A council meeting to discuss one of the biggest governance crises in the history of the University of Cape Town and leadership of vice-chancellor Mamokgeti Phakeng could prove to be a turning point for the top institution as early as Tuesday.
This comes in the wake of an information war last week, with the council purportedly confirming to some media outlets that the embattled vice-chancellor would be suspended after most of the council voted in favour of that, and Phakeng — and the university — saying she had not been suspended and was not going anywhere as an independent inquiry into her alleged misconduct continued.
The inquiry was commissioned late last year to look into the alleged misconduct of Phakeng regarding the departure of former deputy vice-chancellor Lis Lange, with some media reports suggesting the vice-chancellor had been offered early retirementOn Monday, the university was in a holding pattern on campus, with some lectures resuming, others resuming online and few of the large campus community returning to what was described as a “dead” campus.
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