The transformation of the higher education sector is imperative in promoting diversity and achieving the values of a democratic society. Wits University is in the process of developing its fourth Employment Equity Plan for the period 2015 - 2019.

As Wits develops its next Employment Equity Plan key questions need to be answered.
 
You are invited to attend a debate titled: Employment Equity Planning, featuring Jimmy Manyi, President of the Progressive Professionals Forum; Professor Adam Habib, Wits Vice-Chancellor and Principal; and Dr Hugo Canham from the Wits Transformation and Employment Equity Office who will discuss a range of issues relating to transformation in the sector and Wits.
 
Date: Thursday, 31 July
Time: 12:00 – 14:30
Venue: Graduate Seminar Room, South West Engineering Building, Braamfontein Campus East
 
The debate will be facilitated by Professor Melissa Steyn, DST-NRF SARCHI National Research Chair in Critical Diversity Studies and Director of the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies. All media are welcome.
 
The discussion will explore the following among other questions:
 

• Should the sector create its own vision of how it should be demographically constituted and lobby government to accept this alternative?
• Is the University sufficiently engaged (financially, culturally and strategically) with creating its own diverse pipeline for the next generation of academics?
• Should the University stop employing certain groups within particular levels of some disciplines and management where these groups are overrepresented?
• Should Wits expend more effort in employing and advancing designated groups rather than foreign Africans? How should Wits balance the needs for redress with those for accelerating the employment of skilled Africans from the rest of the continent in line with the internationalisation strategy?

The University is a public institution that values public engagement and input as it moves towards its ideals of cosmopolitanism, internationalisation and commitment to transformation and the upholding academic excellence.

 
Buhle Zuma
Communications Officer
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Tel: 011 717 1018
Fax: 086 5533 092
E-mail: buhle.zuma@wits.ac.za