Graduation 2022
Inspirational mining law student has her master’s converted to PhD
05 May 2022 | Director Roxanne Harris & Rozanne Engel. Videography & Video Edit Ruairi Abrahams. Photo Lerato Maduna.Dr Rebecca Pein’s passion for justice has seen her graduate, not with a master’s degree as she set out to do, but with a PhD.
Thanks to the extensive work she put into her dissertation on artisanal mining, she was accepted for the rare opportunity to upgrade from an LLM to a PhD. Rebecca did this while training as a candidate attorney and starting a business in the form of an online platform for female runners called ‘The Running Women’. She graduated with her PhD in March 2022.
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Graduation Walk of Celebration
March 2022
We understand the disappointment that our students and their families feel about the impact that the global pandemic has had on the normal operations for graduation ceremonies. Please know that the decision to host an adjusted season of graduation walks of celebration was not taken lightly. We congratulate the March 2022 graduates on their academic success during exceptionally challenging times.
The March 2022 cohort have officially graduated on the day of their faculty’s graduation walks of celebration as per the published schedule available on the graduation page on the UCT Students website, where you will find full information about graduation.
Join in with the celebrations on social media by using the #UCTGrad2022 hashtag.
Graduation highlights
Walk of celebration recordings
March 2022 graduation programmes
Our stories: inspirational graduates
The UCT News team has profiled a cross-section of inspirational graduands whose stories have inspired us. To all those we haven’t been able to feature, we’d like to say: each one of you is an inspiration – to your university, your families and your communities. We wish you every success in the future.
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