Greetings comrades, Thank you cde Musa for re-igniting this debate. I do not want to dwell much on the political shenanigans bottling the Western Cape in totality, let alone historically white institutions. Those who had a priviledge of being part of SASCO in the Cape will remember that the then principals of Cape Tech and Peninsula Tech have been stumbling blocks in adopting the framework for the implementation of the institutional forum as envisaged in the national policy on higher education. One of the challenges of deepening higher education transformation in general has been the appointment of leadership (VC's) - agents of change with clear mandates to entrech effective admission policies biased towards redressing past inequalities to ensure equal access without resorting to exclusion on financial grounds which majority of affected students are black. The stumbling occurs when you have elements such as Pityane being at the helm and part of the bloc aimed at frustrating every effort to realise NDR objectives, simply because they hate the new phase of the NDR, Polokwane resolutions and outcome of the presidential race. While at the same time having the chancellor and chairperson of the council who are sympathetic to the cause of the working class. In such instance, there will be instability and leadership tensions to the level which the student body would be forced by circumstances to take side with the progressive forces, as envisaged in the institutional forum. As such mass action, police intervention, disruption of classes and calling of the resignation of the principal will the order of the day. Then the institution will be in crisis, contributing towards high failure rate and reducing intake of new students in the following year. These are major challenges that need us to revisit the National Education Act, so that the manner of appointment of the VC is clearly spelt out that he/she as the principal and accounting officer as well as the chairperson of the Senate shall not hold any political office or membership of any political party. In this way, we will be able to eliminate destructive and counter-revolutionary elements within our institutions. I trust you will find this in order. Amandla Morgan Phaahla, Ekurhuleni
--- On Mon, 2/2/09, Musa Nikani <[email protected]> wrote: From: Musa Nikani <[email protected]> Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Deepening Higher Education Transformation: Are To: [email protected] Date: Monday, February 2, 2009, 10:23 AM Dear Cde's, I have been listening and observing very close the utterances and the behaviours potrayed by many of our Higher Education Institution Vice-Chancellors on the South African democratic transition pre/post -polokwane, this was involuntary due to the fact of them being the heads of such institutions vital to the developmental society. As we approach a period where some Vice-Chancellors contracts are close to an end, mine will be; in all these developments of splinters and so on we must be alert as to ensure that we do not reverse the gains by employing the wrong tools to do the job. Let us therefore start to debate: Deepening Higher Education Transformation: Are we in unity torwards 2012? How do we ensure that the process of the Vice Chancellors selection become more democratic? Comrade ANC President Jacob Zuma was denied a platform by the VC and SRC President of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology to address the students; Mr JJ Tabane was the one preffered but they ended up not bringing none of the two; now Mr Tabane is the Guest speaker of the Function organised by the institution. UNISA VC is the Head of the Deployment committee of COPE, and many many tendencies around the country. Kindly not; M. Nikani --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
