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Dear Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor

Dr CW Kronenberg has sent you the following message via People's Assembly (https://www.pa.org.za/)



THE EXECUTIVE OFFICES OF THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF THE
SOUTH AFRICAN DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION & TRAINING
SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT
CAPE TOWN
8000
12 JUNE 2018

HONOURABLE MINISTER Dr. NALEDI PANDOR
CPUT MATTERS: SUBMISSION TO THE PARLIAMENTARY PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE
ON HIGHER EDUCATION
Kindly accept our congratulations on your appointment as Minister
of the South African Department of Higher Education & Training. As
hardworking and devoted scholars in the educational field we not
only wish you well your endeavours but also pledge our full
support to enhancing and growing our higher education field.
The latter, unfortunately, and despite its many fine achievements
over the last twenty years or so, is and remains consumed by an
array of problems, setbacks, complaints, and often, human abuses,
that fairly often, could and should have been avoided.
I, personally, am celebrating twenty years since my formal entry
into the post-graduate higher education research field, and rather
than bring you only the good and inspiring news relating thereto,
I feel obliged to inform you of my recent, formal submission to
the South African Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Higher
Education.

The Submission can be sent, and offers some insight into
institutional malpractices and human abuses that, in some form or
another, have come to distinguish both student and staff life at
the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The Submission
consists of Three Parts, and delves into
(a) a range of student and staff matters, concerns and
complaints, and institutional responses thereto. Preliminary
findings show that the end result, as in the case of CPUT, looks
extremely bleak (which is also the statistical finding as
generated by the Institution’s 2014 Culture Climate Survey. The
Survey statistics overall predicts an impeding institutional
meltdown, as reflected in exceedingly high entrophy levels. A n
electronic copy of this statistical study can be made available,
upon request.
(b) This part (II) presents the case of Mr Lance Hufkie, ex-
student in CPUT’s Education Faculty. Kindly note that, in essence,
Mr Hufkie received a duly authorised CPUT letter
confirming/stipulating that he had met the requirements for the
B.Ed. (FET) degree. Despite this, and after going from pillar to
post. Mr Hufkie could thus far not graduate, which has brought not
only frustration but a deep sense of sadness to the extended
family. An appeal is hereby respectfully lodged with the
Honourable Minister to kindly assist in resolving this needlessly
outstanding matter.
(c) Part III offers some indication of the shameful abuses I,
personally, have had to endure, for far too long. Kindly see my
detailed explanation of the dire consequences abusive executive
decision has wrought upon a dedicated and hardworking NRF-
accredited scholar’s life and career. In this regard, the
Submission (attached), warrants the attention also of the National
Research Foundation. The NRF plays an absolute key role in our
country’s scholarly development. An abuse of one of its devoted,
accredited scientists, translates into an abuse and wastage of
resources, efforts, accomplishments and even successes. In moral
terms and as well as in terms of our hard-won human rights and
constitutional principles, this is a vile affront on the human
dignity of hardworking, dedicated university staff.
The assistance and support of the Honourable Minister in the work
already underway by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee and the
Yekiso Commission of Enquiry are hereby similarly and respectfully
sought.
Last, the attention of the Honourable Minister in my particular
matter, is hereby respectfully also called upon (See Pat III of
the attached Submission)

Thank you for your time and I trust the urgency of the matters
raised here are both clearly articulated (for further details or
clarification, please do not hesitate to make contact) and
deserving of executive attention.

Respectfully,
Dr Clive W. Kronenberg
Senior Researcher & NRF-accredited Scholar
Lansdowne, Cape Town


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