UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND – VICE CHANCELLOR: PROFESSOR X.A MTOSE

Professor Mtose is a well- known international scholar who is a trained educator, higher education specialist and psychologist. She joined UNIZULU in June 2013 as a Dean in the Faculty of Education. Subsequently she was promoted in 2014 and occupied the Deputy Vice- Chancellor: Teaching and Learning portfolio prior to her occupying the Rectorate position. Professor Mtose was appointed in April 2016 as the Vice Chancellor at the University of Zululand after sailing the ship at the helm in an acting capacity. She is the University’s 7th Vice Chancellor since its inception in the 60’s.

She is an innovative and service driven individual who positively turned around the Department of Education and aligned the curriculum for relevancy for both students and academics by inculcating relevant/appropriate pedagogies. Her appointment as the VC was an accumulation of many years of diligence and hard work. She is a well-rounded manager who has the ability to balance between multi- task orientations and is relationship oriented and driven.

She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal; a Master of Philosophy in Higher Education from University of Stellenbosch; Bachelor of Arts Honours in African Languages from Rhodes University; HDE (Post Graduate) Primary from University of Cape Town and a Bachelor of Arts from University of Fort Hare. Professor Mtose also received, amongst other scholarships, a South African Scholarship to study at Harvard University. She also serves as executive member of the Anti- racism Network in Higher Education.

Her academic career began at Rhodes University as a lecturer and Coordinator of Distance and Continuing Education. She then served at the University Of Fort Hare as senior lecturer, Deputy Director and Director of a School of Postgraduate Studies, School of Initial Teacher Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education.

She leads by example in setting goals and standards of performance. She is a creative thinker who is able to articulate the organizational vision towards the attainment of set targets and performance standards. Her experience has shaped her into a successful manager and ground breaker in higher education.

Professor Mtose’s research focuses on issues of identity, race and post-apartheid blackness. Whilst accepting that race is a social construction and that racial identities are fluid, she believes that forms of racial subjectivity are also deeply rooted and persistent.