To our students, this is a new year where you can redefine who you are, I trust that you will use the year and work harder to strive towards a better result.  Reflect on your practices of last year and improve on what you could have done better and make the change you want to be.  Only you can be that change you want to see. 

To those who are joining this august College for the first time, thank you for choosing this college to be your education and training partner, you are at one of the best colleges in the country and we trust that your stay with us will be as fruitful as the effort you put into your attendance, your submission of assignments and tasks as well as preparing for your tests and examinations.  The economy requires a young team of employees or entrepreneurs who can lead this country into a brighter future, who can change the direction of our future and bring it on track to a journey of success.  You are amongst that cohort of college graduates who will be the change our country, continent and world so desperately need.   The world needs a new set of leaders who can move this country towards our 2030 National Plan targets, and you are that graduate.  Your presence will shape the COLLEGE WE WANT, so we are relying on your hopes and dreams to drive our future.  You are at the centre of the COLLEGE WE WANT.

In closing and on behalf of the College Council and the Executive Management Team of the College of Cape Town, I wish you well and all of the very best for this year and ask of all of us to recommit ourselves to strive and improve this institution into the COLLEGE WE WANT.  This should be our collective drive and action each day to achieve the college we want and ensure that it becomes the best COLLEGE in the country.

Welcome and best wishes for 2023.

Dr MM Muswaba (FCIS)

Principal