Botswana: Prof Norris to Crack the Whip

8 November 2018

Professor David Norris finds himself between a rock and a hard place, clearly cutting a lonely figure at the helm of University of Botswana (UB) management hierarchy.

Although he refuses to say it point blank, it becomes evident as the conversation progresses that Prof Norris is a man under siege, facing a concerted push back from detractors among them UB executives, some of whom had designs on his post. He is taking a strain from some of the staff he inherited from the past administration.

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