UB maneuvers to fire Fako

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The University of Botswana (UB) Council is under pressure to fire Vice Chancellor Professor Thabo Fako, Mmegi has learnt.

The Council allegedly has been instructed to calculate a strategy to show Fako the door, as higher education authorities have expressed no confidence in the direction of the University under his helm. 

Subsequently, there is a fallout between Fako and the Minister of Tertiary Education, Research, Science and Technology, Dr Alfred Madigele; who is gravely worried at the way things are going, sources have alleged.

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