This is a report to Professor Jonathan Jansen, the Administrator appointed by the Minister of Education after an investigation by an Independent Assessor at Mangosutho University of Technology (MUT).

The report describes the deliberate dismantling of institutional structures and procedures which then has a curious ‘double’ effect, namely simultaneous centralisation and decentralisation. It allows for the inordinate centralisation of power and corruption in a few people, or even a single person, but it also allows for ‘individualisation’, where numerous individuals (administrators and academics) in silent complicity benefit from, or take advantage of, the disintegrating system.

This, amongst other things, points to often oversimplified relationship between universities and their communities: that MUT is hardly an insulated ivory tower; rather it is more like a giant octopus with numerous tentacles that ties it tightly, albeit corruptly, into the finances and politics of the surrounding community, but alas, not academically. This gives a completely different perspective to notions of community service and development.

Click here to read the full report.

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