Imtiaz Sooliman – UWC confers honorary doctorates on and Allan Boesak

			Bringing relief to 1000s of
destitute people when all seems
		

			lost, and doing it
unconditionally. I
		

			It's especially important when you
get recognized by the academic
		

			institution. And especially since
we have a working relationship for
		

			the University of Western Cape,
we've had outreach programs where
		

			the students have joined us in the
community health, community
		

			medicine. They provided us with
equipment for beds, what curtains,
		

			and also students, processes for
physiotherapy, occupational
		

			therapy and other and nurses. And
when you have that kind of
		

			partnership, it's very important
to have a relationship with the
		

			university. And also this
university is very historical in
		

			what is achieved. A lot of our
friends have come from here. Have
		

			come from the dental faculty, and
many of those people are involved
		

			with us in different aspects of
gift of the givers.
		

			You or renter and an accidental
politician has come home in this
		

			hallowed spot where many of us in
the
		

			well, somebody asked me yesterday,
I have my PhD. I have 14 other
		

			honorary degrees from universities
all over the world. What makes
		

			this one special? It makes it
special because this is UWC.
		

			I keep on saying to people, this
is the place that has a a special
		

			place in my heart and in the heart
of a whole generation from from
		

			this place, young students went
out and they really fundamentally
		

			changed the way South Africans
were thinking about themselves,
		

			about the past, about the
struggle, and about the future,
		

			and, and, and it was not just
philosophical and academic
		

			discussion. We were young people
who actually laid their lives on
		

			the line and on the altar for for
a better future and for a
		

			different kind of society. And so
I've been there throughout the 19
		

			from 1976 throughout the 1980s