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HETN labels Habib, Wits (Jewish) ‘puppets’
ANT KATZ
“It would be unfortunate if Wits University management now has adopted ‘Gestapo-type’ management tactics of summarily expelling students and staff merely because they hold dissenting views and opinions in this age in our constitutional democracy,” said HETN Chairman Lucky Thekisho in a media release slamming Wits.
RIGHT: After being advised of his impending ouster by Wits’ VC, SRC President Mcebo Dlamini, posted on Facebook “I Love Hitler” and has now built a following of over 5 000 as he travels to campuses to justify his statements
HETN also encourages “those who want to lend a hand of support to make contributions to the ‘Defend Mcebo Dlamini Fund’ for legal costs to mount a strong legal challenge against Wits University in a court of law,” they said. “Those attorneys and advocates who can avail their services pro bono,” said HETN, were also welcome. “Their services will be appreciated.”
The complete HETN statement reads…
The Higher Education Transformation Network (HETN) hereby condemns the management of the University of the Witwatersrand, particularly the vice-chancellor, Prof Adam Habib for the erroneous and disproportionately harsh decision to expel student leader, Mr Mcebo Dlamini through succumbing to the demands of the Jewish funders and alumni interests at the university.
In capitulating to the interests of Jewish funders and alumni at the institution, Prof Habib has in our opinion, rendered himself a puppet who had to sacrifice the academic future of student Mr Mcebo Dlamini on the altar of political correctness.
LEFT: Wits VC Prof Adam Habib
It would be unfortunate if Wits University management now has adopted ‘Gestapo-type’ management tactics of summarily expelling students and staff merely because they hold dissenting views and opinions in this age in our constitutional democracy.
We are not merely coming to the defence of Mr Dlamini as a disadvantaged student only but wish to reiterate the principles of fairness and consistency as the white student who urinated on a black man’s face at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to date remains scot-free.
In the same breath, the two ‘blackface students’ of the University of Pretoria and the two white students who attacked black students at Stellenbosch University are as free as birds. In all cases there has been no summary expulsion irrespective of the revolting racist conduct displayed by the students. The Network hereby calls on university managers to remain consistent in dealing with acts of wrongdoing by students irrespective of race colour or creed the students.
As the Network, we will continue to protect and defend the helpless and vulnerable in society and have accordingly resolved to lead a campaign to reinstate President Dlamini as the Wits SRC President because he has been elected by the majority of students at that institution and was not appointed by Prof Adam Habib. We encourage those who want to lend a hand of support to make contributions to the “Defend Mcebo Dlamini Fund” for legal costs to mount a strong legal challenge against Wits University in a court of law. Those attorneys and advocates who can avail their services pro bono are welcome, their services will be appreciated.
We urge all student leaders across institutions of higher learning and student political formations to unite to fight entrenched racism in the higher education sector.
The Higher Education Transformation Network
According to their website, “The Higher Education Transformation Network (HETN) is an independent network of alumni and graduates from various higher education and further educational institutions across South Africa committed to the process of transformation of education and training to increase equitable and meaningful access to education, skills and learning to eliminate of socio-economic disparities.”
At the end of their media release, entitled “HETN condemns expulsion of Wits SRC President Mcebo Dlamini” HETN gives bank and contact details for anyone who wants to assist the “Defend Mcebo Dlamini Fund.”
The media release was signed by Lucky Thekisho (chair of the HETN board) and Hendrick Makaneta, (director alumni support and media relations).
Who is Lucky Lempiditse Thekisho
According to the HETN website, chairman Lucky Lempiditse Thekisho is an admitted attorney with over ten years of working experience across various sectors gained in various capacities across government and other sectors of the SA economy.
He has a LLM (Pretoria); LLB (Pretoria); and a BLC (Pretoria) He is He has completed his Bachelor in Civil Law (BLC), Bachelor in Law (LLB) and Master in Law (LLM) degrees at the University of Pretoria as well as university certificates in Advance Labour Law, Legislative Drafting, Human Resource Management, Environmental Law and Compliance as well as Project Management.
RIGHT: Lucky Thekisho
He was a student leader of the South African Students Congress (Sasco), Trade Unionist (Popcru) and also served as an SRC executive leader at the University of Pretoria (Tuks) from 1997-1999. He is a former trustee and board member of the Northern Cape Premier Education Trust Fund (NCPETF).
Thekisho is currently Deputy Commissioner: Legal Services at the Department of Correctional Services.
abu mamzer
May 26, 2015 at 1:45 am
‘since he has been sacrificed,was it a peace offering or a burnt offering…..either way Wits is purified by his political cremation.
I am collecting money for an urn to be erected in his memory.’
nat cheiman
May 26, 2015 at 6:17 pm
‘Dlamini is on the road travelling from varsity to varsity. Forget about lectures and studying. This is the caliber of education today, which will eventually allow half wits to practice whatever profession they qualified for.
Wits used to be a top academic institution.
Habib does not have the intellectual charisma nor physical presence to deal with people like Dlamini.
Past VC’s have always had presence and the varsity ran like clockwork.
The defence of Dlamini matters not either.
Win or lose, he has labelled himself and any company employing this moron will probably also be labelled as a polecat.
Dlamini has a maturity of a 14 year old and should never have been admitted to a tertiary institution.
In fact, he shouldn’t even be allowed to collect garbage. He is basically a rectum with a mouth. ‘
Jonni
May 28, 2015 at 6:48 am
‘What a bunch of morons with an inability to think,debate and discuss.
They trot out meaningless, mindless cliches with a strong dose of Anti Semitism thrown in for good measure.
‘
Harold
May 28, 2015 at 6:50 am
‘The respone by HETN is mindless drivel.
Yes indeed erect a statue to all these great thinkers with an epithet \”Here lies The Uninformed and Uneducated \”‘