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Win R25 000 to build your business
05 March 2019 | Story Supplied. Photo www.inkmedia.eu. Read time 2 min.
Four successful entrepreneurs are standing by to assess and analyse your business pitch, with a grand prize of R25 000 and mentorship for six months up for grabs in The Pitch.
The event, run by the University of Cape Town’s Academic Representatives’ Council, is split into two categories; your business must still be in either the idea phase or the testing phase, and you must be a current UCT student to enter.
No matter what problem you aim to solve, or what market you plan to enter, if your idea is fresh and innovative you could well find yourself in the running for a significant financial boost. All applicants will get the chance to attend an entrepreneurial workshop at the Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking (d-school) on 23 March.
If you are among the eight finalists selected by the panel, you will pitch in person to the entrepreneurs at an event on 9 May, to be attended by Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng and an audience of about 450.
Applications close at 16:00 on 15 March.
- Fill out the online application form.
- For more information, email thepitchuct@gmail.com
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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:
- Read the 6 November agreement
- Read the declaration by students seeking clemency
- Read the FAQ about the agreement
- Read the criteria and process for nominating commissioners - List of Steering Committee Members
- Names of the IRTC Steering Committee members
- Email addresses of the IRTC Steering Committee members
- See the announcement of the IRTC Commissioners
- 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
Statements by the IRTC
Latest news
Reports from the Steering Committee Chair
2018 IRTC Steering Committee meetings
2017 IRTC Steering Committee meetings