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Volume 9 | 27 September 2019 | www.

mut.ac.za

Dr Vijay Reddy, Ministerial Appointee in Council has foregone

her honorarium as a Council member for the greater good of

MUT. This act of altruism was commended by Senate at its last

sitting. This signals hope that donating within MUT will start

from within.

On the success side, the University congratulates Mr Kwenza

Madlala, President of the MUT Convocation and Council

member for attaining a Master’s qualification in Human

Resources Management from DUT. Mr Madlala also chairs the

Human Resources Committee of Council. He said completing

the Master’s degree has enhanced his analytical ability and

enabled him as the Chair to exercise due diligence to complex

reports received by my committee.

The buildup to MUT Strategy 2025 has been characterised by

collaboration across the University. September was abuzz with

senior managers in every corner of the University busy

developing key activities, key measures and validating

baseline and making projected targets for the five MUT Goals,

key objectives and KPIs. This collaborative approach dovetails

with the Leadership Capability Expectations (LCEs) which are

embraced in the MUT Strategy 2025.

The LCEs are the DEEDS –

Delivery. Empowerment.

Engagement. Discovery. Sustainability

. For close to a year, Dr

Duma Malaza spoke about the DEEDS but executing the

DEEDS as part of developing the strategy showed that moving

forward, MUT has fully grasped collaboration and how the

LCEs are a channel to take MUT to destination 2025.

Throughout the strategy development and review process

which started in July 2018, Dr Malaza always maintained that:

“As a University we need to share a common vision. . Our

approach towards the strategy development and review

process will comprise more of an ideological than an academic

approach. This means that our new vision for the university will

be based on the aspirations of MUT stakeholders.

Our approach will be bottom-up rather than top-down. We

need to find consensus as we develop this strategy hence the

process will be interactive. We will consult all our staff,

students and all relevant internal and external stakeholder

groupings. We all need to find a reason for coming to work.”

Hope and success feature in Council

Giving life to MUT Strategy 2025