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Dr Edna van Harte
While Dr Edna van Harte admits that she has seen a couple of eyebrows
raised when she was introduced as the dean of the Faculty of Military
Science, she also says that she is very happy in this new role. "I am
just as passionate about the Saldanha campus as I was about the
university’s main campus when I worked there as student dean."
In May 2006, Dr Van Harte stepped in as interim dean of the Faculty of
Military Science. Her duties included overseeing the faculty budget,
ensuring the quality of education, managing human resources in the
faculty, managing the research division and being involved in the
selection of students from the ranks of the South African National
Defence Force (SANDF). She served as interim dean for six months, after
which faculty members overwhelmingly nominated her for the position of
dean.
The goals she has set for herself include reviewing the current
curriculum, ensuring that students are suitably trained as future
leaders of the SANDF and potential peacekeepers in Africa, and
generating research beneficial to the Department of Defence, the SANDF
and the broader society. She also intends to tackle issues such as the
recruitment and retention of black academics and increasing the cohort
of female academics.
Dr Van Harte lives on the military base and experiences military life
firsthand. However, she says she is still humbled by the code of
conduct that students pledge to, realising "that these students are
also pledging to sacrifice their own lives for the wellbeing of the
citizens of this country as well as their peers".
Prof Yusef Waghid
 The appointment of Prof Yusef Waghid as dean of the Faculty of
Education at Stellenbosch University can be viewed as confirmation that
both academic excellence and diversity are priorities when the
university deals with transformation.
Prof Waghid obtained his DEd (Philosophy of Education) from the
University of the Western Cape and also holds a PhD (Education Policy
Studies) and a DPhil (Philosophy) from Stellenbosch University.
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He began his career in education in 1979 as a teacher at Zeekoevlei
Secondary School, after which he became head of the Physical Science
Department at Wynberg Secondary School. His association with Maties
began in 1998, when he was appointed director of the Centre for
Education Development. He has been professor in the Department of
Education Policy Studies since 2002 and chair of this department since
2003.
Prof Waghid is an internationally acclaimed researcher with a C2 rating
from the National Research Foundation (NRF). He is editor of the South
African Journal of Higher Education and a member of the Philosophy of
Education Society of Great Britain, the American Educational Research
Association and the Central Research Committee of Stellenbosch
University. He is also an executive member of the South African
Association for Research and Development in Higher Education.
Prof Waghid had this to say about his appointment: "I believe that academic merits were the
primary factor in my appointment and will therefore make use of the
opportunity to make a further contribution, both nationally and
internationally, to both the academic and education leadership fields."
Prof Gerhard Lubbe
Prof Gerhard Lubbe, a professor in the Department of Private and Roman
Law, is a Matie alumnus. He attained a BA LLB degree here, after which
he completed his LLM degree at Yale University in America. In 1973 he
returned to Maties as senior lecturer in the Law Faculty, and in 1977
he obtained a professorship in Law.
He has shared his knowledge of the law with other South African
universities through his involvement as part-time lecturer at, amongst
others, the University of the Western Cape (1983–1993) and also as
Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town (1999–2002). He
is a recognised researcher with a B2 grading from the NRF and has been
a visiting researcher at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the
University of Regensburg and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign
Private and Private International Law in Hamburg.
Prof Lubbe said that a desire to make "a contribution to the university
and the country in this challenging and exciting time" through his
involvement at the faculty motivated him to apply for this post. "Even
though I will carry the responsibility of making decisions as dean, I
have set myself the goal of utilising the collective insights of the
faculty by means of consultation and participative management regarding
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