Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib has been appointed for another term amid widespread student grumbling about his leadership. Habib has served as vice-chancellor since 2013 and his new term will begin in 2018 until 2023. The Student Representative Council (SRC) of the university has rejected his reappointment and criticised the re-election process. SRC president Kefentse Mkhari said although there had been consultations with various stakeholders in the university, the Council had reduced discussions to a vote among themselves, and that vote was "all that seemed to matter". Mkhari said students had made the submission that Habib’s leadership was "divisive and cunning", making him unfit for leadership. "Council undermined all constituencies of the university and voted him in still," said Mkhari. The SRC president said it was problematic that the university tended to pay more attention to the senate, which is considered the most untransformed structure in the institution. "We are speakin...
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