TimesLIVE Premium reports that the North Gauteng High Court has ordered Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande not to act on the recommendations of an independent assessor’s report into the affairs of the University of SA (Unisa) until two separate applications challenging the report are finalised.

Independent assessor Prof Themba Mosia had recommended in his 31 March report that the institution be placed under administration. The chair of Unisa’s council, James Maboa, brought an urgent application earlier this month seeking an order to interdict Nzimande from appointing an administrator. In a separate application, vice-chancellor Prof Puleng LenkaBula launched an application for an order to review and set aside Mosia’s report. In a third application brought on 20 June, former Unisa registrar Prof Mothata Steward asked the court to declare that the university’s council was no longer “properly constituted” and sought an order directing Nzimande to appoint an administrator for Unisa. Last Thursday, Judge Leicester Adams adjourned all three applications to a hearing on 7 September. Maboa asserted the following in his court papers: “The university is functioning properly and fully and has been doing so for many years before. The university has not collapsed nor is it about to collapse.”

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