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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 university's upper campus on Sunday. The fire, which is believed to have started on the slopes of Devil's Peak, quickly spread to Rhodes Memorial before rapidly reaching UCT’s upper campus in Rondebosch. The UCT VC explains that officials will have to assess the extent o...

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 order of the day, faculty deans had resigned, top academics were leaving, so I took office at a time...