14 December 2020 - Wits University
Almost 10 000 students graduate from Wits in 2020.
“You represent hope for a nation, you demonstrate that it is possible to overcome and to achieve, despite the odds. You provide hope for society. You have the ability to heal the divides of our fractured past so that we come together as a country and a collective humanity. You are on the frontlines of creating a global academy of commons, and producing world-class science, technology and innovation to solve our transnational challenges be it COVID-19, climate change, inequality, renewable energy or social and political polarisation. You have the ability, in this historical moment, to use your scholarship to help build bridges of solidarity and to heal our fractured world,” says Wits Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Adam Habib.