The assessors’ report acknowledges that there has been a 'blanket of shame' that has enveloped the university for many years
The independent assessor’s report into the affairs of Vaal University of Technology has roasted former vice-chancellor Professor Gordon Zide for failing to offer direction and take responsibility.“He complains about everybody and everything. It is either that executive colleagues do not perform or do the tasks entrusted to them, or [the] council does not support the VC. He rarely, if ever, takes responsibility, or provides solutions or gives strategic direction,” reads the report.
But problems at VUT are not new. In 2012, under former vice-chancellor, Professor Irene Moutlana, VUT was put under administration. And again it was because of issues related to maladministration and a dysfunctional council. Moutlana was also found guilty of misconduct. Pityana and Ralebipi-Simela write in the report that having gone through Zide’s inaugural address and report of the first quarter of 2019 in an effort to gauge his thinking, they picked up that he “did not have a positive view of the university very early in his tenure and he also did not offer a clear, compelling and positive vision for the university”.
The assessors’ report, however, found that Zide was a “lonesome” vice-chancellor who failed to persuade and influence change and direction at the institution.
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