UP FOR A NEW CHALLENGE
Mar 20, 2020
4 minutes
BY GABSILE NGCOBO
HE STRIDES purposefully into his office, apologising for running late. His students were protesting about lack of accommodation and he had to address them, Professor Adam Habib explains.
Another day, another problem to sort out – as vice-chancellor of Wits University, it comes with the territory.
“My wife, Fatima, complains about the fact that I’m always on the phone,” he says as he settles into a couch in his office on the Wits campus in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
But from the end of the year it will be up to someone else to answer late-night phone calls and think of diplomatic ways to negotiate with angry students. After seven years at the helm,
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