Under the leadership of University of Cape Town (UCT) Chancellor Graça Machel, the Graça Machel Trust has joined forces with the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund (NMCF) and the Foundation for Community Development (FDC) to intensify the call to action to save lives and to meet the immediate needs of communities in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi impacted by Cyclone Idai.
In a statement, the trust described the magnitude of the disaster as too immense for the three affected countries to tackle alone, highlighting the fact the cyclone has so far claimed thousands of lives and directly impacted more than 7 million people.
The three charitable organisations have collaborated to mobilise resources to contribute to both the emergency relief effort and to the process of rebuilding the lives of women, children and communities devastated by the cyclone.
“We make a special appeal to our local, regional and international partners to contribute to our efforts in cash or kind,” the statement said.
See the statement of appeal for more information and for details about how to make a donation.
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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
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.
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Feedback and responses to the IRTC report: