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This book exposes corruption and malpractices at the University of Cape Town (UCT), which the author witnessed during his tenure as a Head of Department (HoD) there, before he was ousted by a group of lecturers in his department. The former had been aided and abetted by senior administrators at the faculty level. It is a personal account that is evidence-based, as the claims the author makes in the book are documented in various reports, communications and eye-witness accounts that span a period of five and a half years.
About the author
Ndangwa Noyoo is an associate professor and the former head of the Department of Social Development at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. He previously worked for the University of Johannesburg (UJ) as an associate professor in the Department of Social Work and before that, for the South African Government, as a senior social policy specialist/chief director in the National Department of Social Development. Before this, he was a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Work at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He has published widely in the context of Africa and Southern Africa in the areas of social policy, social development, and related fields. He has presented papers at various symposia in Africa and abroad. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree from the University of Zambia (UNZA). He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France from 2005-2006.
