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DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLOR: GOVERNANCE & OPERATIONS
On 01 June 2007, Prof GN Zide officially seized the reins as Vaal University of Technology’s (VUT) Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Governance and Operations. The role entails strategically planning the development and maintenance of processes, systems and organisational arrangements to Corporate Affairs, Academic Support, Operational and Logisticas, Student Support Services, Transformation and Equity Development. In this portfolio, Prof Zide distinguished himself as a change agent of considerable skill and talent and was instrumental in formulating a wide range of transformation policies for NMMU, including the adopted Transformation Charter. He assumed this position after the merger of Port Elizabeth Technikon, Port Elizabeth University and Vista PE Campus had been completed. During the merger process, he had acted in the capacity of Executive Advisor to the Interim Vice-Chancellor; rendering support and expert advice on issues as diverse as change management and transformation to better enable NMMU to ease into its new identity. Before joining the then UPE, Prof Zide was in 1990 appointed the first Black Registrar at Fort Hare University.Together with Profossor SME Bengu' s Team who was the Vice Chancellor at Fort Hare, Prof Zide helped to shape the transformation trajectory of that University and therefore putting in place its Transformation Pillers. Prof Zide’s trajectory to the pinnacle of academic success began at the University of Fort Hare in 1974 where he completed his BA in Anthropology and isiXhosa in 1977. In 1978, he enrolled for an Honours degree which culminated in his being awarded his MA Degree in 1983. The now-defunct University of Port Elizabeth added the final flourish, conferring on Prof Zide the D.Phil in his chosen discipline of Anthropology in 1998. Prof Zide holds numerous diplomas and certificates in disciplines which, at a cursory glance, seem to have arbitrary relations. These range from Human Resources, Financial Management,Negotiation Skills, Business Management and Industrial Relations to Labour Law. The cumulative effect of these is that they have buttressed his intellectual prowess, knowledge of, and experience in a vast array of leadership and management aspects. Prof Zide has attended and actively participated in international Programmes on Higher Education Management at the Institute of International Education (IIE), in Washington DC, USA, Oxford & Warwick (UK), Gallilee College (Israel), Hong Kong and Singapore. These programmes have heightened his understanding and appreciation posed by the challenges in Higher Education institutions in a rapidly changing environment. He serves on a number of Boards, including the Raymond Mhlaba Trust Fund, Zintlanzi (PTY) Ltd and has been recently appointed by the Health MEC of the Eastern Cape as the Chairperson of the Lilitha Nursing Council.He is also serving as the National Chairperson of SA Childline, as well as the HESA Chairperson of the Transformation Manager forum. Prof Zide is a motivational speaker of note and is equally an author as well as a poet, and to this end he has some publications to his Credit.His special area of expertise is in Policy Formulation and Implementation.On 1 December 2007,Prof Zide was awarded full Professorship by VUT. His initial foray into the terrain of gainful employment began quite humbly when he secured tenure at the then Ciskei Department of Education in 1973 as a clerk, He resigned the following year to embark on his studies at the University of Fort Hare and has never looked back since. In his union with his wife Nomalizo,he has sired two boys and a girl. He is supremely proud of his role as a full preacher of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. VUT is proud to welcome Prof Zide into its fold and is assured that his contribution in our collective endeavours to exponentially improve on our core business will be laudable.
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