Mr (N) Nikile Nstababa
Registrar

Mr Nikile Ntsababa is the Registrar of the University of the Free State (UFS). He was previously Registrar at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT; before that he was Deputy Registrar at the same institution. He was also Faculty Manager: Management and Commerce at the University of Fort Hare, before being promoted and appointed as Director: Governance at the same institution.
 
Mr Ntsababa is a seasoned and knowledgeable university registrar with experience in the fields of institutional compliance, regulatory compliance, academic administration, governance and ethics, as well as university records management. His history of senior roles in the higher-education sector poses the advantage of a very good understanding of the dynamics, context, trends, and challenges of the higher-education sector.
 
He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Records and Archives Management from the
University of Fort Hare, a Master of Public Administration from Nelson Mandela University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Fort Hare. Some of the further certification and short courses he has completed includes a Certificate in International Higher Education Management from Vanderbilt University, Tennessee State in the USA, a Compliance Management Certificate from UCT, as well as a Certificate in Business Process Design for Strategic Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA.  He is a Certified Ethics Officer through the Stellenbosch University Business School and the Ethics Institute.

Contact:
Office Manager: Claudine Taylor
+27 51 401 3796
TaylorCL@ufs.ac.za