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The appointment is made following a two-part interview process held on 29 January.
Staff, students and community members were afforded an opportunity to engage with the candidates as they delivered a 20-minute presentation live from the Buffalo City Campus’s Potsdam Site and streamed to all the other campuses during the latest interviews.
A 20-minute question-answer session then ensued before the candidates were put through their paces during the last round of formal interviews with the Vice Chancellor selection panel, headed by Council chairperson 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Nambitha Dambuza.
This latest round of interviews was preceded by an unsuccessful recruitment process that saw four candidates vying for the position in 2015.
Prof Midgley is a Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Professor Emeritus, an advocate of the High Court of South Africa; and a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.
He obtained a B Com LLB at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 and a PhD from the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Cape Town. He’s an author of over 100 academic publications, including three books: (a) Lawyers’ Professional Liability (1992); (b) Principles of Delict (2nd ed, 1997; 3rd ed, 2005), co-authored with J C van der Walt; also published as the Delict section in The Law of South Africa (First Reissue, Vol 8 part 1, 1996; 2nd ed 2005); (c) The Law of Delict in South Africa (2010, 2nd ed 2012), co-edited with Max Loubser.
The Professor has served on most academic and management committees at faculty, senate and council levels; at three different universities in South Africa. He has experience as a Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC) at two universities, providing insights into university strategic development and management.
He will assume his new role as Vice Chancellor and Principal of WSU on 1 April 2016.
“We are confident that Prof Rob Midgley will prove to be a distinguished Vice Chancellor and a worthy successor to the Interim Vice Chancellor Prof Khaya Mfenyana” said WSU Spokesperson Yonela Tukwayo.
Source: http://www.rnews.co.za/article/8112/walter-sisulu-university-appoints-new-vice-chancellor