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end of the year. At the time, the investigation into the alleged affair was in the hands of an external investigator who reported to the chief auditor executive. In March 2019, UFH's audit and risk committee recommended suspending
Buhlungu for undermining the committee and the university council and that the suspension of the audit head was not within his powers, while Buhlungu issued a statement that there were ongoing investigations into the conduct of the audit team.
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Scholars’ Program. From 2006 to 2007, he was head of the Department of Sociology at Wits, where he was also the co-director of the Sociology of Work Programme. In January 2008, Buhlungu resigned from Wits after he felt that his concerns about corruption and theft by the sociology department's
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African scholars as hypocritical amidst a period of zero or declining growth in the number of the latter group.
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