{"id":27280,"date":"2023-06-26T17:12:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T15:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/?p=27280"},"modified":"2024-10-25T12:47:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T12:47:05","slug":"statement-on-professor-tawana-kupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/statement-on-professor-tawana-kupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on Professor Tawana Kupe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday 24 June amaBhungane accepted the resignation of its chairperson Professor Tawana Kupe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 13 June 2023 we learned through the media of his resignation as vice-chancellor of the University of Pretoria. The allegations contained in the media report were previously unknown to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sam Sole, the amaB director, messaged Prof Kupe on 13 June to ask about the developments we&#8217;d read about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prof Kupe called Sam Sole on 14 June 2023. During the conversation with Sam, Prof Kupe verbally offered to step down from the amaB board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given Prof Kupe\u2019s committed service to amaB we determined that we would put in place a process for him to step down at the next board meeting, scheduled for 17 August 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday, 24 June 2023, another media report was published with further allegations that were also new to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on this report, we made the decision to accept Prof Kupe\u2019s earlier offer to step down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sam emailed and messaged Prof Kupe on Saturday, 24 June, accepting his offer to step down from the amaB board with immediate effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sam also notified the rest of the amaB board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together with the board we will follow the statutory processes required to give effect to this decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 24 June amaBhungane accepted the resignation of its chairperson Professor Tawana Kupe. On 13 June 2023 we learned through the media of his resignation as vice-chancellor of the University of Pretoria. The allegations contained in the media report&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-27280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","tag-amabhungane"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31626,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280\/revisions\/31626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}