries. Our graduates hold prominent positions in civil society, business, government, academia, the media and the sporting world.

Cheryl De La Rey Virend Somers

Quarraisha Abdool Karim

Dumile Cele

Imtiaz Ismail SoolimanBongani MayosiJudith Dlamini Salim Abdool Karim

Stephen Saad Fée Halsted-Berning Trueman GobaDivesh Makan Trish Taylor24

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CIVIL SOCIETY

Yasmin Essop Bacus HOD, Community Safety and Liaison, KwaZulu-Natal Vasu Gounden Executive Director of the African Centre for the

Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) Pregs Govender Former parliamentarian and gender activist The late Fatima Meer Activist, academic and author Kumi Naidoo Executive Director of Greenpeace The late Phyllis Naidoo Activist and lawyer Imtiaz Sooliman Founder: Gift of the Givers Andrew Philip Zaloumis Conservationist Guy Balme Director of Lion Program in Africa, Panthera Rt Rev Michael Nuttall Former Anglican Bishop Jeremy Sarkin Former Chairperson-Rapporteur of the UN Working

Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance, United Nations

Beauty Sekete Shoprite Checkers Women of the Year and rural community upliftment campaigner

Winnie Kubayi Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice KZN Bulelwa Mbolekwa Chairperson - KZN Blind Society Governing Board Andrew Muir Director - Wilderness Foundation

BUSINESS

Lwazi Bam CEO, Deloitte SA Guy Brazier Regional Leader, Deloitte KwaZulu-Natal Warren Clewlow Chair, Barloworld SA Kuseni Dlamini Former CEO, Old Mutual: SA and Emerging Markets Lebo Gunguluza Group Chairman, The Gem Group Sol Kerzner International Hotelier Vincent Maphai Former Chair, BHP Billiton SA, former Chair of Council,

UKZN and Member of the National Planning Commission Sibongiseni Myeni President and CEO, SeniNhle Occupational Health

Services (Pty) Ltd Ben Ngubane Former Chairperson, South African Broadcasting

Corporation Alan Olivier CEO, Grinrod Group Stephen Saad Group Chief Executive, Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Philip Hourquebie CEO, Ernst & Young Divesh Makan Partner - ICONIQ Capital, Financial Advisor to prominent

business icons. viz. Mark Zuckerberg, Lakshmi Mittal, etc. Andrew Marshall CEO – Nampak SA Sipho Maseko Group Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director –

Telkom Steven Barnwell Managing Executive – Vodacom KZN Dumile Cele CEO - Durban Chamber of Commerce & Industry Shabir Chohan Chief Executive - Albaraka Bank Ltd Phakamani Hadebe CEO - Land Bank

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Phumzile Langeni Chairman - The Mineworkers Investment Company Sibongiseni Mkhize Chief Executive Officer - Robben Island Museum, Cape Town Stuart Bird Chief Executive Officer - Mr Price Group Limited Jane Msomi Chief Executive Officer - Busara Leadership Partners Euvin Naidoo Director: Africa Portfolio - PBB Credit & Standard Bank Gavin Dalgleish Managing Director - Illovo Sugar Graham O’Connor CEO – SPAR Group Ltd Nobuhle Judith Dlamini Non-Executive, Chairman (Aspen) & Founder: Mbekani

Health & Wellbeing (Pty) Ltd Anshumali Padayachee CEO - South Africa-Netherlands Research Programme on

Alternatives in Development (SANPAD) Dorsamy Pillay Deputy Chief Executive Officer - NRF South Africa

EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

Penelope Andrews President and Dean, New York Law School Ahmed Bawa Vice-Chancellor of the Durban University of Technology Cheryl De La Rey Vice-Chancellor & Principal: University of Pretoria Ela Gandhi Activist and former Chancellor of the Durban University

of Technology Ntombifikile Mazibuko Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Zululand Malegapuru Makgoba Former Medical Research Council (SA) President, UKZN’s

founding Vice-Chancellor and Member of the National Planning Commission

Adam Habib Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand Ephraim Mokgokong Former Chancellor of the Medical University of South

Africa (Medunsa)

Mamphela Ramphele First black woman Vice-Chancellor in South Africa and former World Bank Director

Mvuyo Tom Vice-Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare Phumla Mnganga Former Chair of the UKZN Council Johannes van Staden UKZN’s Top Published researcher and Director of UKZN’s

Research Centre for Plant Growth and Development Trevor Letcher Emeritus Professor in the School of Chemistry and Physics Colleen Downs UKZN’s Top Published female researcher from the School

of Life Sciences Mark Brown Honorary Researcher in the School of Life Sciences Hoosen Coovadia Member of the National Planning Commission Saleem Badat Former Vice-Chancellor – Rhodes University Slim Abdool Karim Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of

