The protracted labour court battle between CPUT and its former executive director, Octavia Mkhabela, has revealed how the institution’s top echelons disagreed about the security strategy to quell the FeesMustFall unrest in 2016.
The explosive details are contained in a judgment handed down by the labour appeal court on Monday. CPUT appealed against an earlier decision of the labour court which awarded Mkhabela “an amount equivalent to 13 months of her salary”.
She traced the impasse to a 2016 meeting held at the Sanlam Centre where management discussed how to contain “considerable unrest on the campus” linked to #FeesMustFall when she objected to Fourie’s strategy. “According to [Mkhabela], her comments enraged Fourie who ‘came to me like a raging bull pointing at me and gesticulating and the acting vice-chancellor [Prof John Volmink] sat there and did nothing. This harassing trend on the part of Prof Fourie continued unabated and he continued to behave as the anointed chief barking instructions and interfering with the HC portfolio that has nothing to do with him.
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