THRIVE ISSUE 6 DECEMBER 2025 8 A new chapter in UJ’s journey of sustainability beckons as the institution aims to maintain the high standards that has been set in terms of teaching, learning, research, and commercial operations. This year the STH launched the Sustainability for Good initiative, aimed at fundraising and exploring new partnership possibilities. Friend-Raising to Advance Sustainability for Good As part of the initiative, hosted a thought-leadership featuring an address by Prof Bonang Mohale, Chancellor of the University of the Free State and Professor of Practice at the Johannesburg Business School and Chairman of the Bidvest Group Limited. Guests included captains of industry whose operations extend beyond the tourism sector, the UJ Vice-Chancellor, Prof Letlhokwa Mpedi and other key members of the executive. Prof Bonang Mohale On Business & Higher Education Business cannot look at the 26 public universities, with 1.2 million students and expect the universities to provide the skills needed today, let alone the skills for tomorrow. It must co-create, not just the curriculum but the type of individuals we need for tomorrow. Soundbites from Prof Mohale’s address: On Tourism • Tourism has the potential to be the greatest forex earner. • South Africa has everything that the tourist needs – not just the mountain, not just game, not just the ocean - and yet we struggle to fill it with tourists. • To increase tourist arrivals, South Africa should look at other destinations such as Paris and Thailand • Conversation should include how charity, like clarity begins at home; and how we as South Africans, like Americans, own our identity with pride and conviction. On Skills Development • Every economy in the world is built on our ability to produce goods and services that the world needs. • Students from the STH leave with real tangible skills that the y can use. • We must learn from countries like Germany, where not ever ybody is scrambling to be call ed doctor, Professor, or lawyer – “they catch you at Grade 10 an d they say let’s teach you how to be a mechanic.” • If we don’t think for ourselves , we place our future in the ha nds of others.
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