A group of disgruntled employees from Unisa's Business School have written to the vice-chancellor demanding an investigation into the appointment of broadcaster JJ Tabane which they allege was irregular.

Tabane was hired as an independent contractor responsible for communications and marketing in the university's Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL) in July. In a memo written to the institution’s vice-chancellor Prof Puleng LenkaBula last month, staff members accused the CEO of the SBL, Prof Pumela Msweli, of appointing Tabane without interviewing him...