New allegations surface in leaked university council correspondence:
In an 11 September letter to fellow council members, Shuaib Manjra records all the attempts that had been made to prompt Ngonyama to hold a special council meeting. A first request was made on 25 May, and numerous others followed a special council meeting on 20 June that was adjourned by Ngonyama.Currently, both Ngonyama and Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng face allegations of misconduct surrounding Lange’s resignation.
According to the appendix to Manjra’s letter, after an “inexplicable” delay in response to the 25 May request for a special council meeting, a special council meeting was finally held on 20 June. This meeting was described as unprocedural and as “aided and abetted by the most prejudicial and incompetent chairing”. The meeting was ultimately adjourned by Ngonyama, as she claimed that there was a lack of information on the agenda items.
But this essential documentation was sent “weeks prior”, according to Manjra’s letter. He called Ngonyama’s attempts to block the special meeting from happening as “prejudicial” and questioned the chair’s “obstinate reluctance to proceed with this meeting”.
The letter also noted that the “fissures and fractures which currently characterise council should never compromise good governance and undermine democratic, consultative, cooperative, and deliberative decision-making, in the pursuit of a blinkered agenda”. Additionally, it read that UCT’s council is not “a personal club that expects displays of deferential servility; embraces only loyalists; while shunning, censoring, and silencing critical voices”.
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