11 Student achievements FADA students achieved notable successes across various departments in 2024. Third-year diploma and degree students in the Landscape Elective in the Architecture Department won the Students Reinventing Cities Competition, beating 20 other participating local and international schools of planning and architecture. In Fashion, third-year students entered the SA Fashion Week competition. Ten UJ students made the top 20, the highest number of shortlisted students from all the national fashion schools that entered. Master’s student, Kgotsofalo Given Monyamate completed his participation in the AFI Fastrack Designer Development Programme that culminated in his winning the Creative Award for his new collection under his fashion brand Articles From Mars titled ‘Is’khothane Somhlaba.’ Dr Landi Raubenheimer’s third year Multimedia students excelled in their presentations in the COIL University of Cincinnati-run international seminar Art as a Catalyst for Global Understanding. Graphic Design had six finalists and five winners in the Pendoring and Loerie Awards. Notably, MA student Aaminah Darsot won the Silver Pendoring and Craft Gold awards, Honours student Philasande Masoga was a Silver Pendoring winner and Masters Alumna Wilna Combrink was a Gold Pendoring winner. Industrial Design students also received an impressive list of prizes. Top achievers included Morgan Potgieter, awarded first place in the ARMSA competition, while Tsebo Mokwena, Tshepiso Motau and Bongani Buthelezi (all honours students) won a trip to Baku to attend COP29 at the International BeOpen Design Climate Action Competition. All three top places in the Vermont Tool Competition went to FADA students, with Evan Smith taking first, Sabrina Jansen second, and Oarabile Mogotsi third prize. Similarly, Lethabo Maganyele, Nico van Blerk, and Luc Salzwedel took first, second and third places respectively at the SAPRO Awards in the category ‘Creative and Artisanal Solutions.’ Interior Design student Husnaa Kathrada was selected as a finalist in the prestigious PG Bison 1.618 student competition. Jewellery Design Second year student Mr Siyabonga Mkhonza was a finalist in the Digital Jewellery Week student competition and BA hons student, Mr David Ditlhako, had work featured in an article by the Art Jewellery Forum titled ‘Redefining culture and Identity.’ Five Visual Arts students were included in the top 100 of the SASOL New Signatures Competition.
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