The Banyana Banyana coach has enabled the national team to excel.
is not easily intimidated. As a girl growing up in Salt River, a working-class suburb of Cape Town, she didn’t stand back when playing football against the neighbourhood boys. Football has always been a major part of her life. She played for the Cape Town Spurs women’s team when women footballers were just starting to be acknowledged, and then grudgingly by some.
Dismay would probably be an understatement. The university, founded in 1873, was this week placed under administration by the chronically hapless minister of higher education, Blade Nzimande. Among numerous allegations against her is that LenkaBula used millions to refurbish the vice-chancellor’s official residence, which she is yet to move into. It’s lamentable, all the more so given Mandela’s view of the institution in 1994:
“As in the past, and more so now, Unisa has the responsibility of providing society with leaders of quality in all areas of life.”
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