So, instead, I am going to concentrate on the way ahead. All my colleagues know that Wits is embarked upon a strategic planning exercise.
Strategic planning can sound very complicated, but in fact is pretty straightforward.
Planning is thinking in the future tense in order to be able to act in the present. The Strategic Planning Team set up last year has identified eight key areas and constituted task groups for each of these. I am not going to review or summarise each of them. Much more selectively, I want to identify half a dozen key issues that currently confront the university. All are receiving attention in the task groups, but it may be useful to raise them this evening, as an indication of some the vital questions that Wits must grapple with.