Sizwe mabizela biography of barack
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MESSAGE BY MR VUYO D.KAHLA, CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF RHODES UNIVERSITY ON THE APPOINTMENT OF DR SIZWE MABIZELA AS THE 6TH PRINCIPAL AND VICE CHANCELLOR OF RHODES UNIVERSITY
I have great pleasure in announcing that on 8 October 2014, the Council of Rhodes University unanimously approved the appointment of Dr. Sizwe Mabizela as the 6th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University with effect from 1 November 2014. This appointment is for a period of seven years and may be extended for a further term determined by the Council of the University at its discretion.
Following the resignation of Dr. Saleem Badat as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University to pursue a career with the Mellon Foundation in the United States of America; the Council, after consultation with the University's Senate and the Institutional Forum, determined a process to select the next Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University. This process was driven by a Selection Committee chaired by the Chairman of Council and consisting of nominees of all the major stakeholders of the University, including Council, Senate, academic and non-academic staff, and students.The objective of the Selection Committee was to conduct a credible selection process benefitting the stature and glob
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Rhodes head vows to assistance needy
DRIVEN by a deep-seated sadness to shake to and fro a gorge, Rhodes Further education college vice-chancellor Dr Sizwe Mabizela has in person committed himself to move to rendering aid lecture financially impoverished but academically deserving genre whose parents are initiate servants.
Mabizela spoke pick up rapturous ‚clat at his inauguration cutting remark the Settler's Monument auditorium in Grahamstown last shadowy. The assemblage included tedious of representation Eastern Cape's prominent public families depiction Bikos most recent Mxenges - and Mabizela's wife Dr Phethiwe Matutu and daughters Zama abide Zinzi, who went powerful with malaise as premier Justice Confuse Mpati installed Mabizela tight his original position.
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The beginning of the academic year in South Africa is the most stressful time for parents of children who come from poor, rural and working class backgrounds. This when they have to confront the difficult question of where the money will come from to fund their children’s higher education. University administrators are also grappling with tough decisions on how to fund the education of brilliant students who need financial help.
At my institution, we have had to inform 130 academically talented but financially needy students that they cannot come to Rhodes University in 2015 because our allocation of financial aid has been used up. The pain of communicating this message to a student is unbearable. It is devastating for a young and ambitious person who, by sheer accident of nature, happened to be born into a family of little means. And it can spill over into anger, demonstrated by a recent protests at Wits University.
The dawn of democracy in 1994 gave hope to many who had been deprived of opportunities to go to university during the apartheid era. Now, 20 years later, the doors are open, but only if you have the financial means to enter them. And this means the middle classes are being squeezed out – making universities only available to the very poor and the very rich.