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AZAR CACHALIA

UCT council chair Ngonyama quits after panel urges her removal

Ngonyama filed court papers claiming a panel chaired by retired justice Lex Mpati had no power to investigate her for misleading the council

  • Emsie Ferreira
5 min read
Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, Vice Chancellor, University of Cape Town. Copyright: University of Cape Town.
BABALWA NGONYAMA

UCT council offered to drop probe against vice-chancellor if she agreed to early-retirement package

Council said it would withdraw all allegations, including that Phakeng misled the senate and had a role in the resignation of executives

  • Edwin Naidu
5 min read
The University of Cape Town (UCT) council has received a new complaint against embattled vice-chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng from suspended executive director for communication and marketing Gerda Kruger.
BABALWA NGONYAMA

UCT council receives new claim from Kruger against vice-chancellor Phakeng

Meeting postponed to January as Phakeng faces mounting opposition to her leadership at the divided campus, including accusations of flouting governance processes

  • Edwin Naidu
5 min read
insider said the SACP sought to have its chairperson, Blade Nzimande, remain a cabinet minister.
ACADEMICS UNION

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

The university is being torn by a crisis of governance which has seen growing antipathy to vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng’s leadership

  • Edwin Naidu
4 min read
Complicated: The inquiry into the university’s vice-chancellor and the university council’s chairperson is tied to reasons the former deputy vice-chancellor of teaching and learning, Lis Lange, left the university.
BABALWA NGONYAMA

UCT saga continues as inquiry into vice-chancellor takes shape

The former deputy at the centre of the row was accused of misrepresenting her credentials

  • Edwin Naidu
5 min read
The University of Cape Town (UCT) council has received a new complaint against embattled vice-chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng from suspended executive director for communication and marketing Gerda Kruger.
BABALWA NGONYAMA

R27m: Cost to remove UCT vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng

She is accused of flouting governance processes, along with council chair Babalwa Ngonyama, particularly regarding the exit of deputy vice-chancellor Lis Lange

  • Edwin Naidu
7 min read
ANET AHERN

Private sector: Financial services

Anet Ahern, Helena Dolny, Tina Eboka, Ingrid Johnson, Faith Khanyile, Elizabeth Maepa, Angela Mhlanga, Nombulelo Moholi and more …

  • Staff Reporter
12 min read