/ 31 October 2022

UCT crisis: Black academics and staff want Minister Blade Nzimande to intervene

Minister Blade Nzimande said it cannot be that these rural universities remain as they were under the apartheid regime.
Blade Nzimande 2009 – present
The university is being torn by a crisis of governance which has seen growing antipathy to vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng’s leadership

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