The reporting officer is there to:
If you decide to take action, the matter will be handed over to a Co-ordinating Officer who will then follow the course of action chosen. The reporting officer will support you through this but will not be actively involved in managing processes.
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Mr Jeremy Baxter As an academic in the Department of Statistics, Jeremy is accustomed to teaching large classes of students. He also does research which includes using statistical machine learning techniques to predict protein secondary structure. He is abit of a computer boffin and regards working with linux, R, octave and python as play. Jeremy is married with five children of the furry variety (their cats). As House Warden of Centenary House, Jeremy along with the students, runs a very successful vegetable garden, the products of which are donated to community organisations. When he is not gardening, Jeremy likes to play under-water hockey and is also a keen spear-fisherman. |
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Ms Veronica Daniels Veronica is currently working as a graphics and layout designer in the Printing services unit. She has 3 children, 2 boys and one girl. Veronica volunteered to be a reporting officer because of her belief in fair, equal and respectful treatment of others. She is keen to help staff and students who are dealing with difficult situations. She describes herself as a compassionate person, very eager to help others, a good listener who is empathetic to the situation and experiences of others. Veronica also has a keen interest in music and dancing. |
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Ms Nontuthuzelo Faku Nontuthu is a well-known face at Rhodes University and in the Grahamstown community. Once a trade unionist, Nontuthu (or Toots as she is affectionately called), now works in Human Resources and is studying towards her HR diploma. Nontuthu’s commitment to helping others is actively demonstrated in her involvement in many different NGOs including Masifunde and the Eluxolweni Shelter. She has a friendly, easy going nature and gets on with people from all walks of life. She is also an active grandmother of two. While she is leads a busy life, she does report that she realises she is getting older because life these days, is starting to move at a faster pace. |
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Ms Ntosh Gongqa Ntosh is the HR Generalist, responsible for dealing with staff, HoDs and Deans in the Faculties of Commerce, Education and Law. She is a young black woman who lives her life to the fullest. As well as being a mom to a three year old daughter and two step-children, she also enjoys travelling, seeing our beautiful country and learning new things. It is Ntosh’s wish that others too should embrace life and that unfair treatment and harassment should not be tolerated. All people, irrespective of their different backgrounds, have the right to be treated with respect. |
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Ms Janine Harris Janine teams up with husband Raymond as Warden for Oppidan Hall. Janine is a busy bee and bundle of energy managing the very large hive of activities affectionately referred to as Housekeeping Services. |
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Mr Raymond Harris Raymond can be found on the first floor of the Main Admin Building where, interalia, he is the Accountant in charge of the research finance office, salaries office, student fees office. Raymond and his wife Janine, share the responsibility for being the Oppidan Hall Warden. Raymond is a Christian and is English speaking. Raymond enjoys spending time with friends and family as well as his pets which include a Burmese cat and French poodle. |
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Mrs. Ruth Jackson |
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Dr Alan Kirkaldy Alan is an environmental historian, focusing on the current planetary crisis. He has a keen interest in gender and sexual orientation issues. As a progressive Jew, he is a member of the Temple Hillel in East London and together with Larissa Klazinga, runs activities for Jewish students on campus. Alan is also an active unionist. As co-chair of the Rhodes branch of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), he is the union representative on a range of committees including Gender Action Forum (GENACT) and the Employment Equity and Institutional Culture Committee. Part of his job description as a unionist, is keeping management, particularly HR on its toes! Alan is also involved in karate. He is a second dan karateka and one of the instructors in the Rhodes Shotokon Karate Club. Alan is married with a daughter at Rhodes University and a son at Graeme College. |
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Larissa Klazinga Larissa is a Rhodes Politics graduate with a background in human rights advocacy, specifically in the areas of sex and gender based violence, sexual orientation and HIV/AIDS. Larissa is also an active member of the small Grahamstown Jewish community. She serves on various university committees including the Gender Action Forum and the HIV/AIDS Committee. Larissa has been the Warden of Ruth First House since 2003, served as Hall Warden of Lilian Ngoyi Hall in 2008/9 and is currently the Student Harassment Officer. Larissa has two sausage dogs named Tallulah & Eleanor and can regularly be seen jogging down the road as they run wildly and jap at passers-by as she tries to take them for a walk. |
