CREATING future-ready GRADUATES

Ten years ago, I was appointed vice-chancellor of Unisa. Inspired to lead with inclusivity in mind, I took up the baton from my predecessor, Professor Nyameko Barney Pityana, with vigour and excitement at the opportunity to take Unisa to even greater heights.

As the newly inaugurated principal and vice-chancellor, I embarked on an agenda to ensure that Unisa realised its undoubted potential to be a dynamic, engaged, high-performance African university. To that end, we began the year by embedding the notion and practice of servant leadership.

This notion was birthed by the need to move away from a hierarchical