Welcome to the MAN720 blog!

The University of the Western Cape is located in the suburb of Bellville, Cape Town. Established in 1960, the university is alert to its African and international context as it strives to be a place of quality, a place to grow and a place to learn. It is committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research, to nurturing the cultural diversity of South African, and to responding in critical and creative ways to the needs of a society in transition.







This blog, the brainchild of five UWC Honours students who have been assigned a task to project manage a community based project of their choice. This assignment forms part of continuous evaluation in the Project Management [MAN720] module conducted by Percy Saungweme at the School of Business and Finance in the EMS Faculty. The demographic of the group is made up of five part-time students, two of which are living in UWC residence which currently houses approximately 3800 students. Thus the group decided to engage in a project that places it’s focus on the UWC student community.



Friday, 28 September 2012

shade and judie outside basil february residence all smiles(soooo happy to do the survey)


Shade here, I conducted the survey alone, so there was no one to take a pic of me :(. nevertheless thanks to all Dos Santo's people for participating! its much appreciated :))

Same here!!! As a res member of BFR just wanted to thank everyone once again for participating (^-^)


This was inside view of cassinga residence as i was conducting the survey

the outside view of the cassinga residence check out the photographer at the background shade!
crazy girl outside the cecil esau residence just as i had finished conducting the survey, she just wanted to appear on the pic.

hey all, please have a look at these pics

Morning Family (yes I called you all family)
Please have a look at our pics from poster day
AWARENESS CAMPAIGN ON ITS WAY!!!!!!
That's us before the posters went up. Judie was all serious.

That's our chairperson doing what he does best (putting up fantastic posters in the student centre). Well done Matthew

Who's that looking through the window? Oh thats just Matthew once again showing off his poster prowess.

We in the Mix!!EMS our home, where our future is their priority!!!!
enjoy your day
God is good.

Thursday, 27 September 2012

Matthew's survey experience :-)

Outside Gorvalla, Bellville

So yesterday I decided to conduct my survey on the off campus UWC residential students. I paid a visit to Gorvalla residence in Bellville which was rather quiet as many of the students were at campus, 
Outside Disahof, Tygerberg Hospital






and Disahof residence at Tygerberg Hospital whose atmosphere was more upbeat with many students walking around.




It was the 1st time ever I've been in a residential building, so the experience was pretty new to me. However, I found the experience quite refreshing!! It was interesting to see how the students lived and it felt as though there was a real community spirit between the students in both res buildings.

Getting help filling out the survey questionnaire from students was painless, and a few of them seemed really interested to find out exactly what it was that we were doing.


SPECIAL THANKS to Shade and Judie for helping me out today!!! As a gift there was STEERS for my peers

That’s 20 survey questionnaires done and dusted... now to get all 100 analysed... :-O


So let’s get cracking,

Till next time, keep it real
MATT B

posts concerning the survey

Conducted the survey this week, that was interesting. we had such an interesting time and most people were very helpful.
That's Me and Shade signing out.
Peace
Doing the Joy dance (from the Mooi-Tai)
Hands cringed
Mvuzo Dlomo

Saturday, 22 September 2012

Smooth start to our 100 student survey :)





So today was the start of the student survey that our team will be doing at UWC Residences. The first residence to be surveyed ... Ruth First (Ruth First (4 May 1925 – 17 August 1982) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar born in JohannesburgSouth Africa. She was killed by a parcel bomb addressed specifically to her in Mozambique, where she worked in exile from South Africa - Wikipedia).  Survey 10 students living in Ruth First Res ... it was pretty easy going. Students mostly indoors catching up on some zzzzz! Chatted to two students who were very interested in what we were doing and asking questions about RCS and SREP!


Second was Chris Hani Res (Chris Hani, born Martin Thembisile Hani (28 June 1942 – 10 April 1993) was the leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). He was a fierce opponent of the apartheidgovernment. He was assassinated on 10 April 1993 - Wikipedia). What a peaceful atmosphere as your walk into the quad at Chris Hani and that is where we were able to survey 10 students who were walking through and some just enjoying the beautiful weather.

So here we go ... 20 down... 80 to go! 

Friday, 21 September 2012

Ready to ROCK !!!

Here we go...

Big thanks going out to Top Copy [Claremont] for printing our colour posters and b/w flyers! They look awesome. Look out for them at UWC Campus next week.
This is start of our print media campaign to bring awareness to the Skills Resource & Exchange programme that is run by ResLife office. The ResLife team are there to extend a helping hand along the journey of those students who have a dream ...! Take a look at our flyer