UNkonyeni, osele evele kwimidlalo efana neScandal, iGazi neminye, uthe: “Idonga lam ligcwele ziimbasa, andiyazi nokuba ndiza kuyixhoma phi le nto. Ayithethi kwanto le nto kum. Akukho kwankxaso siyifumana kwaba bantu, bathetha nje okungathi kukho inkxaso abasinika yona. Asiyifumani inkxaso yezimali kweli phondo, abantu balapha bathetha nje.” ekuqaleni, e 1949, operating from the inner city campus of Sydney Technical College, it immediately began to expand on its present eastern suburb site at Kensington, where a major and continuing building program was pursued. Central to the University’s first twenty years was the dynamic authoritarian management of the first Vice-Chancellor, Sir Philip Baxter (1955 – 1969, and previously, umlawuli, 1953 – 1955). His visionary but at times controversial energies, built the university from nothing to 15,000 abafundi 1968, pioneering both established and new scientific and technological disciplines against an external background of traditionalist criticism. A growing staff, recruited both locally and overseas, conducted research which established a wide international reputation.