Holding fast: The vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng says she has no intention of resigning.
Getting rid of the embattled University of Cape Town vice-chancellor, Mamokgethi Phakeng, who was given a new five-year contract six months ago, could cost the university R27-million in severance pay.
Phakeng returned to Cape Town this week, cutting short her sabbatical in Britain and Europe, amid a growing crisis of governance, racism allegations and mounting opposition to her leadership at a divided UCT campus.
The mathematics professor has walked into a cauldron, with tension brewing openly as her opponents threaten legal action and questions float about what it would cost to depose her.
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