Mpati Report News Today

In recent weeks, two potentially calamitous events on campuses happened largely under the radar of public attention; the collapse of Educor and its private higher education brands hogged the media limelight.

The committee said stakeholders at the university needed to up their game after the panel report that laid bare serious governance issues involving, in the main, former vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng and former council chair Babalwa Ngonyama. 

Institutions become dysfunctional not because there are no rules but because they defy their own rules. Case in point: University of the Western Cape

The Mpati Report makes it clear that Phakeng not only saw the people around her through a primarily racial lens, but energetically and uncritically applied the racial labels that were institutionalised by the apartheid state. Part One in a two-part series.

While the Mpati Report provides important recommendations on the roles of university councils, it is largely silent on a second aspect of university governance that also contributed to the leadership crisis: the shift from collegial to managerial forms of governance within the university.

Daybreak Farms has laid criminal charges against two women with links to the state-owned chicken producer, according to court documents seen by Fin24.

Former CFO Matshepo More wasn’t fired, but her contract was terminated.

Former CFO Matshepo More, who was earning R10.5m per annum when she was suspended on full pay in March 2019, earned another whopping R6.9m in the year to end-March 2021.