A labour dispute between the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and one of its erstwhile top employees has aired the institution’s dirty linen.
“Apart from documenting her experience at the Sanlam meeting, she also referred to the difficulty which she encountered in executing the duties of the human capital portfolio ‘due to the tendency of the acting vice-chancellor to make decisions without any consultation or reference to policy’,” the judgment reads.
Mkhabela also referred to a letter that Fourie sent to staff and student union representatives in May 2017. The letter reads: “It is with a deep concern in my heart that I am writing this email. Over the past few months it has become incredibly difficult for the committee to make any progress, especially because Dr Octavia Mkhabela does not agree with the insourcing process and does not recognise the RRTT or subcommittee as legitimate structures of CPUT.
“Students then gained entry to the meeting and when she looked at her mobile phone a student said ‘are you taking pictures?’ The students had become increasingly aggressive, particularly when they were asking ‘which one is Mkhabela’,” the judgment reads.“I returned to CPUT with a great deal of trepidation following personal attacks on my person, both figuratively and literally as a result of malicious rumours spread about me that led to the events of July 24 2017.
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