SWOP Institute's New Director

SWOP staff and research associates are delighted to announce that the University has offered the directorship of SWOP to Professor Karl von Holdt and he has accepted. As you know we have been without a director for the past three years and much organizational rebuilding has to be done. Karl is very committed to this process and will provide outstanding direction and leadership.

 This leadership is based on Karl’s exceptional combination of scholarship and commitment. His outstanding academic ability, his proven research capacity, his wide intellectual interests, his long standing record of commitment to the labour movement specifically and social justice and democratisation more broadly, as well as his personal qualities of tolerance and generosity mean that he is well equipped for this rebuilding process. This process  should take SWOP to another level of academic excellence.