Fort Hare crisis exposes deeper flaw in university governance model
If similar governance crises continue to emerge across South Africa’s public universities, perhaps the time has come to ask a more fundamental question: is the real challenge no longer individual institutions, but the governance model itself?
Over the past decade, several public universities have experienced prolonged governance disputes involving councils, vice-chancellors, organised labour, students and, at times, intervention by the minister of higher education.
Precisely because of that history, the institution deserves governance that inspires public confidence and protects its academic mission.
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