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VISION 2030 SITUATIONAL (SWOT) ANALYSIS

Foundation, the primary custodian of the Mandela Education drive the work of the TVET working group
legacy, significantly catalysed this scholarly across faculties, entities, and divisions. CIPSET is also
endeavour. coordinating important work on solidarity economies
and food sovereignty.
The Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism
and Democracy (CANRAD) pursues transformation The budding experiments steered by the principles
towards a new non-racial and democratic social and of the Hubs of Convergence (HoC) are generating
economic order. In 2021, CANRAD celebrated its tenth learnings on what may be possible. The work of the
anniversary with a conference entitled “The State HoC brings together skills, capacities, and connections
We’re In: Democracy’s Fractures, Fixes and Futures”. from across the University in various projects to work
The breadth and depth of this conference illustrated with marginalised communities. The HoC has made
the footprint of the Centre and the deep significance significant progress since its initiation in 2019, most
of its work. notably through its responses to the COVID-19
pandemic including the provision of material food relief
The Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and interventions to curb gender-based violence.
and Training (CIPSET) focuses on transformative
educational praxis in the field of community, adult, The COVID-19 Coordinating Committee (CCC)
and worker education whereas the Chair for Youth was established by executive management on
Unemployment, Employability and Empowerment 31 March 2020 to coordinate and facilitate the
(CYUEE) works to establish Mandela University as a University’s external response to the COVID-19
leader in cutting-edge and engaged research in skills pandemic in support of state and other efforts at
and livelihoods. CIPSET, the CYUEE and the Faculty of a local, provincial, and national level. The work of

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