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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
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
It is unfortunate that journalists fail to address a fundamental issue such as the nature and genuineness of their sources.
ACADEMIC CAUCUS

​Newspapers distort dean selection process

The articles ‘seek to impinge on the dignity of all the black women academics’ involved

  • Uct Black
  • Academic Caucus
6 min read
Exclusion: A collection of essays on institutional racism was compiled after student protests raised academics’ awareness that they too struggled with being black at former white universities. (Madeleine Cronje)
BLACK ACADEMIC CAUCUS

‘No place for black academics’

A book accuses universities of crushing the ambitions of black lecturers and researchers

  • Bongekile Macupe
5 min read