Staff matters

Acting Dean:
Prof Hennie Stander has been appointed as Acting Dean. The Faculty would like to wish him well with all his extra responsibilities.

New Head of Department
Prof Alois Mlambo, Historical and Heritage Studies, has been appointed as Head from 1 January 2012, after the retirement of Prof Johan Bergh. We wish prof Mlambo well with his new responsibilities.

Congratulations to the following staff, who has been appointed as Acting Heads of Departments
Prof David Maree, Psychology
Dr Stephan Muhr, Modern European Languages
Prof Fred Hagemann, Biokinetics, Sport and Leisure Sciences
Mr Jurie Geldenhuys, Unit for Academic Literacy

Welcome

The Faculty would like to welcome the following staff members:

Permanent Academic appointments with effect from 1/01/2012
Dr Myer Taub, Lecturer, Drama
Mr Marc Botha, Lecturer, English
Mr Malose Makhubela, Lecturer, Psychology
Ms Clare Schür, Lecturer, Psychology

Academic term appointments
Ms Engels van der Klashorst, Biokinetics , Sport and Leisure
Mr Rick de Villiers, Dean's Office
Mr Jimmy Pieterse, Dean's Office
Mr Sulaiyman Philander, Psychology
Mr Law Pinto, Anthropology and Archaeology
Ms Tatjana Pavlov-West, English

Replacement staff:
The following staff members has been temporarily appointed:

Mrs Rosemarie Marais, Humanities Dean's Office, as Assistant Director, Student Administration
Ms Rhoda Grantham, African Languages as Departmental Administrator
Ms Hannie Pretorius, CAAC, as Departmental Administrator
Ms Liza Rossetti-Siefe, English Department, as Departmental Administrator
Ms Hildegard Behrens, Journalism section (during Ms Lizette du Plessis’ maternity leave)
Ms Antoinette Burger, Humanities Dean's Office as Administrative Officer (during Ms Tracey Andrew's maternity leave)

Promotions
Congratulations to the following staff members on their recent promotions:

Prof Ernst Wolff, Philosophy Department, promoted to Professor
Prof Elaine Salo, Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, promoted to Associate Professor
Dr Stephan Geyer, Social Work and Criminology Department, promoted to Senior Lecturer
Dr Irma du Plessis, Sociology Department, promoted to Senior Lecturer
Ms Philippa Kotze, Music Department, promoted to Choir and Orchestra Manager
Mr Lucky Aphane, Visual Arts Department, promoted to Chief Messenger

Retirements
The Faculty's best wishes accompany the following staff members on their retirement:

Prof Marie Muller, Political Sciences and former Dean
Prof Johan Bergh, Historical and Heritage Studies
Dr Florinda Taute, Social Work and Criminology

Arrangements during Ms Tracey Andrew's maternity leave

Ms Tracey Andrew will be on maternity leave from 16 January - 1 June 2012.

Please contact the follwoing staff:

Ms Antoinette Burger on x4850 or [email protected]  for all Postgraduate, Research Ethics and Community Engagement matters.

Ms Lorraine Malope on ext 4855 or [email protected]  for all Outside work and Skills levy matters

Ms Aretha Schultz on Ext 2416 or [email protected]  for all Faculty Calendar queries/ changes