Prof Tinyiko Maluleke officially TUT’s vice-chancellor and principal
Maluleke has worked in five of SA’s universities thus far, serving in various executive management roles.
Professor Tinyiko Maluleke was officially installed as Tshwane University of Technology’s vice-chancellor and principal during a ceremony at the Pretoria Campus on June 9.
“I am profoundly honoured to take on the mantle of vice-chancellor of the largest contact university in South Africa and one of the leading universities of technology in Africa,” he said.
Maluleke has worked in five of SA’s universities thus far, serving in various executive management roles.
“I started working in tiny library cubicles, pacing in large lecture halls, up to the corner office on the top floor, and down to the basement here the packers pack, the sweepers sweep, the editors edit and the printers print,” he said.
“And yet, were my life to be paused, rewound and replayed; were I to be offered a second chance, I would still choose to serve this 18-year-old institution.
“There is no place in the world I would rather be, and there is no university in which I would rather serve, than TUT.”
Maluleke said a good university of technology is no longer good enough.
“Good is good insofar as it is better than bad. But, if you will pardon the pun, that is not good enough.
“To this end, I invite all the students of TUT, all the workers, academic and non-academic to join hands and bid farewell to merely being good.
“Now is the time to use the good foundations we have, to build a university that oozes and performs greatness,” he said.
Maluleke said the road to greatness begins when TUT chooses to become that University of Technology which only TUT can be in SA and the world.
“If this was not obvious to anyone, let this be made clear: only TUT can be TUT in SA.
“When and if TUT fails to fulfil its destiny, TUT betrays its purpose and robs the nation in ways we cannot even begin to fathom.”
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