UB Vice Chancellor search on-going
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | Friday April 21, 2017 17:14
Madigele confirmed that the recruitment has started. Professor Kgomotso Moahi was appointed as the acting VC on February 22, 2017after Professor Thabo Fako resigned earlier this year.
“The Council is meeting today (Friday). They should be able to finalise for the advert to float. The whole process might take four to six months. It’s an open recruitment.
We will be looking for someone who can drive the transformation of the University to be able to compete locally and globally,” Madigele said yesterday in an interview.
He said he was not at liberty to give the exact timing because the process is under the ambit of the Council. He continued: “But I have strongly advised that it should be expedited” before adding that “there’s no risk to the quality of standard as the acting VC has the support of all the necessary structures including the ministry where I am constantly in contact with her.
There is the Senate, the University Council, the Chancellor Sir Ketumile Masire and my office”.
Meanwhile on the issue of disciplinary hearings which the UB wants to take against students who participated in strike, the minister said the process of disciplinary hearings is still ongoing. “The process will end on April 27 and we will get the full report then.”
Recently, UB student leaders demanded that all employees who had a hand in the last demonstration that led to the closure of the institution be brought to book.
The call was made just after five members of the University of Botswana’s Student Representative Council (SRC) and 19 other students were summoned for disciplinary hearings that were initially scheduled to start on March 22.
Fifty other members of the student community were on the wanted list.
The five student leaders are, Dikosha Dikosha (SRC vice-president), Mpho Molokwane (minister of student affairs), Ratang Olatotswe (minister of entertainment), Nollen Bome (treasurer) and Edwin Ramere (secretary general). Dikosha recently told Mmegi that many learners have also been served with letters for disciplinary hearings, an exercise he labelled “frivolous and a mockery”.
The charges range from two to 22 per individual.
However, the common ones are that of inciting violence contrary to the University’s governing statutes, theft and vandalism. He said the charges are a compilation of lies as they lack facts and evidence to sustain them.