‘I expected retirement to be devastating’: Former UCT VC Phakeng on life after varsity tenure

“If I can be less stressed, make a meaningful impact and earn better doing something different, why on earth would I choose retirement for the sake of conventions? I have a family to feed and a scholarship to sustain,” an unfazed Phakeng said inOthers supported the professor and shared their experiences on their career changes.

“I’m all about breaking stereotypes, so I’ve worked all my life to show the human side of academics, perhaps it’s now time to show a different side of ‘influencers’. They didn’t tell me life starts after retirement,” Phakeng said. She said she was grateful how things turned out as she expected “retirement to be utterly devastating”.

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