Vice-chancellor Sakhela Buhlungu was appointed for a second term last year and has been on a mission to root out corruption at the scandal-plagued university.
JOHANNESBURG - Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande said that he was confident that police would arrest those behind a suspected assassination attempt on the University of Fort Hare vice-chancellor, Sakhela Buhlungu.
Nzimande visited the institution on Wednesday, along with Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele after Buhlungu’s bodyguard Mboneli Vesele was shot dead on Friday night.READ MORE:• Professor Sakhela Buhlungu is not going anywhere - Fort Hare ChancellorThe 52-year-old died at the scene. Buhlungu was not in the car at the time of the shooting.The vice-chancellor was appointed for a second term last year and has been on a mission to root out corruption at the scandal-plagued university.
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