"Media attacks on me were unfair": UCT departure, CODESA failures, student protests and fees 

Mamphela is the first woman to lead UCT.

I think a PhD in mathematics education and a PhD in mathematics are too different things. She has a PhD in mathematics education . An amazing accomplishment indeed. We must be accurate, she did a Bachelor of education, masters of education, and PhD , all in mathematics education . I respect her so much, she is an inspiration 🙏🙌🙌🙌

On point 👌 🎯

Maphela Bruh, 1st woman. also, we need to note. Maphela what happen with her?

​@@lindokuhlexolanidlamini4141 But I'm 100% sure a teacher knows the subject. It's only a Bone operation specialist who can teach Bone operation

Brutally Frank

She is a power house, wena!

Indeed 🙏

I once worked in such an environment where subordinate would just throw swear words randomly later on I realize they learnt from the manager. They where not black.

Excellent post.

I saw the video of the two of u dancing. U scarce by the way

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Best of luck with your PhD in Engineering.

Congratulations!! And good luck in your journey. Are you going to take the academia route or corporate? I am thinking of over qualify excuses that can be used by corporate. Or we can't afford you.

@@mamosedimaleka6291 industry prefer Masters or PhDs for quantitative field roles. You will never be over qualified.

@@mamosedimaleka6291 Academia isn’t worth it nowadays. It’s not what it used to be. Academics are treated the lowest in institutions but work harder than everyone. They have to conduct research, teaching and learning, community engagement and administration. Most universities abuses academics / overloads them but pay them peanuts.

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Yes ! Yes yes !yyyyyyesssss!

@@Drawingboredi as a white woman the same age as Prof Phakeng who graduated at WITS in the 80s and did post-grad studies at UCT and who was so proud to have my son enrolled at UCT in 2019 under Prof Phakeng’s leadership, I am so saddened by this. She is indeed a strong black woman and UCT failed her But so many students have gained from her leadership as a role model and she has taken the struggle further I look forward to seeing how she continues to lead - she is far from done

I Have worked in a few financial institutions in HR for 25 years and I don't think that you can generalise. I have witnessed many different situations where Black woman have been brought into roles, paid and have been given immense support but they did not deliver. Fast-tracking people can on occasion be bad and costly for both the individual and organisation. As a person who started working in the 1980's I can attest to the fact that we were not treated with kid gloves. Arrive late for work, don't meet deadlines, miss meetings, provide inaccurate data or make questionable points in group discussions resulted in management tearing a strip off you, often in front of others. These behaviours appear to be the norm nowadays, especially in the public sector, and people moan that "we are not understood", "we are treated unfairly", "racist behaviour" etc. Many of these people being fast-tracked have the benefit of working in established mature organisations where they enjoy the benefits of the work done by others which came before them. If you are a hard-working, talented, ethical black woman, who is prepared to gain a good foundation and you have a good track-record, the world is your oyster in these times where large organisations need to comply to quotas in RSA and where international companies are wanting to transform. Just don't expect to be carried and look around at what your colleagues have had to go through to get to where they are.

HR is mess anyway, they serve the master......

Gaslighting is their game - but they won't dominate eternally! Kogcina i ingabadi! (Black South Africans)

I'm an accountant and faced similar challenges questioning my experience, knowledge and skills, even when we all studied the same course ACCA. but I fight back 😂😂

So sad, yet those who are left are so incapable. I respect you for choosing you.

You have said it so well bhuti.

Very assertive 🙌

Lol it took you UCT saga for you to question 🌈 nation 😅. I'd advice you to go outside now and just look at your society.

I studied at UCT and I knew they want her gone. UCT is funded by white supremacy and wanted their own.

@@bonolomakgatadeluent3150 Rainbow Nation is a myth and only applicable when it suits "Them".

There's no such know ur race period

Where you there? Stop believing everthing you here! Stop simping.

Dont worry, this is just a background story in her book... She is still going to achieve more things than we can imagine.💪🙌✨️

I admire your fighting spirit and resilience.

She was in the wrong and held accountable, being black does not give her a free pass.

I've been there 😱

@@jadenphilander8799 in the wrong, plz elaborate?

@@thembi9645 Look man we know why she is no longer at UCT, lets not let the fact of her being a person of colour, and being a well educated black women blind us from the facts. The comments prove that when race is brought up, we people of colour get emotional and stopcthinking sometimes man.

I felt the friction and just couldn't help wonder how sizwe felt when she kept interrupting him. Very assertive and straight forward. I can see how other might use that as a foot to say she is a bully. But as a black woman, seems like anything she would have done or said would have been used. She sure made education fashionable

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😂 Yoh she came for him.

True

She was in the wrong, nobody could defend her because she was wrong, being black means shit and does not give her a pass. They couldn't protect her because she wrong. Race really makes people of colour blind to the truth.

Good to see the almighty in the comments section 💪. Love the work you do man 🙌

My bro! Thanks. Had to remain calm as I knew how much this meant to Prof, too.

Thank you for allowing Prof to vent, but she must learn to answer the difficult questions.There is nothing wrong with being wrong..

@@motoaisusan3124 ... there is something wrong about making the conclusion without providing the evidence... How exactly is she wrong, so we can expect her to admit? Two years on since the leaked Ombud's draft report. Challenging, yes, and that is her character. But wrong? Please educate us with evidence. And she kept on challenging Sizwe to present the evidence with the repetition of the allegations...

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 she K.O.'d him watched first 50min he came to defends his people he knew since 3yrs old, will watch rest lol interesting times

This will always be home 🙂

Imagine being fired for being "difficult". But get told it is for bad governance. The interjections were required - she questioned his assumptions and blind spots, including class privilege. So some people, especially closet racists, take offense at this instead of learning.

​@@cyrilmbatha9106 she is a typical academic not groomed to be diplomatic with answers....

​@@cyrilmbatha9106 yep

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And then you get into the real world and find that life is a compromise.