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Multiple gold medals for rowing club

19 February 2019 | Story Supplied. Photos Supplied. Read time 3 min.
UCT’s Rowing Club got the season off to a flying start following their week-long training camp at the Misverstand Dam near Porterville.
UCT’s Rowing Club got the season off to a flying start following their week-long training camp at the Misverstand Dam near Porterville.

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Rowing Club got the season off to a flying start with impressive performances at three regattas this month, including the 2019 Western Cape Championships, the 60th Selborne Sprints Regatta, and the 132nd RMB Buffalo Regatta.

The club pulled off some impressive performances following a week at the Misverstand Dam near Porterville for their annual January training camp, said club chairperson Sebastian Julicher.

“At the Western Cape champs, both the men’s and women’s squads were able to race against the schoolboy and schoolgirl crews to get as much racing experience as possible – and gave the youngsters a run for their money.”

Multiple gold medals for rowing club
This eights team are all concentration as they chase the win.

The two regattas were both raced on the Buffalo River in East London, from 14 to 16 February, and the crews again did exceptionally well, winning multiple gold medals over the course of the two contests and notching up results that outdid their performances at the events last year.

The results of the three events were as follows:

Western Cape Rowing Championships:

Women

  • 2nd and 4th in women’s u19 fours
  • 3rd in women’s u19 pairs
  • 2nd in women’s u19 eights

Men

  • 1st and 2nd in men’s A fours
  • 1st and 3rd in men’s u19 fours
  • 1st in men’s u19 eights

Selborne Sprints Regatta:

Women

  • 1st and 3rd in women’s A singles
  • 1st in women’s A eights
  • 1st and 3rd in women’s A fours

Men

  • 3rd, 4th and 5th in men’s A singles
  • 1st in men’s A fours
  • 2nd in men’s A eights

Buffalo Regatta:

Women

  • 4th and 5th in women’s A fours
  • 2nd in women’s A and B doubles
  • 2nd in women’s A eights
  • 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th in women’s A pairs
  • 2nd in women’s B singles
  • 2nd and 4th in women’s A singles

Men

  • 1st, 2nd and 3rd in men’s A pairs
  • 5th and 6th in men’s A singles
  • 1st in men’s B singles
  • 4th in men’s A fours
  • 2nd in men’s eights

Julicher said that with the club slowly building momentum for the season ahead, and two-time Olympian Lee-Ann Pearse as the head coach, “we are looking really good for the season ahead”.

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Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission (IRTC)

 

The Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission (IRTC) Steering Committee was established as a result of a period of unprecedented tension at the University of Cape Town (UCT) at the end of 2016. The creation of the multi-stakeholder steering committee that will oversee the proposed IRTC was one of the resolutions made in the 6 November 2016 agreement, which effectively brought the waves of continuing protest at the university to a halt.

The agreement, which was signed between the UCT executive and protesting student groups, paved the way for the establishment of the IRTC, whose aims are to

  • consider all Shackville-related protests of 2016, including disciplinary procedures and interdicts
  • invite submissions from all constituencies on clemencies that were granted and decide whether clemency should be turned into amnesty
  • make recommendations on how the university should deal with pending cases and other such matters in the future
  • make recommendations on institutional culture, transformation, decolonisation, discrimination, identity, disability and any other matters that the university community has raised over the past 18 months, or may wish to raise in the future.

The IRTC’s objective is to map an inclusive and fair course for the university as it tackles the legacy of the so-called Shackville protests and to focus on the issues that have caused division on our university campus.

Read IRTC documents:

  • IRTC Final Report
    A summary and analysis of the Terms of Reference are given in Chapter 2, starting on page 7

Feedback and responses to the IRTC report:

IRTC Final Report



Statement of Council on the Report of the Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission (IRTC) UCT Council has released a statement regarding the Report of the Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission (IRTC). 28 Jun 2019 UCT Council
IRTC Steering Committee meeting of Monday, 3 June 2019 On Monday, 3 June 2019, the IRTC Steering Committee met to discuss feedback from the various constituencies with a view to making recommendations to Council. 03 Jun 2019
Engagement with the IRTC report Chair of Council, Sipho M Pityana, writes to the campus community about the recommendations put forward in the IRTC report. 03 May 2019 UCT Council
IRTC Steering Committee meeting of Friday, 22 March 2019 On Friday, 22 March 2019, the IRTC Steering Committee met to discuss the recommendations made in the IRTC’s final report. 22 Mar 2019
IRTC final report released Chair of Council, Sipho M Pityana, writes to the campus community about the release of the IRTC’s final report. 20 Mar 2019 UCT Council
IRTC and IRTC Steering Committee meet for the release of the IRTC’s final report On Monday night, 18 March 2019, the Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission (IRTC) met with the IRTC Steering Committee and released its final report. 18 Mar 2019

Statements by the IRTC


27 September 2018
18 June 2018
1 June 2018
8 May 2018 – Call for submissions
8 August 2018 – Assembly and roadshow schedule
20 April 2018
13 April 2018
29 March 2018
26 February 2018

 

Latest news



 
 
 
 
 
 
IRTC call for submissions VC Dr Max Price writes to the UCT community about the IRTC process. 25 Apr 2018
IRTC hearings commence on Tuesday, 27 March 2018 The Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission (IRTC) hearings will commence on Tuesday, 27 March 2018. 23 Mar 2018
Nomination of IRTC Commissioners Sipho Pityana, chair of the Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission Steering Committee, urges the UCT community to indicate your views on the nominees. 21 Aug 2017
Final call for IRTC commissioner nominations Sipho Pityana, chair of the Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission Steering Committee, urges the UCT community to participate in the nomination of commissioners. 23 Jun 2017
Call for nominations for IRTC commissioners The IRTC Steering Committee calls for the nomination of commissioners. 09 Jun 2017
The IRTC Steering Committee workshop of 20 May 2017 The workshop finalised the provisional terms of reference for the IRTC, the criteria for selecting commissioners, and the nomination process. 24 May 2017
The third meeting of the IRTC Steering Committee The third meeting of the IRTC Steering Committee took place on Tuesday, 18 April 2017. 19 Apr 2017
IRTC foundations being laid Representation, terms of reference, clemency and other important background issues were discussed at UCT’s Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission Steering Committee meeting on 23 February. 24 Feb 2017
Reconciliation and transformation commission kicks off UCT’s Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission’s multi-stakeholder steering committee laid the groundwork for its future tasks at its first meeting on 26 January. 03 Feb 2017
Clarity on effects of protest and setting up the IRTC steering committee DVC Prof Francis Petersen clarifies points about the agreement to establish an Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission (IRTC) at the University of Cape Town. 13 Jan 2017
Agreement with the SRCCandidates/ShackvilleTRC and other student formations Read the agreement and the declaration by students seeking clemency. 06 Nov 2016

 

Reports from the Steering Committee Chair



Update on IRTC process from 4 May 2018 09 May 2018 UCT Council
Announcement of IRTC commissioners 26 Jan 2018 UCT Council

2018 IRTC Steering Committee meetings

 

 

2017 IRTC Steering Committee meetings

Minutes of Steering Committee meetings


8 December 2017
31 October 2017
24 August 2017
20 May 2017 – Workshop
18 April 2017
23 February 2017
26 January 2017

 

 

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