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HONORARY DOCTORATES FOR ARCHBISHOP AND ARCH SATIRIST
– The Cape Times, 4 June 2003
Satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Njongonkulu Ndungane and Hamilton Naki, who was an assistant to heart transplant pioneer Chris Barnard, are to be awarded honorary degrees at the University of Cape Town's mid-year graduation ceremony on June 20.
Ndungane, who has had a distinguished career as theologian and priest in South Africa and abroad, is to be awarded a D.Phil (honoris causa) in the humanities for his commitment to socio-political issues.
Uys is to be awarded a D.Litt (honoris causa) for distinguished, socially-responsible creative work. For the last three years he has been travelling around South Africa with a free AIDS-Awareness entertainment, presenting it to schools throughout the nine provinces and to date, reaching one million young South Africans.
His latest play AUDITIONING ANGELS opens at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in June, while his recent memoir ELECTIONS AND ERECTIONS is now in its third printing.
Pieter-Dirk Uys studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1969, leaving with a B.A. (Drama) before studying in the UK at the London Film School. Towards the end of the last century, Uys was awarded an honorary degree by Rhodes University, while Mrs Evita Bezuidenhout was awarded the Living Legacy 2000 Award in San Diego USA.
Naki will receive an honorary Master of Science in Medicine for his pioneering work with Barnard, UCT said yesterday.
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