Staffer tests positive after Unisa graduation ceremony, as other universities move theirs online News24 Wire
Main entrance of the University of South Africa (UNISA), the largest university on the African continent. Image: iStock Four staff members were currently in isolation, but that he online university planned to go ahead with its in-person graduation ceremonies in line with Covid-19 protocols.
Unisa has confirmed that a staff member who worked at a recent graduation event tested positive for Covid-19.
Unisa spokesperson Lusani Netshitomboni, said four staff members were currently in isolation, but that he online university planned to go ahead with its in-person graduation ceremonies in line with Covid-19 protocols.
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UNISA has confirmed that a staff member who worked at a recent graduation event tested positive for Covid-19.
This was after News24 received a letter from a concerned reader asking for more information on the development, and expressed concern over the possibility that more attendees may have contracted the virus or inadvertently spread it while they travelled.
Unisa spokesperson Lusani Netshitomboni, said four staff members were currently in isolation, but that he online university planned to go ahead with its in-person graduation ceremonies in line with Covid-19 protocols.
It was monitoring the situation regarding any other possible contacts, and had also deep-cleaned the office where the staff member worked.
Professor Sehaam Khan completed a PhD degree in Microbiology (Molecular Virology) in 2002 at the University of the Western Cape, where one year of her research was completed at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. She started her academic journey as a lecturer in 2002 with the then Cape Technicon, now Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and moved through the ranks to Associate Professor by 2008. From February 2005 to February 2006 she joined the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore, as a post-doctoral fellow.
Experience –present Professor (Microbiology & Molecular Virology) and Executive Dean: Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
Democracies are precarious endeavours, as events around the world are showing.
In most, political parties hold sway over whether the system delivers the will of the people, or doesn’t. So how political parties are organised plays a big role in the health, or ill health, of democratic states.
The issue of how the governing ANC is held accountable by its members has come to the fore in recent weeks. Ace Magashule, ANC secretary-general, has reminded the public that it is party branches which elect and remove ANC leaders.
The trouble is that the ANC’s branch structure, designed initially as a means of grassroots democracy at work, is in a mess. This is best exemplified by the collapse of branches in the North West province.
Top official of South Africa s ruling ANC urged to step down
by Mogomotsi Magome, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 15, 2020 10:06 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 15, 2020 at 10:14 am EDT
FILE- In this Nov. 13, 2020, file photo, African National Congress secretary general Ace Magashule appears for a bail hearing inside the magistrates court in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Magashule may be forced to step down after the party s integrity commission recommended that he be suspended because he has been charged with corruption. Magashule was charged in court with 21 counts of fraud and corruption earlier in December (AP Photo, file)
JOHANNESBURG The secretary-general of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, may be forced to step down after the party’s integrity commission recommended that he be suspended because he has been charged with corruption.