time for renewal
Professor Francis William Petersen, the vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State (UFS), is moving to the country’s administrative capital as the new vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Pretoria (UP), one of Africa’s leading research institutions.
Petersen will undertake the great trek of 456km from the Free State’s farmland to Jacaranda City’s Tuks, as the 116-year-old university is known.
His leadership style involves a willingness to listen, hear and decide. This approach has proven effective in his past roles, particularly as the acting vice-chancellor at the University of Cape Town (UCT), where he had to navigate the tumultuous
