If there’s one thing SA business has learned to its cost in recent years, it’s that the economy can’t function properly without efficient ports. Floods and riots in the past 18 months, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal, have highlighted the severe shortcomings of several SA ports.
Michelle Mey, deputy dean of NMU’s faculty of business and economic sciences, under which the business school falls, says the school wants to re-instil the academic and reputational impetus it enjoyed before Covid. Academic head Sam February says: “The university has a clear vision for us.” Covid helped clarify that vision. Like other business schools, NMU had begun a shift to online education but with no great urgency.