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29 March 2021
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1. Its support of and confidence in the leadership of the Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the UFS, Prof Francis Petersen and his team, and duly recognises the efforts and results achieved at the University during the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the current nationwide student protest on the payment of student debt.
2. In this context, the Council also distances itself and deplores the statements made by the leadership of the
Institutional Student Representative Council (ISRC), on national television on Monday 15 March 2021, as it pertained to the demand for the immediate resignation of the Rector and Vice-Chancellor, and the statements pertaining to the Chancellor, Prof Bonang Mohale, and Chairperson of the Council, Dr Willem Louw. The Council notes that Mr Katleho Lechoo, President of the ISRC subsequently retracted the utterances.
3. The Council strongly affirms its confidence in the relationship between the leadership of the UFS and the ISRC and expresses its appreciation for the University leadership’s commitment to continuously engage with students about matters of concern to them. The Council furthermore encourages positive and constructive engagement by the ISRC with the University leadership, as this contributes to shared-understanding of the challenges faced by the South African higher education sector and the governance of the UFS.
Higher Education South Africa (HESA) met at the UFS
2006-05-25
Higher Education South Africa (HESA) met today at the University of the Free State (UFS) for its quarterly meeting. Twenty two vice-chancellors from universities across South Africa met in the Main Building of the UFS. The meeting, which normally takes place in Johannesburg, was moved to Bloemfontein to give the vice-chancellors the opportunities to attend the first Moshoeshoe Memorial Lecture that will be presented on the UFS campus tonight.
At the meeting were from the left: Dr Theuns Eloff (Vice-Chancellor North-West University and Deputy Chairperson of HESA), Dr Rolf Stumpf (Vice-Chancellor of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Prof Njabulo Ndebele (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town), Prof Barney Pityana (Vice-Chancellor of UNISA and Chairperson of HESA) and Prof Frederick Fourie (Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the UFS).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs