BY BRENNA MATENDERE
MIDLANDS State University has retired the institution’s top two officials and ordered them to reapply for their old jobs if they want them back.
Sources revealed to Southern Eye that registrar Erasmus Mupfiga and librarian Nyarai Patience Macheke have been relieved of their duties, amid alleged reports of a purge on the old guard.
Mupfiga was first engaged at the Ministry of Justice in 1990 as senior administrative officer.
In July 2000, he joined Midlands State University as a lecturer in the Department of Human Resources Management, Faculty of Social Sciences. He was later appointed senior proctor of the university. In June 2004, he was appointed deputy registrar, a position he held until the end of 2008 when he became acting registrar, a position made permanent on March 1, 2009.
“Since former Vice-Chancellor [Ngwabi] Bhebe was retired from his position, the majority of the founding top officials and even some lowly ranked workers who were understood to be loyal to him have been purged. The latest two officials, Mupfiga and Macheke are simply falling victim to the new order,” an MSU source said.
Contacted for comment, MSU spokesperson Mirirai Mawere confirmed that Mupfiga and Macheke had been relieved of their duties, but insisted it was not part of the alleged purge of the old guard.
“The two officials were employed on contractual basis. Their contracts have since expired and so in line with good corporate governance they had to be relieved of their duties. We have since advertised their posts, but if they are interested they can re-apply for their posts. Interviews are going to be conducted professionally and whoever performs exceptionally well among the pool of interested candidates will get the job,” she said.
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“The university is a very professional institution of higher learning and no one is purged for whatever reason. It is, therefore, unfounded lies and baseless notions in as far as views that the former registrar and librarian were purged.”
