NEW VC TAKES
UP WSU
APPOINTMENT

The University is pleased to welcome the
new Vice Chancellor.

Prof Malusi Marcus Balintulo

Prof Balintulo assumed his role as the first Vice Chancellor of WSU on 01 January 2007. He has been in office in Mthatha since 03 January 2007, spending much of his time meeting with Executive Management and other role players in order to orientate himself with the workings of the University.

Prof Balintulo has an illustrious career in higher education and in the management of higher education institutions. Until early 2006 he was the Interim Vice Chancellor of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). As Vice Chancellor of Cape Technikon he guided that institution into the CPUT merger. Prof Balintulo was also the Acting Vice Chancellor of the former University of Durban Westville in the mid-1990s.

Prof Balintulo hails from the Eastern Cape. He has read for degrees at the University of Fort Hare, University of Durham (England) and the University of Warwick (Coventry). His area of academic specialization is the field of Sociology.

Prof Balintulo will be visiting all campuses of WSU in due course.