Quote of the week
Universal adult suffrage on a common voters roll is one of the foundational values of our entire constitutional order. The achievement of the franchise has historically been important both for the acquisition of the rights of full and effective citizenship by all South Africans regardless of race, and for the accomplishment of an all-embracing nationhood. The universality of the franchise is important not only for nationhood and democracy. The vote of each and every citizen is a badge of dignity and of personhood. Quite literally, it says that everybody counts. In a country of great disparities of wealth and power it declares that whoever we are, whether rich or poor, exalted or disgraced, we all belong to the same democratic South African nation; that our destinies are intertwined in a single interactive polity.
August and Another v Electoral Commission and Others (CCT8/99) [1999] ZACC 3
UCT post: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law
We invite applications for positions as Senior Lecturer / lecturer in the Department of Commercial Law within the Faculty of Law for appointment from 1 July 2014.
We wish to appoint applicants, particularly Black South Africans, with the potential to be academic leaders and seek those who wish to be part of a Faculty in which a critical and comparative approach to the study of the law is valued.
Requirements:
· For Lecturer:
o a LLM degree and a strong academic record;
o teaching experience at tertiary level will be an advantage;
o previous publications will be an advantage.
· For Senior Lecturer:
o a LLM degree and a strong academic record;
o teaching experience at tertiary level;
o a consistent record of publications.
Legal practice experience will be advantageous.
Responsibilities:
- Teaching courses offered by the Department of Commercial Law as required by the Department, including courses offered to non-law students, which include Company Law, Business Law, and Labour Law;
- Research and publication;
- Departmental and faculty administration.
The annual remuneration packages, including benefits for 2014 at the respective levels are as follows:
- Lecturer : R484 656
- Senior Lecturer : R655 493
To apply, please e-mail:
• The completed UCT Application form (HR201) and all other relevant documentation, including a full CV as indicated on the form. The application form can be downloaded at http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/sapweb/forms/hr201.doc
• Certified transcripts of your academic results.
Please indicate “Senior Lecturer/Lecturer: Commercial Law” followed by the reference number in the subject line when submitting your application to Mrs Celeste Booysen at recruitment05@uct.ac.za\
An application which does not comply with the above requirements will be regarded as incomplete.
Address: Staff Recruitment and Selection, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa.
Telephone: +27 21 650 2220
Faculty website: www.law.uct.ac.za
Reference number: SR604/13
Closing date: 1 February 2014
UCT is committed to the pursuit of excellence, diversity and redress. Our Employment Equity Policy is available at http://www.uct.ac.za/downloads/uct.ac.za/about/policies/eepolicy.pdf. For this post we seek particularly to attract Black South Africans.
UCT reserves the right not to appoint.
