Social Justice and Transformation
Drives VUT’s integrated Transformation Plan while enhancing its image through public engagements, roadshows, and events.
Creating impactful events that inspire and connect.
Events
Employment Equity
Employment equity promotes fairness and equal opportunities in the workplace by addressing discrimination and ensuring diversity and inclusion.
The purpose of the Employment Equity Act (EEA), No 55 of 1998 is to achieve equity in the workplace by promoting equal opportunity and fair treatment in employment through elimination of unfair discrimination and implementing affirmative action measures to redress the disadvantages in employment experienced by designated groups
EEA applies to all employers and workers and protects workers and job seekers from unfair discrimination, and also provides a framework for implementing affirmative action.
WHO ARE DESIGNATED GROUPS
The beneficiaries of affirmative action, also known as designated groups, are limited to black people (i.e. Africans, Colored’s and Indians), women and people with disabilities who: are citizens of the Republic of South Africa by birth or descent
Social Justice and Transformation Services
As contained in the VUT Integrated Transformation Plan (ITP) and the Transformation Charter, VUT Social Justice and Transformation Unit, we render the following services:
- Develop, implement and evaluate VUT Transformation Plan
- Facilitation of implementation of VUT’s mission, vision and values
- Proffer strategic advice on HE transformation issues
- Execute the university’s transformation mandate as per the VUT’s strategic direction
- Ensure compliance with HE policy imperatives and related frameworks
- Review and monitor the development and implementation of the ITP
- Ensure provision for equitable social justice and constitutional rights to equality, dignity and human rights
- Attend to complaints on violations of social justice and discrimination
- Ensure a welcoming and affirming organisational culture
- Strategic leadership and coordination of transformation initiatives and processes
- Stakeholder engagement – network and collaborate on issues of social justice and transformation
- Facilitate diversity, social inclusion and cohesion
- Advocacy and awareness
- Conduct research on issues of social justice and transformation
- Ensure effective implementation of employment equity in the workplace
- Develop M&E indicators