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BusinessLive reports that the Pretoria High Court has ordered Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande to immediately retract a government gazette notice that announced the appointment of an administrator for the University of SA (Unisa).
Acting Judge Andre le Grange ruled on Wednesday that Nzimande’s notice was in breach of an order granted by Judge Leicester Adams on 24 August ordering the minister not to act on the recommendations contained in the report of independent assessor Prof Themba Mosia until two separate applications challenging the report were finalised. Another judge of the same high court, Harshila Kooverjie, ordered Nzimande on 6 October to withdraw his notice of intention to place the university under administration. On Friday, Nzimande appointed the former vice-chancellor of the University of Johannesburg, Prof Ihron Rensburg, to act as administrator for two years after dissolving Unisa’s council. Le Grange said the court “cannot find otherwise than that the act of appointing the administrator was and is in direct conflict and breach of the order of Judge Adams and unlawful”. Le Grange noted it had been strongly suggested by the Unisa council that the court should grant an order calling on Nzimande to show cause why he should not be held in contempt of court. “The court is therefore willing to grant the parties leave to approach the deputy judge president for a date to properly deal with the issue of contempt,” he indicated.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Prega Govender at BusinessLive
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