Limpopo University faces legal action for ignoring parliament

Institution has failed to respond to numerous queries

- By Queenin Masuabi

The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Higher Education is exploring legal avenues to compel the University of Limpopo (UL) to respond to questions to the institution's management and to abide by summons served on it.

"I have written to the speaker of the National Assembly [Thoko Didiza] to guide us on the process we must follow in opening these criminal cases, whether it must be the committee, or it will be parliament as the summons were sent by the secretary of parliament [Xolile George], according to the legalisation," the committee's Tebogo Letsie told Sunday World this week.

The summons was issued to Vice-Chancellor Professor Mahlo Mokgalong, chairperson of council, Pandelani Nefolovhodwe and chairperson of the Institutional Forum Joy Sixholo, to provide the National Assembly with responses to their questions.

The summons was issued by parliament on March 28, but the institution has not responded.

The embattled university first appeared before the portfolio committee in November 2024, when the institution presented on its state of governance, administration, teaching and learning and related matters.