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City Press reports that the University of Fort Hare council has issued vice-chancellor and principal Professor Sakhela Buhlungu with a letter of intention to suspend him.
This followed a news story last month about a decision taken by Buhlungu in December last year to suspend the university’s chief audit executive, Martin Soqaga. The council has also reinstated Soqaga to his position with “immediate effect” following a meeting n 12 April 2019. At that meeting, the council was presented with a written report from the university’s audit and risk committee in which a number of allegations of serious misconduct were levelled against Buhlungu. The allegations included that Buhlungu suspended Soqaga irregularly without any authority; that Buhlungu’s actions to irregularly suspend Soqaga were ethically questionable because he was a conflicted party in the two cases on which he was directing Soqaga to give him information; that Buhlungu’s actions had brought the name of the university into disrepute; and that Buhlungu’s actions of irregularly suspending Soqaga without proper procedure amounted to gross disregard of the university audit committee charter, the independence and integrity of the audit and risk committee and the stature of the council of the university.
- Read the full detailed report by Msindisi Fengu on this story at City Press
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