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Volume 9 | 27 September 2019 | www.
mut.ac.zaDr 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