Transformation Services Office
Director
Portfolio: Glenda Wildschut
Glenda Wildschut joined UCT as director of Transformation Services on 1 September 2010
Her duties include, among others: coordinating the work of the Discrimination & Harassment Office, the HIV/AIDS Coordination-UCT office and the Disability Services unit; advising the Vice-Chancellor on issues relating to transformation; initiating and executing interventions relating to transformation; conducting surveys; forming partnerships; and managing UCT's employment equity plan.
Profile
Wildschut was appointed by former president Nelson Mandela to serve as a commissioner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1995. Her human rights activism activities date back to the early 1980s. She worked with political prisoners, their families, exiles and orphaned returnee children in South Africa and Namibia, and pioneered, together with other health workers, the establishment of a trauma centre for survivors of violence and torture - the first centre of its kind in South Africa. She has also worked with the United Nations' World Health Organisation, the World Council of Churches and the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, as well as many NGOs.
In recent years Wildschut has been an independent consultant in leadership and organisational development, as well as a part-time lecturer in UCT's Faculty of Health Sciences. She taught a module on transitional justice and the role of truth and reconciliation commissions as a visiting professor at the University of Siena, Italy, and was visiting scholar at the National Bio-ethics Institute in Alabama. She has lectured at Emory University and the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
She is a registered nurse, midwife, psychiatric nurse (specialising in child and adolescent psychiatry), community nurse practitioner and nurse educator. She is the first South African to receive the Health and Human Rights Award by the International Institute for Nursing Ethics. She has worked with Women in Leadership Training with a broad spectrum of organisations, ranging from commercial enterprises with an international reach to local government structures.
Contact
Physical address:
The Cottage
Lovers' Walk
Lower Campus
Rondebosch
Glenda Wildschut
Tel: 021 650 2559
