2018 Annual Report

The 2018 annual report of the Durban University of Technology (DUT) is presented in alignment with the University’s four Strategic Focus Areas (SFAs) contained
in its Strategic Plan (2015-2019), as revised. The report is sequenced in terms of these SFAs, which take into account the core business of the University and the
numerous national imperatives arising out of the current policy and regulatory framework.

In 2018, we continued to implement and build on a number of transformational projects, as an extension on the milestones set in previous years. The University is
committed to ensuring that transformation is approached in its broadest understanding, not only as it pertains to equity matters but also in reference to the way in which the University conducts its business, responds to its communities and its students, and how it builds relationships with government at all levels, community organisations, business and industry. To this end, we have in place a set of transformative projects that seek to spearhead our becoming a South African University, rather than simply being a University in South Africa. This is the context, also, in which DUT engages with the notion of decolonisation: we understand decolonisation to be an integral component of our broader transformation
agenda, which seeks to ensure that DUT occupies its rightful space in contributing meaningfully to the national development goals. Institutionally, we are using this
conceptual framework as a primary reference in our ongoing recurriculation project, our language policy, our change processes, and in everything that we do towards
our becoming a truly transformed, decolonised University of Technology.