From 26 - 30 January 2011, the South African - German Centre for Development Research and Criminal Justice hosted the network meeting of the DAAD centres of excellence (DAAD-magazine). On 27 January 2011, the opening ceremony of the meeting took place on UWC campus. Speakers were, inter alia, Mrs. Naledi Grace Mandisa Pandor, Minister of Science and Technology, Government of South Africa. As part of the network meeting PhD scholarship holders of the centres of excellence presented their research projects on Wednesday, 26 January.
from left to right: Vice-Chancellor of the UWC, Prof. Dr. Brian O’Connell; Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs. Naledi Grace Mandisa Pandor; Dr. Helmut Blumbach (DAAD)
In the framework of the cooperation project with the University of Malawi representatives of the Development Research Division of the South African-German Centre for Development Research and Criminal Justice visited the Chancellor College in Zomba, Malawi on October 3, 2010. Both parties agreed that the already well established cooperation arrangements need to be expanded and intensified in the near future.