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City Press reports that Buffalo City Metro executive mayor Princess Faku will apparently not be among the hundreds of students at the University of Fort Hare (UFH) in Dikeni who will be graduating in early October.
Her study programme, a law degree, is the subject of an inquiry by the university and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU). In January, Faku received a letter from the university confirming that she had completed the qualification and was set to graduate. However, the letter was signed by an administrator in the law faculty, not the university registrar. She subsequently received another letter in early May, informing her that she would not be graduating. Her name was also absent from the list of 228 law students who graduated in May this year. This latest development puts her position as executive mayor in jeopardy, as the ANC is still awaiting her qualifications. Shortly before the 2021 local government election, the party set out a range of criteria to measure the competency of their municipal and metro candidates. It listed nine competency areas in which each candidate had to be judged. They are also required to have a tertiary-level qualification or the equivalent, as well as at least five years’ experience in local government. ANC provincial secretary Lulama Ngcukayithobi said the party would wait for the university to complete its investigations and take the matter from there. The UFH declined to answer questions relating specifically to Faku, but acknowledged that the SIU was probing allegations of the irregular admission of several public servants and others into university programmes.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Mpumzi Zuzile & Norman Masungwini at City Press (subscriber access only)
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