Die voorsitter van die Universiteit Stellenbosch se raad, dr. Nicky Newton-King, s\u00ea die US-raad het vertroue in die rektor en visekanselier, prof. Wim de Villiers, en sy span en dat die bejammerenswaardige episode nie herhaal sal word nie. Sy herbeklemtoon die raad se verbintenis tot die reuse-taak om die US as \u2019n meertalige, navorsingsintensiewe universiteit van w\u00eareldgehalte in Afrika te posisioneer wat in diens van die samelewing staan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit volg n\u00e1 die raad se sitting die afgelope Saterdag (1 Julie) oor die verslag van die Lewis-komitee, wat deur die raad aangestel is om bewerings van nepotisme teen De Villiers te ondersoek nadat familielede van sy vrou akademiese plasings gekry het, asook die mosie wat voor die raad gedien het om die rektor ingevolge artikel 42(3) van die US Statuut van sy amp te onthef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Afdeling 42(3) van die US Statuut mag die raad die rektor van die amp onthef met \u2019n tweederde\u00admeerderheidstem van al die raadslede op grond van \u2019n ernstige oortreding van die reg, ernstige wangedrag, ongeskiktheid of versuim om aan operasionele vereistes te voldoen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Lewis-komitee het egter bevind dat daar geen ernstige wangedrag was deur die rektor (ingevolge artikel 42(3) van die US Statuut) wat tot die opheffing van sy amp kan lei nie. Hy het nie \u2019n re\u00ebl of beleid van die universiteit oortree of oneerlik opgetree deur die rektor se diskresion\u00eare plasings (RDP\u2019s) nie en gevolglik is daar nie \u2019n onherstelbare vertrouensbreuk tussen die US en die rektor wat sy voortgesette indiensneming belemmer nie. Volgens die komitee se bevindings is die US se beleide oor onderskeidelik nepotisme en botsende belange nie van toepassing op RDP\u2019s nie. Die RDP-riglyne bied \u2019n wye diskresie aan die rektor oor plasings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wat bewerings van oneerlikheid betref, s\u00ea die komitee: \u201cDie rektor het sy verbintenis met die twee kandidate aan \u2019n senior kollega verklaar voordat plekke aan hulle toegeken is. Die advies aan hom was dat hy op grond van die diskresie wat aan hom verleen is, wel die plasings kon maak. Daar is geen bewys \u2013 ook nie wanneer die situasies teenoor mekaar opgeweeg word \u2013 dat die rektor oneerlik opgetree het met die bedoeling om misleidend te wees of \u2019n posisie verkeerdelik weer te gee nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie feit dat die rektor nie kon voorsien dat enige diskresion\u00eare plasing van \u2019n familielid kon of sou lyk soos gunsbetoon nie, is bejammerenswaardig en dui op \u2019n gebrek aan etiese insig,\u201d lui die verslag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
De Villiers het teenoor die raad die erns van die uitwerking van sy besluit om twee familielede van sy vrou deur diskresion\u00eare plasings te plaas, erken en verskoning gevra vir die impak wat hierdie situasie op die vertroue gehad het wat kollegas in hom as \u2019n leier gestel het, die spanning wat dit vir die betrokke persone veroorsaak het, en die feit dat die kwessie die reputasie van die US skade berokken het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het aangedui dat \u2019n proses reeds begin het om die riglyne oor diskresion\u00eare plasings te hersien en hom bereidwillig verklaar om onverpoos aan die herstelproses te werk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs \u2019n universiteitsgemeenskap verwelkom ons die geleentheid vir noukeurige ondersoek en besinning. Die raad het baie tyd spandeer en moeite gedoen om die bewerings deur \u2019n deeglike en onafhanklike proses te ondersoek, en het die uitkoms van die ondersoek deeglik bespreek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie raad het die rektor se onvoorwaardelike verskoning oor sy oordeelsfout en die uitwerking daarvan op die instelling en al die betrokke partye aanvaar en waardeer. Die rektor \u00e9n die universiteit het waardevolle lesse in die proses geleer,\u201d het Newton-King bygevoeg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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