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Dr Mpho Motlhabane, NWU alumnus and North West MEC for community safety and transportation, delivers the keynote address at the alumni homecoming gala dinner.

 

It feels like coming home

 

The guest speaker at the gala dinner was the North West MEC for community safety and transportation, Dr Mpho Motlhabane, who is also a former student of the NWU.

 

Mpho said he is delighted to have been a student of this great university.

 

“It feels like coming home to see the multitude of former students,” he said. “The mood, the people, the comfort, the attention, the smell of good things to come – it’s a far cry from the time when we were raw, timid first-year students.

 

“We are grown-ups now. We have advanced in life and occupy an important section of life as workers, academics, economists, politicians, lawyers, teachers, business people, and so forth.”

 

How to put social justice into action

Social justice is not an abstract concept but one that can and should be put into action, as alumni from the campus in Mahikeng have shown.

Social justice is not an abstract concept but one that can and should be put into action, as alumni from the campus in Mahikeng have shown.

 

Committed to giving back to the communities they come from, 250 alumni who attended a homecoming event from 17 to 18 May 2019 have opened their hearts to others in need.

 

Together, they donated more than 200 pairs of school shoes and pledged sanitary towels and toiletries to learners from Kagiso-Barolong High School. Their efforts were coordinated by fellow alumni Aobakwe Ditshetelo and Molefe Molamu.

 

A weekend filled with fun and games

 

This was the first homecoming weekend for the group, who were students during the decade from 1980 to 1990. The event included a welcome braai, a 10 km-walk, a game of golf, a campus tour and – to close off the festivities – a gala dinner.

Enjoying themselves during the homecoming event are from left Busi Ntsele, Memory Rabanye, Nonoki Rampai, Abigail Sono, Masodi Xaba, Legasa Mogadime and Rosa Mohube. At the back is Power Gopane.

During the gala dinner, Prof Sonia Swanepoel emphasised that the NWU is not only concerned with producing world-class graduates, but is also serious about social justice.

 

Sonia, who is the executive dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, addressed the alumni on behalf of deputy vice-chancellor Prof Marilyn Setlalentoa.

 

Alumnus Aobakwe Ditshetelo said he was extremely honoured to attend the event.

 

“This occasion brought together all former students of this landmark university. Such an event must not only be used to celebrate our achievements as former students and graduates of this university, but also to plough back to the current students.”

 

 

 

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Prof Sonia Swanepoel, the executive dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, also addressed the alumni during the homecoming event.

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