Installation of Dr Prins Nevhutalu as Vice-Chancellor
THINKERS: CPUT’s Chancellor, Dr Trevor Manuel, and new Vice-Chancellor, Dr Prins Nevhutalu, at the installation.
Monday, 24 February 2014
Dr Prins Nevhutalu was installed as the new CPUT Vice-Chancellor on Saturday at a ceremony on the Bellville Campus.
Hundreds of guests, including members of the CPUT community, government, industry, the diplomatic corp and the higher education sector attended the event.
Prominent dignitaries including Vice-Chancellors from several South African and African universities, as well as Mduduzi Manana, Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, attended the event.
DIGNITARIES: Mduduzi Manana, Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, with CPUT Council Chairperson Mbulelo Bikwani as they make their way to the stage for the installation. Nevhutalu follows in the background.
Delivering his inaugural address, Nevhutalu thanked the CPUT Council for providing him with the honour to lead the university and expressed his gratitude for working with Council Chairperson Mbulelo Bikwani.
“Without any doubt, I have inherited a stable institution that is not only good but on the rise. But what I accept today, is not just your trust to keep this a good institution, but an obligation to galvanise our effort to transform this institution into a great university,” he says.
“Our purpose, in short, is to create a great CPUT that will create futures for our students.”
HIGHLIGHT: CPUT’s Registrar, Nikile Ntsababa, Dr Nevhutalu, and Dr Manuel moments before Nevhutalu’s robing.
Manana joined other VCs and leaders in the CPUT community in congratulating Nevhutalu on his appointment and says his department is confident that the CPUT Council could not have found a more suitable candidate than Nevhutalu to fill the vacancy.
The installation was presided over by the Chancellor of the University, Dr Trevor Manuel.
Written by Kwanele Butana
Email: butanak@cput.ac.za
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