The Mercury reports that the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has been plunged into a fresh management crisis amid its suspension of five of its top executives on Monday. This has left staff unsettled and there have been calls for the vice-chancellor to be suspended instead.
The five suspended officials are said to be heading to the CCMA to challenge their suspensions. They are also preparing for a legal showdown to dispute the findings of an investigation that rejected their claims of racism against the university’s vice-chancellor (VC), Dr Albert van Jaarsveld. The findings of that investigation remain under wraps. Despite support from the UKZN staff union, UKSU, to follow through on the report’s recommendations to suspend the five, the VC’s decision has angered several unions and raised the ire of the students representative council (SRC). The National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) and UKZN’s SRC have opposed the suspensions, calling for urgent action to resolve the crisis.
- Read this report by Zohra Teke in full at The Mercury
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