Your article, Steve Bluen throws in the towel as head of the Wits Business School (March 6 2017), refers. I wish to correct some of the "facts" published in the article. The article leads one to assume there has been an exodus of senior leaders from Wits University. This is not true. Wits University has one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the country, especially among universities. Mr Bluen was one of 33 heads of schools at Wits — 32 others remain in place, at various stages of their five-year contracts, which may be renewed. There are huge gaps in the article as it gives no reflection of the senior staff employed at Wits in the last four years. We have to question why these senior appointments were omitted. For example, there was no mention of the appointment of the new head of transformation, who replaced Ms Mahomed, or the new dean of the faculty of health sciences, who replaced Prof Wadee — who are still firmly grounded in their positions, years later. Prof Setati was the ...
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