SIU called in to probe VUT vice-chancellor and deputies over widespread graft

Zide and his deputy vice-chancellors face a possible investigation after Professor Barney Pityana, in a report published in the government gazette by Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Blade Nzimande today, recommended the ailing university be put under administration.

The report said the probe should focus on their involvement in supply chain management, infrastructure and logistics, students services, security and campus protection.Nzimande should reassess the future of Zide’s employment as his contract runs until 2022; Pityana and Ralebipi-Simela were appointed by Nzimande’s predecessor Dr Naledi Pandor in May last year to investigate the source and nature of problems facing the institution, including those related to governance, management, financial management and procurement practices, human resource and administration matters.

“Instead, rather, a utilitarian blanket has enveloped the university for many years now. It has been a blanket of shame that the university does not deserve.” He said challenges at the VUT have been going on over a long time and past interventions were either “superficial or that the scale of the problem has been far too stubborn for the measures previously undertaken”.

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