Higher Education South Africa held its AGM on 29 July 2010. One of the important outcomes of that meeting was that Prof Ihron Rensburg was elected as the Chairperson of HESA.

Prof Rensburg is currently the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg (UJ). Prior to taking over leadership at UJ he was the Chief Executive: Strategic Corporate Services at the SABC. Up until 2001 he was the Deputy Director General at the Department of Education where he assisted in shaping policies and legislation for the post-apartheid schooling, further and higher education sub-sectors.

It is a depth of experience that he will bring to HESA during his period as Chair. “After the policy fury that led to the mergers beginning in 2004, there was the belief, among many of us in the sector, that a long period of calm would follow. How wrong we were,” says Rensburg.