Former Wits vice-chancellor Professor Adam Habib has come under fire for blurting out the N-word during a meeting with students at the University of London.
25 June 2020 - Wits University
Professor Zeblon Vilakazi appointed as the Wits Vice-Chancellor and Principal from 1 January 2021
The Council of the University of the Witwatersrand today announced the appointment of Professor Zeblon Vilakazi as the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University from 1 January 2021. He takes the reins from Professor Adam Habib who leaves Wits at the end of the year to lead the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Professor Vilakazi is the current Vice-Principal and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Postgraduate Studies at Wits. Under his leadership, Wits’ research output has more than doubled, with the University increasingly producing more research with impact. He is widely published (325 papers) and highly cited with an h-index of 70.
15 December 2020 - Wits University
Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Adam Habib, will leave Wits University at the end of December 2020.
“It has been an honour and a pleasure to serve at the helm of this great institution for the past eight years. I have great faith in the collective Wits community – during difficult times you have always made the right decision and empowered me to act in the best interests of Wits University. I thank you for your support and your trust,” says Habib.
Tributes have been pouring in for Habib from academics, employees, students, staff, alumni, donors, ministers and fellow vice-chancellors from within and beyond South Africa’s borders, some of which are reflected hereunder.
Sunday 13 December 2020 - 4:20pm
Professor Adam Habib (R) speaks during a press conference on the ongoing University student protests against increased fees at the University campus on October 07, 2016 in Johannesburg.
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Habib says the ANC needs to be very clear on their stance. The ANC has to make itself very clear on this and some of them have said to me that they have. Here is what they should be doing, they should be saying we want you to step aside, not step down, step aside but if you don t, we suspend you, he said. And it seems to me some have said that but too many aren t, too many are playing around with rhetorical gestures and revolutionary morality. I think it needs to be very clear.
Image: SABC NewsProfessor Belinda Bozzoli passed on last Saturday.
Outgoing Wits University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adam Habib has described the passing of Professor Belinda Bozzoli as a tragic loss for higher education in the country. He was speaking at a memorial service for Bozzoli at the university in Johannesburg.
Habib says at the height of the Fees Must Fall protests, he sought Bozzoli’s counsel. Bozzoli, who had been on Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, passed away last Saturday at the age of 75 after a battle with cancer.
She completed her BA and Honours degrees at Wits University and her Masters and PhD at the University of Sussex and Yale University. In 2006, Bozzoli was awarded an A-rating by the National Research Foundation