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