By Thapelo Molefe
University of Fort Hare (UFH) Vice-Chancellor Sakhela Buhlungu has described his nearly decade-long tenure at the historic institution as a constant battle against corrupt forces, likening it to having a noose around his neck that he must repeatedly loosen just to breathe.
“Every time I must find a way to loosen the noose on my neck,” Buhlungu said while speaking to Ann Bernstein, the founding director of advocacy group, the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE), during a CDE-broadcast event.
Buhlungu was expected to testify on 16 February in the murder trial of his former bodyguard Mboneli Vesele, one of several people killed in what he described as a years-long campaign of violence orchestrated by forces determined to loot the institution.
His interview revealed a web of corruption that stretches from campus security to the highest levels of provincial politics: a security company that orchestrated attacks on the people
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