Employment Equity and Institutional Culture Committee

In terms of the Employment Equity Act, designated employers (as is Rhodes University), are required by law, to have a representative committee dealing with issues of employment equity. At Rhodes University, this Committee is called the Employment Equity and Institutional Culture Committee (EE & IC) Committee. This committee is a sub-committee of the institution's overarching Equity Committee, the latter which also deals with student and institutional culture issues.

Role of the EE & IC Committee

The University consults the committee on the following areas:

Conducting analysis on its policies, procedures, work environment, practices in order to indentify employment barriers to the employment, advancement and retention of members of designated groups;
Developing and implementing the institutional employment equity plan and monitoring progress of such implementation; and
Developing and submitting the annual report, as required by law.

Committee members

The law requires that all members of designated groups are represented on the Committee.

Name of the representative	Role/ Title	Representation
Dr S Mabizela	DVC: Academic & Student Affairs	Chairperson
Adv. F Hashatse	Director: Equity & Institutional Culture	Institutional Culture
Ms S Fischer	Director: Human Resources	Management
Ms S Robertson	Deputy Director: Human Resources	Human Resources
Mr T Mnyungula	Industrial Relations & Employment Equity Specialist	Human Resources
Mr A Hatting	Manager: Administration	Infrastructure and Operations Division
Dr I L’Ange	Director: Infrastructure and Operations Division	Infrastructure and Operations Division (Management)
Ms S Smailes	Director: Special Projects	Management
Professor R Bernard	Representative: Deans	Management (Deans)
Dr J-A Vorster	Senate	Academics
Ms C Knowles	GENACT	Gender Forum
Mr SP Mpumlo	NEHAWU Representative	Staff members (both designated and undesignated)
Mr R Canon	NEHAWU Representative	Staff members (both designated and undesignated)
Mr R van Rooyen	NTEU Representative	Staff members (both designated and undesignated)
Dr A Kirkaldy	NTEU Representative	Staff members (both designated and undesignated)

Committee meetings

Since the Employment Equity and Institutional Culture Committee is an official University committee, its meeting dates are captured in the University calendar. Kindly refer to the University calendar for dates here: http://www.ru.ac.za/rhodes/diaryanddates/