GSB Homecoming 2026

27 – 28 March | University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business

Welcome back to campus for our inaugural GSB Homecoming, a special weekend designed to reconnect alumni and students, celebrate shared journeys, and refresh thinking for the challenges ahead.

Homecoming brings together six decades of the GSB community to honour where we have come from, engage with where we are now, and explore how we continue to shape leaders who shape the future.

Why Attend Homecoming?

• Reconnect with classmates, faculty, and the wider GSB alumni community
• Celebrate graduating students from the PGDip Development Finance, MPhil, CEMS and FT MBA programmes
• Engage in thought-provoking Programme Refreshers led by faculty and alumni
• Return to campus to reflect, learn, and celebrate together

Guests are welcome across the weekend.

Programme Overview

Friday, 27 March | Celebrate & Reconnect

16:30 
Registration opens | Conference Centre

17:00 – 18:00 
Keynote Address 
Chicago to Cape Town (and many lessons in between): An unconventional journey to leading the UCT GSB

18:15 – 19:00 
Fireside Chat 
Alumni conversation representing six decades of the GSB

19:00 – late 
Dinner and dancing in the Courtyard 
Drinks in the Brig

Friday evening also celebrates students graduating between 28 March and 1 April from the PGDip Development Finance, MPhil, CEMS and FT MBA programmes.

Saturday, 28 March | Learn & Refresh

09:30 – 10:30: Registration and light breakfast

10:30 – 12:30: Programme Refreshers (run concurrently)

12:30 – 13:00: Closing remarks | Conference Centre (Ground Floor)

13:00 – 14:30: Lunch

15:00: Homecoming concludes

EMBA Refresher

Leadership That Endures with Professor Kosheek Sewchurran and facilitated by Dr Rashid Toefy

RSVP

MPhil Refresher

Investable Impact: From Purpose to Practical Enterprise with Noor Jehan Docrat and Chris Hosken

RSVP

PGDip Refresher:

Leading from Within: Developing Leadership for a Rapidly Changing, Complex World

With Dr Shadrick Mazaza and facilitated by Simni Xanga

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