KwaZulu-Natal

Quarraisha Abdool Karim Associate Scientific Director: CAPRISA Honorary Professor: School of Nursing & Public Health, UKZN

GOVERNMENT

Shaun Abrahams National Director of Public Prosecutions Ina Cronje Former KwaZulu-Natal MEC, Finance Siyabonga Cwele Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services Sibongiseni Dhlomo KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Health Zanele Gasa Member of the National Planning Commission Malusi Gigaba Minister of Home Affairs Trueman Goba Member of the National Planning Commission

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Robert Godsell Member of the National Planning Commission Pravin Gordhan Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Philip Harrison Member of the National Planning Commission Mduduzi Manana Deputy Minister of Higher Education Ben Martins Former Minister of Energy Rhulani Clifford Mkasi Former Mpumalanga MEC, Health Hlengiwe Mkhize Deputy Minister: Economic Development Zwelini Mkhize Former Premier of KwaZulu-Natal and UKZN Chancellor Gareth Morgan Former Shadow Minister, Water and Environmental Affairs

for the Democratic Alliance Pakishe Motsoaledi Minister of Health Blade Nzimande Minister of Higher Education and Training Joseph Phaahla Deputy Minister of Health Mohamed Enver Surty Deputy Minister: Basic Education Vivienne Taylor Member of the National Planning Commission Mamphela Ramphele Former Vice-Chancellor of University of Cape Town,

Former World bank Director and founder of Agang SA John Jefferey Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Thembekile Makwetu Auditor-General of South Africa Ayanda Ntsaluba Group Executive Director of Discovery Limited & UKZN

Chair of Council Rajendran Govender Director of Arts, Culture & Tourism – KZN Dianne Kohler-Barnard South African politician and former journalist Reginald Lubisi Director-General in the Office of the President Stewart Lumka Head of the Department of Finance in the Gauteng

Provincial Government

THE JUDICIARY

Selby Baqwa Former Public Prosecutor, South Africa Mogoeng Mogoeng Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Sandile Ngcobo Former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South

Africa Chiman Patel Judge President: KwaZulu-Natal Navanethem Pillay Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Renuka Subban Vice-Chair, Equality Court Training Commission, Durban Leona Theron Judge Vuka Tshabalala Chancellor of the Durban University of Technology,

former Judge-President, High Court, KwaZulu-Natal Zakeria Mohammed Yacoob Judge, South African Constitutional Court Sbu Gule Global Chairman of Norton Rose Fulbright Law Firm in

South Africa Khayelihle Mthiyane Judge of Appeal - Department of Justice Raymond Zondo Judge of the Constitutional Court Christopher Nicholson Retired KwaZulu-Natal High Court Judge Trevor Gorven Judge of the High Court - Natal Provincial Division

LITERATURE AND THE ARTS

Concord Nkabinde Winner of the 2006 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz Mark Killian Music writer for the film Tsotsi The late Mazisi Kunene Poet, writer and scholar Bridgeman Mthunzi Namba Pastor, singer, songwriter and producer

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Devi Sankaree-Govender Investigative Journalist and columnist Barbara Trapido Author John Van de Ruit Author Lara Logan Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, CBS News Trish Taylor CEO - Urban Brew Studios Kerishnie Naicker Former Miss SA Christopher Hope Novelist and Poet Fée Halsted-Berning Founder of Ardmore Ceramics

SPORT AND ENTERTAINMENT

Tommy Bedford Former Springbok Rugby player Andrew Birkett Triple Dusi Marathon Winner Oregan Hoskins President, South African Rugby Union Craig Jamieson Former Sharks rugby player Paula Newby-Fraser Triathalon World Champion Shaun Pollock Cricketer Jonty Rhodes Cricketer Shaun Tomson Professional Surfer

MEDICAL

Letlape Tebogo Kgosietsile Former Chairperson, South African Medical Association Bongani Mayosi Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town Virendh Somers Cardiologist, Mayo Clinic Tshepo Motsepe Medical Doctor and Chairman: Board of Trustees - ASHA

Trust (Cyril Ramophosa’s wife and sister to Patrick Motsepe)

The University is also proud of its association with founders of the Black Consciousness Movement – the late Steve Biko and the late Strini Moodley, both of whom studied at the University but due to apartheid politics were unable to complete their degrees.

Strini Moodley Steve Biko

The University has committed itself and all its resources to the common good of society. More than 350 outreach projects are managed by UKZN, ranging from HIV and AIDS projects and upgrading the skills of Science and Mathematics teachers, to food security and community tourism projects.

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