During this semester, the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences welcomed 25 students from 15 partner universities spread throughout Europe.
The students, who hail from Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Finland and the Netherlands, will be studying in the faculty’s various departments for the semester.
The faculty’s International exchange programme provides exchanges for students and staff. Its European partners send four students each per year to CPUT, while the faculty sends two students to each of them.
As part of its orientation programme for the new students, the faculty arranged a day’s tour of the Cape Peninsula as well as a Cultural Tour, which were guided by the programme’s co-ordinator, Nizaam Peck,
The day of the Cape Peninsula Tour started with a drive along the Atlantic seaboard to Seal Island in Hout Bay and included various visits to popular Cape Town sites.
The day of the Cultural Tour included walking through the historic area of District Six, a visit to the District Six Museum, Langa and Heideveld Townships.
The tour was intended to give the students a glimpse of how South Africans are coping with the effects of apartheid after 21 years into democracy.
Besides touring around Langa Township, they visited the Guga S’Thebe Skills Development Centre.
“Langa has a 50% unemployment rate and the centre is home to many projects which up skill the locals to be able to work for themselves or to find employment,” he says.
Residents are trained to become picture framers in two months or make artistic cups and plates in six months.
Many other projects that empower the community such as African dance and music programmes are run at the centre for children after school hours.