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Mrs Lee-Ann Knowles Lee-Ann is the manager of the Print Services Unit, responsible for the extensive printing of student handbooks and other institutional materials. She is also an artist and graphic designer. Lee-Ann’s passion for helping others is evident in that she is a life coach and trained counsellor with many years of counselling experience. Her commitment to fair treatment of others and the protection of the rights of others has led to her involvement in the union, NTEU. She is currently an executive member. Lee-Ann speaks English and Afrikaans. Lee-Ann is also married. |
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Mr John McNeil John has been wardening for over 20 years and enjoys interacting with students. As an academic in Information Systems, his love of technology is evident and is put to good use as chair of the committee that oversees the technology used in lecture venues. John also enjoys fishing and has a collection of koi fish (but these are not used for fishing!). John is passionate about issues of fairness and equal treatment for all. As a warden he is frequently involved in institutional developments that seek to advance these principles in the wardening system for the benefit of students and staff. |
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Ms Thandiwe Menze Thandiwe has a Bachelor in Information Science and has recently completed her Honours through UNISA. She is relatively new to Rhodes, having started in May 2008. She comes to Grahamstown from Johannesburg. She volunteered to be a reporting officer because she strongly opposes the violation of another’s human dignity and wants to contribute towards the eradication of the unfair treatment of fellow staff. She strongly believes that through her encounters with other individuals and her actions that others should not, in their own eyes, be diminished. When not at work, Thandiwe loves going on long walks. |
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Mr Cecil Peters Cecil is a Human Resources Professional with extensive experience in the field having worked in various contexts. Here at Rhodes, he currently works closely with the management and staff of the Estates and Dean of Students Divisions. He believes that every person should be treated with the necessary dignity and respect they deserve irrespective of their salary grade, designation, race, gender or age. Cecil has indicated that he “is happily married and blessed with two daughters”. He is a committed Christian and active in the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa. |
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Professor Jen Snowball Jen is a committed academic in the department of Economics. She is extremely proficient at teaching large Economics 1 classes and her research is in cultural economics. Jen was the first ever women associate professor in Economics at Rhodes University in a Faculty that is dominated by men. She is also a long-standing member of the Women’s Academic Solidarity Association (WASA) which seeks to support women. WASA has successfully spearheaded particular gender programmes in the University which have subsequently been mainstreamed. Jen is a devoted mother of what she describes as a “wonderful, 10 year old daughter”. Outside of work, Jen’s passion is travel to interesting parts of the world and to date her travels have taken her to, inter alia, Libya, Tunisia, Syria and Jordan. Jen reports that given half a chance, she will share stories of her travels and pictures with others. |
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Professor Lynette Steenveld As a young person, Lynette was subjected to apartheid removals and so is intimately acquainted with various manifestations of racism. Later in life she became more aware of gender and sexuality struggles. She takes to heart the feminist adage that the 'personal is political' which in practice means that she interrogates power in all spheres of life. She is a founding member of WASA, and has served on its executive committee. Lynette has a passion and commitment to eradicating harassment and unfair discrimination and for helping those who have been mistreated and abused. She has a reputation for speaking up against those who have been wronged--in whatever way. The poster of a young, smiling Che Guevara in her office with the tag lines:” Let's be realists. Let's dream the impossible” encapsulates Lynette’s continued commitment to make a difference. As a mother of two teenagers, one a young woman, the other a young man, Lynette is sensitive to the subtle ways in which power works in youth culture. |
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Ms Alex Sutherland Alex is an academic in Drama, specialising in theatre for social and personal change. She has worked in many different community and educational contexts and has a special interest in issues of gender, race and power. She is a strong advocate for supporting everyone’s right to love who they want. She has practised this a little in her own life by marrying a Brit in spite of her mother’s advice to avoid those of this nationality! Alex also is the proud mother of two little boys. |
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Mrs Desiree Wicks |
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Dr Swantje Zachermack Originally from Germany, Swantje has been an academic in HKE for the last six years. Her research interests include driving safety and fatigue. More recently, Swantje has taken on the role of leading the newly established student residence Hall. She is also House Warden of Margaret Smith residence.
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The Co-ordinating Officers are:
Student co-ordinating officer: Larissa Klazinga
e-mail: l.klazinga@ru.ac.za
tel: 046 603 8181
Location of office: Room 203 in the Main Admin building (clock tower)
Staff co-ordinating officer: Sarah Fischer
e-mail: s.fischer@ru.ac.za
tel: 046 603 8113
Location of office: Room 210 in the Main Admin Building
Last Modified: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:54:38 SAST