Vice-Chancellors: Vices and Visions

Former vice-chancellor, Dr Max Price in conversation with the new vice-chancellor, Professor Mosa Moshabela.

Former Vice-Chancellor, Dr Max Price, and new Vice-Chancellor, Prof Mosa Moshabela, will be in conversation. They will talk about Dr Price’s vision, achievements, mistakes, and lessons learned from Dr Price’s experience during his ten-year term (2008 to 2018); and about Professor Moshabela’s vision for his tenure at UCT and how that is informed by the trajectory of higher education in South Africa over the last ten years since Rhodes Must Fall. Dr Price’s recently published book, Statues and Storms: Leading for change has just come out as an audiobook. The conversation will cover one of its themes: making difficult decisions when the buck stops with you.

Date: Wednesday, 18 September at 18:00

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Kramer Law Building, University of Cape Town

Note: There is no fee payable but it is important to RSVP to Bronwyn Geldenhuys at ems@uct.ac.za

Dr Max Price

Max Price was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town from 2008 to 2018. Before that he was dean of Health Sciences at Wits. He now advises in public health, higher education and strategic leadership. Max has a medical degree from Wits, studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and has postgraduate qualifications in public health. He is the author of Statues and Storms: Leading through change (2023).

Mosa Moshabela

Professor Mosa Moshabela is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Cape Town and Chair of the Governing Board of the National Research Foundation (NRF). Until recently, he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University ofKwaZulu-Natal, Chair of the Standing Committee on Health in the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), and member of the Board at the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC).