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VISION 2030 CORE MESSAGES

VISION

CORE PURPOSE IN THE
SERVICE CHANGE THE WORLD
OF SOCIETY

CO-CREATE A
CORE OUTCOME SUSTAINABLE,
SOCIALLY JUST WORLD

Engage with
Provide Pursue impactful all publics in
equalising
transformative, research, partnerships that
innovation &
ATTRIBUTES experiences that internationalisation advance agency &
lifelong learning
liberate human to promote promote the
co-creation of
potential sustainable futures African-purposed
solutions
Contribute to
Cultivate socially changing the Foster a more equal,
conscious, globally
BENEFITS connected citizens who world through inclusive & just society
discovery,
through action &
serve the public good scholarship & stewardship
innovation
beyond the widely implemented “triple bottom Given the
line” approach by focusing on the indivisibility of
people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships. unpredictable
In doing so, the University strives to deepen social
solidarity and cohesion by focusing on the needs and constrained
of the most vulnerable in society while protecting
ecological integrity to ensure that future generations economic context in
benefit from interventions to shift the world on to a
sustainable and resilient growth path. which South African

Given the unpredictable and constrained economic public universities
context in which South African public universities are
obliged to operate, financial probity and stewardship are obliged to
have come to the fore as increasingly integral to
institutional sustainability. Resources continue to operate, financial
be thinly spread between competing interests and
demands within a context of economic constraints. probity and
Against this backdrop, Vision 2030 foregrounds
the need for transversal endeavours to promote stewardship have
innovative resource mobilisation and judicious
stewardship to enhance the University’s long-term come to the fore.
financial sustainability. It is especially critical to
diversify income streams to complement shrinking
government subsidy and tuition fee income.

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