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Guilty Wits students get merely slap on a wrist
Professor Adam Habib, vice-chancellor of Wits, in a newspaper article and in a radio interview, made many valid points especially when related to the quality of leadership in South Africa. How ironic, however, coming from a man who could seemingly not enforce a ruling he made last year. This was in respect of Mohammed Desai of BDS-SA, members of the Wits Student Representative Council and Muslim students who forcibly disrupted a musical recital by an Israeli pianist at Wits, threw an elderly lady to the floor and who caused destruction of university property.
JACK MILLER
After almost a year of investigation and disciplinary meetings the miscreants were sentenced to community service “of a nature to be determined”. The students involved treated his ruling with contempt and virtually laughed in his face. I doubt that any of them did even a minute of community service
Did he employ his leadership qualities in allowing these students to totally disregard him without recourse as far as I am currently aware?
This is a magnificent exhibition of leadership.
Jack Miller
Gresswold, Johannesburg
nat cheiman
January 21, 2015 at 5:19 pm
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