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News24 reports that the University of Cape Town (UCT) Council has announced that the university's vice-chancellor, Mamokgethi Phakeng, will be given more time off after being discharged from hospital last Friday.
Council chairperson Babalwa Ngonyama announced in a media statement last week that Phakeng would be placed on sick leave, following what Ngonyama called a "stressful" time. But, Phakeng was apparently left fuming at Ngonyama mentioning the matter of stress. In a further statement on Monday, Ngonyama said: "At the time of hospitalisation, while acting precautionarily and under what were then uncertain circumstances, council agreed to grant Professor Phakeng some additional time off ahead of her annual leave period, which was scheduled to commence from Friday, 16 December." Ngonyama said she had had a "cordial" in-person engagement with Phakeng, who had agreed to take up the offer of time off for the rest of the week, leading up to her scheduled annual leave. Phakeng will return to office when her annual leave ends on 9 January 2023. At a special meeting on Friday, the university council confirmed the appointment of retired Supreme Court of Appeal president Judge Lex Mpati to head a panel to investigate allegations of mismanagement against Phakeng and Ngonyama.
Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Marvin Charles & Adriaan Basson at News24
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