I am penning this open letter to you to finally find closure and to heal the emotional wounds you have afflicted on me. I received the good news of your resignation while I was in Hartbeespoort, South Africa. Good riddance!! Good riddance!! I shouted at the top of my voice to the surprise of my colleagues. I then informed them that you have finally done the honorable thing by resigning as the Vice Chancellor of the UB. Please pardon my manners for writing this open letter whilst you are still licking your wounds. Yours has been a brutal fall, but I could not contain my excitement to celebrate your downfall. After all, you have finally realised that you are a mere mortal like the rest of us. The only difference is our CVs. While you possess the highest qualification known to men, I am just a nobody in the academic circles. You managed UB as a personal fiefdom and you brutalised anyone who attempted to remind you that the University is public property. Just like the gods condemned Sisyphus, I long condemned your leadership style. As expected, your leadership suffered a Sisyphean failure.
I vividly remember in 2012 when I together with Richard Khumoekae led a student demonstration at the UB. We were protesting for the reinstatement of supplementary examinations and the improvement of learning conditions of Medicine students who were being taught in an abandoned factory near the Bus rank. By any measure, these were legitimate issues. Instead of calling for dialogue with us as the Student leaders, you pounced on us. Your administration suspended us for six months from the University without being afforded a hearing. Your ill-thought decision angered the student community to rise against your maladministration. In the end University property was damaged and classes were suspended. You must take responsibility for that strike and the resultant damage which occurred. You must take personal responsibility for that rapacious and nefarious decision to suspend the SRC. I remember how Richard Khumoekae and I were victimised and isolated by your management after the strike. We were the only student leaders who were arrested and detained for a good two days without any charge.
