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We need to say clearly that we have no involvement in, nor do we comment on the current controversies surrounding Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng

The realities of the governance of our higher education institutions is no surprise to those who have been exposed to the realities of the governance of our higher education institutions.

'Not that transphobic, toxic prof!': One tweep said of UCT Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng, who was nominated for a Feather Award.

University of Cape Town vice-chancellor Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng’s nephew has taken responsibility for a tweet comparing her to a senior colleague who committed suicide four years ago.

UCT Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng has been heavily criticised by the late Prof Bongani Mayosi's sister. Here's why..

Reading about the goings-on in the University of Cape Town’s corridors of power was disconcerting and the situation urgently needs to be resolved.

Prof Phakeng was named the inaugural winner of the Africa Education Medal.

UCT students could return to res - except Smuts and Fuller - within 72 hours 19 April 2021 7:04 PM Share This: UCT vice-chancellor Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng says some students could be back in their residences in the next 72 hours. Mop-up operations are underway at UCT after a wildfire destroyed several buildings on the universitys upper campus on Sunday. The fire, which is believed to have started on the slopes of Devils Peak, quickly spread to Rhodes Memorial before rapidly reaching UCT’s...

Mamokgethi Phakeng heads up one of South Africa’s most prestigious tertiary education facilities, the University of Cape Town (UCT), and she is on a mission to change what she calls an exclusionary institutional culture of the university “to a point where everyone feels that this is their university”. When she started her new job in July 2018, the university was going through some turbulence. “I was taking on the leadership of the university at a time of crisis, when shutdowns were the ...